Welcoming the New Season
April 17, 2018Following the Tamil New Year, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives a short talk to welcome in the new year and the new season.
Monastery Rides Out Storm
April 16, 2018We want to assure our CyberCadets that all is well at the monastery this morning. It's true that Kauai has just gone through a powerful rain storm that brought floods and landslides to the North Shore, which took the brunt of the storm. In 24 hours there were 27 inches...
New Greenhouse Arrives
April 14, 2018Since the concept of the greenhouse has gone far beyond what the monastery ever imagined, the decision was made to order another one. A secondary greenhouse, as explained by Yoginathaswami, can help us move out of the labor-intense raised-bed garden and use less manpower to grow more food. Win-win. More...
Recent Visitors
April 14, 2018Muthaiah Venkatachalam on 2nd visit from Oregon, this time bringing his son and parents Archana Patchirajan from New Jersey and Niravta Mathur from UK. They\re working together on astrology mobile apps' } ];
HAPPY (TAMIL) NEW YEAR!
April 13, 2018Today we celebrate the new year of Vilamba, 5120. Today the Siddhidatta Kulam cooked a glorious South India feast for the monks' lunch. It's always fun to look back into the 60 year cycle and see what was happening in the last Vilamba, which may or may not give us...
A New Era
April 12, 2018Garden fresh tomatoes are a highly coveted and sought-after food, and they're here. The monks in the Siddhidata Kulam have pushed the limits on what is possible for our simple monastery and are bringing in arguably the world's best foods. Local, fresh and full of color, some have even said...
Recent Visitors
April 12, 2018Prashanth Srichandramohan on pilgrimage from Toronto for first time. Visiting with his brother Suganth who has been here before. They are both studying our Master Course trilogy. } ];
Arrival of Selvanathan Sthapati
April 11, 2018Selvanathan Sthapati, chief architect of Iraivan Temple, arrives on island to begin another phase of our ongoing grand granite project. Below are some photos from Sthapati's past, and ours: [caption id="attachment_134095" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Selvanathan Sthapati’s grandfather and father of Ganapati Sthapati--late Vaidyanatha Sthapati with Ramana Maharishi in 1949. This photo...