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Kauai Aadheenam, also known as Kauai’s Hindu Monastery, is a traditional South-Indian style monastery-temple complex on the tropical Garden Island of Kauai in the Hawaiian chain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The head of the monastery, called the Guru Mahasannidhanam, is Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami.

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Kauai Aadheenam

A Sacred Temple Sanctuary

Center of Saiva Siddhanta Hinduism in the West.  

Home to a 2000 year-old guru lineage.

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Learn More

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Visit

Attend Worship

You must have a reservation to enter for our daily 9am Siva puja in Kadavul Temple—our Nataraja temple, established in 1973.

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Make a free Reservation

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Spiritual Life

Become a Monk

Contact us to request consideration for monastic life

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Learn More

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Spiritual Life

Become a Student

For those wishing to begin non-committal study of the teachings of our lineage, and for those who wish to progress further through eventual spiritual initiations.

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Start Learning

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Basics

What Is Hinduism?

For many decades our monks have worked tirelessly to create material to help Hindus and non-Hindus alike to better understand the many ancient and diverse facets of the Hindu religion

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View Our Publications

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### Visiting Hours

Right Now We Are: Closed

• Open Everyday  

• 9am to 12pm  

• Open most days of the year  

• Front grounds do not require a temple reservation

[Visitor Guide](https://kauaishindumonastery.com/visit/)

### Attend Our Temple Services

You must make a free reservation to attend worship in Kadavul Hindu Temple  

Iraivan Temple is currently **not** open to the public. However, on some days a tour is given around 10:45am. Ask a host.

[Make a Reservation](/reservations/)

### About this Hindu Monastery

Kauai Aadheenam is home to a traditional Saivite Hindu monastic order. If you plan to visit please be respectful that this is a place of peaceful religious practice.

[Learn More](https://kauaishindumonastery.com/monastery/)

##### [Read Our Blog](/taka)

Today at Kauai Aadheenam

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At Satguru’s behest, two web pages have seen upgrades over the last few months. On the new “Shum Language of Meditation” page, we present the seven dimensions, the full alphabet and a overview of how words are formed, calligraphy, proportions of images and rules for connecting images. The slideshow above displays the short word kasi and then expands to finally become iinsimliamkasi. Subsequent slides show all the rules for connecting images \[…\]

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Over the last few days, Sivanadaiyar Kodiswara has been studying drone piloting so that he can help with the aerial surveying and photography of the aadheenam grounds and temples. Today was an initial flight with instructions for him to capture several updated survey photos. As you can see in the photos, he did a wonderful job and even captured a few unexpected angles that turned out great! Aum.

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Jai Ganesha! On March 9th, the Siddhidata Kulam’s new office was officially inaugurated. A small puja to bless the new office was performed by Mayilnathaswami, with Satguru and the monks attending. Later, after the puja, Yoginathaswami gave a tour of the office, explaining the space and how it would be utilized. It has been a 26 year goal for Siddhidata Kulam to eventually create this new office and machine-shop, reflecting the \[…\]

A Search for the Innermost Divine Self

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Self-realization in three stages. Realizing oneself as the Soul, realizing oneself as Satchidananda—Omnipresent Consciousness—and realizing oneself as the Source, the Sustainer of that Omnipresent Consciousness, the Self that transcends time, form and space. Parasiva.

[The Ultimate Goal](/highest-goal)

Balanced by Temple Worship

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A temple is a meeting place of our physical plane and the invisible worlds of the Gods and angelic beings, or devas. The spiritual vibration is kept strong through the monks’ continual worship.

[Visit Our Temples](https://kauaishindumonastery.com/kadavul-hindu-temple/)

Fueled by Kundalini Yoga

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Meditation can be sustained only if one lives a wholesome life, free from emotional entanglements and _adharmic_ deeds. Intensive, consistent meditation dispels the antagonistic, selfish, instinctive forces of the mind and converts those channels of energy into uplifted creative action.

[Learn to Meditate](/how-to-meditate/)

Charted by Monistic Theism

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Hinduism, also known as the Sanatana Dharma, or “Eternal Way,” is our planet’s original and oldest living religion, with over one billion adherents.

[Discover the Philosophy](/our-core-beliefs/)

Illumined by a Potent  

Guru-Shishya System

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Kauai Aadheenam is the spiritual home and theological seminary for a small band of monks, all under vows, from many nations. They oversee an international religious mission while living a strict lifestyle of daily religious worship, meditation, yoga and service. 

[Meet Our Monks](/meet-the-monks/)

Guided by Soul-Stirring Scriptures

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Visit our Saivite Scriptures page, which contains timeless wisdom from the oldest living spiritual tradition on Earth. It includes content from the Vedas, Saiva Agamas, writings from saints, and more.

[Read Our Scriptures](/saivite-scriptures/)

Awakened by Sadhana and Tapas

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[Become a Student](/become-a-student/)

_Before dying, Hindus diligently fulfill obligations, make amends and resolve differences by forgiving themselves and others, lest unresolved karmas bear fruit in future births._

– Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)

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