On Wednesday, April 4th. the entire sixth grade level (128 students & 8 teachers) from Kapaa Middle School descended on the monastery like a swarm of bees. The school is just a few miles from Kauai Aaadheenam. Full of energy, curiosity and even more energy once they hit the full Shakti of the temple. The visit was arranged by Monica Kawakami, who went to great efforts to arrange such a large event to include all the transportation for the students.

They heard all about the life of the monks, their gardens, their cows, their cats and their love of God. They also heard about Gurudeva's vision of God. They also could see for themselves how skilled the workers from India are who have carved the entire temple with a small bamboo handled mallet and a chisel. They were each given the Hindu History Lesson #1 as a gift from the monks to all the students. That lesson is designed to be used in 6th grade social studies class.

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A couple years ago Pundit Sharma invited Bodhinatha to visit his temple in Canada. Finally, Bodhinatha was able to fulfill his request. Upon arrival, Bodhinatha was formally greeted and you can see he is seated on a very majestic asana! The day happened to be their Hanuman Puja day. Bodhinatha gave a wonderful talk on Hanuman as a examplary bhaktar or devotee regardless what denomination of Hindu we are. He also elaborated the importance of temple worship. In conclusion, Bodhinatha suggested to the assembled devotees that we should always visit a temple with an offering. By giving we are opening the channels to receive the blessings. He added, one way to extend the temple vibration and bring the devas to your home is to light a lamp in your home shrine immedietely upon returning home. His talk was well received by all attended.

The Ram Temple is actively teaching the next generation of Hindus--both religion and culture.

Today Bodhinatha made two short visits to two different mandirs. The first one was the Vishnu Mandir. It is a beautiful mandir with its wonderful museum. It is headed by Pundit Dr. Doobay. Bodhinatha gave a short talk to the congregation gathered there for their Monday Siva puja. Bodhinatha was here many years ago to preside the installation of Lord Murugan's deity.

Then we went to the Sanatan Mandir. Bodhinatha gave a talk on Siva and temple worship. Again the devotees are doing their Monday Siva worship. Most of the congregation are originally from Gujarat. They were so delighted that Bodhinatha honored their request. They extended an open invitation for Bodhinatha to visit the mandir anytime he is in Toronto. We also had the pleasure of meeting our Mauritius devotees Prabhakur Bakee and his wife who are living Toronto now.

Our two young task forcers Brahamachari's Jaya and Girish are serving in the Ganapati Kulam this phase. They are pushing hard on migration of content for our new web site.

John Anderson has made great progress in our new kitchen. The wall are all up and the ceiling done and painted and the past few days the floor tile work was completed.