Kauai

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      Innersearch Kauai 2010

      A full-length video showing the Innersearch Travel-Study program held by Himalayan Academy on Kauai island in June 2010 ...

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      Visit of Swamiji

      Sri Sri Sri Jayendrapuri Mahaswamiji visits Kauai Aadheenam and meets with Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami and all the monks. ...

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      Introduction to the Monastery

      Tropical rainforests, soaring cliffs, cerulean seas, cascading waterfalls. This remote island is home to Kauai's Hindu Monastery, a center of global outreach for Hinduism and intense spiritual practice leading to ...

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      April 2013 News Video

      Our April 2013 new video covers event in March and April 2013 including: The Iraivan temple landscaping project and renovations to the monastery front entrance, including mango tree removal, banyan ...

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      December 2015 News Video

      The December 2015 news video from Kauai's Hindu Monastery features our Mahasamadhi celebrations for Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, class from Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, Skanda Shashti abhishekam in Kadavul Temple, Kritikka Dipam ...

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      Arun Gandhi on Season of Nonviolence

      Arun Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, recently visited the Aadheenam and also held an event on Kauai honoring the "Season of Nonviolence." What struck Bodhinatha as most interesting was when his wife spoke ...

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      Kauai Aadheenam's Vibration

      We have had some recent visitors to the monastery who have been praising us for the experience they have when they come here. Gurudeva's wonderful technique of passing on the ...

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      Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami Ashtottara

      Click here to listen to a recording (and download the MP3 file) of these names here: ...

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      Honoring the Mayor of Kauai

      Bodhinatha gives news of a dinner at the Marriott Hotel which he and another monk attended in honor of our island's mayor who is about to leave office after eight ...

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      Honoring Gurudeva at Lydgate Park

      At the Lydgate Park event honoring Gurudeva, Bodhinatha addressed the public regarding the monastery's intention to continue all the wonderful community contributions that Gurudeva set in motion when he was ...

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      Yama 8 - Arjava, Honesty

      Yama number 8 - arjava, honesty. Part of the reason for these talks is that there is a high demand in Malaysia. We need to harness the tendency to be ...

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      Vision of a Golden Being, Blessings for Iraivan Temple carvers

      A cyberspace cadet on Kauai says he saw a golden being right after hurricane Inniki struct the island and wonders who the being was. Gurudeva explains that this being came ...

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      2001, 75th Jayanthi Talk, Part 1

      Gurudeva's Last Birthday on a physical body - and a magic mantra he gives us. ...

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      2001, 75th Jayanthi Talk, Part 3

      A beautiful telling of Gurudeva's life accomplishments: "I am seventy-five years of age now and when I was twenty-two years of age, Satguru Yogaswami gave me some whispers in the ear, very confidential. But he said, 'Go back to America and build bridges, feed thousands. You will build palaces.' I was very young then, I didn't know. I didn't know that a palace is a kovil, meaning a temple!" ...

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      Gurudeva Interviewed by Loni Petranek Part III

      This is a radio interview conducted by Loni Petranek with Gurudeva. The interview gives an overview of Gurudeva's worldwide mission. In the third part today Gurudeva shares with Loni and ...

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      Gurudeva Interviewed by Loni Petranek, Part IV

      This is a radio interview conducted by Loni Petranek with Gurudeva. The interview gives an overview of Gurudeva's worldwide mission. In the fourth part today Loni asks Gurudeva to share ...

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      Gurudeva Interviewed by Loni Petranek Part VII

      This is part seven of a radio interview conducted by Loni Petranek with Gurudeva. The interview gives an overview of Gurudeva's worldwide mission. Today Gurudeva talks with Loni about the ...

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      Gurudeva Interviewed by Loni Petranek Part IX

      This is the ninth part of a radio interview conducted by Loni Petranek with Gurudeva. The interview gives an overview of Gurudeva's worldwide mission. Today Gurudeva shares more about the ...

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      Gurudeva Interviewed by Loni Petranek, Part X

      This is a radio interview conducted by Loni Petranek with Gurudeva. The interview gives an overview of Gurudeva's worldwide mission. In the tenth part today Gurudeva and Loni talk about ...

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      Kauai's love for Gurudeva

      Gurudeva taught us the importance of giving to the community in which we live, and Bodhinatha discusses various activities that the monastery is involved in with the local island community. ...