It’s Sun Five at the Aadheenam today. The Ganapati Kulam shared their news. Kumarswami has been working on a major upgrade to the monthly San Marga newsletter. Arumugaswami has been working on presentations to the government on Hindu input on the new R1 religious worker’s visa rules which affect both our silpis and future monks from other countries.
Sivakatirswami has been working on the July digital Edition of Hinduism Today and some small upgrades to the web site as well as some major upgrades to the Hinduism Today Digital Edition software. Sadhaka Satyanatha and Yogi Japendranatha are working on their Hinduism Today article assignments for the next issue and also on another innovation: Cafe Press.

Our mission team, Paramacharya Palaniswami and Yogi Jivanandanatha check in from Shanghai via Skype about an hour a go from China, just before lift off to Hong Kong. Meanwhile Palaniswami sends us more slide shows. Today’s is from their stay in Mumbai.

Yogi Japendranatha has been hard at work on the “Cafe Press Initiative.” He says:

The monks have created some special Iraivan Temple products at Cafepress.com. Find such items as mugs and mousepads, tote bags and stickers, buttons and magnets and posters, all with Iraivan Temple art printed on them. The items are custom printed by Cafepress, one at a time, as you order them. The prices are reasonable, the products are shipped directly to you without any work by the monks, and all proceeds automatically go to the Iraivan Temple building fund. So, if you’ve always wanted a poster of Iraivan Temple art, an Iraivan Temple mug, or an Iraivan Temple tote bag, or an Iraivan temple refrigerator magnet, or if you want to buy some of these items to sell to benefit Iraivan Temple, now is your chance! Visit Iraivan’s Cafepress site.

The latest official recruit to our monastic order: Sadhaka Satyanatha is now firmly established in his monastic life at Kauai Aadheenam and serving in the Ganapati Kulam on our main publications projects. He also now has the privilege of a daily vigil in the temple doing puja daily to Lord Ganesha at 3 AM.

Following the 9 a.m. puja, the Ilankovan Family and another couple from Chennai, Mahadevan and Radha Hariharan from Texas, visited the lotus ponds where everyone performed abhishekam to the Narmada Lingam – with Suseela being the first.

. . . and Radha Hariharan.

. . . then Sharmini.

Her father, Kolandavelu Ilankovan, is a Consulate General in Malaysia and, due to his position over the years, his family have lived in Nigeria Africa, New York, and Hong Kong. They now reside in Malaysia where he continues as the Consulate General.

Kala’s sister, Baklalakshmi performs abhishekam.

Ashok.

White and pink lotus flowers are in full bloom in the pond.

Mahadevan Hariharan, originally from Chennai, and now living in Sugarland, Texas. He and Radha attend the Temple in Houston.

Kala then performs abhishekam to Nandi.

Ilankovan family in front of Dakshinamurthy.

Kolandavelu Ilankovan, Sharmini, Ashok and Kala posing with a rainbow eucalyptus tree.

A Ginger flower at the Bali Hai waterfalls.

Kala with her daughter Sharmini.

Gurudeva in the Ganapati Kulam sends you all his blessings “from this and inner worlds,” was his oft-penned signature.