With many families focusing on preparing for their children to return to school, the monastery was as usual quieter with fewer visitors during the month of September as well as October. During this two-month period, three of our extra elaborate monthly Ardra abhishekams to<> Lord Nataraja were celebrated as well as two monthly Chitra guru pujas for Gurudeva. A lengthy abhishekam was also performed on Ganesha Chaturthi on September 12. My publisher’s desk for the January 2019 issue of
Hinduism Today magazine, which is entitled “Claiming Your Omnipresence,” received its final editing. The message is that omnipresence resides with each individual at the core of the soul and can be experienced through progressive practices. The opening paragraph reads: “Omnipresence is defined as the state of being present everywhere at the same time. In a religious context, omnipresence is generally thought of as an attribute unique to God. God is present everywhere; whereas man is only present in the location of his physical body. Hindu thought differs from this perspective. Not only is God omnipresent, He has graciously shared that attribute with us. Omnipresence is found at the core of our soul.” Our bimonthly webinar was held in mid-September on lessons 7-13 of our book Path to Siva. The focus of this webinar series is to give those teaching Path to Siva additional insights into the lessons to share with their students. General contributions for the two-month period of September/October totaled $131,851, which is less than our minimum two-month goal of $140,000. Special project contributions totaled an additional $471. We are grateful to our global family of temple builders for your continued generous support. Om Namasivaya,
   — Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami.

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Hindus with Western education, or who were raised and taught in Christian schools, whether they have accepted the alien religion or not, find it very difficult to acknowledge within their own being the existence of the Gods, because the West primarily emphasizes the external, and the East emphasizes the internal. Thoroughly immersing oneself in the external world severs man’s awareness from his psychic ability to perceive that which is beyond the sight of his two eyes.

You might ask how you can love something you cannot see. Yet, the Gods can be and are seen by mature souls through an inner perception they have awakened. This psychic awakening is the first initiation into religion. Every Hindu devotee can sense the Gods, even if he cannot yet inwardly see them. This is possible through the subtle feeling nature. He can feel the presence of the Gods within the temple, and he can indirectly see their influence in his life.

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Morning in the Islands: Our new camera captures Mount Waialeale surrounded by clouds, and the Wailua River surging after a nighttime rainstorm. Iraivan can be seen peeking through the foliage.

Beam stones: A swami adds a dollop of mortar to the stone that will support the next layer of roof beams in the Nandi Mandapam. Each layer is blessed with a simple ceremony. <

Top to bottom: A team of pros pours the paths of the new desert garden, which is in the shape of a Shadkonam or six-pointed star; two silpis in the sanctum sanctorum following the installation of four stones that will support the Avudaiyar; Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami blesses one of the Nandi Mandapam ceiling beams prior to its installation.

In September, Satguru, monks and silpis gathered atop the Nandi Mandapam scaffolding to have a blessing for the first of the structure’s roof beams. These intricate stones are beautifully carved and were carefully adjusted to fit between the mandapam’s twelve pillars. In October we held the annual Ayudha Puja, blessing the many tools that are being used in the construction. This puja is a part of Navaratri, which the monastery doesn’t observe, but Ayudha Puja is considered a crucial event by the silpis, with special prayers for all their tools and machinery. Traditionally, the first stone for a new project is blessed on this day. This year it was the first stone of the roof of the Nandi Mandapam. After the short puja and blessings, Satguru gave gifts to each silpi. Also during the month, the monks of the Siddhidata Kulam constructed a heavily reinforced wooden ramp on the east side of the temple. It is designed to allow the silpis to move the 5,000-kilogram Avudaiyar (Sivalingam base) into the sanctum sanctorum. The landscaping around the temple saw further refinement with the addition of the Shadkonam Cactus Garden at the temple’s northwest corner. It consists of a concrete walk in the shape of a six-pointed star that encloses a rock garden planted with special and rare cactus specimens. The crew that came to pump the concrete paths brought a boon. Their leader, Jim Fain, told Sadasivanathaswami, “Today’s labor is free. My team wants to give this as a gift to the temple project.”

