Sadhu Paksha continues…. quietly.

Down at the Pillaiyar Kulam, Dharmaraj has become a shutter bug! That’s good for TAKA, which is always looking for new input. Here is Shanmuganathaswami, Talaivar for the PK, he manages an enormous responsibility: Hindu Heritage Endowment, Hinduism Today Subscriptions, international book distribution, our cows, dairy farm and milk production, all the storage arrangements for books and religious supplies at the Aadheenam… that’s just the tip of his ice berg of duties.

Yogi Jivanandanatha is our accountant and “chief information officer” and handles all the corporate accounting, budget, reports for the stewards for all our corporations. He does database programming to streamline all the accounting procedures and has been under close training by Bodhinatha for the past six years. This past year he has been able to do more and more of the work entirely on his own, which is a great accomplishment.

Outside the Siddhidata Kulam, Sadhaka Tejadevanatha and Task Forcer Nandi are hard at work on their “routines.”

We live in a jungle and one must continuous work to keep the living matter from taking over the grounds and buildings.

Trimming back major overgrowth is a never ending task.

They have that Kawasaki Mule piled up high!

OK, just a few more branches and then off to the organic dump site.

A very happy Tamil family from Phoenix, Arizona pose with Chelliah, one of our super Silpis, at the Iraivan Temple site.

From the left is Sadha Sivam with his bright-eyed little 2 yr old daughter “Sruti,” his wife Shyla, her sister Subashni, and her mother and father, Gangabi and Ganesan. Sadha Sivam acts as the Assistant Priest at the Ganesha Temple in Phoenix and works with SSC member, Erasenthiran Poojolai.

Sadha “loved” the Iraivan Temple. He is “very very happy to be here” and is “highly impressed with the spiritual power of the Kadavul Temple and of the whole place.” His family agreed whole heartedly.

Mary Sequoia Hamilton, her 10 yr old son Sky, and Ben Powell were taken on a tour of the Iraivan Temple today. Mary and Ben are from Ojai, California and are the publishers and editors of a magazine called “Awaken” which promotes global environmental issues, higher consciousness, health and travel. They also own a travel agency and are currently promoting a “spiritual cruise” to Kauai next year.