How to Say "Thank You"?

When we set our 2021 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 almost $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. Gurudeva gave unusual prominence to communications, beginning with publishing books and evolving into audio books, spiritual art, the Master Course study, web sites, children's resources and more.

He would certainly be heartened by this unstinting response from hundreds of 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. We honor his vision with a short slideshow today.

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, Lion Sage: Merging with Siva for Children. It took three years to design, write and illustrate this kids' book, and now we find adults are reading it, for fun. If you know families with boys and girls around 6 to 10, you may share this with them, a creative way for parents to connect spiritually with the young ones and for kids to learn about mystical life while being entertained. 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.

Please know without a doubt that you have prodded us forward another twelve months by your generosity.

-The Monks of Kauai's Hindu Monastery

Gurudeva took special joy in bringing the spiritual teachings to young ones, telling us it is never too early to begin to impress minds with deep ideas.

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.

As we know, in the 1950s he would type his own manuscripts and print them on the then high-tech but awfully smelly Mimeograph.

Then came the computers LaserWriter and suddenly you did not need a typesetter or a printer to publish ideas.

His magazine, Hinduism Today, became a major part of his mission to the Hindu world.

For some 30 years he would go to a Kapaa 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\

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