Kauai's traveling monks visit our old temple, purchased by Gurudeva in 1988 and converted from a Catholic church to Hindu temple-monastery complex.

On this day we enjoyed Muruga's darshan, along with a surprise Shivalinga abhishekam.

One of our stops along the California lands was Muir Woods

The traveling monks share the next set of photos from their "very Big Island" tour:

The first stop for our traveling monks began in San Jose, California, at the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment.

From their website: The Center for Spiritual Enlightenment is a meditation center in the spiritual tradition of Kriya Yoga, welcoming people from all backgrounds who are seeking God-realization, a path to spiritually conscious, fulfilled living. At CSE you'll find practical support and tools for transforming your life, fulfilling your worthwhile dreams, and living a spiritually conscious life.

CSE World Headquarters is located in San Jose, California, where worship services, meditation instruction, Kriya Yoga teachings and initiation, hatha yoga classes, youth spiritual education, ministry services and retreats are regularly offered. It is also the home of Meru Institute for Yoga Studies; Lahiri Retreat House; a meditation garden open daily to the public; CSE Press; and Tree of Life Welcome Center and Bookshop. Teachings are offered globally through online programs, outreach, and publications.


Our host and head of the fellowship Yogacharya O'Brian greeted Paramacharya Sadasivanathaswami and treated the monks to a whole morning of touring the grounds, updates, future plans and a wonderful lunch. Please visit their website to learn more: https://www.csecenter.org/

Today, Paramacharya Sadasivanathaswami and Yogi Rajanatha boarded a plane for the mainland. The two will be taking a 5 week long journey from coast to coast and up to Canada. They'll be visiting the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Victoria, Arizona and San Diego. Quite an awesome adventure. Safe travels! Aum Namah Sivaya.

See: https://www.himalayanacademy.com/visit/meet-us-when-we-travel for more details.

Here are some images from Satguru's recent journey to Sri Lanka. While there, he and Sannyasin Shanmuganathaswami visited the Yogaswami Center in Thiruvadinilayam. While there Satguru gave a talk which began with the one of Chellappaswami's Mahavakiam expressing that you are the the body and not the mind, you are the Atma. Coincidentally, those same words had been placed, in tamil, on a poster which hung on the wall behind Yogaswami.

Ranjan Sanmugasundaran offered these words of appreciation for Satguru's visit: "Thank you very much swami for visiting the Thiruvadinilayam, and for the blessings that devotees received from you. Those present absorbed every word of the speech delivered to them and most of them thought that Sivayogaswami himself was present, blessing them on that date. The devotees are eagerly looking forward to your visits to Thiruvadinilayam in the future."

Click here for description and more photos of Satguru giving a seminar on "How to Achieve Spiritual Progress"

Click here for description and more photos of Rudra Abhishekam at our Spiritual Park.

Click here for more photos of concluding the abhishekam, vow taking and honoring supporters.

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