Time to try your hand at keeping a busy temple kitchen serving prasadam during daily activities! This little browser game was built by ai with instructions from our monks (so if you see any errors, blame the ai 🤔)
Start by selecting level 1.
To move use the WASD or Arrow keys. use space bar to pickup and drop-off ingredients or serving dishes. (tip: you can carry up to two of any item at a time—useful if the incoming orders are stacking up quickly. Also, be careful about picking up the wrong ingredients, there’s a trashcan if you need it)
We thought you might enjoy something fun today. Here is a kolam puzzle game where you have to correctly trace the kolams into completion. Hopefully you’ll find it both challenging and entertaining!
Click on any planetary body to learn more about it
Set a rising sign to see information specific to that orientation of houses
You can also click on houses and signs to learn more about them
Aum Namah Śivaya
We’ve recently built this free Vedic astrology tool that runs in your browser. You can open the live solar system and click on any planet, sign, or lunar mansion to read about it. You can also set the time manually to see what the planets will be doing at any given time. On the solar system page you can select your rising sign (which you can calculate on the birth chart page if you’d like), so if you click on a house, nakshatra, or a planet, it will give information adjusted for your chart. There’s also a “Find Events” button which will show major celestial moments for a given year—if you click on one it will reorient the solar system to that very moment. On the Birth Chart page you can enter your birth details and receive a full chart with your planetary placements, your janma nakṣatra, your Vimshottari daśā timeline, and a long-form classical interpretation of every planet’s position written in plain English—which you can save or download as a PDF. There’s also a Saṅkalpa drawn live from Kauai Aadheenam’s pañchāṅga service for those who need it for a puja.
Please note that—while this is a rather technically advanced tool—it’s best not to rely on it for anything more than a fun and a simple education in Jyotish (as in, please don’t use it to make major life decisions). The deeper purpose to reading the stars isn’t really about prediction. You are ultimately one with Śiva and the whole Universe. Thus the planets aren’t external powers acting upon you, but rather outward reflections of motions already moving within you. The Sun above mirroring your soul’s light, the Moon your receptive mind, Rahu indicating the karma that draws you in this life, Saturn’s slow turn is the patient labor of your own discipline, Mars the spark of your boldness, and Jupiter your expanding blessings.
These planetary positions come from Swiss Ephemeris—the same engine that powers Drik Panchang, Jagannath Hora, and every serious Vedic tool—sub-arcsecond accurate, defaulting to Lahiri ayanamsa. For the full daily pañchāṅga and Saṅkalpa for your location, please use the printable Mini Mela Pañchāṅga.
Sadhaka Sabānatha and Sadhaka Shankaranatha perform today’s puja
Monks and local members attend
“Even harsh karma, when faced in wisdom, can be the greatest catalyst for spiritual unfoldment.” – Gurudeva
Arinien helps to chant Sri Rudram with the monks. Did you notice Gurudeva sitting on his shoulder?
“Flow with the river of life and merge in Siva’s ocean of oneness.” – Gurudeva
“To know yourself is why you are on Earth. You were born to realize the Self. You are not here to make money, to clothe yourself or to entertain yourself. These are incidentals.” – Gurudeva
Jai Gurudeva!
Today is the Chitra nakshatra, meaning today we observed our monthly padapuja to Gurudeva’s tiruvadi in Kadavul Temple. At 6am the monks and island members arrived to place flowers at Gurudeva’s shrine, chant Sri Rudram and offer milk, honey, sandalwood, incense and more. This day is always a good time to inwardly connect with Gurudeva for blessings and insights.
Aum Namah Śivaya
“Intuition travels through a purified subconscious. Before we can utilize the superconscious or intuitive realms of the mind, we must be able to resolve those past experiences which may still vibrate in our subconscious.” – Gurudeva
