Aran & Tara Veylan visit from Canada
March 13, 2014SSC sishyas Aran & Tara Veylan are visiting Kauai from Edmonton, Canada. Aran & Tara are volunteers who ship orders for our Mini Mela Canada eStore at www.minimela.com/canada. Tara also helps with the Mini Mela Gift Shop at the Maha Ganapathy Temple in Edmonton. They recently purchased a vacation home...
A New Power Plant on Kauai
March 12, 2014Today, Arumuganathaswami and Natyam Rajanatha made a short trip to visit the site of the Island's new biomass plant which is under construction outside of Lihue. The plant is the work of Green Energy Team, a company that has cultivated several parcels of land next to the monastery's own Himalayan...
Garden Day
March 12, 2014For one day every phase, the Siddhidata Kulam spends their time in the Monastery's gardens. They've worked out a wonderfully thorough system, by which they plan ahead and keep track of all the garden beds, making what could be a very difficult job, much easier and efficient. Though the rain...
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Fourth Annual Midland Interfaith Panel (Full Video)
March 11, 2014httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-8IYtyVKHQ (Note: Video is black for the first few seconds while the moderator is speaking, then the picture appears) On February 19, 2014, one Hindu, one Jew and three Christians sat together to answer questions submitted by the moderator and the local community before an audience of mixed faiths at...
Stones for the Iraivan Temple Gardens
March 11, 2014Recently, the monastery has received more large boulders for the ongoing temple landscaping project. The Boulders all come from Kauai's one-and-only quarry on the south-west side of the island. Each boulder is so large that only one at a time can be trucked up to the monastery. The flatbed truck...
Innersearch is Filling Up Fast!
March 10, 2014Our 2014 Mauritius Innersearch travel-study program has fewer and fewer available seats by the end of each day. If you have been planning to sign up, now is a good time to do so. Click here to visit the online application page. For those who aren't familiar with our Innersearch...
Recent Pilgrims
March 10, 2014In the first two pictures we have SSC sishyas Sambandan and Thanaletchmi Umamaheswaran enjoying the last few days of their pilgrimage before returning home to Singapore. Chintalapati, Sreelatha and son Sai are visiting for the first time from Pennsylvania. They discussed with Satguru about how Hinduism is in harmony with...