Board of Trustees C HINDU PATRIKAC Term Name Published 2009-2011 Vishal Adma Chairman Bimonthly 2010-2012 Deb Bhaduri Vice Chair DECEMBER/JANUARY 2012 Vol 17/2011 2009-2011 Sanjeev Goyal 2009-2011 Mahendra Sheth 2010-2012 Sadhana Bisarya 2010-2012 Sanjay Mishra 2009-2011 Vishal Adma 2010-2012 Manu Rattan 2011-2013 Mohan Gupta 2011-2013 Priti Mohan 2011-2013 Govind Patel 2011-2013 Mana Pattanayak 2011-2013 Eashwer Reddy 2011 Neelam Kumar 2011 Sridhar Harohalli
Vision of HTCC To promote Hinduism’s spiritual and cultural legacy of inspiration and optimism for the larger Kansas City community. Mission of HTCC • Create an environment of worship that enables people to say “yes” to the love of God. • Cultivate a community that nurtures spiritual growth. • Commission every devotee to serve the creation through their unique talents and gifts. • Coach our youth with the spiritual and cultural richness and the diversity they are endowed with • Communicate Hinduism – A way of life to everyone we can and promote inter-faith activities with equal veneration
Hindu Temple & Cultural Center of Kansas Hindu Temple Wishes a Very Happy New Year to all the City Members A NON-PROFIT TEMPLE HOURS Day Time Aarti ORGANIZATION Mon - Fri 10:00am-12:00pm 11:00am Please remember to renew your annual membership which runs from January to 6330 Lackman Road Mon - Fri 5:00pm-8:00pm 7:30pm Shawnee, KS 66217-9739 Sat & Sun 9:00am-8:00pm 12:00pm December. Sat & Sun 7:30pm http://www.htccofkc.org Your Current membership status is printed on the mailing label. Tel: (913) 631-7519 (Temple) Non-Members need to renew their membership to avoid missing next issue of Tel: (913) 962-9696 (Priest Shrinivas) the Hindu Patrika. Tel: (913) 749-2062 (Priest Atulbhai) Hindu Patrika December/January 2012 2
Message from Srini Bhagavan (President, 2011) We had a successful year largely due to the outstanding support and
guidance of our Board of Trustees under the charismatic leadership On this unseasonably warm December evening, I close my eyes for a of sevak Sri Vishal Adma and also vice chair Sri Deb Bhaduri. few moments to reminisce the incredible year that has no doubt left Our fundraising chair Sri Ravi Mehra was instrumental for the an indelible mark. Before long I am transported to a state of successful planning and execution of our Fundraising event along consciousness wherein every cell in my body is endowed with the with Raja Govindrajan, as we institutionalized the Art of Giving. Lord’s grace and a sense of gratitude having served Him. I then Wow! That is some serious brain power folks! take a deep breath, muster a wry smile as I acknowledge this ethereal experience is forever entrenched in my soul! Thanks to our managers Sri Goyalji, Sri Hariji, and Sri Dear Divine Souls of HTCC, Raojiwithout your devoted seva, it would be impossible to run the
Temple. Special thanks to Sri Pyare Mohanji for his excellent As I pen this, I approach the inevitable change of guard - my role as volunteer manager seva earlier this year. Thanks to Sri President of our beloved HTCC has come to an end! It is my Pankajbhaiand Smt Smitaji for their contributions as well. Great privilege to hand over this precious baton to Sri Sunil Prabhu who I job everyone … not an easy task esp. when thousands of devotees am confident will catapult us all to new spiritual and cultural heights visit the Temple each month. as we welcome another year of our lives.
