Today at Kauai Aadheenam

Kauai Chocolate Tour

Two days back monks and members were invited by the team at Lydgate Farm to take a private afternoon tour, complete with tasting of chocolates of various varieties and their own home-made popsicles. We take you with us on the tour which was a master class in chocolate making and a delightful connection with our friends and neighbors who run the farm. The Lydgates have a long history on the island, and Will is continuing their leadership in the community, creating an awesome model for ag production and tours. Thank you, Will, and to Ryan and Kailey too.

In the short video below, Will Lydgate gives an introduction to the farm and his vision.

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Wisdom’s Path, Part Two

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly upadesha in Kadavul Temple at Kauai’s Hindu Monastery in Hawaii. It is part of a series of talks elaborating on the inspired teachings of Satguru Śivaya Subramuniyaswami as found in his book Merging With Śiva.

“Observation is the first faculty to appear in the awakening of the superconscious regions. Observation, when perceptively performed, is cultivated by abstinence from excessive talk. Talk dissipates the energies of the aura and of the vital body of man. A mystic generally does not talk very much, for his intuition works through reason, but does not use the processes of reason. Any intuitive breakthrough will be quite reasonable, but it does not use the processes of reason. Reason takes time. Superconsciousness acts in the now. All superconscious knowing comes in a flash, out of the nowhere. Intuition is more direct than reason, and far more accurate. Therefore, the mystic does not ask many questions or enter into lengthy conversations.”

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A Brand New Website!


Jai Ganesha!

On the most auspicious day of Vinayagar Chaturthi, we launched our brand new website for Kauai’s Hindu Monastery. It’s now live for the world and includes a more intuitive navigation, a comprehensive search, an attractive design, as easy access to our many books, publications and guru upadeshas, and all the many important pages for site visitors such as information about the monastery, our temples and Hinduism overall. As you can see this post is on this new website. There are still, however, several functionalities that need need to be completed, such as the Taka archives and access to our collections of bhajan and Sanskrit audio.

For the past few years Tillainathaswami has been gradually working to build the website bit by bit. Over the past few months, along with the help of Kodiswara, Swami has been working actively to complete the website and bring it to the world. After this long-awaited release, the monastics here, as well an many people who have written in about, are all really enjoying the website’s new look and feel and the ease of access to content. As of now the website’s base structure has been completed and as time goes by we will support it and implement innovations and upgrades. Don’t forget to check out all the sub-menus and explore the website even deeper. FYI: for the time being Taka will be only available from as far back as Guru Purnima 2024 up to the current day. We are still working to implement the Taka archives on the website. Hope everyone enjoys this brand new digital landscape! Jai Ganesha!

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Images of September Chitra Puja & Ganesha Chaturthi

We were blessed to have back-to-back special events– Gurudeva Chitra puja in the afternoon, and Ganesha Chaturthi abhishekam the next morning. Here are still photos from both.

Here are some words from Gurudeva on Lord Ganesha

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September Malaysia Travels Part Three

Our monks are currently still in Malaysia on a mission attend youth workshops, bringing our Path To Siva lessons to Malaysian teenagers and students. Here are the things they have mentioned to us about their trip:

“Swami and I left the hotel at 6:30 am. Today’s workshop was held at the Sri Subramuniya Swami temple in Kajang, 53 students attended. One of the instrumental organizers of today’s event is Padma a Bramachari, who is also a Master Course student. He was the MC for this event. He distributed fliers for the event, reached out to friends and other students, then spoke to each individual student and their parents to invite the students to today’s event.

“Swami followed the same pattern as last Path to Siva workshop. This group of students was a little more shy when asking questions. They slowly warmed up, and the questions started to flow.

“The workshop went quite well. Just like the first workshop, Vasana Daha Tantra was a big hit that every youth felt created a change in their life. One young man age 19 approached Swami wanting to become a monk. He will be emailing the monastery soon to inquire more about monastic life.

“It was another inspiring day.”

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