Bodhinatha's Mahasivaratri Upadesha
March 7, 2017Bodhinatha's Latest Upadeshas - Mahasivaratri Upadesha, 2017 " Mahasivaratri, 2017 - The Four Stages of Your Personal Evolution." (February 24, 2017) The soul body takes many lifetimes to mature. The height of divine consciousness: There is no difference between you and God. Spiritualize what you are doing as you engage...
Monks Make Pizza!
March 7, 2017As many of us know, our monks like to vary their culinary endeavors. While most of the week they enjoy food made in a simplified South Indian style, on their weekend nights they make a variety of world cuisines. Once a month artisan pizzas are made in the wood fired...
Retreat Day Walkabout
March 6, 2017Right before the whirlwind of spiritual activity hits the monastery, there is a sort-of calm that sweeps in. If you aren't looking you will miss it, move too fast you won't even know it came, it lasts an eternity but it's gone in an instant. We rarely do these type...
The Fire Divine
March 6, 2017Namaste everyone, the monks are happy to bring you another week of our life. We begin as normal, in Kadavul temple with a Siva homa. We continue with our quote series from Radhakrishnan's lecture The Hindu View of Life. \"The ease with which Hinduism has steadily absorbed the customs and...
More Visiting Family!
March 3, 2017Over the last few days we've enjoyed a visit from another part of our family. Natyam Jayanatha has been hosting Amma Anne from Washington State, along with twin sister Madeline Waits and her friend an coworker Ina. This is Madeline's first time to Kauai or the monastery and she's enjoying...
Kauai's Newspaper Investigates Their Next Story
March 1, 2017The Garden Island newspaper, on the garden island of Kauai, is known for dropping by every now and again to catch up with the latest monks project. Today, Paramacharya Sadasivanathaswami and Acharya Arumuganathaswami sit down with journalist Alden Alayvilla to give a short report on the noni operation going on...
Media Studio Family
February 28, 2017We had a wonderful visit this morning with Larry Skanda and Devi marks, brother and sister of Paramacharya Sadasivanathaswami. It has been a few years since they last visited, so we had much to catch up on. Their stay lasts a few more days. Group photo Sister and brother pose...
Publication Spotlight: Visiting a Hindu Temple
February 28, 2017Be they luxurious palaces, rustic warehouses, simple halls or granite sanctuaries, Hindu temples are springing up all over the world, numbering in the hundreds of thousands. Yet outside of India and a few places like Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bali, what happens inside these temples remains a mystery—to young generations...