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| Jai Shree Krishna!!! | October 2005 Newsletter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Krishan Janmasthmi was Lord Krishna’s birthday which we celebrated at midnight on Sat.3rd Sept ‘05.with great enthusiasm. As usual a lot of devotees came to be part of the pooja, the bhajans and the final prayers celebrating Lord Krishna’s birth. Our special thanks go to Paresh and Chiragi Solanki for dressing up their little son as Lord Krishna. It was a very touching moment indeed. |
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 Punditji doing Aarti of Lord Krishna |
 Krishna with proud parents |
 World Class Vocalist Sanjeev |
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Sanjeev at the Temple: We were privileged to hear a very young classical singer maestro who gave a fantastic recital of bhajans on Sunday 4th Sept.’05. He was particularly pleased that he could perform in front of all the deities, especially on the such an auspicious day as Janmasthmi. Our own young musical masters Reena Kukadia, Charanjit Kaur opened the evening with excellent musical pieces on the Sitar, Tabla and Santoor. |
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GANAPATIBAPA MORIYA! MANGAL MOORTI MORIYA! Before this celebration only a few Hindus from Leeds and Yorkshire had ever uttered these words or taken part in celebrating this most colourful, heart-warming and enjoyable utsav that most Indians take for granted back home. This year we made history by celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi in style, with vigour and with renewed enthusiasm. I now know why this utsav is so eagerly awaited by all. The happiness and the feeling of well-being I saw on everyone’s faces was just amazing. I really feel that Shree Ganeshji has brought very positive energy within all those who took part throughout the five days and especially all of the 280 people who made the journey to Scarborough, on the cold and windy day, for the visarjan. 
Five coaches and five cars came to say goodbye to Ganeshji. As they piled into the two boats
there was a feeling of expectation of something special.The singing and the chanting never died down throughout the day.
The visarjan was done at sea and Ganeshji would sink to the bottom of the sea and would break up and once again become the soil from which he was made, ‘Ashes to ashes, dust to dust’. As they turned back to land there was a feeling of sadness but of satisfaction too that we all had been brought together, chanted together, danced together, laughed together, ate together and prayed together over the five days and as a result we really have grown closer to each other, all because of this little idol of half man half elephant. Shree Ganeshji arrives carried by Narhariji, overseen by Swami Jyotirmayanand Giriji Lok Maniya Tilak, the famous poet and revolutionary of Bharat revived this utsav and brought it to the working class masses in order to unite and galvanize them into action, for achieving freedom from the British Rulers. By creating this opportunity of coming together of people from every cast and creed, he managed to create the feeling of togetherness and love for mother India. I felt the same feeling of togetherness on that day when Gujaratis, Maharastrians, Bengalis, Punjabis and Tamils became united to do Visarjan of Lord Ganesh. A truly historic moment for Leeds and the UK. Long it may continue, that’s my prayer to Lord Ganesh and to all of you. Our special thanks go to Maheshbhai, Rajubhai, Ajitji, Kiran and Ashwinbhai, as well as all the other unnamed volunteers and our two punditjis who worked tirelessly in performing the duties that each one of them took and did it with a big smile on their faces. With your support we can perform wonders. My biggest thanks go to all of the public of Leeds who supported this event and showed such patience and understanding when things got difficult. |
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Programmes For October, November & December 2005. |
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Sunday 2nd October 2005 Understanding Hinduism Lecture – by Dr.Minesh Bhaiwala A stimulating talk on the attainment of success through POSITIVE THOUGHTS. Monday 3rd October 2005 Sarva Pitru Shradh. |
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Tuesday 4th - Wednesday 5th October 2005 - Navratri Programme Sharad Navratri Prarambh - 12th October from 7.30 to 10.30pm and til 11.30 at the weekend. Dashera will be on the 12th October 2005 Sharad Purnima Garba on Sunday 16th October 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Saturday 8th October 2005 Mataji’s Jaagran will be performed with bhajan-kirtan by the members of the Punjabi Sabha from 8pm till 4am.Prashad/bhojan will be served from 7pm onwards. Everyone is most cordially invited to come and take part. Mataji’s Bhet will be sung at Navratri every night before Aarti. |
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Monday 10th October 2005 Durga Asthmi – Chandi Yagna will be performed at 10am followed by Dhwaja Rohan on top of Ambamataji’s sikhar. Kanya Poojan and Bhojan Prashad will also be served on this day. |
