Visiting Hours – Reservation Required
• Open Everyday
• 9am to 12pm
• Open most days of the year
• Parking and entry access require a reservation
Attend Our Temple Services
For Access to Kadavaul Temple’s 9:00am Śiva Puja, you must make a “Kadavul Temple Worship” reservation on our reservation site
Iraivan Temple is currently NOT open to the public. However, on some days a tour to the temple is given around 10:45am. Ask a host. (“Late Morning Front Grounds Access” or “Temple Worship” reservation required).
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.
The monastery is a religious center where monks live, worship and work, supporting Hinduism through temple activities, cultural preservation and educational outreach.
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Today at Kauai Aadheenam
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Blessings in Bengaluru
(Drawn from a report from Madan Ganesan) Aum Namah Śivaya. This month, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami Sannyasin Shanmuganathaswami are traveling in India. On the 14th they arrived at the Bangalore International Airport’s Terminal 2, where Rishipathi Dohadeva, Rishipathi Jiva and family, the Natarajan family, and the Praveen family gathered to welcome him. To everyone’s delight, the flight touched down a full thirty minutes early. The next day the Natarajan family received Satguru’s […]
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Big Team of Volunteers & Small Improvements
It is unusual, at our quiet monastery, for so many projects to be happening on a single day. Yesterday was such a day. A team of 12 volunteers from the Corteva Agribusiness group spent the day helping us plant mondo around Iraivan. This was their second visit. To thank them, the monastery prepared a truly special South Indian feast (see the menu in the slideshow) which they enjoyed midday. Another team […]
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Guru Peedam Roof Replacement Begins
The roofing company has begun replacing the roof of the Guru Peedam hall. The old concrete monier tile was there for more than 50 years, bearing many a rainfall and intense tropical sun before gradually starting to leak. The team finished removing one side of the tiles yesterday and will finish the other side today. A number of rafters will be replaced in the coming days before laying down the same […]
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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