Temple Address: 2500 SW Regional Airport Blvd. Bentonville, AR 72712 Mookam Karoti Vachalam,, Pangum Langhayate Girim. Temple Hours: Saturdays from 5 PM to 8 PM Sundays from 10 AM to 1 PM Yat Krupa Tamaham Vande, Paramanand Madhavam. Vishnu Sahasranamam: Every Saturday at 6 PM Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.nwahindutemple.org Salutations to the ultimate bliss Madhava, by whose grace, a dumb man becomes the most talkative and a physically disabled man crosses the highest mountain. Driving Directions to the new Temple from Exit 85 Rogers/Bentonville 1. Take I-540, EXIT 85, towards AIRPORT/ROGERS/BENTONVILLE. 0.3 mi 2. Turn West onto US-71 BR/AR-12/W WALNUT ST/SE WALTON BLVD. Continue to follow vakratunda mahaakaaya suryakoti samaprabhaa. US-71 BR/AR-12/SE WALTON BLVD. 1.5 mi nirvighnam kurumedeva sarvakaaryeshu sarvadaa.. 3. Turn LEFT onto SW REGIONAL AIRPORT BLVD/AR-12. 1.7 mi 4. 2500 SW REGIONAL AIRPORT BLVD is on the RIGHT opposite to World's Gym. Temple News Isn't it exciting to see our New Temple sprout up so fast? Isn’t it Lord’s grace that made us see the fruition? Let us keep praying for strength, patience, power of wealth and devotion to see our successful Grand opening of the new Temple. We know each of you is so excited to see our dream in reality and HANWA is so glad to fulfill your desire to have the New Temple Sneak Preview. HANWA is conducting sneak preview sessions and please keep an eye for your turn to receive the invitation. Meanwhile, let us do our part in His mission and happily make our first entrance into the Lord’s abode and then into His heart. Those of you who were fortunate to set your first foot into the new temple, provide your feedback to [email protected] We all have a Dream to Get Krishna in Arkansas We’re all truly blessed to be able to participate in building a temple. Our united effort is to bring Mathura to Bentonville. With this opportunity comes the responsibility of establishing a strong financial foundation for the temple to ensure its continued presence in the community. The Sponsorship Programs Here are the formal sponsorship programs that we’ve developed specifically for the construction process. Every dollar collected for these sponsorships will go directly to paying the construction bills. This will reduce the amount of loan that we have to take AND the amount of interest we have to pay! Street Name Sponsorship - $50,001 : This is a rare opportunity for a street leading to our new temple to bear your precious name. If you or your friends or family are interested, please contact any of the Board members. Gopura Sponsors - $1001 Be a Gopura sponsor and earn the grace of Lord forever. On temple Grand Opening day, Gopura sponsored families can pour holy water and put flowers on the Kalasam which is a life time opportunity for a human being. We have only few sponsor slots available. Please click on the below link to see the current Gopura sponsors. http://www.nwahindutemple.org/gopuram.php Parking Lot Sponsorships - $501 : To improve accessibility of the temple, please be a parking lot sponsor. Temple bell Sponsorship : $251 – When you see the temple bell, the auspicious sound of Om will ringer in your ears with pride when you sponsor a Temple bell. Tile sponsors - $101 This is a great opportunity given to all the Tile sponsors to freely participate in the special Havan which will be performed by the Priest on 26th May-Saturday. Avail this opportunity and become a tile sponsor soon. Here is the link to our proud tile sponsors. Every tile sponsored for the Temple carries your name in the heart of the Lord. http://www.nwahindutemple.org/tile.php Kar Seva Volunteer: Hands that serve are holier than the lips that pray. ‘KarSeva’ arose out of this great but simple thought. Devotees are anxious to serve the Lord in whatever they can. Once you are part of this group, you will get emails in case the temple needs some help. Seva itself says it is not an obligation but it is done with a great selfless feeling at your own convenience. Email [email protected] if you would like to become a KarSeva member. Mandir Vani of NWA : Volume 1 Issue 1 May 2012 Send Suggestions/ Contributions to: [email protected]. Editorial Board: Sharmila Sanka, Jagga Muddasani, Ramakantha Rao Chakalakonda Advertising Rates per Issue: Full Page: 60$ Half Page: 40$ Quarter Page: 25$ Office Bearers and Board of Directors President: Nirupama Raghavan Our NWA Hindu Temple Vice President: Umashankar Balaraman Secretary: Sharmila Sanka - Jagga Muddasani Treasurer: Ravikanth Krovvidi Contact us via Email: [email protected] A Mandir, Devalayam, Devasthanam, or a Hindu temple is a place of worship for followers of