On October 15th all the monks gathered for a Guru Jayanti celebration, honoring our dear Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami’s 76th year in this life. During September and October, the Ganapati Kulam monks concentrated on the editorial work for the January/February/March 2019 edition of Hinduism Today. With this new issue, the magazine celebrates 40 years of service! Work on the Holy Bible of the Saivite Hindu Religion continued throughout the last two months. An “Alpha Version” (that’s pre-Beta) of the book can be seen on our website here: www.himalayanacademy.com/saivite-bible. On September 28, Sadasivanathaswami and Arumuganathaswami flew off to Honolulu for the day. They were invited by the Governor of Hawaii to attend and bless the signing of a Sister-State Agreement between Goa in India and Hawaii in the USA. The agreement will promote trade, tourism, information technology, exchange of health and wellness, agriculture, culinary art, education and cultural programs between private sector organizations and universities of the two states. Also in September, the monastery hosted Karolina and Anurag Goswami along with their young son Ladoo. The husband-and-wife team had been traveling around the US after speaking at the World Hindu Congress in Chicago, and Kauai was one of their key destinations. Their YouTube channel, India In Details, has become quite popular. They conducted interviews with Satguru and the editorial staff of the magazine for a video about the monastery’s work. On the 30th of September, Ramesh Sivanathan arrived from Malaysia. He is helping in the Ganapati Kulam with Tamil translation projects.

Placing the Golden Thread: On September 12th, our monks joined Satguru in the inner sanctum of Iraivan Temple for the placement of the stones that support the crystal Lingam’s bronze avudaiyar. There is a hole beneath the stones that travels all the way down to the earth through the four-foot-thick concrete foundation and a three-foot-thick layer of compacted gravel. During the ceremony, Satguru blessed and lowered to the ground a copper wire spun with silver and gold. This wire acts as a connection between the avudaiyar and the earth.

The Indian Team: A major project is underway in Bengaluru, the carving of a new pitham for the Kadavul Temple Nandi. It will be an elaborate, traditional Chola-style base, adding much grace to the entrance.

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Bodhinatha's Newest Teachings Online

Satguru Bodhinatha is now turning his 15-minute Keynote presentations into movies which can be used for our personal benefit or shared at a satsang of friends. See them here. Thanks to a vibrant team of transcribers we can hear Bodhinatha's recent talks and read the transcriptions here. Read the transcriptions on line. Click here for all of Bodhinatha's talks.

The weekly talks are also live streamed and then save on YouTube. Go to the Kauai Aadheenam channel and scroll down to recent talks.

Bodhinatha's weekly talks can be heard on our website: His recent commentaries on the chapters in our new book "The Path to Siva" are marvelous!

Click here for a complete index of both Bodhinatha's and Gurudeva's talks on line

Recent Talks:

How Do We Get Along with Others?
What Is the Hindu Way of Greeting?
What Is Good Conduct?
What Are Our Saiva Forehead Marks?
How Do We Use Our Home Shrine?

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Bodhinatha's Latest Books

The latest publication from Himalayan Academy is Guru’s Wisdom, the third anthology drawn from Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami’s repository of teachings. The topics, captured from 52 of his Publisher’s Desk editorials, vary widely—from the practical to the esoteric—but all have one element in common. They are based on Satguru’s observations of what is happening at the present time in the lives of individuals, families, temple groups and Hindu society as a whole.

In the book’s introduction, he explains: “One source is the private darshan meetings I have most weeks of the year with families visiting our Hawaii monastery. In 2003 an amazingly high number of families asked me the exact same question: ‘We are so busy with our professional and family life that we have little or no time to devote to religion. What can we do?’ It was as if a being in the inner world wanted to make sure this topic was written about. The answers I gave provided the basis for the Publisher’s Desk entitled ‘Work Is Worship,’ published in July 2004. It presented the Hindu perspective that career and family should not be viewed as separate from religious life; they are integral to fulfilling one’s dharma, and work can indeed be transformed into worship.”

He continues, “Another question I hear year after year has to do with meditation: ‘Swami, when I sit down to meditate, my mind goes all over the place and I am unable to control it. What should I do?’ The answers formed the Publisher’s Desk titled ‘Letting Go of Past and Future.’ The article advises meditators to divide their thoughts into five categories and apply a different prescribed technique to quiet each category.”

“Many college students of all faiths, not just Hinduism, end up questioning their religious beliefs to the extent of adopting an atheist point of view accompanied by a newfound commitment to secular humanism. In talking to parents about this trend, almost none had ever heard of secular humanism. To address this issue, I wrote the Publisher’s Desk ‘Hinduism: the Original Humanism,’ which reveals that Hinduism has a strong humanist tradition within it, suggesting there is no need to give up Hinduism to be a humanist.”

