"The vibration of the soul of an aspirant on the path when he is meditating is realized by the satguru, and this is the time he helps the most...."

Gurudeva

Gurudeva Darshan of the Day

"...The bliss of the aspirant is the ultimate of what he wants to bring forth first. The darshan of the satguru will syphon that from him if the intellect or emotion of the aspirant does not get in the way and obstruct and interrupt the process. If you are a meditator who has had inner experiences of light and are living a strict, disciplined life, you will reach a point in your unfoldment of sensitivity enough to feel and distinguish the darshan of a satguru. Soon the feeling will switch, and you will begin enjoying your own bliss of superconscious darshan. These two darshans--yours and that of the satguru--then meet, causing a spiritual dynamic strong enough that another meditator entering the area would automatically be inclined to go into deep meditation even if he were a beginner."

Gurudeva

What Happened Today at the Monastery?

Here are Devagharan and Krishnakumari Nair with their daughter Devina. They live in Texas and are originally from Malaysia.

They last visited in 1999 and are back again. They had darshan with Bodhinatha and got advice about raising their daughter in the US. Devina is homeschooled and Bodhinatha advised to carefully monitor her friendships as she grows up.

Worship at the Swayambhu Lingam.

This original site of Gurudeva's vision will be preserved for the future. Plans for a mandapam to be built over it and a surrounding plinth are in development stages.

At the Iraivan Temple, temple stones continue to see the light of day after their long journey from within the earth to the Bangalore carving site, to container, across the ocean to their new home in Hawaii.

Three beams extracted all at once.

And, next! (drum rolls, nadaswaram playing loudly...) the Rajagopuram capstone...

Oops! It is so heavy the back of the forklift is going up!

Yoginathaswami drags the crate out very slowly....

This is one of the heaviest stones in the entire temple. our team places pipes underneath the crate so we can easily roll it out. This is how it was done in ancient days with elephants pulling stones on logs as rollers.

There it is! The Raja Gopuram

Meanwhile a magnificent Yalli pillar has had the base of it's crate removed.

Work begins on the base, in preparation for standing the magnificent piece up in place.

Yesterday's Tour Group


A very kind guest, Garrett Scott, offered his camera yesterday during the tour and e-mailed us the photo today. The group was by the Rishi Valley lake, where there are shrines for the gurus of our Parampara. Mahalo Garrett!