Enjoying Sadhu Paksha
December 9, 2021Aum Sivaya, Today our monks end their lunar phase and enter into two days of retreat. They are currently in the middle of observing two weeks of Sadhu Paksha. This is our time between seasonal changes when our monks switch up their morning sadhana routine. Many of them walk the...
Building a New Kind of Beehive!
December 8, 2021Earlier this year we began construction on a prototype for a kind of beehive known as a horizontal or "topbar" hive. While it's new for us, this is actually a classic style of hive that has long been common throughout much of Eastern Europe and Serbia. Today, it is becoming...
Living with Siva in Russian
December 7, 2021The amazingly gifted and motivated team in Moscow (who also publish Hinduism Today in Russian) has done it again. In the past three years they have put Dancing with Siva and Merging with Siva into their language, and this week they added Living with Siva, thus completing the trilogy. Not...
Tirukural - Chapter 65
December 6, 2021Chapter 65: Eloquence Verse 643A man is giving an eloquent discourse in the public plaza. Friends and citizens have gathered to enjoy his speech, for he is known as an eloquent lecturer. Even his enemies, standing behind the curtain, want to know what he has to say. TAKA Presents the...
Finding God in a Cave
December 5, 2021This is a story taken from The Guru Chronicles, the official history of our lineage. It is of Gurudeva's days in Sri Lanka prior to his meeting Yogaswami. It is a long story, but worthy of a read when you find a quiet 20 minutes, a story full of holy...
Satguru's Yoga Sutras
December 2, 2021As many know, a book is being prepared for next year, being Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami's commentary on Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. Today we share a canvas from Kerala, wherein Suresh Muttukulam depicts the siddhis, the powers that arise when yogas are mastered. The text speaks of some 25, but here we...
Repainting Murtis Outside Kadavul
December 1, 2021For many years, visitors to Kadavul Temple have been greeted by a fantastically carved wooden Ganesha and Muruga on either side of the temple's main entrance. Over the years of sun and rain, the paint on both carvings had begun to fade. To remedy the situation we recently hired two...
November 2021 Chitra Puja
November 30, 2021This morning the mathavasis observed their monthly padapuja to Sivaya Subramuniyaswami. Satguru and the monks gathered in Kadavul temple and Sannyasin Tillainathaswami and Nirvani Tejadevanatha performed the abhishekam. "You don't discipline yourself to attain the feeling of love. You attain the feeling of love and then you want to discipline...