The Story of Awareness, Part Three
July 6, 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 Śivaya Subramuniyaswami as found in his book Merging With Śiva. "The study of awareness is a great study. “I...
Brahmachari Shankara Performs Saiva Atmartha Puja
July 3, 2024One of the requirements for our monastic aspirants is to learn the Saiva Atmartha Puja and then, soon before taking his first monastic vows, perform it in front of all the monks. This puja is learned by all of our Saiva Siddhanta Church formal sishyas. After taking monastic vows, Brahmachari...
Krittika Homa - July 2nd
July 2, 2024Aum Namah Shivaya Today the moon resides in the Krittika Nakshatra, one of 27 lunar mansions in our Vedic sky. Krittika nakshatra, also known as the "Star of Fire," is represented by a group of seven stars known as the Pleiades and spans across the zodiac sign of Aries Taurus....
Sweet Visit with Hawaiian Halau
July 1, 2024Puna Dawson, whose full first name is Keikilaniwahinealiiopuna, has had a close relationship with Gurudeva and the monastery for many decades. She is one of Hawaii's most distinguished kumus and travels extensively to share Hawaiian culture, dance, and spirit. Last week, she visited the monastery with over 60 members of...
The Story of Awareness, Part Two
June 30, 2024[embed]https://kauaishindumonastery.com/media/audio/inspired-talks/bodhinatha/2024/bd_2024-6-30_mws-the-story-of-awareness-part-2/bd_2024-6-30_mws-the-story-of-awareness-part-2.mp3[/embed] 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 Satguru Śivaya Subramuniyaswami as found in his book Merging With Śiva. (Video was not captured this time due to...
Hinduism Today Quarterly Update in Progress
June 27, 2024We are teaching monastic Aspirant Brahmachari Kodiswara how to turn the current July/August/September Hinduism Today printed issue into online articles at hinduismtoday.com. He re-sizes all the images for quicker viewing, uploads them to our Wordpress Media Library, then copies the article text and photo captions from Adobe IndDesign into new...
An Expressive Presentation
June 26, 2024Aum Namah Sivaya.Recently Kodiswara has been exploring some new web tools during his seva with the monks of the Ganapati Kulam. One such tool is Adobe Express, with which he made this nice presentation for us all to enjoy!
The Self God
June 25, 2024Yesterday Rajkumar Manickam sent us this creative expression of Gurudeva's classical upadesha on Parasivam, the Self in all. The original talk was recorded in his San Fransisco Ganesha Temple on October 3, 1959, on vintage audio equipment so the fidelity is not great, but the message makes up for that....