A new phase began today with homa this morning. Bodhinatha read from Gurudeva’s 1968 writing, the Advaitan, in which Gurudeva delves deep into the nature of realization. It was this small book that led to Gurudeva’s creation of the Shum language, when he found it impossible to convey the inner states of mind for lack of words to name them with.

Bodhinatha reading from the Advaitan, afterwhich he explained in very practical terms some of the high ideas that that Gurudeva was conveying in this talk.

Brahmacharini Shama Kumaran hosted several families.

Three Japanese Buddhist visitors from Osaka who were moved by the absolute holiness, beauty and peace of the Aadheenam.

Four Hindu family arrived for the morning Siva puja at the Kadavul Siva Temple. After worshiping in the temple, they toured the grounds and the Iraivan Temple complex.

In front of the Umbrella Ganesha on the path to the Iraivan Temple.

On the path to the temple, we discovered a truck transporting Japanese Koi fish to be distributed to the many lakes on the Aadheenam property. (more on that later…)

In front of the Dakshinamurthy deity.

On the left, Praful and Jayshree Patel from Winnipeg, Canada on their third visit, along with her brothers, Chandrakant from Kona, Hawaii and Kiran Patel from Ontario, Canada.

On the right R.S. Raju from Illinois, Rajeswari Sonni from Florida, as well as Naga Bhushanam and Srimani Koneru,Raghava Ramkrishna and Swati Anumolu, and Nagendrasai and Sarita Koneru from the Mainland.

With the very beautiful hand-carved white granite Iraivan Temple in the background.

and to the lotus ponds where everyone performed abhishekam to the sacred Narmada Lingam.

Later in the morning we received another delivery of Butterfly Koi fish with the long wavy fins and tails. Kulapati Durvasa Alahan (on the right) and a team of our young monks tended to the transfer of fish to our ponds

A few portraits of the helper team:

Sivanadiyar Dharmaraj

Task forcer Robin from Reno, Nevada.

Teja….

Tandavan….

Sadhaka Satyanatha, photographer.

Sannyasin Yoginathaswami is finally back from his trip to India.

And, the rest of our photos: visuals of a beautiful morning at the Aadheenam.