Guru Purnima Live Stream
Join us on July 19th, 2024, for Kauai Aadheenam’s observance of Guru Purnima. We start our celebrations at 6:00am (Kauai time) with a short parade to Iraivan Temple followed by a padapuja to Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami.
Guru Purnima is a sacred festival celebrated to honor and express gratitude to our spiritual teachers. Observed on the full moon day (Purnima) in the Vedic Sanskrit month of Ashadha (June-July), this auspicious occasion highlights the invaluable role of the Guru, who dispels darkness and ignorance, leading their disciples toward enlightenment and self-realization.
From the Kularnava Tantra:
“And Lord Siva said: There is One Real. Call it Siva. This Parabrahman is formless, stainless, one without a second, changeless, beyond the highest. This Mahesvara is all-knowing, all-doing, sovereign of all, self-luminous, without beginning or end. All embodied souls, jivas, all the born creatures, are portions of Me, like sparks of the fire. But human birth is the most important, for it is then that one becomes awake, aware of his state of bondage and the necessity of release. It is then that one is in a position to take steps for his liberation from bondage’s hold.
Humans have a self-will and are not totally subject to the impulses and drives of nature as are other creatures. It is only on this earth–and that too in a human body endowed with a soul–that one can choose one’s path for spiritual progress. But not all are aware of the precious opportunity afforded by human birth, which is truly the ladder to Liberation. The Self is to be realized only here in this life. If here you do not find it and work out the means for your Liberation, where else is it possible? It is possible nowhere else. It has to be worked out by yourself from within yourself.
The world you reach after the physical body is shed is determined by the level of consciousness reached while in the body. So, as long as the body lasts, exert yourself towards the goal of Liberation.
Remember, the physical body does not last forever. Age prowls like a leopard; diseases attack like an enemy. Death waits not to see what is done or not done. Before the limbs lose their vitality, before adversities crowd in upon you, take to the auspicious path.
Therefore, choose, then worship a Satguru. Worship his feet. Cherish the very sandals (paduka) which hold his feet. All knowledge is founded on those paduka. Remember and cherish those paduka, which yield infinitely more merit than any number of observances, gifts, sacrifices, pilgrimages, mantra-japa and rituals of worship.”
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July 18th, 2024 at 4:21 pm
“AUM GURAVE NAMAHA”!.
July 18th, 2024 at 4:28 pm
Jai Bodhinatha! Jai Gurudeva! Hail to all the Satgurus of our Kailasa Parampara! Aum.
July 18th, 2024 at 4:33 pm
Having a Guru as Gurudeva and Bodhinatha is no different from having God Siva Himself guiding and protecting you. Devotees and disciples just have To do one thing
OBEY AND FOLLOW THE GURU as fast as you can
Whole life will organise itself in a divine way
Aum Namasivaya
July 18th, 2024 at 5:55 pm
Jai Satgurunatha Jai Kailasa Parambara
July 18th, 2024 at 7:07 pm
Jai Gurudeva 🌺🌺🌺🙏
Jai Satguru Bodhinatha 🌺🌺🌺🙏
Aum Namasivayam 🙏🙏🙏
July 18th, 2024 at 10:39 pm
Jai Satguru bodhinatha🙏🏼🌹🌹🌹
Om Shivaya satguru 🙏🏼🌹🌹🌹
July 18th, 2024 at 11:55 pm
We are the fortunate ones with a Satguru to guide us on our way back to Siva.
Able to travel in the Zoomloca to His Holy Feet and experience the presence of God
At Kauai Hindu Monastery. Thank you for streaming this most auspicious event.
July 19th, 2024 at 1:42 am
Satguru Bodhinathaji. Celebrating in awe with you this Guru Purnima. I am within you, you are within me. I fall in prapatti at thy lotus Feet. Over the last 27 years since I came to the darshan of beloved Gurudeva the bonds of anava, karma and maya have been loosened and I am finding my way into the clear white light. This past year has been one of intense spiritual growth, with your daily guidance in meditation and sadhana, much like in the early years when I met Gurudeva in 1997. In mingbasida, Siva’s will be done always. Anbe Sivamayam Satyame Parasivam
July 19th, 2024 at 3:21 am
I am mostly one big bundle of gratitude for Satguru Bodhinatha. This is the life in which I found my path. My thanks to those who led me here. Aum Shanti
July 19th, 2024 at 4:33 am
ஜெய் சத்குரு போதிநாத வேலன்சுவாமிகள்! Jai Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami
ஜெய் கைலாச பரம்பரை! Jai Kailasa Parampara!
ஜெய் ஜெய் ஜெய்! Jai, Jai, Jai !
July 19th, 2024 at 6:40 pm
Thank you, Satguru for all you do!