Images from Mauritius
January 23, 2011Sundays are busy days at the Spiritual Park. Hundreds of visitors, old and young, come to see Lord Pancha Muka Ganapathi At the river front, a six-inch thick layer of crushed gravel is been placed. Once complete it will be covered with four inches of coral sand. A group of...
An Entry Way View
January 23, 2011Ralph and Stevanne together. Stevanne shows us what a visitor sees on arrival at the front. First approaching the Puakenikeni Mandapam Visitor's write down their problem and subconscious garbage and burn it. Other take free tour guides. Next we see the Nepali Ganesha... The stone arch and lotus gateway... Entering...
Sun Two
January 22, 2011Another marvelous day at Kauai Aadheenam. The Pillaiyar Kulam gave their news. Shanmuganathaswami has set up an online web registration site in the Minimela.com for the coming California retreat in Santa Cruz later this year. US students stay tuned for the announcement. Also today for those watching for Bodhinatha's recent...
Thai Pusam Abhishekam
January 22, 2011Vel Murugaa! Here at the Aadheenam, we honored our beloved Lord Muruga during Thai Pusam with a powerful and piercing abhishekam in Kadavul Hindu Temple. With Satguru Bodhinatha, the mathavasi, and all sincere, mindful devotees present, it made for a special moment shared by all. Pal abhishegam - the offering...
Sun One - New Phase Begins
January 21, 2011Bodhinatha is looking bright today as he gives his Sun one Discourse on the Importance of the Agamas. Sun One Homa. Please see the right side bar as we have updated the upadesha to a more recent one with audio and transcript. Sun rise over Iraivan temple
Martin Luther King Day Team
January 21, 2011Some better photos arrived from the Martin Luther King Day team representing the Hindu group of the Interfaith Round Table of Kauai that organizes this event each year. Kulapati Vel Alahan spoke on ahimsa and the relationship between Gandhi and Martin Luther King and sharing Gurudeva's message that non-violence starts...
Tour Day
January 21, 2011Stepping onto sacred ground at Kauai's Hindu Monastery during the public tour day each phase is becoming a "must see" for many island visitors. Vel Alahan is helping out today with the tour and shows the guests the white, red and black granite portions of the temple. A real treasure...
Siva as the Revealer
January 21, 2011Amsterdam artist Pieter Veltevrede sent the fifth of the Sadasiva series of canvases yesterday. Here is Palaniswami's note responding to Pieter's request for a reaction: Aloha, Pieter! Isana has a dimensionality that I love, sitting there in space-akasha. You have so poetically captured the profound insight about microcosm and macrocosm, the there...