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Thursday 20th October 2005 Karwa Choth Pooja will be performed from 4pm to 6pm. Please make every effort to come on time. |
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Sunday 30th October 2005 Dhan Teras - Dhan pooja will be conducted at 7.30pm after the Aarti. Please bring your own Dhan for the pooja. |
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Tuesday 1st November 2005 Deepawali – CHOPDA POOJAN will take place from 6pm & 6.30pm. – We aim to have at least 51 Yajmaans to do this most auspicious pooja which will be conducted from 5 to 7pm. Please bring a thali, wadki (steel bowl), spoon,chopda (your business account book), Laxmiji or Gauv(Cow) moorti, old money or piece of gold coin if possible.There is no set daxina set for the pooja. FIREWORKS display will be lit at 7.30pm. after the pooja. Please make every effort to be there on time or you’ll miss it. |
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Wednesday 2nd November 2005 AANAKUT and NEW YEAR’S DAY - 56 varieties of prashad will be made by our devotees from the community. Please book your name with our punditjis if you wish to make one of the items for prashad. |
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Sunday 6th November Understanding Hinduism Lecture - Dr.Naval Prinja – Mandukh Upinshad - The FROG |
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Tuesday 8th November Shree Jalaram Jayanti – will be celebrated at the mandir with Jalaram Bhajan-Kirtan from 6 to 9pm, followed by prashad. |
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Sunday 13th November 2005 This year Shree Tulsi Vivah will be performed. The honour of the bride’s father going to Shree Bhikhubhai.M.Patel. We are still requiring one more yajmaan to be the recieveing party. Please contact punditji or any member of the committee if you wish to take the honour. |
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Sunday 11th December 2005 Geeta Jayanti – Shrimad Bhagwat Geeta will be recited from 2 to 5 pm. Our plans for the nine days of Navratri are to use this opportunity to encourage, enlighten and entertain our members and their families with. We request everyone to make the effort to take pride in wearing only Traditional Indian Dresses during ALL NINE DAYS and during Poonamna Garba as well. |
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Entrance fees - Adults £1. Child/OAP 50p. 1) Competitions for Best singers, male and female U16/U25/U35 and over 35 year olds. Prizes will be give for each category, so start practicing. 2) Competition for Best decorated Aarti. This time we are aiming for 108 Aartis during Aatham (8th. Day ). Please do book your entry with Smt. Induben Patel. A minimum donation of £5.25 is expected for each aarti. 3) Competition for Best dressed male and females U12/U19/U25/U35 and over 35 will be held on alternate days. These will be announced during the nine days. 4) Competition for Best players of Garba and Raas will also be held for males and females U12 /U19 /25 / U35 and over 35 |
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DURGA PUJA programmes at the Temple |
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Young Hindu Achievement Day – Sunday 18th December 2005 (Venue to be decided) For the first time ever Hindu Charitable Trust will be honouring and acknowledging all the hard-working youngsters of our Leeds Hindu community who achieved good results for GCSE A’level and Degrees in the year 2004-05. Bhavna Parmar will be collecting information regarding our young people during the Navratri festival and we sincerely hope that you will put forward names of your family members who have made us all very proud with their hard work. |
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Hindu Temple Youth Club Hindu Temple Youth Club recruitment will also be taking place during the ten days. Chandar Prashar, Reena Sonigra and Amit Mistry will be encouraging all the youngsters to join their activities with the help from you the parents. Recruitment for Yoga, Music, Dance and Language Classes will also be taking place at various times during the festivities. PLEASE HELP US TO HELP YOU !Leeds Hindu Census In order to apply for various grants we are often asked for facts and figures relating to the Hindu population of Leeds and all our members. It is very embarrassing when we say that we don’t really know, so we will endeavour to carry out our own simple Census of our members, their families and their needs, during the ten days, so that we can ascertain what is the population of the children/teenagers/middle aged and old aged. This will help us tremendously in planning for the future needs of our community. There will be designated people sitting with computers to take down the relevant information and we request that all of us should sit with them and give the basic information to create the much needed database. Our promise is that we will protect all the information with utmost confidentiality and only use it for the purpose of promoting the various activities within our community. This will be completely voluntary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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