1 Publication # 3 October 2018

Publication # 3 October 2018

Jain Society of Greater Detroit, 29278 W. 12 Mile Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48334-4108, (248) 851-JAIN (5246), Tax ID: 38-2368360

Executive Committee Gujarati Month: Aaso Veer Samvat: 2544 Aarti & Mangal Divo President Vikram Samvat: 2074 11:30am & 7:30pm Jaimik Shah

(248)-469-7070 Prakshal Puja [email protected] Temple Hours: Monday – Saturday 9:30am Monday - 9:30am - 12:30pm Sunday 8:00am Vice President Saturday 5:30pm - 8:00pm Shashin Shah 8:00am - 12:30pm (248) -635-0535 Sunday [email protected] 5:30pm - 8:00pm

Financial Officer Nirav Sheth Respected Members, (313)-980-9011 [email protected] Jai Jinendra.

Secretary Neelesh Jain On behalf of EC/BOT, we wish Sukh-Shata to all of our Ayambil Tapasvi. (248) -606-1708 [email protected] We had remarkable celebration of the Paryushan Parva during Sept 6-13 and ended with

Publication Officer wonderfully arranged Sakal Sangh Parna on Sept 14. On behalf of the Board of Trustees Open Position and the Executive committee, we want to offer our ‘Michhami Dukkadam”. We seek

Director – Food Service forgiveness from all of you for any transgressions through Thoughts, Words or Actions. Pratiksha Shah (734) -658-6751 Here is the quick summary of Paryushan and other events at the temple: [email protected]

Director - Facilities  Muni. Sh. Jinchandraji visited our society on July 3-4, almost after 17 years. Despite Deval Shah th (248) -982-5517 of being July 4 long weekend, many members overwhelmingly participated and [email protected] enjoyed his discourses on Prabhu Darshan Vidhi and 9 steps of happiness.

 Religious scholar Sh. Shrenikbhai Gala visited us (07/25 – 07/31). Lecture topic was Board of Trustees on Gnansar.

Chair Person Chetan Koradia  Chaumasi Chaudas Pratikraman attended by 40+ members on 07/26.

(248) -982-9821  First time in our society, JOY hosted very successful “JOY Talk” event on 07/29. JOY Vice Chairperson team invited local motivation speakers to share their life experiences and to inspire Kundan Sata (248) -745-0419 our youth/kids on various fronts. Light snacks were served after the event.

Treasurer  Our puja group conducted “Baar Bhavna Ni Puja” on 08/05. Many members Manoj Modi (248)-760-6840 participated in puja cloths and took laabh of Swamivatsalya. Please contact Mahendra Shah (Guruji) at 734-453-2698, if you want to sponsor a puja. More info Trustees Sanjay Bhandari has been posted on the bulletin board and is available on temple website. (732)-925-7177  With the leadership of Yatra team, 90 members (age ranging from 2 yrs to 80+ yrs) Ashok Shah participated in Yatra this year (08/17-08/19) and visited London, Toronto, Niagara (248)-335-1341 Falls and Windsor. Everyone successfully completed appx 700 miles yatra safely with Smita Sheth (248)-481-3081 good shata. Please see the later part of Jainvani for detailed information.

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Pujari  About 40 study class students and 10+ adult senior members performed ‘Stavan Sutra Deepak Shah Recital’ on 08/26. We request all parents to encourage their kids to participate. (248)-865-0908 Everyone recited sutras with precise pronunciation and enjoyed melodious stavans EC Sub-Committees (bhakti songs). Light snack was provided after the event. We will continue our efforts Audio/Video Rajesh Jain, Bipin Shah to promote similar forums for uplifting our children/youth.

Building Maintenance  Paryushan Parva: Deval Shah, Rahul Shah . Most auspicious of all events, Paryushan started on 09/06. We are blessed with Study Class presence of Sh. Parasbhai during Paryushan and everyone enjoyed his morning Mahendra Shah Hemesh Shah, Manish Shah and evening lectures. Sangeetkar Sh. Amitbhai (Palitana) conducted evening

Hall Rental bhakti-bhavna. Sh. Parasbhai also conducted the youth lecture and open Shashin Shah discussion session with Q/As.

