CANADA SABHA OF CHITRAPUR SARASWATS Sweekar S P E CI A L P O I N T S O F (CSCS NEWSLETTER)

INTEREST: VOLUME 5, ISSUE 6 SEPTEMBER 2011

 Upcoming Satsang

 Important Dates Upcoming Satsang

The next Satsang will be held at Lalita and Kishore Kulkarni’s residence in Toronto on Sunday September 11, 2011 at 11.30 am. The directions to the residence and the satsang details have been sent to CSCS yahoo groups. Please send your RSVP by I N S I D E Sep 4th to Lalita Kulkarni at 416-442-2553 (e-mail: [email protected]) or to THIS ISSUE: Maya at 905-566-7908 (e-mail [email protected]).

Annual Math 2 Vantiga Important Dates in September and October Indian Saint 3

Sep 1 Shri Ganesh Chaturthi

Photos—Maha 4 Ganapati, Bhu- Sep 11 Shrimadananta Vrata (Anant Chaturdashi) vaneshwari Sep 13 Chaturmasa Vrata Samapti, Seemollanghana

Sep 18 Mhal Paksha Prarambh

Sep 23 Punyatithi at Shirali- H.H. Shrimat Parijnanashram Swamiji II

Sep 27 Mhal Amavasya

Sep 28 Navaratri Prarambha, Shri Devi Ghata Sthapana

Oct 3 Punyatithi at Shirali-HH Shankarashram Swamiji I

Oct 6 Vijaya Dashami

Oct 11 Kojagari Pooja, Shri Lakshmi Pooja

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Annual Math Vantiga Paying the annual Math vantiga is not mandatory. But it is a sacred duty of every bhanap who is gainfully employed. Math depends on the vantigas for sevas performed for daily, viniyogas and maintenance of all sacred samadhis and math facilities. Even though the vantiga can be given at any time during the fiscal year, the members are requested to remit their annual vantiga preferably in the beginning of the year. Those who are not certain whether they have paid their vantigas can call the Sabha Treasurer Vinayak Shanbhag (email: [email protected] or ph: 905-286-4896) at any time . We have remitted all the vantiga collected so far to the Math. It is hoped that the FUTURE members will pay their 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 vantigas as soon as possible.

SATSANGS Those who wish to CSCS Web site Update sponsor future satsangs are CSCS website has been updated with new look as well as new content. Please visit requested to contact http://www.canadasabha.com/ Maya Kulkarni.

Published Articles

Following are list of articles that were published in Sweekar volume 4, Issues 1-12 April 2010 to Mar 2011

May 2010 : 2009 Tercentenary Scholarships Award presentation August 2010: Age of Saraswat Community by Dr, Kanak Raval; Purnima in Karla by Vanita Kumta September 2010: H.H. Anandashram Swamiji October 2010 : H.H. Parijnanashram Swamiji II; H.H. Shankarashram Swamiji I; Chaturmas 2010”A beautiful description of Seemollangan” by Vanita Kumta December 2010 : H.H. Keshavashram Swamiji; H.H. Krishnashram Swamiji; H.H. Swamiji March 2011 : H.H. Parijnanashram Swamiji III; NRI Sanskriti Prachar Shibir 2010 report by Chirag Amembal,Advait Amembal et al;

Chaturmas 2011—Bhandikeri Math

Ashirvachan by P.P. Sadyojat Shankarashram Swamiji, on Guru Purnima , 15 July 2011 at Shri Gokarn (Bhandikeri Math) can be viewed by clicking the following link http://www.chitrapurmath.net/web_casting/gpa2011.asp

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P A G E 3 Swami Parijnanashram, Indian Saint

The article published in the August 2011 issue on Swami Parijnanashram Swami- Indian Saint, our first Swamiji re- ceived a very valuable comment from Shri N. Jayavanthmam Rao. The comment is reproduced below.

“Before 1708 our community was part of the Smartha Goud Saraswats, known as Shenvis, and we owed allegience to the Kaivalya or Kavle Math. At the time the Nagar King asked our elders to bring our Guru, they went straight to Kavle Math to request the Swamiji to go with them to Nagar. At that time Kavle Math Swamiji had gone to Kashi for studies & Vedapaath and was not expected back for almost two years. That is when the elders prayed for a Guru and Lord Bhavanishankar gave us the most precious gift of our first H H Parijnanashram Swamiji. It is a moot point whether he was a Kashmiri Saraswat Brahmin. He was certainly a Saraswat but He actually arrived in Kotiteertha from Benaras. I believe it is after that incident that we became a separate Group though we were still Smartha Goud Saraswats but now owing allegience to a Swamiji other than that of Kavle Math. So we came to be known as 'Shenvian Paiki' (from among the Shenvis), which was later corrupted to Shanapayyanchi, by which nickname the Goud Saras- wats (especially the Vaishnav branch) still refer to us.

The term Chitrapur got attached to our community much later - after the Samadhi of our second Swamiji (our First Shankarashram Swamiji) at Chitrapur village in Shirali, and the Nagarkatti house in which He took Samadhi was gifted to the community by the owners and our Math HQ was shifted from our Adi Math at Gokarn to Chitrapur. (I am told that there is an inscription in Kannada somewhere in our Chitrapur Math where H H Swamiji is re- ferred as the head of the Goud Saraswat Brahmin community). “

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Photos (Maha Ganapati, Bhuvaneshwari)

Canada Sabha of Chitrapur Saraswats (CSCS) Chitrapur Heritage of Canada Inc. (CHCI)

Board of Trustees: Maya Kulkarni, Vivek Kulkarni, Kishore Nadkarni, Vinayak Shanbhag, Ganesh Shenoy, Pramod Udiaver, Gautam Ullal.

Editorial Team: Mahesh Nileshwar, Vivek Kulkarni, Sadanand Mankikar, Ganesh Shenoy Web: Deepali and Vinayak Shanbhag

Contact: Articles for publication as well as questions, inquiries etc. may be 3727 Queenston Drive, forwarded by e-mail to Vivek Kulkarni ([email protected]) or Mississauga, Ontario, L5C 2H4 Sadanand Mankikar Phone: (905) 566-7908 ([email protected]) or by mail to 3727 Queenston www.canadasabha.com Drive, Mississauga, Ontario, L5C 2H4. [email protected]

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