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{{Short description|Hindu leader from the United States}}
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{{Infobox religious biography
| name = Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
| image = Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (Gurudeva).jpg
| caption = Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
| birth_name = Robert Hansen
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|1|5|df=y}}|
| birth_place = [[Oakland]], [[California]], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2001|11|12|1927|1|5|df=y}}|
| death_place = [[Kapaa]], [[Hawaii]], U.S.
| religion = [[Hinduism]]
| sect = [[Shaivism]]
| initiator = Jnanaguru Yogaswami
| initiation_place = Jaffna, Ceylon
| initiated = [[Sannyasa]]
| initiation_date = 1949
| predecessor = Jnanaguru Yogaswami
| successor = [[Bodhinatha Veylanswami]]
| subsect = [[Shaiva Siddhanta]] [[Nath]] ([[Nandinatha Sampradaya]])
| guru = [[Yogaswami|Jnanaguru Yogaswami]]
}}
{{Hindu philosophy}} 
'''Sivaya Subramuniyaswami''' (born '''Robert Hansen'''; January 5, 1927 – November 12, 2001) was an American Hindu religious leader known as [[Guru]]deva by his followers. Subramuniyaswami was born in [[Oakland, California]] and adopted [[Hinduism]] as a young man. He was the 162nd head of the self claimed [[Nandinatha Sampradaya]]'s Kailasa Parampara and Guru at [[Saiva Siddhanta Church#Kauai Hindu Monastery|Kauai's Hindu Monastery]] which is a {{convert|382|acre|adj=on}} temple-monastery complex on [[Hawaii]]'s Garden Island.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.himalayanacademy.com/monastery/lineage-philosophy/gurudeva/|title=Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami|website=Himalayanacademy}} [[Wikipedia:Independent sources|(Source closely affiliated with the subject)]]</ref>

In 1947, at the age of 20, he journeyed to [[India]] and [[Sri Lanka]] and in 1949, was initiated into [[sannyasa]]<ref>{{Cite book|author=The Swamis of Kauai's Hindu Monastery |year=2011 |chapter=Chapter Twenty: Finding God in a Cave |title=The Guru Chronicles: The Making of the First American Satguru |location=[[Kapaa, Hawaii|Kapaʻa, Kauai, Hawaii]] |publisher=Himalayan Academy |isbn=978-1-934145-39-5 |url=https://www.himalayanacademy.com/media/books/the-guru-chronicles/web/35_guru05_02.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191206233622/https://www.himalayanacademy.com/media/books/the-guru-chronicles/web/35_guru05_02.html |archive-date=December 6, 2019 |url-status=live }} [[Wikipedia:Independent sources|(Source closely affiliated with the subject)]]</ref> by the renowned siddha yogi and worshiper of [[Shiva|Lord Shiva]], [[Yogaswami|Jnanaguru Yogaswami]] of [[Jaffna]], Sri Lanka who was regarded as one of the 20th century's remarkable mystics. In the 1970s he established a [[Hindu]] monastery in [[Kauai]], [[Hawaii]] and founded the magazine ''[[Hinduism Today]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailynews.lk/2004/04/01/fea04.html |title=Siva Yogaswami, the Sage and mystic of Sri Lanka |author=Dr. Vimala Krishnapillai|publisher=[[Daily News (Sri Lanka)]]|date=1 April 2004 |access-date=January 16, 2013}}</ref> In 1985, he created the festival of '''Pancha Ganapati''' as a Hindu alternative to December holidays like Christmas.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rudolph |first=Ephraim |date=December 7, 2015 |title=3 International December Holidays You May Not Know About |publisher=The International Center (INTLCTR) |location=Indianapolis, Indiana |url=https://www.internationalcenter.org/2015/12/07/december-holidays/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208061806/https://www.internationalcenter.org/2015/12/07/december-holidays/ |archive-date=December 8, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|date=2010 |title=Pancha Ganapati:The Family Festival of Giving |magazine=Hinduism Today |publisher=Himalayan Academy |url=http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=5071 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121128135654/http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=5071 |archive-date=November 28, 2012 |url-status=live }} [[Wikipedia:Independent sources|(Source closely affiliated with the subject)]]</ref> He was one of [[Shaivism]]'s [[Guru]]s, the founder and leader of the [[Saiva Siddhanta Church]].

