Books and Publications - Kauai's Hindu Monastery

Artists We Work With Receive Award in Tamil Nadu

Over the decades we have commissioned a large amount of artwork by painter A. Manivelu for our publications, and we also hired sculptor L. Balachander to create the five forms of Siva placed in the niches around Iraivan Temple’s mukhapandam. These two artists are among six being honored by the Tamil Nadu government’s Art and Culture Department, Fine Arts Committee. They are receiving the Kalaichemmal Award for 2024-2025, which annually recognizes both traditional and contemporary artists in the field of fine arts for their exemplary achievements and contributions. The artists each receive a cash prices of Rs.100,000.

Here is a page of A Manivelu’s artwork.

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The Power of Affirmation – Small Book

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The power of affirmation changes and remolds the putty-like substance that makes up the subconscious areas of the mind. For years we have repeated sayings and statements, attached meaning to them in our thoughts and through listening to ourselves speak. This has helped form our life as we know it today, for the subconscious brings into manifestation the impressions we put into it. Therefore, to change the subconscious pattern and increase its vibration, we must remold with new ideas and new concepts its magnetic forces.

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A Character Building Workbook–Tamil

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As a tool to help children and adults build, transform and improve their character, we have developed a list of sixty-four character qualities and present them in this workbook. For families with pre-teen children old enough to understand the concepts, the booklet can be used in a simpler way by choosing one character quality at a time, posting it in big type somewhere in the home and discussing it now and then for a few weeks.

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Path to Siva – Telegu

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A Catechism for Youth

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Arichly illustrated catechism of Saiva Siddhanta for youth, drawn from the Master Course Trilogy, exploring how to live life, know the Divine, honor all creation and see God everywhere, in everyone. In sixty-eight illustrated lessons, this book conveys the basics of a 3,000-page Master Course Trilogy created by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (Gurudeva, 1949-2001), a legacy of profound, approachable teachings in three realms: philosophical, cultural and mystical. Path to Siva is a Mini-Master Course created by Gurudeva’s successor to inspire youth to know and follow that venerable way of wisdom embodied in the Saiva Siddhanta traditions of South India and Sri Lanka. It covers the following and more:

Self-Identity: Who am I? How can we see God? What are the three worlds? Being a strong Saivite
Philosophy: God Siva; Saiva Siddhanta; Our immortal soul; Death & reincarnation; Dharma & karma
Personal Life: A happy home; Virtue; Sin & evil; Religious tolerance; Hospitality; Harmony with others
Practice: Yoga, meditation; Appreciating the temple; Home puja; Pilgrimage; Caring for the environment

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Self & Samadhi (Tamil)

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Echoing the ultimate teachings of Hindu scripture, Gurudeva, Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, spoke boldly of the Divinity within us. This book is a collection of those teachings, nine inspired talks in which he urges us to mold our thoughts, emotions and way of life around this knowledge. He explains that the Self is the core of you, the part of you that is identical to God in His Parasiva perfection. One of his trenchant teachings was “God is the Life of your life, your very Self.”

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Lion Sage (French)

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Welcome to Lion Sage, an adventure for children in nine-teen episodes. For the 21st century, the monks of Kauai Aadheenam completely redesigned an earlier work by Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, called Mystic Mouse, enlisting Ashley Moore in California to redraw all of the art, adding both color and her creative abilityto tell stories with graphics. Ashley spent many months conceiving the ideas and executing them in the style you will soon discover. The cover is by Kerala muralist Manikandan.

The book is meant to teach children how to face lifeâs challenges, but more important to inform them of their true identity. They are not the body which suffers now and then. They are not the emotions that well up in good times and not so good times. They are not the thinking mind. They are light and love, they are an immortal soul on a path of self-discovery. Knowing this one truth can alter a young life forever

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