Bodhinatha at Maryland Murugan Temple
July 9, 2016Satguru 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
July 9, 2016The 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
July 8, 2016We 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
July 7, 2016[Words from the lexicons of all our books] Go Lexicon
Our Visiting Brother Swami Departs
July 7, 2016We 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
July 7, 2016We 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
July 6, 2016Last 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...
"What is Saivism?": A Presentation by Satguru
July 6, 2016httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEoH5m6TrNk During Satguru's time in London, he visited the Shree Ghanapathy Temple in London where he gave a presentation he created entitled, "What is Saivism?" The purpose of the presentation is to clarify Saivism's uniqueness from other Hindu schools of thought, mostly in an effort to have the distinction between...