He is part of the guru [[parampara|lineage]] of the Sri Lankan [[Alaveddy]] Hindus. His various institutions form a Jaffna-Tamil-based organization which has branched out from his Sri Subramuniya Ashram in Alaveddy to meet the needs of the growing Hindu diaspora of this century. He also established a {{convert|7|acre|adj=on|spell=in}} monastery in Mauritius, which includes a public Spiritual Park called "Spiritual Park- Pointe de Lascars". He oversaw more than 50 independent temples worldwide.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.himalayanacademy.com/monastery/lineage-philosophy/gurudeva|title=Lineage |website=Himalayanacademy}} [[Wikipedia:Independent sources|(Source closely affiliated with the subject)]]</ref>

His influence reflected the reach of his publications, including the approximately 30 books he wrote. Subramuniyaswami was described by [[Klaus Klostermaier]] as "the single-most advocate of Hinduism outside India".<ref>{{cite book|last=Klostermaier|first=Klaus K. |author-link=Klaus K. Klostermaier|title=A Survey of Hinduism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E_6-JbUiHB4C&q=Subramuniyaswami|edition=3rd|year=2007|publisher=[[SUNY Press]]|isbn=9780791470824|page=231|quote=Sivaya Subramuniyaswami ... did much to propagate a kind of reformed Saivism through his books. As founder-editor of ''Hinduism Today,'' an illustrated monthly, he became the single-most advocate of Hinduism outside India.}}</ref> The book ''Religious Leaders of America'' explained Subramuniyaswami's role as "a pillar of orthodox Hinduism."<ref name="nyt_obituary">{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9802E2D9103BF93AA25752C1A9679C8B63#|title=Satguru Subramuniyaswami, Hindu Spiritual Leader, 74|author=Douglas Martin|date=19 November 2001 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=January 8, 2013}}</ref>

==Biography==

=== Youth in California (1927–1946) ===
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami was born in [[Oakland, California]] on January 5, 1927 as Robert Hansen. He is quoted as relating how, at the age of six, "the totality of the power of the [[eternity]] of the moment began to become stronger and stronger within me from that time onward."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.himalayanacademy.com/view/the-guru-chronicles | title=Himalayan Academy Publications - the Guru Chronicles }}</ref>{{third-party inline|reason=Source closely affiliated with the subject|date=April 2023}}<ref name=autogenerated1>{{Cite magazine|title=The Making of a Master |magazine=Hinduism Today |publisher=Himalayan Academy |year=2002 |issue=April/May/June |url=https://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3875 }}</ref>{{third-party inline|reason=Source closely affiliated with the subject|date=April 2023}} He was most inspired by the life of [[Swami Vivekananda]] and his four small volumes: ''[[Raja Yoga (book)|Raja Yoga]]'', ''Bhakti Yoga'', ''[[Karma Yoga (book)|Karma Yoga]]'' and ''[[Inspired Talks]]'', and most particularly by Swami Vivekananda's poem, "The Song of the [[Sannyasin]]."

Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's training in classical Eastern and Western dance and in the disciplines of [[yoga]] developed him into a dancer. He joined the [[San Francisco Ballet]] Company, becoming their [[danseur]] by the age of nineteen.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Neubert |first=F |date=2018 |title=Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami |doi=10.1163/2212-5019_BEH_COM_9000000266 |url=https://doi.org/10.1163/2212-5019_BEH_COM_9000000266 |archive-url=}}</ref> At twenty years of age, he took the first ship to leave for [[India]] after [[World War II]]. He celebrated his twenty-first birthday just days before going ashore and walking through the grand [[Gateway to India]] in [[Mumbai]].