Inventory Management . Shashin Shah, Pratiksha Shah We had 38 members who completed Aththai (8 fasts) or higher tapasya with good shata. Bhartiben (Hasmukhbhai) Shah – 14th Varshitap, Birva (Tushar) Shah JOY Advisors Vinit Shah, Sejal Doshi – 16 Upvas and Kalpesh (Tarang) Shah did 16 Upvas. Please see later part of Jainvani for complete list of Tapasvis. Khub Khub Anumodana! Library Mahendra Shah . Many study class students, age from 3 yrs to 15 yrs, who did numerous tapasyas Yatra during Paryushan. Don’t they make us proud? Congratulations to all of them! Vastupal Shah, Vinay Shah Dipak Shah, Paras Veera . We had enormous participation from all members during Swapna-Darshan Religious Program. First time in history of JSGD, we collected more than $109K in Sharad Shah, Tushar Shah, Rahul Shah, Chirag Jhaveri Gheeboli pledges on this day. 850+ members took laabh of Swamivatsalya. It was also the first time that we introduced new gheebolis for Swapna Ne Site Management Deval Shah, Dipen Shah Utaravanu and Asthamangal (8) Ne Darshan Karavavanu.

Swadhyay . New pledges during the Paryushan week added over $160K (details on inside Suresh L. Shah pages). This is the first time ever in JSGD history we have crossed over $150K Web Development mark during Paryushan. We thank all members for their generous participation Rajiv Maheshwari, Dipen Shah in Gheeboli during this auspicious Parva.

Ayambil . We are delighted to announce that we received the sponsorship to do Sakal Niral Shah, Anuja Shah Geeta Shah, Tarulata Shah Sangh Parna for 2019. If you are interested in sponsoring Sakal Sangh Parna for

Aangi 2020, please kindly contact any EC members. Vinita Parekh, Alka Shah Rajnikant Shah  Many members of our society celebrated “Shri Das Lakshana Parva” during Sept 14-

Decoration 23. We like to convey our ‘Uttam Kshama’ and good shata for graciously completing Megha Jain the parva.

BOT Sub-Committees  Scholar Sh. Bhadrabahuji visited our sangh from 09/24 to 09/30 and delivered Jain Audit Bhupendra Shah discourses on ‘Uttaradhyan Sutra’. He also conducted special lecture on 09/30 to

Constitution answer member’s general questions about Jainism and had open discussions. Girish Shah  We were fortunate to have the Columbus (OH) Jain Sangh Yatris (2 buses) visited us Finance Prakash Shah, Manoj Modi on 09/22, as part of their tirth yatra. We are very thankful to 150+ JSGD members, who welcomed and accompanied them throughout their visit. Columbus sangh JAINA Directors Manish Mehta, Jinansh Shah admired our efforts for support, religious activities, food and exceptional hospitality. Pritish Shah All yatris were served for Swamivatsalya using steel thali & vadka.

JOS & Social Services Vastupal Shah

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 We celebrated Kshamavani Day on 09/29. Along with Kshamavani puja, Scholar Sh. Dr. Kirit Gosalia delivered spiritual discourses on forgiveness. Well attended event by our members.