I also want to thank our founders/leadership team of Sri Abhay Treat it as you would your own child and leave everything in a better state that you found it in was the sage advise that the entire Sevak Bisarya, Sri Hasu Doshi and Sri Swaran Jain … Thank you for team inked into their hearts and wore up their sleeves as they your support, guidance and faith in this year’s committee. Your tirelessly worked long hours of Seva the entire year. dedication towards HTCC over the decades continues to be a source
Please allow me to express my sincere gratitude - which barely skims of inspiration to all of us! Amazing! Vibrant the surface as there are too many of you … even though my heart is the word that jumps out if I were to describe our Temple echoes all your names. today which throbs with life perennially. There is a reason for that … an intelligent, passionate, caring community with relentless positive I constantly drew undying inspiration from Vice President and my attitude. The leadership teams of every regional organization did an brother Makarand Deshpande, the core team members Usha outstanding job in partnering with HTCC for the events that were daGreat Saha, Ravi Mehra, Venkatesh Gopal, Bhaskar dearest to their hearts and also for both Holi and Diwali mela. We Krishnamurthy, Atul Agarwal, Ram Guduputi, Sanjeev Goyal, were blown away by your passion and dedication … proving Our Smt. Suma Hegde, Smt. Sadhana Bisarya, Chandra Venkat; Strength is in our Unity! Smt. Akhila and Dinesh. Yes indeed, I was very fortunate to be surrounded by a talented group of individuals who took pride in 2 witnessed several historic events, and some that will go down meticulously planning and executing every event. It is a unique as firsts in the annals of HTCC. In addition to established events like privilege to have worked with each and every one of you. Godha Kalyanam, Shivratri, Ramnavami, Rathyatra, Gurupoornima, Navaratri, Annakut, etc., to the devotee’s delightBramotsavam, Our dear respected Priests Sri Srinivasji and Sri Atulji set the Hindola, Kandashasti homam, Navagraha Homum were added stage for all of us, performing all the poojas with utmost to our repertoire of annual events which is absolutely thrilling. HTCC devotion and blessing us all starting from New Year’s Day 2 also hosted the Tagore150 and Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving through the recently concluded Navagraha Homam. I would be in dinner which were both very successful. All this is possible and remiss if I din’t mention the divinely contributions of Rithviks led testimonial because of the generosity of all the devotees and byGovindachari, Ravi Kallur including Rao Saripalli, Surya sponsors… Thank you! Ramamurthy, Murari, Ramakrishna Hegde, Seshagiri, Raghu Mylavarapu, Srini Vedantam, Ravi Somyajalu, Ram This year we attempted to streamline a lot of process, internal Mahopatra, Sri Ulhas Sanjanwala, Mani Subramaniam, etc., (so documentation, infrastructure improvements (many in progress as many of you ...) Truly enchanting indeed - Thank you! well), green/recycling initiative, etc., to the best of our abilities. I Hindu Patrika December/January 2012 3 Hindu Patrika December/January 2012 4
beg for your forgiveness if we inadvertently did something that was Message from Makarand Deshpande (Vice President, 2011) not to your satisfaction. Please treat that as a great opportunity to pitch in, take ownership and correct … after all, Temple Dear Friends, Namaste! is ourchild. Progress is always cumulative which the new team will continue to refine and the community continues to reap First of all I wish a very happy and prosperous new year to all of dividends long term! you. 2011 has been very exciting for executive committee and my 2 also entrenched theHTCC Hindu Academy which is very active organization teaching monthly Hinduism classes, external family. I hope everybody in the community has felt the same way talks on Hinduism, etc., by community scholars. We supplemented and inspired by festive/religious power of our culture. I would like this education wing to include the Hindi Class, Balvihar and to extend my thanks