===Visit to Sri Lanka (1947–1949)===
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami spent almost three years on the island of [[Ceylon]], now called [[Sri Lanka]]. Before meeting his guru, he studied with his fourth "catalyst" for a year and a half. Sivaya Subramuniyaswami just wanted to meditate, but his teacher made him work to help village people with reconstructing rural areas. Sivaya Subramuniyaswami visited and lived in many Buddhist temples in Sri Lanka. He was received by the monks there and saw how they lived and dressed. This experience influenced in a very strict way the [[monastic]] protocols that he later put into action in his own [[monastic order]].

In the caves of Jalani, Kurugala Balandha, Sri Lanka, he fasted and meditated until he experienced what he felt to be [[moksha|enlightenment]]. Sivaya Subramuniyaswami relates his feelings while returning to [[Colombo]], Sri Lanka: "Returning back to the city, nothing looked the same anymore. I was in another dimension. Everything was different. I had lost something: the desire for the realization of the Self. I felt complete. I felt alone."<ref name=autogenerated1 />

[[File:Gurudeva after Sri Lanka.jpg|upright|thumb|right|Gurudeva in 1949, right after his return from [[Sri Lanka]]]]

Back in Colombo, Sivaya Subramuniyaswami met his final teacher before meeting his guru. One day, his teacher arranged a meeting between Sivaya Subramuniyaswami and his long-awaited [[satguru]], Sage [[Yogaswami]]. After a deep and inner meeting, Yogaswami gave him the name Subramuniya, an epithet of [[Kartikeya|Sri Murugan]]. ''Subra'' means 'the light that emanates out from the central source'; ''muni'' means a silent teacher, and ''ya'' means 'restraint'.'' Subramuniya'' means a self-restrained soul who remains silent or speaks out from [[Intuition (knowledge)|intuition]]. After a few visits, Jnanaguru Yogaswami initiated Subramuniya into [[sannyasa]] and ordained him into his lineage with a slap on the back giving the following instructions: "This sound will be heard in America! Now go 'round the world and roar like a lion. You will build palaces (temples) and feed thousands."<ref>''Merging with Siva'' {{ISBN|0-945497-95-4}}, page 909</ref><ref name=":0" /> This event was witnesses by several Jaffna area devotees, notably a local magistrate named Thiru S. Subramaniam.

Yogaswami continued to communicate with Sivaya Subramuniyaswami through Kandiah Chettiar until his death in 1964. In the line of successorship, Subramuniya was considered the 162nd ''Jagadacharya'' of the ''Nandinatha Sampradaya's Kailasa Parampara''.

===San Francisco (1949–1970)===
In late 1949 Subramuniya sailed back to America and embarked on seven years of ardent, solitary [[yoga]] and [[meditation]] In 1956, Sivaya Subramuniyaswami said, he had a tremendous spiritual experience in [[Denver]], Colorado, where "the [[soul]] body would finally fully inhabit the physical body".<ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref>{{cite web
 | url = https://www.hinduismtoday.com/magazine/april-may-june-2002/2002-04-the-making-of-a-master/
 | title = The Making of a Master
 | last =
 | first =
 | date = 1 April 2020
 | website = Hinduism Today
 | access-date = 23 September 2021
 | quote = }}</ref> The following year, in [[San Francisco]], Subramuniya founded what is now Himalayan Academy and opened America's first Hindu temple at 3575 Sacramento Street, near [[Presidio Park]]. In [[Switzerland]], 1968, he wrote of Shum, a mystical language of meditation that names and maps inner areas of [[consciousness]].

[[File:Kadavul Temple.jpg|thumb|left|[[Kadavul Temple]] at [[Kauai's Hindu Monastery]]]]

