April 2024 Chitra Puja
April 29, 2024Jai Gurudeva! Recently we observed our monthly Chitra padapuja for Gurudeva. In the early evening, monks and local members gathered to honor Gurudeva and receive his blessings. Yogi Dayanatha and Nirvani Tejadevanatha performed the abhishekam as other monks chanted Sri Rudram. Upon completion of the Rudram, the rest of the...
Gurudeva's Voice, Reborn
April 28, 2024It's something we didn't foresee happening this soon, or perhaps not at all. Our founder, the late Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, always intended to record himself speaking the edited and published version of his Master Course book trilogy lessons comprising three 1,008-page books--Dancing with Siva, Living with Siva and Merging with...
Siva and Shakti in Perfect Balance
April 26, 2024Years back, about ten, a Buddhist priest shared his impressions of the monastery gardens. He offered that Iraivan temple is hard, granite, rigid, rectilinear, unchanging, strong--therefore masculine. And the surrounding gardens are soft, healing, pliable, nurturing--that is, feminine. He saw here the perfect balance of the two, Siva and Shakti....
The Purpose of Life, Part One
April 25, 2024Satguru 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 Satguru Åšivaya Subramuniyaswami as found in his book Merging With Åšiva. "The superÂconÂscious mind and the body of the soul...
Monks Making AI Music
April 21, 2024Aum Namah Sivaya!Something fun for the last day of our 5-day lunar phase. And as they say, another day, another step forward in AI, and while for most of the world this technology is evolving too fast to keep track of (us not excluded), the monks at Kauai Aadheenam are...
Iraivan Temple Samvatsara Puja Video Compilation, April 11-12, 2024
April 20, 2024A devotee took a number of portrait-mode clips during the two days of first anniversary festival events, and we have compiled them here. The monthly morning Krittika Homa happened to fall on the first day of the anniversary pujas, so clips of that are shown first. The first evening of...
2023 Nartana Ritau Flag Raising
April 19, 2024Happy New Year of Krodhi! Recently we bagen our new season and paraded out to our flagpole to raise the dvaja. This season also mark the beginning of the new year. Here follows the passage from Saiva Dharma Shatras about how we should approach this new season: Nartana Ritau, the...
More Projects than Usual
April 18, 2024Several teams of workers are busy at the monastery, laying water lines, tiling the temple pool, trimming giant palm trees, tending the gardens, moving mountains of soil, and more. So today we offer a buffet of images to give you an idea of what's happening. Pradeep Chand and his helper...