June Chitra Puja
June 4, 2017This morning we celebrated our monthly padapuja to Gurudeva in Kadavul Temple. As the sun was rising, monks and local devotees gathered around Gurudeva's shrine and observed an abhishekam to his black granite tiruvadi. Natyam Jayanatha and Nirvani Tejadevanatha performed the abhishekam as other monks chanted Sri Rudram and delved...
Milling Kauai Mango Wood
June 3, 2017Recently an island friend who is an arborist gifted several logs from a large mango tree he was commissioned to take down. It was very large and too close to the buildings. The arborist, Travis Redmond, generously volunteered to help slab the large butt log with his Alaskan Chainsaw Mill,...
Approaching a Hindu Temple Deity: A Primer for Beginners
May 31, 2017A lot of meditators to Hindu temples are not coming from traditional Hindu, or Eastern, backgrounds. Many practitioners today are coming from the yoga culture that has permeated the world. These wonderful souls seeking to find the depths of yoga practice, and its origins, make their way into the holy...
Cement Pour
May 31, 2017The Siddhidata Kulam monks are pouring a cement slab today, just one of the many tasks that this department looks over. Yogi Adinatha, Yoginathaswami and Tejadevanatha seen here in all the stages of work--pouring, screeting and finishing the slab Tejadevanatha mixes the cement with Natyam Dayanatha The wheel that Dayanatha...
Quartzite Platform Finished
May 30, 2017It's done! The golden-hued platform that will be the stage for a thousand years for our silpi bronze master works is completed. The 35-foot oval is nestled amid mature palm trees about 200 feet North of Iraivan Temple. At its center is the massive, 9-foot-long raw stone, quarried from the...
Satguru in London
May 30, 2017Satguru Bodhinatha goes for a walk in a meadow next to the River Thames and meets with some cows and geese. The Petersham hotel he is staying in is in the background. Stay tuned to his London activities at his Facebook page.
Monday's Mighty Murugan
May 29, 2017Lord Murugan, God of kundalini yoga, is bedecked in blue clothing today at Kadavul Temple. Fresh fragrant flowers adorn this powerful deity. From a talk Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gave in 2004: "Usually when someone teaches meditation they're talking just about sitting down and meditating. But Gurudeva says, no don't do...
Satguru in London - Part 2
May 28, 2017Here are a few more photos of Satguru's journey in London. Yesterday morning was a seminar at the Wimbledon Shree Ghanapathy Temple where Satguru discussed our recent publication Path to Siva. In the evening was a Yogaswami event at the Highgatehill Murugan Temple where Satguru gave a talk on Natchintanai...