“The trend among young Hindu adults that surprised me the most was the lack of any daily practice. Traditionally, Hindu teens undergo a ceremony to mark the commencement of daily sadhana, such as Gayatri mantra, puja or a mantra japa. But most university students are not at all engaged in worship, meditation or scriptural study. This led to the Publisher’s Desk ‘A Ten-Minute Spiritual Workout.’ It outlines a short, daily routine consisting of four types of practice and encourages parents to have their children take it up around the age of fifteen, with the hope they will create and maintain good habits during their university schooling. The monks even developed an app to guide this practice.”

Enjoy and learn from these and dozens of other insightful articles in Guru’s Wisdom on contemporary issues.

Hindu Heritage Endowment

Estate Planning:
Why You Need to Understand Revocable Living Trusts

Hindu Heritage Endowment (HHE) wants you to have a good estate plan to protect yourself and your family. It can also help you make a lasting difference to worthy causes like the Iraivan Temple.

“Dying intestate” is the ugly legal phrase used to describe an adult passing away with no estate plan, a condition that sets up family and friends for confusion, dissension, delay and conflict at a time of great stress. Many adults die intestate. According to a recent survey by legal publishers LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell, 58 percent of American adults don’t have a will, much less a complete estate plan.

HHE encourages all families to have complete estate plans. Nowadays, that means having a will, a revocable living trust, power of attorney for property management and an advance health care directive.

At death, a will becomes a set of legally binding instructions that govern the distribution of your assets. Some people mistakenly think that a will avoids probate. On the contrary, a will is a ticket to probate court; but probate has the advantage of making sure your assets get distributed as your will directs. It has the disadvantage of being expensive, time-consuming and public. So, are you doing yourself and your heirs a disservice if all you have is a will?

A revocable living trust does avoid probate, but what exactly is it? Think of a revocable living trust as a mini-corporation that holds title to your most important assets: your home, your investment portfolio and your cash reserves. Though you still have complete control over these possessions, you no longer hold them in your name. They are held by your revocable living trust. And just as a corporation does not go through probate when the CEO dies, your living trust avoids probate at your death. Your successor trustee simply steps in and follows the rules and instructions of the trust.

Living trusts are useful during life as well. If, for example, you become unable to manage your real estate or finances through illness or accident, your successor trustee can take charge. There’s no costly and embarrassing public conservatorship hearing.

Revocable living trusts do have some disadvantages. They are more detailed than most wills, and so the cost of writing them is usually more than a will. Also, you must remember to transfer assets to your trust. If you do not, your living trust will remain an elaborate but empty shell, like a safe deposit box with nothing in it.

A living trust needs to be managed and its assets distributed according to its terms. Your successor trustee is supposed to take care of these important and sometimes complex tasks promptly, so choose your trustee with care. A well-managed living trust is a solace to your family and a boon to the good causes you support.

Naming the Iraivan Temple Endowment as a beneficiary of a living trust for a percentage of your estate, a specific amount, or a specific property can usually result in a timely distribution at minimum cost. You can use your living trust to create a future endowment fund at the Temple in your name or the name of a loved one. Like the gardens that surround the Temple, your living trust will produce blossoms for a thousand years in the form of harvested income from your fund’s principal.

Visit the website below to learn more about planned giving options to provide immediate tax and income benefits to you and your family, while also providing a future gift to the Temple.

For information on establishing a fund at Hindu Heritage Endowment, contact Shanmuganathaswami at 808-822-3012 ext. 6 or e-mail hhe@hindu.org.

The Hindu Heritage Endowment wants you to succeed in your estate planning efforts and, through them, both care for your family and remember good causes like the Iraivan Temple Endowment. (For additional information contact Shanmuganathaswami at 808-822-3012, ext. 6, or e-mail hhe@hindu.org. To learn more about planned giving options to provide immediate tax and income benefits to you and your family, while also providing a future gift to HHE, please visit www.hheonline.org. Get the tool-kit (pdf)

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Building Fund Donations

Thanks to Our September/October Temple Builders in 19 Different Countries

For the two months of September/October 2018 our minimum monthly goal was $140,000. Excluding contributions directed toward special projects, we received actual contributions of $ 131,851.13.

