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Kauai Aadheenam
A Sacred Temple Sanctuary

Center of Saiva Siddhanta Hinduism in the West.
Home to a 2000 year-old guru lineage.

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Visit
Attend Worship

You must have a reservation to enter for our daily 9am Siva puja in Kadavul Temple—our Nataraja temple, established in 1973.

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Spiritual Life
Become a Monk

Contact us to request consideration for monastic life

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Spiritual Life
Become a Student

For those wishing to begin non-committal study of the teachings of our lineage, and for those who wish to progress further through eventual spiritual initiations.

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Basics
What Is Hinduism?

For many decades our monks have worked tirelessly to create material to help Hindus and non-Hindus alike to better understand the many ancient and diverse facets of the Hindu religion

Visiting Hours

Right Now We Are: Closed

• Open Everyday
• 9am to 12pm
• Open most days of the year
• Front grounds do not require a temple reservation

Attend Our Temple Services

Iraivan Temple is currently NOT open to the public. However, on some days a tour to the temple is given around 10:45am (no reservation needed). Ask a host.

To attend worship in Kadavul Hindu Temple You must make a free reservation

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 a place of peaceful religious practice.

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Sacred Garden Today

Siva’s Garden is a daily wonder, reminding pilgrims of the beauties of life, the soft nurturing that surrounds us if we can just be still enough to see it. Today we bring you a small collection of the botanical creatures that live with us here at the monastery and are showing off, trying to impress pilgrims, to remind them of Siva’s infinite, and sometimes odd, forms.

New Tent for Workspace
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New Tent for Workspace

We have an outdoor workshop adjacent to the carpentry shop whose tent frame and cover was worn down after many years. Yesterday we replaced the entire frame with larger, sturdier pipes and installed a new tent cover. The A-frame is now taller and steeper than before, no longer fitting under the carpentry shop eave, so we have to cut into the eave and pull the frame into it, then build a […]

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

For those seeking a deeper understanding of our spiritual path, Himalayan Academy provides Online Study Programs to get you started. You can also sign up for our lessons by email.

Everything is within you: the sun, the moon, the planets, all of the people functioning through all their different states of consciousness, all of the various manifestations of form. They are all within you.

– Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)

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