Jai Ganesha!
We’ve recently begun sharing selected Hinduism Today articles on Instagram. From each issue, we’ll be choosing 4–5 articles, thoughtfully summarizing them into 10-slide carousel posts for easy and inspiring reading. Click to view the post, and please do share and like to help spread the message of Hinduism to the world. Aum 🕉️
Kanda Alahan from California is here to serve for a couple weeks in his expert woodworking capacities. His main task will be to install replacement kitchen island cabinetry in about a week that he had crafted back home. Before then, he and Kumarnathaswami are creating a new workbench for the tented area adjacent to the main woodshop. They’re making use of three glulam beams that we had left over from another project. They planed and sanded to make sure the beams are the exact same dimensions, then glued them together to form the wide workbench. Finally, a simple finish coat was applied.
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Aum Namah Śivaya
Below are some photos from our recent celebrations of Mahasivaratri at Iraivan Temple. If you didn’t already see the full livestream you can watch it here.
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Jai Ganesha!
During Mahasivaratri, Satguru delivered a very powerful and uplifting talk. Due to a technical issue, we were unable to live stream it at that time. However, one of our devotees kindly recorded the talk, and we are happy to now share it with everyone. You may now enjoy Satguru’s inspiring words. Aum.
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Two days back Rajkumar Manickam, after working with the monks, sent us an amazing Adobe Express creation giving the entire life of Saint Tayumanavar in illustrated form. It is a fun way to learn who this articulate and highly mystical Sivabhaktar was, how he endured great loss, rose to become finance minister to the king, left the palace to wander from temple to temple and write his 1,452 songs. Click on the second image below (with the giant Sivalingam), and the story will load in a few moments. Then use the mouse to scroll down, revealing image after captioned image. Aum Namasivaya!
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Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly upadesha in Kadavul Temple at Kauai’s Hindu Monastery in Hawaii. It is part of a series of talks elaborating on the inspired teachings of Satguru Śivaya Subramuniyaswami as found in his book Merging With Śiva.
“To the meditating yogī, darshan is more than a communication radiating out to him from an external God or Mahādeva. It is a radiant light shining from the sanctum sanctorum of his own sahasrāra chakra. Worship for him becomes completely internal as he follows that light, that darshan, seeking to know its source. In yoga, the devotee worships the transcendent aspect of God. He strengthens his body and nerve system. He disciplines the energies of mind and body. He learns to regulate his breath and to control the prāṇas that flow as life’s force through his nerve system. In this process, the kuṇḍalinī śakti is lifted and the multi-petaled chakras unfold in all their splendor. The subtle realms within the devotee are revealed layer by layer as he methodically perfects attention, concentration, meditation and contemplation.“
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