AUSTRALIA
Marie & R. Bhanugopan	US$216.00
V. Ganeshalingam	51.00
Nagaratnam Jeyasreedharan	40.00
D. Karthigesu Family	200.00
Rama Krishnan	60.00
Vimala Muniandy	64.00
Luckshmi & Logan Siva Nirmalananda	70.00
N. & Neelanthi Panchalingam	50.00
Jahnavi Sivananthan	200.00
Gunavinthan Siva Thirumalai	200.00
Thanavinthan Siva T. Thirumalai	200.00
Essen Subramanian Valayten	5.62
BELARUS
Tatjana Melenaja	50.00
CANADA
Anonymous	187.32
Bill Brown	73.00
Ron & Jennifer Burke	100.00
Peter Christian	25.00
Eric Elbers	400.00
Rathinappillai Logeswaran	100.00
Ioana-Gabriela Manoliu	66.00
Changam & Kamachi Naidu	100.00
Mr. & Mrs. Pranavan	50.00
Ashish & Kamni Rao	50.00
Krishna & Dhanmatie Roopnarine	20.00
Vijaya & Thiru Satkunendran	50.00
Thambimuttoo & Thavam Sivagnanam	102.00
Paramsothy Sivakumar	101.00
Sivakumaran Sivalingam	42.00
Sayanthan & Anupama Sivanathan	22.00
Sara K. Sivasurier	265.46
Saravanamuthu Somasundram	100.00
Nagula & Sutha Suthaker	202.00
Santhira Devi Vairavanathan	109.40
FIJI ISLANDS
Anonymous	50.00
INDIA
Udaiyappan & Kathaie 200.00
Lakshmanan Nellaiappan	20.00
Maragatham Nellaiappan	20.00
INDONESIA
Mahadevan Gengadaram	100.00
IRELAND
Konstantin Usacovs	100.00
ITALY
Cristina Ma Puja Canducci	40.00
MALAYSIA
Arulmani Devi Arumugam	71.50
Kalai Bala	93.14
P. Barathi Balasegaran	35.76
Balamurali Balasupramaniam	35.76
Hemakheshaa Naatha Batumallah	35.76
Mekaladeva Batumallah	35.76
Rathidevi & Veerasamy Batumallah	62.49
Arulmani Chandra Kumar & Sujith Arulmani	23.82
Theevhiyaa Chandrasekaram	47.66
Umaabati Chandrasekaram	23.83
Aravindraj Chandrasekaran	45.00
Gunasegaran Chitravelloo	23.25
Tan Gek Chuai	31.00
Kathiravan Darmalingam	23.83
Sasikumar Darmalingam	23.83
Nancy DeSilva	100.00
Sai Sheeny Sai Janany, Sai Hamsiny, Chandran Ramamurthy & Kalpana Devasagayam	59.55
Omaya Devasagayam	11.92
Annapoorani Ganesan	11.92
Yoga Rubini & Chandra Ganth Family	23.83
R. Jayakumar & Yoga Bhavani  Family	23.83
Uma Dewi & Dinesh Kumar Jayaram	14.00
In memory of Mr. Jeyapalan	2,500.00
Muthukumar Jeyapalan	2,500.00
M. Shanmuganathan & A. Kamalambikai	47.63
Anbu Kandasamy	56.00
Valliammah Kandasamy	11.92
Sockanathan Karuppan	47.65
C. Kavitha	47.66
Kamalasegaran Kumarasamy	20.00
Amaraysh, Kumutha & Jarry Lai	11.92
Kavin Kirav, Shreiyaa, Leena Lakshmi Devasagayam & Anand Kumar Letchumana	47.70
Darrshan Letchumanan & Yuvan Letchumanan	23.82
Nameegri Marimuthu	23.82
Logadasan Murugesu	23.83
Mohanavilashiny Murugesu	11.92
Puvana Murugesu	11.92
Gowri Nadason	23.82
Kamalaharan Nadason	23.82
Rasiah Vallipuram & Pathumanithi Nagalingam	23.82
M. Suranthiran Naidu	35.75
Nalakini Niranjana	11.92
Padmarani	23.00
A. Paranthaman	9.34
Jayaram Rajaletchumi	23.25
Mogan Raju	138.00
Sai Ram	11.92
Puveneswaran Raman	60.00
Supramaniam Ramoo & In Memory of Neelavathy Thangavelu	23.80
Raagini Ravindren & Senthil Ravindren	11.92
Jayaraj Kantharaj & Saranraj S-O Jayabalathilagam	14.29
