The Making of Sadasiva Murthi
October 7, 2019About three years back, Jim and Natalie Levin approached the monastery with their hope to create something extraordinary for the Aadheenam. Their plan was to sculpt a 4-foo-tall bronze of Siva in His form as Sadasiva, with five heads and ten arms. They knew Gurudeva back in the late 90s...
Nellaiappan and Maragatham, 40+ Years of Service!
October 4, 2019It was about 1977 when Gurudeva went to India and met Mr. Lakshmanan Nellaiappan. At that time he was working for The Tamil Nadu Handicrafts Development Corporation, aka "Poombuhar". Through Poombuhar, (established on 1973 http://tnpoompuhar.org ) all the artists and craftsmen in Tamil Nadu were supported and found a venue...
Bodhinatha Goes To Main USA
October 4, 2019Bodhinatha and Shanmuganathaswami left yesterday for a 13-day trip to San Francisco, Phoenix, Dallas, Midland, TX returning Kauai on 15th.
Media Conference Table Creation - Part 4
October 4, 2019This is part four of the creation of a new conference table for the Media Studio, made of formosan koa. This is the end of one of the timber with the recess cut for the copper plate. To cut the recesses all identically, we used a router and a template...
Re-Gilding Gurudeva in Gold!
October 2, 2019It was in June, 2009, when the team from Michael Kramer's Gilding Studio came to Kauai to put the gold leaf on Iraivan. At that time they trained our members on how it was done. We also gilded the statue of Gurudeva at the same time. He has been sitting...
Kali Nalluran Dances for Siva
October 1, 2019We have known Kali Nalluran since she was a little girl. Her father, Muni Nalluran traveled with Gurudeva on early innersearches and he and his wife, Sivakumari, stayed on in Jaffna to collect stories of the Parampara. It was a very important mission. He wrote the first book "Soldiers of...
Media Studio Conference Room Table - Part 2
October 1, 2019Tracking the progress on a new table for the Media Studio conference room. Twenty seven pieces form the top of the table, roughly 4x4 inches square. An earlier stage, choosing the order of the pieces for the best look and keeping with the lengths we cut a year ago on...
Chitra Puja, Kanya Mase
September 29, 2019This morning we tuned in to Gurudeva on the inner planes via the Kanya Mase (month) Chitra Puja. He is always with us and ever ready to send messages of inspiration and answers to questions and to help us carry on with the mission. Yogi Dayanatha is the pujari this...