My Visit to Kauai Aadheenam
February 8, 2013Akila describes this scene beautifully. The Namaskaram Mandapam Preparing the copper Kodimaram. Marking the Nandi Mandapam in Bengaluru First chipping of the perimeter wall Tools of the trade, so simple, so elegant Crates of floor stones from India Bodhinatha in a rare moment, with our family from St. Lucia at...
Visitors from New Jersey and Florida
February 7, 2013Mr. and Mrs. P. Nathan made their first visit from new Jersey. From Sri Lanka originally, Nathan met Satguru Yogaswami as a young boy. In the second photo is Rama and Jeeva Kolinjivadi on their first visit from Florida, celebrating their 37th wedding anniversary. They really enjoyed the monastery grounds....
Sri Lankan New Zealanders Visit Kauai Aadheenam
February 6, 2013Yogini Ratnasabapathy and her uncle Dr. Jega Pasupati visited briefly from Auckland, New Zealand, on their way to attend a stroke conference in Honolulu. Their familys were very close to Satguru Yogaswami. Dr. Pasupati's brother took two of the rare photos of Yogaswami. Yogini helped organize our Innersearch activity at...
February 5th Homa
February 5, 2013This morning the Monks began the new phase with a sacred fire ritual. Mystically it is a communion with the three worlds, the Bhuloka or earth plane, the Devaloka or astral plane, and the Sivaloka which is the heaven world of light and the home of the Gods. Through the...
January Public Tours Get A Big Boost
February 2, 2013Jiva & Kanmani Rajasankara are here on a spiritual retreat from India for three months and many visitors and pilgrims to Kauai are richer for the experience. About eighteen years ago Gurudeva asked them to move from their well settled life in Malaysia out into the unknown of India as...
Gurudeva's 150th Monthly Chitra Puja
February 1, 2013"You are perfect this very moment. You are all that you will ever be. If you don't see it that way, then you live in a difficult state of affairs, striving toward perfection and being imperfect along the way." -Gurudeva. This morning the monastery celebrated Gurudeva's 150th monthly chitra puja...
Twitter Update: Thank you to all our Digital Dharma Drive contribu...
February 1, 2013Thank you to all our Digital Dharma Drive contributors. We didn't quite make our goal, but we got close. Aum Namah Sivaya!
Twitter Update: Simultaneous moonset and sunrise this morning at K...
January 31, 2013Simultaneous moonset and sunrise this morning at Kauai Aadheenam twitpic.com/bzwna6