Recent Guests
August 9, 2013Raghu & Durga Toppur with daughter Sonali and son Rahul are making their first visit from northern California. They are on pilgrimage and have wanted to visit for a long time after hearing about the monastery from friends. Their parents met Gurudeva around 1994 at the Siva Murugan temple we...
Recent Pilgrims
August 8, 2013Rajesh Bali and his wife Sanjana visited Kauai for the first time from Edmonton, Canada. They run the Shiv Shakti Mandir in Edmonton for the Fijian community. They have known us for many years and organized a visit by Satguru Bodhinatha to their temple when he came for an event...
Bodhinatha's Travels
August 8, 2013Satguru Bodhinatha and Shanmuganathaswami depart from the Kauai Airport. Their journey will take them to Maryland for a Ganesha homa at the Murugan temple of North America in Lanham, then to Dubai for satsang with devotees, and finally to Mauritius for the Aloha Dinner and diksha ceremonies at the Spiritual...
Creative, Fundraising Sevaks
August 7, 2013People raise funds for Iraivan Temple construction in many ways. For example, Kartikeya Katir (23) of Davis, California has made Ganeshas, four and eight inches tall, out of clay, for Ganesha Chaturthi (coming up on September 8th) and is selling them for five and ten dollars. He donates proceeds to...
Twitter Update: Paramacharya toured botany profs &Cal Poly U....
August 6, 2013Paramacharya toured botany profs &Cal Poly U. students thru Siva's sacred gardens today, lots of deep talk. http://t.co/Rsr7kjxHrD
Join Bodhinatha at the Murugan Temple of North America
August 5, 2013The Ilankai Nalluran Kathirkakam Kanthan Festival will be held in Lanham, Maryland, August 9, 10. Come and join Bodhinatha for the uplifting sacred rites! big: '/taka-archive-all-assets/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/murugan-temple-festival/big/flyer_nallurfestival_2013.jpg', } ]; transitionSpeed:150});
Holly Young Visits The Monastery
August 4, 2013This week Holly Young Visited the Monastery to take a mold of the Silpi forge for one of the seven bronze statues which will be displayed next to Iraivan temple. The statues depict Gurudeva's Inspiration for Iraivan temple, becoming a reality through the patience and precision of the skilled stone...
Mauritius Spiritual Park
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