The spiritual head of Kailasha Ashrama in Bengaluru arrived on the island yesterday for a three-day visit. He is traveling with two swamis, the head priest of the Rajarajeshvari Temple, and the manager of their Tiruvannamalai Ashrama. This visit is a significant confluence, as Kailasha Ashrama, initially led by Trichyswami Mahaswamigal and now under Jeyendrapuriswami, was instrumental in the creation of Iraivan Temple in Karnataka, contributing land, workers, assistance with bureaucratic processes, and more.
Their first afternoon involved a walk on the beach, which turned out to be more immersive than expected. Today, they were greeted at the entrance by the monks, chanting the Nakarmana Mantra, garlanding the visitors, and then parading to Kadavul Temple where Swami's feet were washed in traditional style. They paid respects to the Kadavul deities, worshipped at Gurudeva's shrine, and then proceeded to Iraivan Temple for the morning abhishekam.
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This morning we celebrated Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami with our monthly pada puja during the Chitra nakshatra. In Kadavul Temple Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami and his monks gathered with local members for an abhishekam. While the monks chanted Sri Rudram Sannyasin Tillainathaswami and Nirvani Tejadevanatha performed the puja, pouring pranic substances such as milk, honey and citrus over Gurudeva's black granite tiruvadi. Following a final arati, the event ended with each attendee prostrating before the shrine. Jai Gurunathan. Aum Namah Sivaya.

We are inching closer to adding Gurudeva's original audio narration of certain Master Course trilogy lessons to the online text version. After that we will use his new digital voice clone to narrate the rest. First we are cleaning up his narrated lessons of Merging with Siva from the late 1990s, which total around 130. We also went back to some old videos taken of Gurudeva narrating some lessons from Dancing with Siva, and are now extracting audio from that to clean up and use. In these videos Gurudeva often spontaneously expanded on the lessons before and after narration. We might add these videos to our YouTube channel in the future after editing them. Below is a short sample from a video where he speaks more after reading a lesson.

Aum Namah Sivaya

Several days ago Satguru returned from his recent trip to California with Sannyasins Shanmuganathaswami and Siddhanathaswami. With Satguru back, today we held the pledge renewal for Sivanadaiyar Shankara. He had to renew his 6-month supplicancy pledge since he has two more month before eligibility to take his formal vows as a Postulant Sadhaka. Aum.

Kanda Alahan has been here working on the installation of new cabinetry for Bodhinatha's quarters. Kanda crafted all of it back in his California workshop, shipped it disassembled to Kauai and worked under the supervision of Vishvanathaswami to assemble and install it. It was finished yesterday. Congratulations to the Siddhidatta Kulam team. Bodhinatha returned from his journey yesterday to find his life improved in a useful way. Mahalo nui loa, Kanda.

SSC sishya Rajen Manick recently completed his taskforce period and returned home to Mauritius. Upon arriving, he sorted through the many photos he had taken of the grounds and events, and shared the cream of the crop with us. Below is the first half of his collection.

While here, Rajen participated in many pujas, classes and darshan meetings, and served in multiple seva projects including book translation into French, brainstorming large information posters for the Spiritual Park of Mauritius, helping with the monthly Kauai's Hindu Monastery Newsletter mailing, preparations for Ardra Abhishekam, painting new structures and more. He warmly encourages more sishyas to make the pilgrimage to Kauai and participate in the taskforce program.

Aum Namah Shivaya!

Today is Sun Five of our 5-day lunar phase (our Aloha Friday in local parlance). Our monk's now enter two days of retreat, working on different projects and enjoying some extra time for Sadhana and a little more rest. Here are some random photos from around the monastery as our week comes to a close. Aum.

Our newest pre-monastic Aspirant, Kodiswara Selvanathan, took a stroll with the monastery camera to capture scenes of Kadavul Temple puja attendees being shown Iraivan Temple afterwards in the late morning. Then he headed over to our original Annapoorna vegetable garden and the newer greenhouses where the Siddhidata Kulam is planting and harvesting.

Currently, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, Sannyasin Shanmuganathaswami and Sannyasin Siddhanathaswami are traveling in California. They are currently in San Francisco. They've been visiting with devotees and also our HHE investment team.
Aum Namah Sivaya.

The team in Moscow continues to repurpose our Himalayan Academy work energetically. Their team leader, Dinanatha Bodhiswami, emailed a few days back sharing that they wish to add the Saivite Hindu Religion, Book One to their list of books. Having done the entire trilogy and Loving Ganesha, they seek to reach the young ones.

It is a simple book, all in black and white, giving dharmic teachings in four languages: English, Tamil, Bahasa Malaysia and French. Each page is illustrated with the concept being presented to the children. The files were sent and now translation will take place ahead of printing.

CyberCadets will know that this same team has been publishing Hinduism Today in Russian for several years, and each year compiles the four issues into a bound volume, shown in the slideshow.

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