God can be discovered only by God. – Yogaswami

Aum Namah Sivaya
A while back, Natalie Levin, who did the artwork for Gurudeva’s Seven Dimensions of the Mind created this wonderful sketch of Yogaswami of Jaffna. Upon sharing it with T. Sivayogapathy in Toronto (who had personally known Yogaswami), he had this to say:

Aum Namasivaya
First of all, Mikka Nanri for sharing our Parama Guru’s New Sketch,
which looks very Natural, as to how our Parama Guru was in his latter stages while in this World!
Especially, how exactly, he was looking like,
from the time he had the physical fall in the Cattle shed, up until his Body departed from this World!
The sketch really reflects how His Holy Face showered His Blessings of
GURU ARUL, to All his Devotees! It was something Great,
beyond Our thoughts!
Aum Siva, Siva!
Aum Parama Sivam! Aum Shanthi!
Anpudan,
Siva,
(T.Sivayogapathy).
Toronto.

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 Sivaya Subramuniyaswami as found in his book Merging With Siva. Here, Satguru discusses “Life the Great Experience,” a talk given in 1957.

Aum Namah Sivaya
Today is the 6th and final day in our monks’ week. So, as we head into two days of retreat, we’d like to share this morning’s view of Iraivan Temple, the Wailua River and Mount Waialeale.

“Nothing is lost, nothing is gained. How can we talk of gain or loss? The atma is one-it is all and everywhere. So how can there be loss and gain, coming and going, past and future?”– Yogaswami

Jai Ganesha!

We’re pleased to announce the release of the first of our Hindi-Language Digital Editions of Hinduism Today!
The translations are being done by SweetCommunication, a team in India. They are able to produce a much better translation than the automatic Google translate and are actively working their way through the latest issue of the magazine. This first release is a translation of the July/August/September, 2021 issue. More to come! Aum Namah Sivaya.

See:
https://www.hinduismtoday.com/category/articles-in-hindi/

Recently, two of our stone-carved elephant statues have been put into place along that will be the future stairway that pilgrims will walk to reach Iraivan Temple. The stairs will be made from concrete with stone details, paralleled by a 15-inch-tall lava rock-clad railing on either side. The elephants, placed by the silpis before they left, will greet you as you make your ascent. They stand in place of the live, temple elephants we sadly can't get here on Kauai. The male elephant in the lead, holds an intricately carved globe in his trunk, symbolizing the universality of Hinduism and its acceptance of all people, beliefs, and existences in this world. The female leads her child behind her representing Hinduism as a powerful guiding force for all souls of the world.

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 Sivaya Subramuniyaswami as found in his book Merging With Siva. Here, Satguru discusses "Life the Great Experience," a talk given in 1957.

Jai Gurudeva!
Happy 2021 Mahasamadhi!
Please join us for ur live stream of our homa and padapuja to Gurudeva. Here You can download and read three more PDFs from our 2002 memorial issue of Hinduism Today, giving insight into Gurudeva's life an the blessings he evoked in the lives of others.

Click here to download pdf - Renaissance Rishi.

Click here to download pdf - Power of the Press.

Click here to download pdf - Mystic Master

A Message from Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami

Namaste, and welcome to our various websites and mobile apps, through which we seek to provide accurate, useful and contemporary information on Hinduism and the activities of Hindus around the world.

The presence of Hindus in the digital realm has greatly increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pujas, lectures, webinars, group satsangs and more have all gone digital. In our digital activities we have added a Zoom satsang every weekend plus my weekly talk in Kadavul Temple is now live-streamed. These are both recorded and thus we are adding two new videos each week to our Kauai's Hindu Monastery YouTube channel. The study of our online courses link to courses.himalayanacademy.com continues to grow, with "The Master Course" and "Beginning to Meditate" being the most popular ones. "A Beginner's Course in Sanskrit Chanting from Himalayan Academy" is in its initial stages on our website link sanskritguide.com Adding audio files is the next step toward its completion.

All the material on our websites and now our mobile apps are available for free online. Our Guru, Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, insisted that all of his books and other publications be available in digital format without charge. However, to cover the professional fees needed to continue to upgrade and expand, we do follow the model of Wikipedia and ask for donations the last two months of the year. For eleven years running, you've responded generously, and after another year of working to enhance the site and mobile apps, we are back again with this appeal.

In our "How the Funds Are Used" page: donate.himalayanacademy.com/ddd/ddd-faq we detail what we did with last year's generosity, and what we hope to accomplish in 2022. Your contribution this year will go to a short but strategic list of projects, including children's learning tools, language translations, spiritual art, the enhancement of our websites and their content and the development of the ever-popular mobile apps. Digital Dharma Drive funds do not pay staff salaries or administrative overhead, since these sites are created and maintained by selfless monks who work for free and live simply in our remote monastery on the island of Kauai.

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