Kauai

There was a big typhoon that came, came up to a point and suddenly turned towards Kauai. Now what was the reason for that, to go and hit Kauai? In Kauai there is a Swayambu of Shiva, is a fact. People are making money out of it, quite a lot of money and deceiving people. There's big business going on in the name of Shiva. So Kauai was hit, not Hawaii so much as Kauai, and it turned suddenly, no one can understand that.

So all these thundering things that are coming from nature, anything, whether it is earthquake or it is landslide or it could be floods or it could be typhoon, anything is the work of this Vishnumaya or we can say all natural catastrophes are brought about by this Vishnumaya. She has this power to do it. This is the only way they can shock people, but despite all that shocking, people have to relate these disasters so their mistakes that they have committed and have nicely kept it here, not facing it.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Shri Vishnumaya Puja, USA, 1992 (1992-0920)

Kauai (known as Taua in the ancient Kauai dialect)  is the oldest of the main Hawaiian islands. With an area of 562 square miles, it is the fourth largest of the main islands in the Hawaiian archipelago. Here is the main monastery of the Saiva Siddhanta Church and Himalayan Academy Publications, publishers of Hinduism Today.

photo of the Shiva Swyambhu: Scot Nelson, Hawaii