Aiswaaryaa Saraswaaty	23.00
Sanjana Saravan	11.92
Lachmi Savoo	11.92
Parimala Selvaraj	60.00
Ambikabathi Shanmugam Pillay	47.66
Indrani Shanmugasundram	23.25
Raja Singam Raja Ratnam & Shreema Rasiah	23.82
Nutanaya Sivaceyon	20.00
Saraswathy & Ramesh Sivanathan	82.14
Mohana Sundari & Sivasekaran	23.82
A. Sockalingam & Chandrasekari	23.82
Devi & the late Selvadurai Subramaniam	11.92
Kuveeran Suppiah	16.25
Vasanta Tanggavelu	71.39
Evelyn Chandravathi & Thaya	222.00
Remalah & A. Thinathayalan	11.92
Uvaneswaran	23.00
Saroja Vasudevan	11.93
Vikneswaran A. Vinsent	23.82
Yuvanes Waran	40.00
MAURITIUS
Anonymous	112.84
Soondiren Arnasalon	21.04
Soundarajen Arnasalon	11.24
Prem Audit	2.80
Jegadessa Chenganna	28.10
Shree Saroja Devi Doorgiat	5.62
Rani Gangadeen	2.81
Kunal & Sanyogeeta Ghurbhurn	2.82
Amrit Singh Jaypal	14.04
Rohit Jogessur	5.62
Darcinee Jugessur	2.81
Meeravadee Koothan	5.62
Mooneenagen Koothan	11.24
Poospawadee Koothan	5.62
Sooreshen Koothan	28.10
Amravadee Kownden	101.15
Vel Mahalingum	22.58
Saroja Maureemootoo	83.94
Kulagan Moonesawmy	5.62
Seedha Lutchmee Moonesawmy	5.62
Jayaluxmi Mooroogen	5.62
Goindamah Moothoosawmy	5.62
Mardaymootoo Mootoosamy	5.62
Vadivel Mootoosamy	5.62
Karoumee Pareatumbee	14.04
Shivaramen Pareatumbee	14.04
Vailamah Pareatumbee	14.04
Naden Seeneevasen Pillay	2.82
Priya Ramnarain	1.40
Ashok Reetoo	2.80
Dayalen Renghen	8.43
Ezilveylen Renghen	16.86
Jagadissen Renghen	16.86
Madhevi Renghen	16.86
Siven Renghen	16.86
Varaden Renghen	16.86
Vega Renghen	8.43
Petchai Subramanian	2.81
Kannen Valaydon	56.20
Saroja Valayten	5.62
Toshadeva Valayten	2.81
Ulasa Valayten	2.81
Siven Veerasamy	16.86
NETHERLANDS
Prekash & Sabita Baladien	30.00
NEW ZEALAND
Dev & Padma	101.00
NORWAY
Anuradha Badhwar	20.00
Meetu Badhwar-Hansen	20.00
RUSSIA
Timur Izmaylov	14.00
SINGAPORE
Singapore Mission	135.00
Kandasamy	220.00
Bijamati Pareatumbee	20.00
Padmini Pareatumbee	40.00
Easan, Lavanya & Sivakumar Saravan	800.00
Kavitha Darshini & Amitpal Singh	145.14
Kamala Devi Vaiyapuri	50.00
SINT MAARTEN
Gary & Radica Asha Yee-Fong	50.00
UAE
Anil Kumar	108.00
UNITED KINGDOM
Anonymous	33.00
Vani Chenganna	148.75
Shree Vishna Rasiah & Sharmila Harry	$23.82
Georgiana Lukshmi Dorothy Barnes & Theeba Ragunathan	100.00
Clive & Puvaneswary Roberts	350.00
Sharavanan Selvadurai	400.00
S. Sivathasan	101.00
Shankara Skandanatha	72.00
USA
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund - Gali Family	5,000.00
YourCause - Rani Natarajan	252.00
Anonymous 10,844.08
Golden Gate Mission - Clay Ganesha Fundraiser	3,098.00
Silver Vel Satsang	45.00
Wailua Mission	22,809.50
Tarsem Lal Aggarwal	200.00
Vel & Valli Alahan	50.00
Yohini & ArumugamAlvappillai	51.00
Palani K. Aravazhi	210.00
Rao L. Atluri	51.00
Padma Balakrishnan	101.00
N. Balasubramanian	10,000.00
Arvind Bhakta	51.00
Srinivas Bhamidipaty	22.00
Kapil Bisht	501.00