to you all for your support to the committee Marati Class. Eventually, we plan to add more heritage along with and to the temple through 2011 and hope you will continue to do the ongoing Yoga classes and music components like the HTCC so in coming years. In 2011 we had many functions which were carnatic music association. Having a serendipitous vision will also well attended with great participation from various regional help external messaging tremendously as we build a strong communities. And HTCC very much appreciates that. community image. Please support these activities by contacting the lead sevaks if you are interested to serve. My sincere thanks to Srini and executive committee members for Finally, I want to thank my parents for instilling in me the tools to their hard work, and carrying out various important functions recognize the opportunity to serve, my two lifelines Druv and throughout the year with precision and excitement, as well as Mayan for not complaining not having their dad around most making 2011 a grand success. Everyone worked tirelessly to carry weekends and my dear wife Harini without whose support, none of out various administrative responsibilities necessary to make this would even be possible! temple events run smoothly. Sometimes, we tend to forget that With that, I leave you with this parting thought … In one of the snow they are all volunteering their precious family time and they storms last winter, my son and I cleared 5” of snow from an elderly deserve our recognition. So big Thank You to you all. I feel very neighbor’s driveway unbeknownst to them. The next day, it snowed proud of the team and can’t say thank you enough. I must also 4-5” again and my son said Papa, isn’t it interesting that they would recognize BOT Chairman and members for their guidance and seva have 9-10” to clear today had we not helped the previous night and to HTCC. the best part is, they still don’t know who cleared their driveway. Well my friends, while it was life lesson for my son, two things stuck me from that remark … Seva is done regardless of Not only we have wonderful community and Sevak, but we are also anyone watching and even more, it reduces or even blessed with great priests. We value their commitment and hard eliminates the burden for someone else. Trust me, they will work and we must continue supporting them. My heartfelt thanks bless you for making it so – every single time! to rutviks/Sevak who helped panditji to complete each event Thank you all for the opportunity to serve! smoothly throughout the year.
Happy New Year! Once again, thank you all for your support and SEVA to HTCC.
Your humble HTCC sevak, Have a great 2012. Srini Bhagvan
Sincerely, Makarand Deshpande Hindu Patrika December/January 2012 5 Hindu Patrika December/January 2012 6 Current Charges For Puja and Priest Services HTCC List of Events for December 2011- January 2012 At temple At home Abhishekam $ 75 — EVENT SPECIFICS Abhishekam with kalasa puja $ 101 — 6:00pm -7:30pm Contact Ajay and Sadhana Aksharabhyasam (beginning of writing) $ 75 PRANAYAM YOGA Bisarya @ 913-764-3521 Anna Prasana (first feeding) $ 51 $ 101 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM every Sat Contact Ajay PRANAYAM YOGA Any other Puja (< 2 hours duration) $ 65 $ 151 Bisarya @913-764-3521 Archna(fruits provided by Temple) $ 11 - SHRI SHIRDI SAI BABA BHAJANS Atma Shanti/Tarpanam $ 31 $ 101 At 7:30pm every Thrusday Baby shower. $ 151 $ 201 HTCC SUNDAY EVENTS SPECIFICS Barsi/Annual Ceremony $251 $ 301 9:30am – 10:30am Contact GAnesh Thiagarajan@ Cremation services Call Temple Manager BAL VIHAR 913-685-0344 Grihapravesham & Sri Sathyanarayana 11:00am – 12:00pm Contact Swapnam Kumar @ Puja/Katha — $ 301 HINDI CLASS 816-554-2454 Grihapravesham(house warming) only — $ 151 9:30am-10:30am Contact Dr. Vijay Kumar@913- Havan $ 101 $ 151 YOGA 894-6454 Hiranyasradham $ 75 $ 101 SUNDAY LUNCH 10:30am-1:30pm Kalyanutsavam (Kanyadan) – Individual $ 151 — Mundan(Hair offering)* $ 75 $ 151 CELEBRATIONS SPECIFICS Namakaranam(naming of baby) $ 51 $ 101 18TH DEC. @ 10:30 AM Navagraha Archna- One Graha only $ 21 — NAVGRAHA HONAM CELEBRATION