===Subramuniya in the 1950s and 1960s===
The biographies of Subramuniya show a time of transition between 1950 and 1957. Subramuniya states that he was ordered not to teach until he turned thirty in January 1957. He spent some of these seven years traveling around the United States, teaching hatha yoga classes and exploring various non-traditional religions, such as [[Christian Science]], [[Theosophy]], and the science of the mind, the closest Western religions to Hindu thought.<ref name="home-grown">{{Cite book|last=Mann |first=Richard D. |year=2013 |chapter=Life in Progress: The Biographies of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami |editor-last1=Gleig |editor-first1=Ann |editor-last2=Williamson |editor-first2=Lola |title=Homegrown Gurus: From Hinduism in America to American Hinduism |location=Albany, New York |publisher=State University of New York |pages=115-139, [https://books.google.com/books?id=GHxhuLq9-O8C&pg=PA123&lpg=PA123 pages 123-125] |isbn=978-1-4384-4791-9}}</ref> His shift to a teaching ministry as Master Subramuniya in 1957 blends elements of these religious movements with Hindu yogic and Vedanta teachings in a language oriented toward his followers at the time, who were Westerners.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lucas |first=Phillip Charles |year=1995 |title=The Odyssey of a New Religion: The Holy Order of MANS from new age to orthodoxy |location=Bloomington, Indiana |publisher=Indiana University Press |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=IijJRg2MrcIC&pg=PA21 21] |isbn=978-0-253-33612-5 }}</ref>
Subramuniya in the 1950s and 1960s might be placed in an American metaphysical lineage that can be traced from 19th century Theosophy to the New Age Movement in the late 1970s.

Accordingly, Subramuniya's early publications, ''The Self-God'' (1959), ''Cognizantibility'' (1958), ''Gems of Cognition'' (1958) and ''Clear White Light'' (1968) do not mention Saiva Siddhanta, Hinduism, Shiva, his guru or lineage or his avocation of temple worship so prominently found in his later works. All of Subramuniya's early works stress meditation, an advaita based monism and yoga.

Subramuniya also experimented with combining aspects of Hinduism with Christianity in another context. He opened two centers in San Francisco in 1957: one Hindu, the Subramuniya Yoga Order, and the other a Hindu/Christian hybrid, the Christian Yoga Church.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rawlinson |first=Andrew |year=1997 |title=The Book of Enlightened Masters: Western Teachers in Eastern Traditions |location=Chicago |publisher=Open Court |page=541 |isbn=978-0-8126-9310-2}}</ref> A typical Sunday worship at the Christian Yoga Church included the singing of Christian hymns, readings from the New Testament and the Bhagavad Gita or Upanishads and a sermon related to Christian or Hindu mysticism. In this context, Master Subramuniya was known as Father Subramuniya.<ref>{{harvnb|Lucas|1995|page=13}}</ref>

===Kauai (1970–2001)===
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami moved his ashram to Kauai in 1970, establishing Kauai Aadheenam, on a riverbank near the foot of an extinct volcano. Also known as Kauai's Hindu Monastery, Kauai Aadheenam is a {{convert|382|acre|adj=on}} temple-monastery complex on Hawaii's Garden Island. In 1979 he published the Holy Orders of Sannyas, defining the ideals, vows and aspirations of Hindu [[monasticism]]. In 1979 he founded the [[Hinduism Today Magazine|Hinduism Today magazine]], and in the early 80s, after his world tours, focused his magazine on uniting all Hindus, regardless of nationality or sect, and inspiring and educating seekers everywhere. In Sri Lanka, Sivaya Subramuniyaswami formally took possession of the main building of his Sri Subramuniya Ashram in Alaveddy, founded in 1949.

[[File:Iraivan Temple Capstone.JPG|thumb|right|Capstone of [[Iraivan Temple]] at Kauai's Hindu Monastery]]

In 1986 Sivaya Subramuniyaswami founded a [[branch]] [[monastery]] in [[Mauritius]] in response to the government's request that he come there "to revive a languishing Hindu faith."<ref name="nyt_obituary" /> In 1991 he produced the Nandinatha Sutras, 365 [[aphorisms]] that outlines the path of virtuous Hindu living. Especially in the early 1990s he campaigned for fair treatment of temple [[priest]]s, particularly that they should receive the same respect enjoyed by the clergy of other religions. In 2000, he translated the first two books of the [[Kural]] into English<ref name="Manavalan_Compendium">{{cite book | last = Manavalan | first = A. A. | title = A Compendium of ''Tirukkural'' Translations in English | publisher = Central Institute of Classical Tamil | volume = 4 vols. | date = 2010 | location = Chennai | language = English | isbn = 978-81-908000-2-0}}</ref> and also published ''How to Become a Hindu'', showing the way for seekers to formally enter the faith, confuting the notion that "You must be born a Hindu to be a Hindu." In November of that year, he launched Hindu Press International (HPI), a free daily news summary for breaking news sent via e-mail and posted on the web. In 2001, he completed the 3,000-page Master Course trilogy of ''Dancing with Siva'', ''Living with Siva'', and ''Merging with Siva'' – volumes of daily lessons on Hindu philosophy, culture and yoga, respectively.

