Worshipping Narmada Lingam
July 24, 2009httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_evQmVtXtE
Sivacharya Blesses the Hinduism Today Team
July 24, 2009This morning Sundaramurti Sivam Sivacharya came to the Ganapati Kulam morning meeting. He praises the team for all their work, and bring pranams from his guru Sri Sri Ravi Sankar and offers Paramacharya Palaniswami a shawl. Then he sings the "Mandiram Avadu neeru...." song while putting vibhuti on the foreheads...
Sun One Begins New Phase
July 23, 2009Today after the homa, Bodhinatha continued with his talk on the mission of Hinduism Today magazine as originally outlined by Gurudeva. Senthilnathaswami performs today's rites. Many prayers await their turn to ascend to the heaven worlds on the wings of the fire. Monks are rapt in attention and absorbed in...
Honored Guest from India Arrives
July 23, 2009Prominent priest Sri. A. S. Sundaramurthy Sivam Sivacharya from Bangalore Veda Agama Samskrutha Maha Patashala arrived in Kauai today for a visit. He is staying in the guest house with Brahmachari Vel Mahalingam. Sri. A. S. Sundaramurthy Sivam is the principle of the school which is also known simple as...
Raining at the Monastery Today
July 23, 2009It is raining abundantly at the monastery, much to the surprise of our tour day visitors. Joe Russell, our monastery IT consultant who is visiting from San Francisco, took this video with his iPhone 3G S, showing the river in spate. The Nani Ka`ua waterfall has almost completely disappeared under...
Tour Day July 23, 2009
July 23, 2009Today's tour brought around fifty interested souls to experience the darshan (sight) of Siva manifesting throughout the temple grounds. A lovely tree fern frond unfolding near the Banyan Mandapam. Guests slowly wander through the garden learning about Hinduism and feeling the palatable presence of the Divine. A banana tree with...
Teaching the Youth to Care for the Elderly
July 23, 2009In Saiva Dharma Sastras, Gurudeva says: Outreach service consists of serving Hindus outside the immediate family, such as "hospital visitation, taking flowers to and consoling Hindus who are ill, reading scriptures to the elderly or handicapped". As part of the summer camp teaching programs, Rishi Thondunathan takes the students to...
Chidambaram Sthapati Returns to India
July 20, 2009Today we honored Chidambaram Sthapati who has completed his stay at Kauai Aadheenam and is returning to India the day after tomorrow. He is a beautiful soul and has been working on the Iraivan temple for seventeen years. Without him, the temple would not exist. In India he was the...