Hinduism. A characteristic of most Directors: temples is the presence of murthies (statues) of the Hindu deity to Arul Kumaran whom the temple is dedicated. Manjula Chawla Raghunath Seeram In our NWA Temple, the primary Deity is Lord Krishna, the Thilak Sriram personality of God Head, followed by the other presiding deities, Lord Venkateswara, Lord Shiva, Goddess Maha Lakshmi, Lord HANWA Board Election OATH Ganesha, Goddess Kanaka Durga, Lord Subramanya Swami accompanied by their respective family members. We, the newly elected Board members take an Oath before the Lord and the community to hold responsibility and The architecture of temple mimics the generic Hindu Temples and accountability to perform the duties on HANWA Board with being constructed to meet the Budget requirements. Our Temple integrity, humility and devotion. We will tread on the right path is built to have adequate space of 3.5 acres with ample parking chosen by the Lord and we thus ask for immense support from place. A Gopura is planned to appear in front of the Temple in the Community and we promise to live up to your trust and forthcoming months. A large staging area is elevated with confidence. beautiful Marble surface. The statues of the Gods (murthies) are placed on pedestals over the elevated marble stage, with several decorated lamps around these pedestals , and with beautiful garlands and ornaments surrounding the murthies as if the natural light is emanating from our Lords blessing the visitors to Monthly Events fulfill their desires and ambitions. May 2012 Around this stage there is also a large walking area for devotees to make pradhakshinas around the Gods. Worshippers typically Launching of New temple Website bring in symbolic offerings for the puja. This includes fruits, http://nwahindutemple.org/ flowers, sweets and other symbols of the bounty of the natural Release of first issue of Temple Newsletter. world. They keep both hands folded together as a sign of respect in front of murthies. This place is also known as the garbhagruha. June 2012 It symbolizes the birthplace of the universe, the meeting place of the gods and mankind, and the threshold between the General Body Meeting: transcendental and the phenomenal worlds. The devotees offer prayers and salutations to the presiding deities. Devotees present their offerings at the Lotus feet of the deities. Finally the th The next HANWA General Body Meeting is on June 9 – worshipper or visitor walks clockwise around the elevated stage, Saturday. Please mark your calendar to attend this event, where innermost sanctum, or garbhagruha, stop once on each side, close in, you can voice your opinion and you can get important their eyes and pray to the All Loving Being. The worshipper may updates on our New Temple. Only HANWA members have the receive a sprinkling of the water while the 'pujari' states "Om voting rights. Please become a member soon if you are not one. Shanti" which means "peace be on to all". July 2012 Temple management staff typically announce the hours of operation, including timings for special pujas. Our priest Temple Grand Opening: Venugopala Gattu comes every weekend on Saturday and Sunday performs aarti once or twice. On every Saturday at 6 PM the With the Lord’s immense grace, commitment of the sponsors, Devotees chant Vishnu Sahasra Namamu to bring peace and selfless service of the volunteers, and relentless dedication of tranquility to Bentonville citizens. Every third Saturday, the past and current Boards and mostly devotion of the devotional songs or music called bhajans, accompanied by a devotees, HANWA Board is so very pleased to announce that we dholak or tabla soloist and/or harmonium soloist. have a Grand Opening Date for our New Temple. Please mark th th your calendars from 27 July, Friday to 29 July Sunday with the Visitors and worshipers are required to remove shoes and other Grand opening being on 29th July Sunday. We want the entire footwear before entering the temple Hall and there is an area NWA community to attend this event since each of you played a role big or small to make this long awaited announcement a designated to store footwear. There is also a Tap water to wash possibility. So, please plan your vacation, trip to India etc their hands and feet before entering the Temple Hall to keep their accordingly so that we have your presence at the Grand heart and mind clean preparing themselves to offer their prayers Opening. Mean while, let’s do whatever we can in whichever to Gods. On the back of garbhagruh, the eleveated stage, there is way possible for the New Temple and let’s keep praying to our a storage space to put the puja trays (tray with worship offerings), Lord.