[Histemple] Samarpan Oct-Nov edition

Tue Oct 29 15:46:17 MDT 2013

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*Oct-Nov 2013*

	Dear Community Members, I would like to thank the community for the 
overwhelming support at the Puja on the New Temple Land in September. It 
was great to see several new faces among the familiar ones. The event 
was very successful in bringing the community together to celebrate and 
commemorate new beginnings on the New Land. This gives the board hope 
and encouragement toward building a new Temple. Can we do it? Yes, we 
can. We did it before and I am sure we can accomplish it again. However 
we need the continued support of the community for us to realize our 
Goal of a New Temple. Last week, we as a community celebrated 
Navarathri. This was a 9-day celebration at the Temple with Pujas held 
each day for a special Devi, along with celebrating Golu, the festival 
of dolls. The Pujas were hosted by several groups from the community 
including children from the Hindi Paathshala, Bala Gokulam and 
Balavikas. These events at the Temple serve not only our religious needs 
but also educate our Youth in our cultures and bring the community 
together on a social level. I am looking for more involvement of the 
community in several of the future events. Wishing you all a Very Happy 
Diwali from the Board of Directors and Board of Trustees, Hindu Samaj 
Temple. Sincerely, Santhi Subramaniam. 	

*Editor’s Note *By /Rajani Sohni/

Greetings to all our readers!

We are back after the break for summer with a new issue of /Samarpan/.  
A lot has happened over the past two months!  With the start of the 
school year, we celebrated Ganesh Chaturthi in a grand way at our future 
Temple location, marking the beginning of the festival season for Hindus 
the world over.  Three weeks after the conclusion of Ganesh Chaturthi 
celebrations, came the Navratri/Dassera festival.  This year, many 
events took place concurrently to celebrate Navratri, in our Temple as 
well as in the community at large.  Navratri is a festival of nine 
nights dedicated to Goddess Shakti, the feminine form of the Divine.  
Each night a different form of the Mother Goddess is worshipped, ending 
with Vijaya Dashami, the triumph of good over evil, on the tenth day.  
Each region in India has a unique way of celebrating Navratri.

Golu is a toy festival celebrated during Navratri 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navratri>in Southern India.  This is an 
exhibition of various dolls and figurines in odd numbered tiers.  I had 
the pleasure of attending at least six privately hosted Golu events in 
the week past.  And not wanting to be left behind, I hosted a Durga Puja 
event at my home last Sunday for the first time ever! It took a lot of 
planning, help and encouragement from my friends, and I’m happy to 
report that it went very well.  And I’m likely to repeat this event 
again next year!  To add a special touch to this day, I had organized a 
/mehndi/event. Guests enjoyed getting beautiful /mehndi/designs on their 
palms.

Next up are the Diwali celebrations.  I am planning to attend all three 
major events in town, two in the community and, of course, the Puja at 
the Temple on the day of Diwali, which is on November 2^nd .

On that note, the /Samarpan/team wishes all our readers a Very Happy 
Diwali!

Best Wishes from the /Samarpan/Editorial Team.

/Rajani Sohni/

/Nisha Kurup/

/Anantha Vijay Raghavan Santhanam/

/Unni krishnan/

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