 This year, new puja, “Kalpsutra Ni Puja” been introduced by puja team. As we have witnessed wonderfully performed pujas in the past, our own puja group conducted this puja on 10/07. Guruji had explained meaning of each puja. More than 200+ members participated in the puja, followed by Swamivatsalya. The 20th Temple Anniversary - "Panchanika Mahostav" was celebrated for 5 days with Sh. Narendrabhai Nandu & his group from 06/20 to 06/24. This event started on Wednesday with AM Snatra-Puja and ‘18 Pap-Sthanak Samvedana’ in the evening. The second day, many members participated and performed Gautam Swami Pujan on Yantra, followed by Swamivatsalya. Megh and Narendrabhai conducted ‘Kaun Banega Punyarthi’ game in the evening and all members enjoyed it and appreciated it very much. This was an unique creation of Nandu family for our sangh. The Third day, Friday, we had performed ‘Bhaktamar Pujan’ almost after 10 years and many members participated in puja cloths. Big Kudos to our society youth, who led the Gatha recital during this Pujan. The fourth day, Saturday, we saw many members bringing Bhagwan Pratimaji from their home to perform 18 Abhishek. The evening was fun-filled with spectacular drama, “Bhimo Kundaliyo”. What an astonishing acting, improvisation and mime from our very own society members, youngsters and youth. What an amazing showcase of their talent? Last day, we had Dhwaja ceremony for the temple and Bhumati area. The enthusiasm and the commitment of pledges by members were overwhelming. Our next major program is the Diwali Day Celebration on Sunday, 11/11. Program details are included in this newsletter. Our new membership directory (2019-20) will be distributed at the Diwali. Many of you have already verified your membership data for the new directory. We like to thank all members for filling out the forms and providing their updated information. However, there are few members that we were unable to contact due to disconnected/new phone number / new email addresses. We kindly request you to contact EC secretary, Neelesh Jain @ 248-606-1708 to update your membership information After the major Asphalt rework at the temple main entrance, we have our Automatic Gate is fully functional now. When the gate is closed, please keep a safe distance for the gate to open inward. One of our goal is to identify all the ongoing and new member statement issues and resolve them within 60 days. We will be sending out latest member statements next week. If you have not receive it or have any questions, please call Nirav Sheth (313-980-9011) or Manoj Modi (248-760-6840). Have you done RSVP for the Diwali Swamivatsalya Lunch yet? If not, please visit the temple website and you will able to do it with few clicks.

Thank you.

Jaimik Shah Chetan Koradia President, Executive Committee Chairman, Board of Trustee

Table of Content

Content Page No From the desk of EC & BOT 1 Jain Recipe 4 Upcoming Events 5 2018 Pledges 6 Volunteer Appreciation 19 Photo Links 21 EC Corner 24 Swadhyay Update 24 Paryushan Celebration – 2018 25 Jiv-Daya Committee Update - 2018 26 Jain Milan – 2018 30 Lansing Prayer Session 31 BOT Corner 33 Yatra - 2018 42 Study Class update 52

Jain Recipe – Sweet Corn Bread Pizza

Method:

Step 1: Sauté the sweet corn for 4-5 minutes and keep aside to cool. Ingredients: 4 cup frozen sweet corn Step 2: Combine the sweet corn with half the cheese and the other ingredients except capsicum and bread and blend in a mixer until smooth. 8 slices wheat bread 1" cheddar cheese Step 3: On a tava, toast the bread slice on one side. 1 green pepper chopped Step 4: On the toasted side of the bread, spread a layer of the sweet corn 1 Jalapeño chopped cheese mixture. 1/4 tsp dry red chilly Step 5: Sprinkle with some chopped green pepper and jalapeño for some spice flakes and top with grated cheese. Dry basil for sprinkling Salt to test Step 6: Toast the other side of bread, covering it with a lid this time to melt the cheese.

Serve with tomato ketchup. Enjoy

Upcoming Events DAY DATE EVENT TIMINGS COMMENTS

Tuesday 10/16/2018 To To Ayambil Oli : (Mini Pujan, Ayambil) 10:00 AM - 01:30 PM Wednesday 10/24/2018

Snatra Puja 07:00 AM - 08:30 PM Thursday 10/25/2018 Ayambil Oli Parna 09:00 AM - 11:00 AM Saturday 10/27/2018 JOS Event 11:30 AM – 3:00 PM Hindi Class 09:45 AM - 10:45 PM Sunday 10/28/2018 Study Class 11:00 AM - 01:30 PM Saturday 11/03/2018 Antaray Karma Nivaran Puja 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM Hindi Class 09:45 AM - 10:45 PM Sunday 11/04/2018 Study Class 11:00 AM - 01:30 PM Hindi Mahavir Nirvan Puja 07:30 AM - 09:30 AM Wednesday 11/07/2018 Mahavir Swami / Gautam Swami - 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM Jaap New Year - Dhwar Opening / Thursday 11/08/2018 07:00 AM - 10:00 AM Monthly Snatra Puja Sunday 11/11/2018 Diwali Celebration 10:00 AM - 03:00 PM Monday 11/12/2018 Gyan Pancham Pujan 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Hindi Puja 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Sunday 11/18/2018 Hindi Class 09:45 AM - 10:45 AM Study Class 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM Thanks Giving - Navkaar Jaap 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Thursday 11/22/2018 (JOY) Chaumasi Chaudas - Pratikraman 06:30 PM - 09:00 PM Friday 11/23/2018 Palitana Yatra - Kartaki Poonam 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Hindi Puja 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Sunday 12/02/2018 Hindi Class 09:45 AM - 10:45 AM Study Class 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM Saturday 12/08/2018 Prakshal 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Monthly Snatra Puja Hindi Class 09:45 AM - 10:45 AM Sunday 12/16/2018 Study Class 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM

