Sadhu Paksha Continues
August 5, 2017During these few weeks of Sadhua Paksha, the monastics have been enjoying a different morning routine. Instead of their usual group Siva puja and meditation they are rising before the sun to wander through nature and perform their sadhana. Here are a few images from their wanderings. \"When the Creator...
The Brahmacharya Vrata
August 4, 2017Today was the auspicious occasion for Archana and Divyesh Pillay, who took their Brahmacharya Vrata in front of Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami. This vow of celibacy remains in place until marriage at which point it requires the two to be faithful to their partner. The fundamental reason for observing Brahmacharya before...
Monkeypod and Pine Meet Shum
August 3, 2017A few months ago Paramacharya Sadasivanatha gave a whole lot of thought to what to put in the large blank area on the facade above the guru pitham seat, called simhasana, the holy spot established by Gurudeva as the seat of authority for Kauai Aadheenam, back in the 1970s. It...
Honoring Iraivan Temple's Carvers
August 2, 2017We have been having a creative time with our Quad Copter. Please enjoy these new aerial shots of our recently installed Temple Carvers Pavilion next to Iraivan Temple. At around 2:20 the camera looks across the river to our Himalayan Acres fields, where you will see our fields of 8-foot-tall...
Gurukkals Visit Monks
August 1, 2017Sivasri Shanmugam Sivacharyar -- son of late Sivasri Sambamurthy Sivacharyar of Kaaligambal Temple, Chennai -- and Sivasri Sundaramurthy Sivacharyar -- principal of the Saiva Agama Pathashala -- came to the monastery recently and paid their respects to the monks. Wonderful conversations were had that detailed future plans for the Iraivan...
Sadhu Paksha Begins
August 1, 2017The monastery grows calm and still as our two-week period of visitor interaction slows. The sadhu paksha retreat is also a time for monks to change their meditation spot, from inside the main meditation room to outside and into the great jungles that is Kauai Aadheenam.
Who Are the Devas? Bodhinatha's Upadesha
July 29, 2017Bodhinatha's Latest Upadeshas - Commentaries on Path to Siva Who Are the Devas, Lesson 29 (July 24,2017) Religion is the working together of the beings in the three worlds. The first way we actually experience something of a divine nature, the power and energy in a temple, is our sensitized...
