Hanuman Goes to Loveland, Colorado: CHAPTER FIVE
July 12, 2018All of our bronze statues have been done in America's most highly regarded community of bronze artisans, in Loveland, Colorado, about 90 minutes north of Denver. We are fortunate to have the most skilled artists. When last we left Hanuman, the 65 molds had been shipped to Page Bronze. Here...
Hanuman Is Reborn in Bronze: CHAPTER FOUR
July 12, 2018After accepting the astonishing fact that Hanuman had split in half, the senior monks met to determine how to make what seemed like a disaster into a boon, something Gurudeva was always modeling and teaching to us--see Siva's Will in all that happens, the good as well as the bad....
Sivamani Plays at Kadavul Temple
July 12, 2018Each month, during the auspicious day of the Ardra nakshatra, the monks of Kauai Aadheenam celebrate with an abhishekam to Nataraja in Kadavul Temple. Today, Anandan Sivamani visited the monastery to offer his music to Siva.
Bodhinatha Returns
July 11, 2018Satguru's tour around the world is over for now. The monks welcome him and Shanmuganathaswami back home with a short pada puja and arati, first to him and then for him in Kadavul temple. A photo from inside the Kadavul shoe tent shows the arriving party on the Saiva Neri....
Hanuman Is Broken: CHAPTER THREE
July 10, 2018What follows may startle you. We hope not, because it has such a delightful end. As we said in Chapter One, the master carvers of South India spent four years crafting what we regard as the most graceful, powerful, and artistic Hanuman ever made. It was originally sculpted in Mahabalipuram,...
Monk Hike
July 10, 2018A belated adventure photo journey from several monks who went up the river after one of our largest storms in recent history. One can see the damage the water did, but also the beauty it exposed. } ];
Hanuman Arrives on Kauai: CHAPTER TWO
July 10, 2018After a 9,000 mile sea voyage, Hanuman reach the Kauai shores and was brought up the hill on July 9, 2013. He was carefully taken down from the truck and laid in a display area on the Northwest corner of Iraivan Temple. The elephants arrived on the same truck, eager...
Hanuman, the Untold Story: CHAPTER ONE
July 9, 2018We begin today a series of eleven Hanuman Tails, opps, Tales. It's a fascinating story which will unfold slowly in the days ahead. We begin with Gurudeva's vision of Hanuman, wherein he saw the God as powerful, overwhelmingly so, inhumanly so, divinely so. Thus it was that Gurudeva set in...