Kauai Aadheenam

Aum Namah Sivaya!

Happy Ardra Nakshatra!

Recently, Madan Ganesh from Bengaluru created a small web app that specialized in playing Master Course audio lessons. Note that it currently draws on the formerly non-Gurudeva-narrated version of Dancing with Siva audio lessons, but that will be updated in the near future. You can access it here or click the image below.

This has been quite an energizing month at the Aadheenam. We’ve had many guests come through, mostly to attend Guru Purnima celebrations. We’ve also been having bright, sunny day’s, interspersed with sudden, deafening deluges of tropical rains from Kauai’s fast moving clouds. After our cooler spring months, much of our surrounding nature has begun to grow and bloom rapidly, aided by this onset of water and sunlight. In the slideshow are a few photos of some of the sites from our jungle canopies and waterways.

Tirumantiram 2010:

Śiva assumes the form of infinite smallness by being within the minutest atom. At the same time, He assumes the form of infinite vastness by holding all the universes within Himself, such that each universe appears like a small atom. Lord Īśvara who is incomparable and matchless, simultaneously presents Himself within all the objects of the world, both moving and inert. He pervades the entirety of space and all the worlds. There is not even a minute space that is unoccupied by Him. In spite of this presence of Śiva, the worldly-minded do not realize His inseparable oneness with each soul and His presence in everything.

Jai Gurunathan!

Join us just after 6am (Kauai time) on the morning of July 8th for Kauai Aadheenam’s live stream of our Guru Purnima padapuja, honoring Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami. The event begins with the parade to Iraivan Temple, where the padapuja will take place. This is where the livestream will begin, as Satguru is seated in meditation for the padapuja and abhishekam. This annual festival is always observed on the full moon (Purnima) of the month of Ashadha (June–July), it is a time for devotees to express gratitude, offer worship, and rededicate themselves to the path of wisdom and discipline as outlined by their lineage, and of course to honer their spiritual guide and teacher. Aum.

Kularnava Tantra:
GURU devotion

Lord Siva: “There is One Real. Call it Siva. This Parabrahman is formless, stainless, one without a second, changeless, beyond the highest. This Mahesvara is all-knowing, all-doing, sovereign of all, self-luminous, without beginning or end. All embodied souls, jivas, all the born creatures, are portions of Me, like sparks of the fire. But human birth is the most important, for it is then that one becomes awake, aware of his state of bondage and the necessity of release. It is then that one is in a position to take steps for his liberation from bondage’s hold.

“Humans have a self-will and are not totally subject to the impulses and drives of nature as are other creatures. It is only on this earth–and that too in a human body endowed with a soul–that one can choose one’s path for spiritual progress. But not all are aware of the precious opportunity afforded by human birth, which is truly the ladder to Liberation. The Self is to be realized only here in this life. If here you do not find it and work out the means for your Liberation, where else is it possible? It is possible nowhere else. It has to be worked out by yourself from within yourself.

“The world you reach after the physical body is shed is determined by the level of consciousness reached while in the body. So, as long as the body lasts, exert yourself towards the goal of Liberation.

“Remember, the physical body does not last forever. Age prowls like a leopard; diseases attack like an enemy. Death waits not to see what is done or not done. Before the limbs lose their vitality, before adversities crowd in upon you, take to the auspicious path.
Therefore, choose, then worship a Satguru. Worship his feet. Cherish the very sandals (paduka) which hold his feet. All knowledge is founded on those paduka. Remember and cherish those paduka, which yield infinitely more merit than any number of observances, gifts, sacrifices, pilgrimages, mantra-japa and rituals of worship.”

Aum Namah Shivaya

Over the last several weeks, Sadhaka Sabanatha has been doing a wonderful job of transforming Path to Siva lessons into truncated instagram posts.

Here’s an example of a recent chapter. If you use Instagram and would like to see them, go ahead and follow /kauaishinumonastery to see more. We publish a new lesson every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Aum.

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Recently Satguru was asked to attend the first Bhārateeya Santa Mahaa Parishshad event which brings together hundreds of Hindu leaders in Bengaluru. An estimated 800 saints were in attendance plus 500 other attendees and several hundred volunteers.

Their website: https://bsmp.world/