Taka Archives

New Roofing

Over the last several days, the monastery's kitchen received new roofing and copper flashing. The work was done by our good neighbor Bobby Soares, His son and his longtime friend and coworker under the aegis of his company Garden Isle Roofing. The team removed all the old, dilapidated roofing tile...

Interviewing Monks

This week the monastery has had the pleasure of hosting Karolina and Anurag Goswami along with their young son Ladoo. These two have been traveling the US and this will be one of their last stops before returning home to India. Their work has become quite popular on Youtube. Just...

Nandi Mandapam Beam Blessing

Last week, Satguru, monk and siplis gathered atop the Iraivan Temple scaffolding to have a blessing for the first of the Nandi Mandapam's roof beams. These intricate stones are beautifully carved and carefully adjusted to fit between the mandapam's 12 pillars. Yoginathaswami performs a short Ganesha puja to begin This...

Happy Kadaitswami Gurupuja Day!

Enjoy this video by SivanTV in Sri Lanka, taken on the 2018 Sri Lanka Innersearch travel study program, during the program's visit to the Kadaitswami Temple in Jaffna sign up for the 2019 program here: https://www.himalayanacademy.com/livespiritually/innersearch/2019_sri-lanka/application

Making Hanuman's Mountain

Yesterday Dennis Wong completed the first phase of the mountain on which Lord Hanuman will stand. He will be arriving on Kauai within a month. The slideshow gives details. Jai Hanuman! May we all learn from His strong service, His unbending loyalty, His pure devotion to Siva. Bobby Page stands...

September 2018 News Video

Our September 2018 video covers events in August of 2018 including: progress on the construction of Iraivan Temple; the creation of a foundation for our bronze Hanuman; the release of HAMSA, our newest web app; and our change of seasons

Siva Is the Life of Your Life

An Invitation to Innersearch Sri Lanka 2019

You're invited to join Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami and four of his monks on a spiritual pilgrimage across the island of Sri Lanka. The program will take place March 14th through 29th of 2019 and will take us to many of the holiest places of our guru lineage. Sign up today...