Anca Botez	20.00
Frank Burkhardt	20.00
Marlene Carter	216.00
G. Chadha	21.00
Mallik Chaganti	20.00
Mallik Chaganti	20.00
Chiranjeet Chakka	101.00
Asha Chaku	150.00
Binduraj R. Chandrasekaran	50.00
Raghu Chavali	250.00
Naren Chelian	102.00
Venkatasubba & Ushadevi Chenna	500.00
Charles Close	216.00
Kaika & Nilufer Clubwala	202.00
Harsh Dalal	5,000.00
Shyamadeva & Peshanidevi Dandapani	108.00
Shyamal Das	2,501.00
Piyush & Krishna Dave	501.00
Janakbhai R. Dave	50.00
Senthil Dayanithi	250.00
Ed DeDeo	80.00
Paul DeSantis	216.00
Amarnath & Latha Devarmanai	101.00
B. Devadas	108.00
Amarnath & Latha Devarmanai	202.00
Shawn Dhouv	21.00
Tirumalesa & Indira Devi Duvvuri	221.00
Catherine Eisenberger	251.00
Ramya Subramani & Rajesh Ekambaram	422.00
Suketu & Mita Gandhi	102.00
Panshula Ganeshan	28.00
Rame Gangadharappa	108.00
Nancy Gardner Heaven	20.00
Rajendra Giri	40.00
Hiranya & Saraswathi Devi Gowda	5,001.00
Elizabeth W. Hamill	200.00
Kriya & Sharyn Haran	250.00
James L. Haynes	50.00
Anuradha D. Herale	101.00
Usharani Iswaran Magaña	160.00
David Jaffe	216.00
Chandrashekhar Jairaman	102.00
S. Jeyendran	303.00
Vasudev R. Kamath	600.00
Haran Kandadas	216.00
Latha Kannan	102.00
Srinivas & Shanthi Karri	130.00
Saravanan & Vasavi Kasthuri	3,335.00
Sundari Katir	40.00
Kavya Kaza	22.00
Dolly & Jagdish Khatwani	20.00
Anil & Devajyothi Kondapi	216.00
Andrzej Kraja	202.00
Naryanaswamy Krishnamurthi	100.00
Rajagopal Krishnan	216.00
Vidyul L. Krishnan	500.00
Ashok & Ranjana Kulkarni	200.00
Arvind & Neelima Kumar	108.00
Vijay Kumar	5.00
Hemen Kurani	101.00
Karthikeyan & Uma Lakshmanan	51.00
Bhagawandas Lathi	50.00
Gregg Lien	100.00
Gerard & Zhena Linsmeier	108.00
Abha Lokhande	64.00
Karthi Luneburg	101.00
Melody Mackenzie	25.00
Uma Madhavan	118.95
R. & K. Mahadevan	101.00
Gaurav Malhotra	251.00
Ila Mali	51.00
Alka & Balaji Malur	101.00
Lokesh Marigowda	40.00
Laura Devi Marks	216.00
Cindy McGonagle	50.00
Chandra Mohan Mehrotra	102.00
Murli Melwani	1,000.00
Lata Mistry	101.00
Krishna Moorthy	1,008.00
Garani Shiranthana Nadaraja	251.00
Palani & Selvarany Nadarajah	131.00
Isabella Nadeau	60.00
Nitya & Becky Nadesan	300.00
Murugasu Nagul	51.00
Manish M. Naidu	22.22
Rama Chandran & Rema Nair	15,000.00
Mani & Surya Nallasivan	500.00
Shan Nanthakumar	501.00
Rukesh Narayan	101.00
Lok & Pushpa Nath	21.00
Sanjaya K. Nath	22.00
Emma & Narendra Nemivant	50.00
Neelam Oberoi	123.00
Neela Oza	75.00
Rao Pachigolla	51.00
Gurudas Pai	202.00
Adrian Palafox	90.00
Satya & Savitri Palani	42.00
Sriram Panchagnula	60.00
Cassan Pancham	2,016.00
Pankayatselvan Family	50.00
Easvan & Devi Param	202.00
Janaka & Bhavani Param	50.00
Jothi Param	203.00
Harish Parmar-Dhanraj	51.00
Samkhit Pata	161.00
Indubhai & Induben Patel	101.00
Jalpa Paresh Patel	101.00
Neal Dharmendra Patel	101.00
Prasan Patel	50.00
Suresh P. Patel	251.00
Vinay & Hansa R. Patel	202.00
Divyang Pathak	25.00
