Sadhu Paksha continues….

Dr. Jane A Kappel who is on the Learning Support Faculty at CSU Fresno arrived today with a family friend Al Cadarette. Jane is a very sweet soul who has done extensive work with the National Aids Program and is instrumental in teaching and advising in this capacity.

She is a close friend of Attorney, Alvin Buchigiani who has known Gurudeva and Bodhinatha Veylan Swami, and the Aadheenam Swamis for many many years.

Jane found her entire experience in Kadavul Temple and the Iraivan Temple to be “truly wonderful and very spiritually uplifting.”

An old friend of the monastery, a master craftsman who actually built parts of the monastery 30 years ago, Mark Harms, visited recently having seen on the internet that we were looking for a wood lathe. He generously donated one of his old wood lathes that is in perfect working order.

We have always wanted to make our own bowls, Ma Rollers and many other things that can only be done on a wood lathe.

Paramacharya Palaniswami’s regular “timelapse” shot to document the progress of Iraivan from the west side of the temple. He has been taking snaps from this venue for years and we will have a visual history of the temple from the days when it was just a foundation with a few stones.

Meanwhile we found Lord Ganesha relaxing while reading Merging with Siva. He’s already walked around his Mom and Dad, ate the mango and is catching up on his Master Course study while Lord Muruga is still flying around the earth, somewhere over Indonesia perhaps by now…