June 2023 Chitra Puja
June 27, 2023Today we celebrated the Chitra nakshatra with an early morning padapuja for Gurudeva. The monastics and local devotees gathered in Kadavul Temple for the silent puja performed by Yogi Dayanatha and Yogi Haranandinatha. "Love is the source of understanding. You know intellectually that within you resides the potential, expressed or...
Media Studio Event
June 24, 2023The Womens' Kauai Retreatants are having tours of the monastery between their times of sadhana, worship, cooking for the monks, meeting with Bodhinatha and island exploring. Yesterday they came for a two-hour presentation by the Ganapati Kulam, held in the Media Studio. They heard about web designs and enhancements from...
The Subconscious Mind Part 4
June 23, 2023Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly upadesha in Kadavul Temple. It is part of a series of talks elaborating on the inspired teachings of Śivaya Subramuniyaswami as found in his book Merging With Śiva. "It is a principle on the path that until we are rather advanced we do not...
Yoginathaswami and Yogi Dayanatha in India, Part Five
June 22, 2023The next stop in Bengaluru was Kailash Ashram, home of the late Sivaratnapuriswami (Trichyswamigal) and now headed by his successor, Sri la Sri Jayendrapuriswamigal. This ashram was largely responsible for clearing the path to set up the Iraivan Temple carving site in Bengaluru. Our late Gurudeva and architect Ganapati Sthapati...
Yoginathaswami and Yogi Dayanatha in India, Part Four
June 21, 2023One of the priests who performed the Iraivan Temple pranapratishtha in March is Vivek Sivam, who then stayed on to perform the 41 days of Mandala Pujas afterwards. Now our monks have visited him at his family temple in Coimbatore, called Kurunthamalai Kulandhai Velaayuthaswami. It's on top of a small...
Pilgrims' Progress
June 20, 2023Four trucks pulled into the Rudraksha Forest parking area early on Friday morning, unannounced but most welcome. They were delivering 30,000 square feet of a black, hexagonal-grid made of a high-density polyethylene. These are strong-durable structures sometimes used for overflow parking at Super Bowls and large events, but also for...
Welcoming Our Newest Monastic: Sadhaka Vatshalanatha!
June 19, 2023Jai Kailasa Parampara! Jai Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami! Jai Sivaya Subramuniyaswami! Aum Namah Sivaya! Just following our abhishekam of Lord Nataraja during the Ardra nakshatra yesterday, the monks gathered in the Guru Pitam to witness the taking of vows by our newest monastic, Sadhaka Vatshalanatha. The following are excerpts from his...
Homa at Iraivan
June 16, 2023Bodhinatha has decreed that each month a homa will be held at Iraivan Temple, something that makes our priest, Pravinkumar, really happy. Yesterday the second one was held. Auspiciously, the Women's Retreat is underway and they were able to also attend. A few words about Krittika: Krittika nakshatra, also known...