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This Season's Guests

This Season's Guests

Haran and Dolores from California Nisha Parikh and family from California Vasudevan and Saraswathy from Pennsylvania Sishyas from Malaysia\/Australia\/Singapore Sivakamisundari Shanmugasundaram family Srikanth and Aparna Ranganathan family from Texas Sharmisththa Joshi and children from Toronto Supramaniam Suthaker family from Edmonton Chitra Sachdeva family from California Ramnath Iyer family from California...

Temple Cleaning

Temple Cleaning

Recently more progress was made on cleaning the calcite that built up between Iraivan Temple's ceiling joints. This calcite has slowly seeped out of the mortar. Soda blasting seems to be the most effective method of removal. Natyam Dayanatha and Nirvani Tejadevanatha spent a day doing the cleaning. The spots...

A Journey to the Big Island

A Journey to the Big Island

Jai Ganesha! Recently, the monks of the Siddhidatta Kulam all took a day-trip to Hawaii's Big Island in order to visit Kawamata Farms, who are successful owners and operators of a large greenhouse operation. Our monks have gone to learn some of their tips and tricks for growing vegetables in...

Rudraksha Seva

Rudraksha Seva

Aum Namah Sivaya For the last few weeks, Satya Palani has been helping in the woodshop while here on pilgrimage. He's building new wooden racks to be used for pressure washing rudrakshas. Rudraksha sales have been a large portion of the donations that have gone to the construction of Iraivan...

How Do We Observe Pilgrimage?

How Do We Observe Pilgrimage?

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads from Lesson 65 of the Himalayan Academy publication “Path To Siva,” discussing Hindu Pilgrimage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IURbPdngyhA

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