1. No satsanga – Labor day week-end – Sunday September 5, 2010
2. New Bala Vihar Year – Sunday September 12, 2010
Our 2010-2011 Bala Vihar year will start on September 12, 2010. We will resume our two session schedule.
Schedule for Sunday September will be:
Session I 8:50 AM – 10:30 AM Adult satsanga & Bala Vihar Grades PreK – 12
Session II 11:20 AM – 1:00 PM Adult satsanga, CHYK class &
Bala Vihar Grades PreK – 11
Language, Bhajana, Slokathon, Orchestra and Gita chanting classes will start from Sunday September 19.
3. Ganesa Caturthi at Sri Saumyakasi Sivalaya – Saturday Sept 11, 2010
We will celebrate Ganesh Caturthi at Sri Saumyakasi Sivalaya on Saturday September 11 and have special pujas.
The program will be as follows:
9:00 am – 10:15 am Vara Siddivinayaka puja
10:15 am – 10:30 am Darshan and Prasad
Sri Ganesa Astottara-sata-nama Arcana will be performed all day long on request.
The offerings of $21 for Vara Siddivinayaka puja can be made at the contribution desk or information desk at the temple. Please note that you do not have to bring any puja material.
4. Gopi Gitam – a Bala Vihar musical program – Sunday Sept 26, 2010
Chinmaya Mission Bala Vihar children and Yuvakendra (CHYK) are working on a musical program, a fund raiser for extension of Bala Vihar building.
The program will be at Chinmaya Smrti on Sunday September 26 at 5:30 PM. Mark your calendars and reserve your place by getting tickets early.
Visit CHYK table in dining area for the tickets and more information about special sponsorship opportunity.
5. Upanishad Ganga update
Following is the message from Central Chinmaya Mission Trust (CCMT) :
It has been about three years now that the project Upanishad Ganga started. A lot of hard work has gone into this project by the various members of the team. On behalf of CCMT I would like to give you the updates.
- All 52 episodes have been completed successfully. For Chinmaya Mission the team members who had to put in a lot of hard work were Pujya Guruji, Swami Advayananadaji, Swamini Vimalanandaji and Br Samvidji.
- The title song and end title songs are also complete. The dedication song for this serial has been composed by Pujya Guruji.
- The masters of all episodes are almost complete.
- Now we would start the process of getting the scripts translated into the various regional Indian languages and then look at dubbing each episode in the different languages.
- Our attempts to get this serial on one of the television channels continue. However, we have learned that this requires a lot of patience and persistence.
- By the time all episodes are completed in the single language we would have spent over Rs 9 crores or US $ 2 million.
- Funds collected for this Project up to date are about Rs 6 crores. As you can all see there is still a shortfall of about Rs 3 crores but we are confident that in due course this amount too will be raised.
On behalf of all Trustees of CCMT I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your generous donation and continuous support. Such projects would remain a dream if we didn’t have this unstinted support from all.
In His Service,
H.K. Hinduja
Trustee, CCMT
6. Sri Saumyakasi Sivalaya
Temple timing:
| Monday to Friday | 8:30 AM – 12:00 Noon | |
| 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM | ||
| Saturday and Sunday | 8:30 AM – 2:30 PM | |
| 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
Puja Schedule:
| Everyday Arati | 12:00 Noon & 7:30 PM | |
| Every Monday Rudrabhisekam | 7:00 PM | |
| Every Pradosa day Rudrabhisekam | 7:00 PM | |
| Every Saturday Sri Sivasahasranama Puja | 9:00 AM | |
| Every Caturthi day Ganesa Puja | 6:30 PM | |
| Every Purnima day Sri Satyanarayana Puja | 6:30 PM |