Welcome to the 2023 Moksha Ritau!
December 17, 2023Aum Namah Sivaya With the monastery's observance of Sadhu Paksha having come to a close, we enter our next season. Yesterday we began the day with a homa and a parade out to change the flag. Here are reminders from Gurudeva, from his Saiva Dharma Shastras, detailing the significance and...
Powers of the Spine - Part 1
December 16, 2023Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives a upadesha at the start of a new season in Kadavul Temple at Kauai’s Hindu Monastery in Hawaii. It is part of a series of talks elaborating on the inspired teachings of Śivaya Subramuniyaswami as found in his book Merging With Śiva. "In the esoterics of...
HOLY SIVA SONGS
December 14, 2023The monks continue almost daily work on the Siva songs of Saint Tayumanavar. Once in a while we wish we could share them all with you, and we will, once the book is published. In the meantime, here are two from yesterday's editing session. Canto 40, Song 5 Alone, standing...
New Maintenance Shop Update
December 13, 2023The first photo shows the morning results of the biggest rainfall of our winter season so far. Three and a quarter inches of rain fell through the night, accompanied by strong winds which knocked down at least two trees on the property. In the new maintenance shop, the Siddhidata Kulam...
How Monks Use ChatGTP: A Word Game!
December 10, 2023Aum Namah Sivaya Apart from the usual articles we've all read, where the author describes the wonders of ChatGTP and then at the end they tell you that Chat wrote everything you read, there are other interesting uses for this and similar machine-learning tools. A major one of which is...
Ganapati Kulam Brainstorming Meeting
December 9, 2023Every once in a while the Ganapati Kulam spends the morning at our seaside condo to casually discuss the overview of things and brainstorm new ventures. Today we looked at the progress of a new version of our main websites that is nearing completion, examined ways to bring Gurudeva's audio...
December 2023 Chitra Puja
December 8, 2023Today is the Chitra nakshatra, so a padapuja was performed for Gurudeva's granite Tiruvadi in Kadavul Temple. Sannyasin Tillainathaswami and Yogi Haranandinatha performed the abhishekam. Jai Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami! Om Namah Sivaya. \"We have taken birth in a physical body to grow and evolve into our divine potential.\" Gurudeva \"The...
Mondo Grass Isn't a Grass?
December 8, 2023That's right, Mondo Grass is actually a lily, native to Japan, Korea and China. It's real name is Ophiopogon japonicus and it is a high-end ground cover in the right climates. For years, many years, we have been planning to install Mondo Grass around Iraivan Temple, to create a kind...