March 2021 Chitra Puja
March 30, 2021Jai Gurudeva! Yesterday evening our monastics enjoyed their monthly pada puja to Gurudeva an his shrine in Kadavul Temple. Satguru and the monks gathered around to chant Sri Rudram while Yogi Jayanatha and Nirvani Tejadevanatha performed an abhishekam to Gurudeva's granite paduka. "If we look at the past and we...
Tirukural - Chapter 29
March 29, 2021Chapter 29: Avoidance of Fraud Verse 284Here we see various forms of stealing. A teenager breaks into the temple lockbox, another snatches jewelry from a hapless woman and a third, the owner of a pawnshop, is cheating an old woman of her jewelry’s true value. TAKA Presents the Tirukural You...
Beyond the Beyond
March 26, 2021Now and again we bravely post some of Gurudeva's most profound insights and writings. Today is such a day as we share Gurudeva's description of Nirvikalpa Samadhi and actinic energy. It is short, but dense. We partner his words with a series of microphotography images which have their own mystery...
Kadavul Temple Now Open by Reservation
March 25, 2021March 2021 Update — Kauai’s Hindu Monastery is required to follow COVID-19 related restrictions issued by the State of Hawaii and the County of Kauai that apply to all places of worship. These restrictions are independent of travel policies for Hawaii. These rules regarding places of worship require those inside...
Celebrating Yogaswami's Mahasamadhi
March 24, 2021Early this morning, the monks of Kauai Aadheenam began their day with tribute to Paramaguru Yoganathan on the occasion of his 57th annual Mahasamadhi. Yogaswami left his body on March 20, 1964, the following days would see thousands of devotees from the Jaffna community attend his funeral procession and cremation....
Shum Maps of Meditations - Part 2
March 23, 2021Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives part two of a series of talks which give insight and elaboration into a verity of fascinating concepts revealed in the Shum language of meditation. Here, Satguru gives special attention to the 54 mambashum—important areas of the mind detailed by Shum.
Tirukural - Chapter 28
March 22, 2021Chapter 28: Deceptive Conduct Verse 271A man sits in deep meditation, clearly controlling his senses, which are shown behind him in personified form: the eyes, nose, mouth, ears and sense of touch. TAKA Presents the Tirukural You can access the entire text, in Tamil and English here: Weaver's Wisdom Verse...
Monks Making Code for the Interwebs
March 18, 2021Aum Namah Sivaya Today we take you into the digital world of two of our monks in the Ganapati Kulam's Media Studio. Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami has been hard at work on several fronts. Each week he edits the audio for Satguru's talks and, after they are transcribed by a sevak on...