Navagraha puja. $ 101 $ 201 Sahasranama Archna $ 51 — MOON PHASES SPECIFICS (1000 names of God) AMAVASYA 24TH DEC, 23RD JAN, 21ST FEB Sri Sathynarayana Puja/Katha $ 75 $ 151 PURNIMA 10TH DEC, 9TH JAN, 7TH FEB Samohika Satyanaryana Puja/Katha $ 31 - EKADASHI 6TH &21ST DEC, 5TH & 9TH JAN, 3RD & 17TH FEB th Sashti poorthi shanti(60 birthday) $ 201 $ 251 th TH TH KRITIKA 9 DEC, 15 JAN, 12 FEB Satyanarayana Puja & Basement Rental $175 (4 hours) Sponsor Puja — — ** Please refer our temple website www.htccofkc.org for more information about our July/August check with priest/manager. events and celebrations. Upnayana Sanskara $ 251 $ 351 Contact manager or visit www.htccofkc.org for updates (Sacred thread ceremony) Please contact Manager during temple hours for scheduling any puja at Temple or at Home. You Vahan puja $ 31 - can even email your information for scheduling puja at [email protected]. We request the Vivah(Wedding)# $ 701 $ 501 * HTCC will not be responsible in arranging the hair stylist. devotees to cooperate with the managers who will make their best efforts in scheduling puja with # Basement Hall inclusive. the priest that you have requested. Note. Minimum charges for any puja performed outside Hindu Temple. $ 101 Any Puja performed outside KC Metropolitan area $ 251 SOUP KITCHEN Above suggested charges do not include Dakshina(donation) to the priest and it should not be less than 25% of suggested service charges. Every month on last Monday to feed the less All pujas booked in Advance should be paid in advance. One cancellation or fortunate soup kitchen is organised by Suma Hegde. postponement permitted. For more than one cancellation/postponement 50% Everyone is encouraged to participate. To contribute of the service charge will be deducted before any refund is made. please contact Suma Hegde at (913) 491-1969.
Hindu Patrika December/January 2012 7 '5 *'#*# 0 2'-,',',"'* 11 2 BalVihar
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Course work includes learning Atchutham Kesavam, Aarthi Mantram, Kshama Prathana, Hanuman Chalisa, Mantra #Q`V]1H %`V 7 Pushpam, Hiyagreeva Mantram, Purusha Suktam, Shiva . ] 7LL]1H: :1VG8$QQ$CV8HQIL L1JR1HC: 11:C1-:% .% V`Y:% .@V7Y*0 +$ .#Q J]$ ?3`V: YR1`VH C1J@ Panchakshara Stotram and Lakshmi Ashtakam. Hindu Patrika December/January 2012 10 APEX L.L.C. Hindu Rituals and Routines TAXATION & ACCOUNTING SERVICES Why do we ring the bell in a temple? Is it to wake up the Lord? But the Lord never sleeps. Is it to let the Lord know we Krishna Dave have come? He does not need to be told, as He is all knowing. The ringing of the bell produces what is regarded as an auspicious sound. It produces the sound Om, the universal name of the Lord. There should be auspiciousness within and without, to gain KANSAS CITY OFFICE TOPEKA OFFICE the vision of the Lord who is all-auspiciousness. 7180 W 107TH STR, SUITE 2 P.O. BOX 4070 OVERLAND PARK, KS 66212 TOPEKA, KS 66604 Why do we apply the holy ash? 913-649-7400/785-608-9876 785-273-7191 The ash of any burnt object is not regarded as holy ash. Bhasma (the holy ash) is the ash from the homa (sacrificial fire) where special wood along with ghee and other herbs is offered as worship of the Lord. Or the deity is worshipped by pouring ash as E-FAX: 816-222-0806 abhisheka and is then distributed as bhasma. The word bhasma means, "that by which our EMAIL: [email protected] sins are destroyed and the Lord is remembered". Bha implied bhartsanam ("to destroy") We will be there to take care of your and sma implies smaranam ("to remember"). The application of bhasma therefore signifies vibhuti Corporate & Personal Taxes destruction of the evil and remembrance of the divine. Bhasma is called (which means "glory") as it gives glory to one who applies it and raksha (which means a source of Payroll Processing, Taxes & Returns protection) as it protects the wearer from ill health and evil, by purifying him or her. Sales Tax & Other Taxes New Business Consultation, Incorporation Why do we do pradakshina (circumambulate)? Monthly Accounting & Reporting We cannot draw a circle without a center point. The Lord is the center, source and essence