How to Say “Thank You?”

When we set our 2019 Digital Dharma Drive goal at $75,000 back in October, it was not a certainty that we would reach it by year's end. We hoped, but could not know.

Today we know that the goal was reached, and exceeded significantly. Our supporters around the blue sphere we call home sent more than $100,000, a number that will enable us to do some amazing things in the year ahead. We know this is an affirmation of Gurudeva's life and mission. As the slideshow we share today shows, Gurudeva gave unusual prominence to communications, beginning with publishing books and evolving into audio books, spiritual art, the Maser Course study, children's resources and more.

He would certainly be heartened by this unstinting response from hundreds if you who love his vision of a global Hindu family coupled with a strong affirmation of Saivite tradition--and who trust his small band of monks to carry that mission forward into the next decade.

Just saying Mahalo nui loa seemed paltry, so we want to give you something that might brighten your year. It is a link to our newest book, Loving Ganesha: Hinduism's Endearing Elephant-Faced Deity. This is a completely new edition, with new art and it's in full color for the first time. All these many years it has been in black and white only. We just this week turned the book into several formats: PDF, ePub and Kindle, and you can now be the first to download it to your favorite device. Please click the above link to go to the download options. (Note: the "web view" of the book is not yet updated.)

And know without a doubt that you have prodded us forward another twelve months by your generosity.
-The Monks of Kauai's Hindu Monastery

Gurudeva loved to give kids books about their culture and religion, to impress their young minds before the power of worldliness came into their lives.

He took dictation from the Deities, and sought guidance from the devas in his prolific writings

He would sit with one monk or another, get guidance from the inner worlds and dictate his mystical discourses.

Many of his upadeshas, given in Hindu temples throughout the world, were recorded and turned into a chapter in his most recent book.

As we know, in the 1950s he himself did the printing on an old Mimeograph machine (anybody remember those smelly devices?)

Then came the firsts computers, which he adopted eagerly, for himself and all the monks.

His magazine, Hinduism Today, continues to reach Hindu homes, hearts and institutions.

For some 30 years he would go to the beach in the afternoon with two monks. He found it inspiring to be near the ocean waters, with birds, turtles, seals and whales surrounding his RV and its portable editing network.

He would read every single word of a new text time and time again, changing things swiftly and boldly, until, one afternoon he would declare, \"It\

s perfect. We\'re done. What\'s next?\"'

Enjoy the New Version!

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