Boston Trip!
June 25, 2017Acharya Arumuganathaswami and Natyam Jayanatha have gone traveling to the "Very Big Island" mainland US for a history conference, stopping in California for meetings with members, moviemakers and more. Stay tuned for reports in the days ahead...
Bodhinatha Speaks on Lord Murugan and Penance
June 25, 2017Bodhinatha's Latest Upadeshas - Who is Lord Murugan, Proper Approach to Penance Who is Lord Murugan? Path to Siva, Lesson 27, Commentary Who is Lord Murugan? Path to Siva, Lesson 27, Commentary The blessings of Lord Murugan awaken wisdom which resides in his chakra. "Pray to Lord Murugan to unravel...
Monks in India Travelogue: Chennai
June 25, 2017Our next stop is Chennai, a crucial part of our visit. In Chennai can be found most of our closest and most important advisers on temple construction and the esoterics and exoterics of Saivism and temple construction. Within three hours after our plane landed we had a meeting with Dr....
Devonic Sign
June 25, 2017A beautiful double rainbow appears as a blessed, devonic sign, in a never-before-seen spot, over one of our buildings. Yesterday turned out to be a most fortunate day for our Pillaiyar Kulam (a kulam is a family-like grouping of monks working as a team in a specific area of service)....
Drilling into Granite
June 22, 2017As our CyberCadets know, the Iraivan Temple Builders' Memorial is proceeding this summer. Above is the latest work, three pieces that arrived from Loveland, Colorado. In the captions we tell the happenings of the last few days. It started with the arrival of the crates. The next three bronzes were...
Arriving in India
June 22, 2017Our traveling monks report: Years ago we looked at an empty piece of land and contemplated the inconceivable task of constructing a temple that would be hand carved from granite in India, then shipped and constructed in Hawaii. Now we look ahead a short distance into the future and we...
Sri Lanka Travelogue Part 3
June 20, 2017Another busy few days with the traveling monks... After three busy days in Jaffna, we stop briefly by the Nallur Temple and are on the road again. This time headed back toward Colombo. Once again we are relieved that all the main roads in Sri Lanka, including those that were...
Sun 1 Upadesha
June 18, 2017An Upadesha given by Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami in Kadavul Temple. Satguru reads from our recent publication "Path To Siva," Lesson 27, discussing the worship of Lord Murugan.