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Tour Day

Tour Day

The Aadheenam constantly sees a huge variety of guests, and this week was no different. This week's tour group was full of smiles and enjoyment as they walked through Siva's gardens and learned more about this special place. Afterwards they and many others stopped by the Mini Mela gift shop....

Bodhinatha at Maryland Murugan Temple

Bodhinatha at Maryland Murugan Temple

Satguru sends us this report: The morning event at temple started at 9:30am. First was a purification of thirteen of the priests and next puja and nyasa with chanting of the kumbhas and finally a homa, veda parayana and the final arati. The picture shows Pichai Gurukal seated on Shanmuganathaswami's...

Hawaiian Conservation District Visit

Hawaiian Conservation District Visit

The Hawaiian Islands have been divided into conservation districts, each with a local board comprised of farmers, ranchers, other agriculturalists and state and federal agricultural officials. Each year all the boards come to one island for their annual meeting and then visit some of the interesting conservation oriented projects on...

A Recap of Satguru's London Mission

A Recap of Satguru's London Mission

We present photos from Satguru's recently completed visit to the United Kingdom from start to finish. Our full story today was written by Arulsishya Ramai Santhirapala of London. Ramai's summary: Between 28th June and 5th July, London had the immense boon of welcoming Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami. This was His first...

Word of the Day

Word of the Day

[Words from the lexicons of all our books] Go Lexicon

Our Visiting Brother Swami Departs

Our Visiting Brother Swami Departs

We had a blast with Swami Ramana Swaroopanandaji, but Swami had to keep going on his mission across the mainland US. We hope to see Swami visit us soon. Swami was honored at lunch, surrounded by all the monks. The ceremonial shawl is placed around Swami. Swami gives his thanks...

Large Family of Devotees Visit

Large Family of Devotees Visit

We hosted the wonderful Suresh and Nisha Rajamanickam family the other day, visiting all the way from Florida. Thanks to Kaivalyanathaswami for keeping in close contact with the family, we were able to hear so many insights and reflections from them. Somehow the entire group fit at the Ganapati Kulam...

Sahasralingam Archana at the Monastery

Sahasralingam Archana at the Monastery

Last week, Kaua`i Aadheenam was honored and blessed to have a most sincere, disciplined group of Satya Sai Baba devotees visit us. Months ago, their coordinator, Sandhya Kanade, contacted us with a request. In fact, her original note to us is the body of this post, as she thoroughly describes...

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