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Dancing with Siva Now in Tamil

The long-awaited Tamil language version of Gurudeva's Dancing with Siva (renamed Sivaperumanudan Oru Thirunadanam) has been published by Kannadhasan Pathippagam in Chennai. It can be ordered online from the publisher for Rs450 here: bit.ly/TamilDWS. Within India the shipping is free. International orders are sent by courier. The book\s front cover.'...

Recent Visitors

The monastery had a wonderful adventure with the Pillay family from Victoria Island, Canada. They were here for several weeks enjoying the darshan of Kadavul temple and working out some details for an event being held near their home on Victoria Island. See the visit page for details. The Vellumylum...

From Paper to PDF

For many years the Aadheenam has collected a variety of spiritual books from around the world. This collection has long been kept in an old container, acting as a "temporary" library. Unfortunately, this resource had been relatively unused of late, due mainly to the ease and availability of digital content...

BAPS Sadhus Visit

At the end of last phase, the monastery was graced to receive the presence of visiting sadhus from the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) order. Pujya Sarvadarshan Swami and Pujya Harinivas Swami were able to spend the morning with some of our swamis, concluding with having darshan with Satguru...

Off On Another Adventure

A few days ago, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami and Sannyasin Shanmuganathaswami departed from the monastery and boarded a flight to the mainland. The two will be heading first to Maryland to attend the Nallur Kathirgamma festival at the Murugan Temple of North America. After a short time in DC, Satguru and...

Dancing for the Lord

On July 17th two young dancers fulfulled a dream, dancing for Lord Siva Nataraja in the Kadavul temple mandapam. Shreya is 16 and her sister Akshaya is 11. Their mother, Usha Venkatesh, had arrange for the family to fly to Kauai from Arizona just for this special offering to Siva....

Join Bodhinatha at the Murugan Temple in Bethesda!

August Chitra Puja

Today, being Chitra Nakshatra, Satguru, the monastics and local members gathered in Kadavul Temple in the early morning. There they observed a padapuja to Gurudeva's granite tiruvadi. "Henceforth being pure, clean, void, tranquil, breathless, selfless, endless, undecaying, steadfast, eternal, unborn, independent, he abides in his own greatness." - Vedas from...