Salik & Sanjia Pathak	102.00
Bhaskar & Phani Peesapati	251.00
Indrathan Pillay	100.00
Supriya Ponnapula	51.00
Erasenthiran Poonjolai	140.00
Tara Prabhu	25.00
Narendra & Urmala Pratap	50.00
Narasimhachar G. Prativadi	101.00
Parthasarathy Rajagopalan	50.00
Deva & Gayatri Rajan	2,002.00
Mohan Deepak Ram	22.00
Venkat Ramakrishnan	100.00
Varalakshmi Ramamoorthy	216.00
Rajesh & Yatra Raman	22.00
Partab & Chandra Ramsinghani	54.00
Rama Pemmaraju Rao	216.00
Srinivas Rao	100.00
Sudharsanam Rathinam	101.00
Inja Reddy	50.00
Annie & Mark Ruiz	216.00
Cliff & Kathy Runge	100.00
Chamundi Sabanathan	123.00
Pradip M. Sagdeo	50.00
Sargam Saksena	20.00
Aran Sambandar	108.00
In memory of Mrs. M. Sangarapillai	200.00
Arthi Sanjeevi	40.00
Vikram Santurkar	102.00
William Scherer	101.00
Payal Sehgal	51.00
Aran & Valli Sendan	50.00
Deva & Amala Seyon	102.00
Praveen Shankar	100.00
Shiv Sharma & Jiya Sharma	21.00
Usha Kiran Shastri	201.00
Hemant N. Sheth	101.00
Sachin Shetye	101.00
Salil Shibad	42.00
Azam & Loganatha Shivam Torkian	101.00
S Ram & Rekha Shrivastava	37.00
Karthik Shyamsunder	201.00
Iraja & Nilani Sivadas	2,264.00
Dharshi & Sivasothy Sivakumar	300.00
Jai Sivakumara	400.00
Kumaraswamy Sivakumaran	165.00
Homa, Hotri, Hridaya & Tejasinha Sivalingam	10.00
Jnana Sivananda	200.00
Lakshana Chetana Sivananda	102.00
Tandu & Uma Sivanathan	200.00
B. Sivaraja	20.00
Kandiah Sivarajah	101.00
Robert Sorrells	108.00
Srikanth Sridharan	101.00
Shanthi Srinivas	50.00
Kiran Srinivasan	60.00
Natarajan Srinivasan	108.00
Padmapriya Srinivasan	50.00
Joseph W. Steelman	100.00
Rebecca Stillwell	40.00
Yasotha & Thevarajah Subarajan	102.00
Sashi & Gayathri Subramanian	30.00
Nandi Deva Sundaram	100.00
Savithri Sundaresan	102.00
Siva Suntharalingam	108.00
Madhav Suragari	1,008.00
Phani Kumar Sureddi	7.00
Karthik Suresh	216.00
Shanthi Suresh	303.00
K. & Rushika Suriyakumar	250.00
Vijay Syal	102.00
Satyanagu Tatineni	50.00
Ashok & Mina Thakker	121.00
Rakesh Reddy Thatikonda	116.00
Sivam U. Thillaikanthan	80.00
Rajiv Vaidya	150.00
Punit & Panna Vajaria	51.00
Rama Vangala	137.00
Archana & Ravi Vannela	250.00
Vayudeva Varadan	102.00
N.M. Varadarajan	101.00
S.S. Vasan	251.00
Rajiv Verma	108.00
Mahesh Viswanathan	50.00
Raghu Ram Vollala	251.00
Richard Bosworth & Kerri Watts	101.00
Michael Wasylkiw	216.00
S. Wijayaratnam	100.00
Jinny Petcharat Wonwong	22.22
Kanthiah & Viranjani Yogakumar	75.00
Shelah Young	102.00
Annette Zastrow	10.00
Michael Zimmermann	5.00
Almitra Zion	8.00
Total Building Fund	131,676.13
Iraivan Temple Endowment
Anonymous	32.00
Subhash Kumar Choudhary	100.00
Amey Surendra Gangal	22.00
Sheela Venkatakrishnan	21.00
Total Endowment Funds	$175.00
Special Project Donations
Valli Ananda	340.00
Valliammah Kandasamy	11.92
Gowri Nadason	119.08
Total Special Project Donations	471.00
Grand Total	$132,322.13

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