Taskforcers Cooking Sri Lankan Style!
November 17, 2022Recently our inspired team of taskforcers got together to cook a wonderful and tasty meal for all the monks and Satguru. Encouraged by their fearless culinary-leader, Vatshalan, the group embarked on a quest to create a banquet of traditional Sri Lankan dishes including idiyappam, coconut and tofu curries, onion sambar,...
42 Years Later
November 14, 2022This rare photo from 1980 shows Gurudeva seated on the Kadavul threshold watching the young monks guide a giant crane that is lifting and putting into place the 32,000-pound granite Nandi. It was so heavy, it bent the crane! That night on the evening news from Honolulu (remember TV news...
AI Narrated Audiobook Zip Files
November 14, 2022A few days ago we realized that our new AI narrated audiobooks on the Google Play Store were not available to some regions of the world so we found a way to export the mp3 files and are sharing them here if you want to download them through Google Drive....
From Darkness to Light - Part 5
November 14, 2022https://youtu.be/MolJbTO-ABw
Rare Peek Inside Iraivan Floor Tile Project
November 13, 2022Today was a day off for the busy tile setting team, so we took the opportunity to sneak inside the workspace to see what they've been up to. Some of their tools are organized in this tent next to Nandi Mandapam They just finished pouring what they call the \"float\"...
Our New Monastic Aspirant
November 12, 2022Happy Ardra Nakshatra! Aum Namah Sivaya! On Siva's most auspicious nakshatra of the month, we welcome one of our newest monastic candidates into the pre-monastic aspirancy program. Vatshalan Santhirapala has been on taskforce for several months at the aadheenam and has long been interested in monastic life. In several days...
Pancha Brahma Murtis
November 11, 2022You well know that there are five forms of Siva, also known as Sadasiva, that will one day be installed in niches on the Iraivan Vimanam. They are deeply mystical aspects of Iraivan temple that were cast in bronze many years ago. They are 36 inches tall. Finally, they are...
Satguru's Latest Publisher's Desk Article
November 10, 2022From the October/November/December issue of Hinduism Today Magazine: "The entire world entered a challenging new era in December, 2019, when the first human cases of Covid-19 were identified in Wuhan, China. In the two and a half years since then, the lives of virtually every human being were touched by...