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.
Jai Ganesha!
In June, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami and Shanmuganathaswami traveled to other side of the world to meet with members and participate in Satsang and other special events. Satguru tries to do this yearly, meeting our members who are far away from Hawaii. Providing encouragement and support for facing life’s challenges and offering ways to uplift their sadhanas. While there, Satguru gave several initiations. Above are the photos of their travels. Aum!
If you want liberation in this birth make your mind a cremation-ground and burn all your desires to ashes.
-Yogaswami
Satguru’s Trip to Malaysia and Singapore Read More »
There is the garden, and there is today’s garden. And there will be tomorrow’s garden. It is changing every day, new fruits, unseen before flowers, ferns high up in trees that we never planted. So, here is a small sampling of today’s discoveries in Siva’s Sacred Garden.
The Garden this Morning… Read More »
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly upadesha in Kadavul Temple at Kauai’s Hindu Monastery in Hawaii. It is part of a series of talks elaborating on the inspired teachings of Satguru Śivaya Subramuniyaswami as found in his book Merging With Śiva.
“Why would you ever want to place demands of perfection upon yourself? You now walk the path of perfection, and you must be so to walk that path. What is this perfection? First, it is a clarity of cognition. Second, it is a bursting of actinic love for your fellow man. Third, it is an openness and willingness to serve and fit in, in any capacity. Fourth, it is living a contemplative lifestyle better every day. Fifth, it is mastering all of your yoga disciplines given to you by your guru. Sixth, it is the ability to hold responsibility, maintain a continuity of your own karma yoga, yet have the mobile quality to be ever ready to do something different without losing continuity of what you have been doing in holding your responsibility. ¶If you can gear yourself to accomplish all this, you are on the path of enlightenment and you will surely prove to yourself, when you have your realization, that you are a free man in a free world, subject to nobody, to no power, even the power of karma. How could That which is formless and causeless be subject to anything?“
The Fine Art of Meditation, Part Three Read More »
An anthology of wisdom-filled Tamil songs expressing the devotion and enlightened insights of one of the most remarkable Saiva yogis of our times.
The profound tradition of South Indian Saivism migrated to Sri Lanka centuries ago. It was transmitted in recent times through a lineage of siddhars of the highest order. Siva Yogaswami of Colombuthurai (1872-1963) left a rich heritage of Tamil songs known as Natchintanai (“Good Thoughts”) that contain the essence of Siva worship and Saiva philosophy. This anthology of 73 devotional hymns stands as a rich introduction and learning tool for those who would integrate his gold mine of divine wisdom into their hearts and lives.
New Online Book Available Read More »
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!