=== Death ===
Learning on October 9, 2001, that he had advanced, metastasized intestinal cancer, confirmed by a host of specialists in three states, all concurring that even the most aggressive treatment regimens would not prove effective, he declined any treatment beyond palliative measures and decided to follow the Indian yogic practice, known as ''[[prayopavesha]]'' in Sanskrit scripture, to abstain from nourishment and take water only from that day on. He died on the 32nd day of his self-declared fast at 11:54 pm on November 12, 2001, surrounded by his twenty-three monastics.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kauai's Hindu Monastery |url=https://www.himalayanacademy.com/monastery/lineage-philosophy/gurudeva |website=Kauai's Hindu Monastery}}</ref>

==Spiritual lineage==
He followed the [[shaivism]] sect ([[Shaiva Siddhanta]]) of Hinduism. He belongs to [[Nandinatha Sampradaya]]'s Kailasa Parampara. Saiva siddhanta is prevalent in South India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/dancingwithsivah00subr_0|title=Dancing with Siva by Satguru Siva Subramuniyaswami|publisher=Himalayan Academy|year=1997|isbn=9780945497974|location=USA|pages=ŚLOKA 152}} [[Wikipedia:Independent sources|(Source closely affiliated with the subject)]]</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/dancingwithsivah00subr_0|title=Dancing with Siva by Satguru Siva Subramuniyaswami|publisher=Himalayan Academy|year=1997|isbn=9780945497974|location=USA|pages=ŚLOKA 151}} [[Wikipedia:Independent sources|(Source closely affiliated with the subject)]]</ref>

'''Spiritual lineage''' : [[Nandi (Hinduism)|Maharishi Nandinath]] → Sundaranandar, [[Siddhar]] who later becomes [[Tirumular]] → → → Kadaitswami → [[Chellapaswami]] → [[Yogaswami|Siva Yogaswami]] → [[Sivaya Subramuniyaswami]] → [[Bodhinatha Veylanswami]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.himalayanacademy.com/monastery/lineage-philosophy/lineage|title=Our Spiritual Lineage, the Kailasa Parampara|last=|first=|date=|website=|access-date=}}</ref>

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== Honors and awards ==
[[File:Gurudeva U Thant.jpg|thumb|right|2000: Gurudeva receiving the [[U Thant Peace Award]] at the [[United Nations]] in New York]]
* 1986 - [[New Delhi]]'s [[Parliament of the World's Religions]] named Sivaya Subramuniyaswami one of five modern-day Jagadacharyas, means world teachers, for his international efforts in promoting [[hinduism]].<ref name="nyt_obituary" /><ref name="Living with Siva">{{cite book|url=http://ebooks.gutenberg.us/himalayanacademy/sacredhinduliterature/lws/lws_table_of_contents.html|title=Living with Siva|last=Subramuniyaswami|first=Sivaya|publisher=E-Gutenberg|year=2002|isbn=0-945497-98-9|location=USA & India}} [[Wikipedia:Independent sources|(Source closely affiliated with the subject)]]</ref> 
* 1988 - [[Oxford]], England: Hindu representative at the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders for Human Survival. Sivaya Subramuniyaswami joined hundreds of religious, political and scientific leaders from all countries to discuss privately, for the first time, the future of human life on this planet.
* 1988 - [[Oxford]] : he represented Hinduism at the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders .<ref name="nyt_obituary" />
* 1990 - [[Moscow]] : he again represented Hinduism at the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders 
* 1992 - [[Rio de Janeiro]] : he again represented Hinduism at the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders
* 1993 - [[Chicago]]: at the centenary [[Parliament of the World's Religions]], Sivaya Subramuniyaswami was elected one of three presidents, along with [[Swami Chidananda Saraswati]] of the [[Rishikesh]]-based [[Divine Life Society]] and Kerala's [[Mata Amritanandamayi]], to represent Hinduism at the Presidents' Assembly, a core group of 25 men and women voicing the needs of world faiths.
* 1995 - [[New Delhi]]'s [[Parliament of the World's Religions]] bestowed on Sivaya Subramuniyaswami the title [[Dharmachakra]] for his remarkable publications.
* 1997 - Sivaya Subramuniyaswami responded to the US President's call for religious opinions on the [[ethics of cloning]] from the Hindu point of view.
* 1997 - Sivaya Subramuniyaswami spearheaded the 125th anniversary of Satguru Yogaswami and his golden icon's diaspora pilgrimage through many of the over 75 Sri Lanka temples and societies around the globe.
* 2000 - On August 25, he received the [[U Thant Peace Award]] (an award created by [[Sri Chinmoy]]) at the United Nations in New York. Prior recipients of this award were the [[Dalai Lama]], [[Nelson Mandela]], [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], [[Pope John Paul II]] and [[Mother Teresa]]. He addressed 1,200 spiritual leaders gathered for the UN Millennium Peace Summit, with the message, “For peace in the world, stop the war in the home.”

