Hanuman Temple Gilroy.

Today I went to this Hanuman temple at Mt.Madonna, Gilroy CA.

This temple is within a nice private community called the Mount Madonna Center.

Address - 445 Summit Road Mount Madonna, CA 95076. Ph. 408 722 0226.

The Sankat Mochan Hanuman Temple is located within the grounds of the Mount Madonna Center. The center is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains about 15 miles from the town of Gilroy and about 12 miles from the town of Watsonville.

The temple is open from morning 6 to evening 6 from Monday to Saturday and on Sundays from 4 PM to 7PM. Aarti time is morning 6AM and one on evening 6 PM.

Website - http://www.hanumanfellowship.org/

Reaching this place is quite a challenge as the GPS shows a route which is quite narrow and the roads are so bad, ladden with pot holes that you can't travel on them on a rainy day.

Either follow the instructions here - http://www.mountmadonna.org/directions/bycar.html

OR

Please follow the instructions below to reach the place - (note the instructions fromt he above link - I need to confirm this route after next visit.)

1. Reach Gilroy Gardens: 3050 Hecker Pass Hwy, Gilroy, CA 95020 (Gilroy Gardens) using your GPS.

2. Turn off your GPS and keep going straight on Hecker Pass Rd - at a T junct (note T-junction) turn right onto Pole Line Road.

3. Go on Pole Line Road and then merge onto the Summit Road.

4. After around one mile or so you will see the Mount Madonna Center onto the left. Take a small left and enter the gate of the community and go ahead you will see the temple arch there.

Please the note the road from Gilroy Gardens would be a single lane road with the hard yellow line separation for vehicle in the opposite direction.

Enjoy your ride and drive safe.

Some pics -

Ch1 - SFTG - Confidence

Welcoming the New Year with a new read (Straight From the Gut - Jack Welch).

Read chapter one in which he talks abt how confidence was built in him by his father and mother and then through his teachers during his formative years.

I liked the part in which his mom comes storming into the locker room to reprimand Jack on his reaction on loosing the game - which tells how important it is to know how to take failure gracefully as a steeping stone.

In the end of the chapter where he mentions after joining GE as an assistant in the Chemical Lab. that he realizes about the bureaucracy that has set in GE (which seems true about every company that scales up) - it seems the initial ideology with which the FOUNDERS start enterprises is lost somewhere in the path as it scales up.

I guess it would be interesting to find out how he was able to put up with the bureaucracy and bring about the change.