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Today at Kauai Aadheenam

Pilgrims Texas Have Darshan with Bodhinatha

Drs. Nipank and Leena Shroff, and Drs. Nalin and Kamal Tolia made their first visit to Kauai. They stayed with sishyas Mrunal and Padmaja Patel family. They are all from Midland, Texas and founding members of the Hindu temple there.

 

Amey Deosthali returned to Kauai, this time bringing his family guru, Sri Vidya Gurudev, Shri Shriniwasji Katkar (center in photo.)

Sri Gurudev is in the Sri Vidya tradition and Bodhinatha gifted him a copy of a new English translation of a Sri Vidya scripture. Sri Gurudev said that he read some of our late Gurudeva’s teachings ten years ago and made a plan to visit one day.

Homa Begins With Temple Full of Pilgrims


Bodhinatha is back home and we began a new phase today. The temple was filled with pilgrims. Bodhinatha gave a wonderful upadesha.

February News Video

We have been told that some of us missed the YouTube video summary of the monastery's activities for last month, February. Here is your chance to see it. The monks will be working on the next video this upcoming retreat. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqGis4ihm4o

Weekly Visitor Tour


The way our panchangam fell into the lines of the Gregorian calendar we actually had two tours this week. None last week were scheduled and it poured down rain every day. Nice to know the devas are in charge! Wonderfully respectful and open group. So quiet, with many very insightful questions.


Crimson Circle Visits Kauai Aadheenam


Today we had approximately 72 pilgrims from the Crimson Circle group who joined our regular guests for public tour day. They are a very sweet group of souls who are interested in spiritual awakening. Included in the group were metaphysicians, healers, teachers and counselors coming from all walks of life, a wide variety of spiritual backgrounds. Many from the group today were from European countries.

Their teachings and belief system sounds familiar:

  • You Are God Also and the creator of your own reality and experience
  • You have every tool within you for healing, balance and rejuvenation
  • Every being is exactly where they should be in their journey
  • Everything is always in divine order
  • All is truly well in all of Creation!

As a special addition to our tour, Yogi Jothinatha gave a wonderful introduction to our book "Lemurian Scrolls" which has caught the attention of the group. It was a very inspired introduction to Gurudeva's reading of these akashic scrolls and the message of hope and confidence that these scrolls deliver to the reader.

Twitter Updates for 2012-03-12

  • Bodhinatha and Senthilnathaswami are on their way home from Texas this morning after a successful three weeks there. #

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Kadavul Temple, 39th Anniversary


"Kadavul" is a special name of God Siva in Tamil. It mean "God Beyond and Within". Three years after after Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami acquired his new center on Kauai, and after bringing home a giant six-foot tall murthi of Lord Siva Nataraja from New Delhi, on March 13th, 1973, he performed his own pratishta, establishment of the Deity, asking the monks to place Nataraja on the steps of the entrance to the estate. He sealed up the entry behind the magnificent image of the Dancing Lord of the Universe and instructed the monks to begin worship and hold 3 hour vigils, 8 times a day. This was the founding of Kadavul temple. Since that amazing day, over 113,966 three-hour vigils have been performed by the monks in unbroken continuity with a puja done at the beginning of each one. And tomorrow it will be 113,974.

Kadavul temple is the spiritual anchor of the monastery. Aside from daily vigils, all the monks gather here for worship five days a week for morning arati at 5:30 am followed by a one hour raja yoga meditation. The main daily nitya puja for Lord Siva is done daily at 9am. Each week there a traditional Vedic yagna is performed. Each month features two special ceremonies. One is Chitra Puja during which we honor, worship and invoke our beloved Gurudeva, founder and fountainhead from which all this has flowed to us. When the moon moves into the star of Ardra, on that day each month a magnificent full abhishekam is done for Lord Nataraja. Then, through the year the temple observes Maha Sivaratri, Ganesha Chaturthi, Skanda Shasti, Thai Pusam and Maha Ardra festivals.

This round of daily vigils and pujas, and continuous rites has generated a powerful shakti and sannidhya that permeates, not only the monastery, but some say, the entire island of Kauai and which can be felt anywhere in the world if you tune in.

Kadavul is also considered the home shrine the Parampara. Just a few feet away from the central sanctum is the seat of the Guru Mahasannidham, where now sits Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, Gurudeva's successor.

From this sacred place, blessings, initiations, teachings and the power for of the mission flows out to devotees and supporters the world over.

Read more at this web page http://www.himalayanacademy.com/ssc/hawaii/kadavul/

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