== Books ==
Gurudeva was author of more than 30 books offering insights on Hindu [[metaphysics]], [[Saivism]], [[mysticism]], [[yoga]], and [[meditation]]. His works are highly regarded by many [[Contemporary Hindu movements|contemporary Hindu leaders]].<ref>[http://www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/books/dws/dws_reviews.html External reviews of ''Dancing with Siva''] [[Wikipedia:Independent sources|(Source closely affiliated with the subject)]]</ref>

His ''Master Course''<ref>''Dancing with Siva'' {{ISBN|0-945497-97-0}}; ''Living with Siva'' {{ISBN|0-945497-98-9}}; ''Merging with Siva'' {{ISBN|0-945497-95-4}} [[Wikipedia:Independent sources|(Source closely affiliated with the subject)]]</ref> is Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's comprehensive treatise on Shaivism in three books and more than 3,000 pages, composed in what he called "talkanese" - a flowing version of written English that resembles the spoken language and evokes ancient Hindu oral traditions. His ''Master Course'' includes three books : 
* ''Dancing with Siva''
* ''Living with Siva''
* ''Merging with Siva''

Some of his other books:
* ''Yoga's Forgotten Foundation''
* ''Loving Ganesha''
* ''How to Become a Hindu: A Guide for Seekers and Born Hindus''
* Tirukkural: The American English and Modern Tamil Translations of an Ethical Masterpiece
* ''Holy Orders of Sannyas: A Saiva Swami's Diksha and Lifetime Vows of Renunciation''
* ''Weaver's Wisdom: Ancient Precepts for a Perfect Life''
* ''Pancha Ganapati: An alternative for Christmas''

== Four areas of service ==
The four areas of service established by Sivaya Subramuniyaswami and now carried out by his successor, [[Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami]], and monastics, are: [[Saiva Siddhanta Church]], Himalayan Academy, Hindu Heritage Endowment, and the ''[[Hinduism Today]]'' international quarterly magazine.

===Saiva Siddhanta Church===
The mission of the Church is to preserve and promote the [[Saivite|Śaivite]] [[Hindu]] religion. Membership in the Church extends to many countries of the world, including the US, Canada, Mauritius, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Sri Lanka and several European nations

=== Hindu Heritage Endowment ===
Hindu Heritage Endowment is a public service trust founded by Sivaya Subramuniyaswami in 1995.

=== ''Hinduism Today'' ===
''[[Hinduism Today]]'' is an international quarterly magazine founded by Sivaya Subramuniyaswami in 1979. It is a public service of his monastic order, created to strengthen all Hindu traditions by uplifting and informing followers of the [[Hinduism]] everywhere.<ref name=":0" />
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==See also==
{{Portal|India|Sri Lanka|Hinduism}}
* [[Tirukkural translations into English]]
* [[List of translators into English]]
*[[Hinduism in the United States]]

==References==
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