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1) Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, world-renowned Hindu leader, deceased at
age 74. Affectionately known as Gurudeva.
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2) Gurudeva's Successor
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, 59, (on right) succeeded Satguru Sivaya
Subramuniyaswami as guru of Kauai Aadheenam
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3) The Swamis
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami with his swamis, May 17, 2000
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Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, Jagadacharya of the Nandinatha Sampradaya's Kailasa Parampara, Guru Mahasannidhanam, Kauai Aadheenam, Hawaii
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4) United Nations Peace Summit
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami at the Millennium World Peace Summit of
Religious and Spiritual Leaders held at the United Nations, August, 2000. To
his left is Paramacharya Palaniswami, editor of Hinduism Today, and to his
immediate right Om Prakash Sharma, president of the National Council of
Hindu Temples, UK, and to his far right Sri Gowri Shankar, representative of
the Shankaracharya of Sringeri Peetham, India.
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5) U Thant Peace Award
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami standing outside the United Nations after
receiving the U Thant Peace Award, August, 2000
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6) Hinduism Today
Cover of Hinduism Today magazine commemorating Subramuniyaswami's receipt of
the prestigious U Thant Peace Award at the United Nations, August, 2000
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7) "Stop the War in the Home"
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami addresses 1,200 delegates to the UN
Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders, August,
2000, with his message of "Stop the War in the Home."
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8) Kadavul Temple
The Kadavul Hindu Temple at Kauai Aadheenam, Hawaii, enshrines a six-foot
bronze Nataraja, Siva as the Lord of Dance, as well as the only known full
set of the 108 dance poses of Lord Siva in bronze
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9) Fire Ceremony
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami with his monks during the ashram's early
morning fire ceremony or homa, held once a week, and accompanied by chanting
of Sri Rudram and traditional rituals, May, 2000
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10) Iraivan Temple's First Stone
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (front left) with Sri Ganapati Sthapati
(front center), India's foremost temple architect, at the laying of the
first stone of Iraivan Temple upon the monolithic 120 foot by 60 foot by
four-foot thick concrete foundation. Seven master stone carvers had just
arrived from India with Sthapati to commence the assembly of the temple.
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11) Iraivan Temple
Artist's conception of the completed Iraivan Temple, with its white granite
towers clad in gold, on a lava rock plinth near the Wailua River on the
island of Kauai.
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12) Trinidad Disembarkment
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami disembarks his ship in Trinidad to a
tumultuous welcome from local Hindus as part of his "Caribbean Innersearch
Travel-Study Program," March/April, 2000, which included meetings with the
Hindu communities in St. Kitts, Martinique and Dominica.
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13) Trinidad Hindus Greet Gurudeva
Trinidad Hindus come forward to individually greet Satguru Sivaya
Subramuniyaswami, one of the few Hindu leaders to visit this remote
community in the Caribbean.
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14) Germany Honoring
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami is garlanded by the chief priest just prior
to a procession of five thousand Sri Lankan Hindus through the streets of
Hamm, Germany, August, 2001, as part of the celebration of the temple's
ten-day annual festival.
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15) Virginia Nataraja Shrine Blessing
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, second from left, with Swami Satchidananda
(third from left) and Dr. Karan Singh (fourth from left) at the dedication
of the Siva Nataraja shrine, at Swami Satchidananda's Yogaville, Virginia,
ashram
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16) Malaysia, 1982
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami at the Rajarajeshwari Temple, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, with the 1982 Innersearch program participants and local Malaysian
devotees, on their way to India and Sri Lanka.
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17) Sri Lanka Honoring, 1982
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami during the 1982 India Innersearch program
being paraded through the streets of Kilinochi, Sri Lanka, where tens of
thousands of people welcomed him and his devotees
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18) Gurudeva's Sri Lanka Ashram
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami in front of his ashram in Alaveddy, Sri
Lanka, along with the ashram's ten-member managing committee of village
elders. Since the beginning of the civil war in Sri Lanka, the ashram
activities have been sharply curtailed.
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19) South India, 1981
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami in South India, 1981, in Chennai (then
Madras) during a tour in which he addressed hundreds of thousands of Hindus,
as part of his instigation of the present-day Hindu renaissance
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20) Gurudeva with Madurai Aadheenam Head
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami in 1981 with Sri la Sri Arunagirinatha, the
young pontiff of Madurai Aadheenam, Madurai, India, one of the oldest
Saivite institutions
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21) Moscow, Russia, 1972
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami and 72 devotees pose in front of St. Basil's
Cathedral, in Red Square, Moscow, before their return to America from India
during his 1972 Innersearch India travel-study program
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22) Virginia City Monastery
In 1962, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami purchased the Old Nevada Brewery in
Virginia City, Nevada, and renovated it as a monastery and printing
facility. The brewery was a favorite spot for local newspaper editor, Mark
Twain, in the late 1800s.
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23) Gurudeva, Age 21
A rare photo of Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami at age 21 in Sri Lanka,
where he gave a number of polished dance performances in both Indian and
Western styles
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24) Gurudeva, Age 9
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, age 9, growing up in Lake Tahoe, California Photo credit: Hinduism Today
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