Visiting Hours
• Open Everyday
• 9am to 12pm
• Open most days of the year. Closed Dec 24, 25, 26.
• Front grounds do not require a temple reservation
Attend Our Temple Services
You must make a free reservation to attend worship Kadavul Hindu Temple
Iraivan Temple is currently not open to the public. However, on some days a tour is given around 10:45am. Ask a host.
About this Hindu Monastery
Kauai Aadheenam is home to a traditional Saivite Hindu monastic order. If you plan to visit please be respectful that this is place of peaceful religious practice.
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Skanda Shasti 2024 Live Stream
Vetrivel Muruganukku Arogara! Starting at 3:00pm (Hawaiian Time) on November 6th, we will be celebrating Skanda Shasti. We will be conduction a puja and abhishekam to Lord Murugan in Kadavul Temple. The puja will be attended by Satguru, monks and devotees, including several from off-island. We will be Live Streaming the whole event for those who can make it in person. You can view the Live Streaming here in TAKA and […]
Skanda Shasti Final Day is Here
The sixth and final day of Skanda Shasti festival is upon us, with the main puja occurring this afternoon. One of the most famous songs to Lord Murugan is the Kanda Shasti Kavacham, composed by Devaraya Swamigal in the 19th century. Below we share a English translation of the hymn, sourced from murugan.org website. Declaration of Purpose May karmic sufferings and worries ceaseWealth and spirituality grow andPrayers be grantedFor those who […]
Annual Founder Puja Final Arati
Jai Gurudeva! On the final day of our Annual Founder Puja, we had three Sivacharyas and our Iraivan Temple priest Pravin Kumar to conduct the homa and perform the abhishekam to Gurudeva’s Tiruvadi. The entire event took around six hours. Along with the monks there were many devotees present. The sky changed from broad daylight to moonlight without us even realizing it. It was powerful homa so we barely noticed the […]
A Search for the Innermost Divine Self
Self-realization in three stages. Realizing oneself as the Soul, realizing oneself as Satchidananda—Omnipresent Consciousness—and realizing oneself as the Source, the Sustainer of that Omnipresent Consciousness, the Self that transcends time, form and space. Parasiva.
Balanced by Temple Worship
A temple is a meeting place of our physical plane and the invisible worlds of the Gods and angelic beings, or devas. The spiritual vibration is kept strong through the monks’ continual worship.
Fueled by Kundalini Yoga
Meditation can be sustained only if one lives a wholesome life, free from emotional entanglements and adharmic deeds. Intensive, consistent meditation dispels the antagonistic, selfish, instinctive forces of the mind and converts those channels of energy into uplifted creative action.
Charted by Monistic Theism
Hinduism, also known as the Sanatana Dharma, or “Eternal Way,” is our planet’s original and oldest living religion, with over one billion adherents.
Illumined by a Potent
Guru-Shishya System
Kauai Aadheenam is the spiritual home and theological seminary for a small band of monks, all under vows, from many nations. They oversee an international religious mission while living a strict lifestyle of daily religious worship, meditation, yoga and service.
Guided by Soul-Stirring Scriptures
Visit our Saivite Scriptures page, which contains timeless wisdom from the oldest living spiritual tradition on Earth. It includes content from the Vedas, Saiva Agamas, writings from saints, and more.
Awakened by Sadhana and Tapas
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– Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)
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