of our lives. Recognizing Him as the focal point in our lives, we go about doing Financial Statements our daily chores. This is the significance of pradakshina. Also every point on the Personal Tax Audits circumference of a circle is equidistant from the center. This means that wherever or Compliance Audit & much more…. whoever we may be, we are equally close to the Lord. His grace flows towards us without partiality. HTCC of KC Priest’s Travel Form Sunday Lunch Guidelines: Date: Dear Devotee: 1.Prepare 4 items for 100 People. Please check applicable item, sign and return this form to Priest upon 2.At least 4 of your family and friends would be needed in the Kitchen to completion of the scheduled puja services at your home. help for Sunday Lunch Program. Temple will provide ______Priest was picked up from the Temple/home at one helper to assist you. ……………… a.m. /p.m. and was dropped off at ……….. a.m. /p.m. at the temple/home. 3.Kitchen is available to use as early as 9 am. Sunday ______Priest drove to my home in his car for puja and we paid lunch times are 10.30am - 1.30pm. mileage @$0.51 per mile 4.Try to cook most of the items in the Temple Kitchen. ______We arranged for a taxi for the priest and paid the taxi But you can prepare some items at home and bring it to charges temple also. Name: ………………………………………….. 5.If you wants to cancel your Sunday lunch, arrange with some one in Address: your family and friends or tell us at least 2 week in advance. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… For Sign up call manager or send email to [email protected]. Hindu Patrika December/January 2012 11 Hindu Patrika December/January 2012 12 HTCC Carnatic Group presents Prof. Nagamani Concert. Sunday, November 13th was a special day for the Carnatic Music enthusiasts of Kansas City. On Nritya that day, for the first time, HTCC Carnatic Group presented fine Carnatic vocal music by Prof. Mysore Nagamani Srinath. She was vocally supported by Smt. Seema Kasthuri of St Louis, MO School of Indian Dance and Music and accompanied on violin by Sri. Shiv Sankalp of Columbia, MO and mridangam by Sri. Established in 1988 Shivananda Narasimhamurthy of Overland Park, KS. OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS AT NEW DAY YOGA STUDIO Prof. Nagamani Srinath is a highly acclaimed musician, musicologist, composer and author who 15238 Broadmoor, Overland Park, Ks 66212 (near 151st and Metcalf) was trained in the traditional “Gurukula system” under Late Sri. Ramnad Krishnan in Chennai, India. Prof. Nagamani has composed more than 200 compositions such as varnams, tillanas and CLASSES FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS kritis in rare and difficult ragas in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, and Sanskrit. BHARATHANATYAM (Indian Classical) And Carnatic Music With the younger listeners in mind, Prof. Nagamani started the concert with a varnam in the raga Mohanam. Then she captivated the audience with compositions in Sriranjini, Vasantha Bhairavi and Lathangi. Sensing the pulse of the audience from moment to moment, Prof. Nagamani built CLASSES AT THE HTCC up the concert to a raga of popular appeal. The inspired yet methodical exposition of Hindolam (=Malkauns) was preamble for an elaborate rendition of Papanasam Sivan’s composition “Sama ON TUESDAYS AT 5.15 PM gana lolane” with scintillating chittaswaram, niraval and kalpanaswaram. Shiv Sankalp’s violin accompaniment and “Thani” in Adi thalam by Sivananda were excellent. She followed this with other compositions including “Krishna Nee Begane” in Yaman Kalyani and concluded with 6330 Lackman Road, Shawnee, “Kondal Vannanai” Virutham in Ragamalika. KS The priests presented the artists with bouquet of flowers, angavasthram and nominal BOLLYWOOD, CONTEMPORARY, FREE STYLE INDIAN sambhavana. Dr Latha Venkatesh delivered the vote of thanks on behalf of HTCC Carnatic at the New Day Yoga Studio Group. HTCC Carnatic Group was formed as an affiliate of HTCC Art Institute (HAI) by committed volunteers to promote and present Indian Classical Music, especially Carnatic Music. 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