KHM

These high tunnel green houses produce and protect our more vulnerable vegetables

Mayilnathaswami mulches the beds while Nirvani maintains the coverings

Vivshvanathaswami fertilizes the beds

Nirvani Tejadevanatha is watering the keiki (baby) plants that will be planted in the future

Sadhaka Shankaranatha uses the tractor to bring more mulch to the garden

Panchamukha Ganesha in the garden

All these beds will be used to plants more vegetables

Our pumpkin harvest! We have have about 153 pounds of pumpkins here. Kudos to the team!

This thorny tree, when full grown, produces massive amounts of beautiful flowers!

Here it is! This large one just produced its first round of flowers earlier this year. Just like our inner spiritual growth, no matter where start, we can always grow greater!

Jai Ganesha!

On Sun One (which is like our Monday in our Panchangam calendar) the monks of the Siddhidata Kulam enjoy their weekly Garden Day. This week the team of monks joined together to sprout seeds, plant beds, add compost and other nutrients to the soil, weed, mulch and harvest today’s organic lunch. Thanks to an orderly system of maintenance the garden only needs to be worked intensely on once a week in order to go on producing all the vegetables we need. Aum!

A pink hoya dangles from a tree branch

Tirumular in meditation

A bronze Ganesha peers through a giant anthurium leaf

That’s our Bandit sitting on his throne mocking the rain

That’s Yali our guardian, protecting us from the inner planes

Jai Ganesha!

The last few weeks at the Aadheenam we’ve been getting light rains and rainbows. This morning we were walking around our lush, dew-gemmed gardens and thought of all of you! We didn’t want to be the only one’s to enjoy these beautiful plants today. Those on the other side of the world and elsewhere should enjoy them, too! Aum!

“The flower has a stalk. There always has to be something that sustains you. If everything were perfect, there would be no reason for this birth. The moon makes no attempt to dispel the darkness that covers one portion of it; it gives light to the earth and dispels darkness there.” – Yogaswami

Sadhaka explaining what the wood pieces are for

Sadhaka working on with the jointer machine

Sadhaka showing us how the machine works

Jai Ganesha.

Recently, Archarya Kumarnathaswami and Sadhaka Shankaranatha have been working on with the new fish tank base for the aquarium in the Siddhidata Kulam’s recently completed office. Today, we found Sadhaka working in the wood shop, getting the pieces ready to assemble. Sadhaka also explained to us what is a jointer and how to work on with it. Sadhaka is always happy to share his knowledge with everyone of us. Aum.

Vetri Vel Muruganukku Arogara

Join us at 3:00pm today, Kauai time, for Kauai Aadheenam’s 2024 observance of Vaikasi Visakam, honoring Lord Murugan, God of Kundalini Yoga. Click the below link to join the live stream

Jai Gurudeva!

 Jai to the Kailasa Parampara!

Aum Namah Sivaya! 

Today, we joyfully celebrated Gurudeva’s Chitra Pada Puja at Kadavul Temple. This occasion was particularly special, as it marked Sadhaka Shankaranatha’s very first pada puja as the main priest. With deep devotion and steady focus, Sadhaka performed the puja beautifully, invoking a powerful spiritual presence. Through his heartfelt chanting and sacred abhishekam, the atmosphere was uplifted, drawing forth the inner divinity from each of us who were present.

Below is a video of the final ārati, shared so you too may receive the same blessings and spiritual upliftment that we experienced today.

In Other News: Now on Instagram

All this while we were posting the shorter version of Path to Siva chapter content here in TAKA but now it will be available in Instagram and will be posting it on every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for you to enjoy the content. We have already posted the first chapter, and in subsequent days we will be posting the rest of the chapters.

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Jai Ganesha!

We have successfully completed three chapters and now we have moved to Path to Siva Chapter Four. Hope you all are enjoying this small series and a different initiative from us to you. Below is the video for you to enjoy it. Aum

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Here a promo for our Spiritual Workout app done by one of our monks, Sannyasin Tillainathaswami and the promo video was made by Sannyasin Mayilnathaswami. You can download the app through App Store (for iOS) and PlayStore (for Android). You can also visit by clicking this link https://www.himalayanacademy.com/our-apps/ to the webpage of the application.