The yoga class scheduled for ALL SUNDAYS and starts at 9.30 AM. Please contact Kamal Jain at [email protected] for more information.

Pledges - 2018

20th Anniversary Paap Sthanak Samvedna: Hansa Shah (Sanjay M. & Dr. Bela Shah) $101 Ramesh & Nayana Shah $101 Name Papsthanak Amt Ankit & Riddhi Shah $101 Vinay & Sneha Shah Pranatipat : Violence $101 Girish & Asha Shah $101 Rashmikant & Hemlata Shah Mrushavad : Untruth $101 Jayprakash & Bharti Shah $101 Bhupendra & Neena Shah Adattadan : Theft $101 Suresh & Ila Shah $101 Arvind & Ramila Shah Maithun : Unchaste $101 Total $1818 Sharad & Nalini Shah Parigrah : Possessiveness $101 Sharad & Nalini Shah Krodh : Anger $101 20th Anniversary - Bhaktamar Pujan: Shashin & Chandany Shah Maan : Arrogance $101 Shashin & Chandany Shah Maya : Deceit $101 Name For / Gatha Amount Ajay & Trupti Ajmera Lobh : Greed $101 Anand and Mona Bora 1st & 2nd $504 Girish & Asha Shah Rag : Attachment $101 Sushilaben Shah (Jagdish & Shaila Shah) 3rd $151 Ajay & Trupti Ajmera Dvesh : Hatred $101 Rushabh & Kavita Mehta 4th $151 Kumarpal & Indira Shah Kalah : Quarrelling $101 Kalpesh & Tarang Shah 5rd $151 Neelesh & Megha Jain Abhvakhyan : Accusation $101 Rajesh, Vanitha & Neil Mehta 6th $151 Ankit & Riddhi Shah Paishunya : Gossip $101 Pravin & Surabhi Shah 7th $151 Vastupal & Varsha Shah Rati-arati : Liking and disliking $101 Sushilaben Shah (Jagdish & Shaila Shah) 8th $151 Pravin & Surbhi Shah Par-parivad : Criticism $101 Jindas & Gita Shah 9th $151 Hemant & Veena Shah Maya-Mrishavad: Malice $101 Saurabh & Sonal Shah 10th $151 Ankit & Riddhi Shah Mithyatvashalya : Wrong Beliefs $101 Ajay & Trupti Ajmera 11th $151 Total $1818 Dipak & Kiran Shah 12th $151 Neil Mehta (Rajesh & Vanitha Mehta) 13th $151 Jaimik & Reenal Shah 14th $151 20th Anniversary Guru Gautam Swami Aradhana: Tejash Shah (Manoj & Minaxi Shah) 15th $151 Rohit & Devyani Shah 16th $151 Name Amount Vastupal & Varsha Shah 17th $151 Kalpesh & Tarang Shah $101 Sumanben Shah (Nilesh & Hina Shah) 18th $151 Rashmikant & Hemlata Shah $101 Jagdish & Bhanu Shah 21st $151 Pravin & Surabhi Shah $101 Gunvant Shah 22nd $151 Arvind & Ramila Shah $101 Rishi & Mihir Zaveri 23rd $151 Jindas & Gita Shah $101 Praful & Pratima Shah 25th $151 Nileshbhai $101 Rashmikant & Hemlata shah 26th $151 Saloni Shah (Anant & Rashmika Shah) $101 Girish & Asha Shah 27th $151 Jagdish & Bhanu Shah $101 Anonymous 28th $151 Bhupendra & Saroj Shah (Tushar & Birva Shah) $101 Anonymous 29th $151 Jaimik & Reenal Shah $101 Anonymous 30th $151 Manoj & Minaxi Shah $101 Anonymous 31st $151 Shreyas & Purvi Shah $101 Anonymous 32nd $151 6

