His Holiness Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji today performed the Kumbhabhishekam of a Navagraha temple in Trinidad. The Kumbhabhishekam performed at 12 noon was attended by thousands of people and devotees. The foreign affairs minister Mr.Ralph Maraj, Mrs.Kissoon, Minister for Legal affairs and Mr.Patrick Manning, Leader of the opposition and former Prime Minister , attended the celebrations. His Holiness is a brief discourse explained that the Graha (planets) ruling our astrological horoscopes) need to be worshipped and with that intention the first ever "Navagraha" temple had been built in the Carribean.
Sri Swamiji addresses the mammoth gathering at the Dattatreya Yoga Center on the occasion of of Navagraha temple installation.
Sri Swamiji lights the Shani Lamp infront of the Navagraha Temple
Sri Swamiji pours on the the Navagraha idols, the holy Ganga water from the Pradhana Kalasha, after the Maha Poornahuti.
Devotees were permitted to perform Ksheera Abhisheka (Milk Ablution) on the Navagraha deities as Sri Swamiji watches from a corner of the temple.