Anonymous 33rd $151 Kumarpal & Indira Shah $51 Kulin & Ranjan Shah 34th $151 Mahendra J Shah $51 Bhupendra & Neena Shah 35th & 36th $504 Rajesh & Smita Shah $51 Vinit & Anuja Shah 37th $151 Bhupendra & Neena Shah $51 Harindra & Mayurika Shah 38th $151 Dharam & Rashmi Shah $51 Anand & Mona Bora 39th $151 Jindas & Gita Shah $51 Jaimik & Reenal Shah 40th $151 Jaimik & Reenal Shah $102 Anonymous 41st $151 Kritesh & Hiral Shah $51 Ankit & Riddhi Shah 42nd $151 Hansa Shah (Sanjay M. & Dr. Bela Shah) $51 Shashin & Chandany Shah 43rd $151 Riya Shah (Rajiv & Reepal Shah) $51 Anonymous 44th $151 Rohit & Devyani Shah $51 Neelesh & Megha Jain 45th $151 Tushar & Birva Shah $51 Vinay & Sneha Shah 46th $151 Pritam & Sakshi Pahade $51 Arvind & Ramila Shah 47th & 48th $504 Arpan & Sonali Gandhi $51 Jayant & Heena Shah Aarti $301 Kalpesh & Tarang Shah $51 Shreyas & Purvi Shah Mangal Divo $451 Hemang & Tejal Shah $51 Arvind & Ramila Shah Shanti Kalash $401 Rajesh Jain & Vinita Parekh $51 Total $8554 Bhavesh & Ragini Kothari $51 Rajendra & Partibha Modi $51 Sandeep & Manisha Garg $51 20th Anniversary – Bhaktamar Yantra: Abhilash & Dhara Shah $51 Pankaj & Malini Vakharia $51 Name Amount Pratik & Nehal Shah $51 Pravin & Jyoti Shah $151 Nirav Sheth $51 Nikunj & Shila Shah $151 Purushottam & Majul Deo $51 Bharat & Falguni shah $51 Total $2040 Rushabh & Kavita Mehta $51 Anand & Mona Bora $51 Bipin & Sohini Shah $51 20th Anniversary – Eighteen Abhishek Ceremony: Main Ghabhara Vinay & Sneha Shah $51 Name For Amount Naveen & Richa Jain $51 Rajesh Jain & Vinita Parekh $251 Anant & Rashmika Shah $51 Mahavirswami Pratik & Nehal Shah $251 Amar & Jyoti Shah $51 Bhagwan Tushar & Birva Shah $251 Ankit & Bina Shah $51 Jyotsana Ajmera (Ajay & Trupti Ajmera) $251 Jigar & Purvi Shah $51 Parshwanath Deval & Namrata Shah $251 Neelesh & Megha Jain $51 Bhagwan

Ankur & Shefali Vakharia $51 Ketan & Janki Shah $251 Naveen & Richa Jain $251 Suresh & Ila Shah $51 Adeshwar Bhagwan

Manoj & Minaxi Shah $51 Vishal & Nisha Doshi $251 7

Amit & Megha Shah $251 Gunvant Shah $125 Parshwanath Nilkesh & Nina Shah $101 Mahendra J Shah $251 Shantinath Bhagwan Metal Rajesh Jain & Vinita Parekh $125 Pankaj & Malini Vakharia Chauvishi Bhagwan $251 Rupen & Lajja Shah $101 Kunthunath Total $3,514 Ramesh & Sheela Shah $125 Raj & Shakuntala Jain $101 Aranath Ashok & Asha Shah $125 th 20 Anniversary – Eighteen Abhishek Ceremony: Bhumati Area: Saurabh & Sonal Shah $101 Mallinath Name For/Tirthankar Amount Kekin & Ami Sheth $125 Namrata Shah (Ramesh & Nayana Shah) $101 Hemant & Tarulata Shah $101 Munisuvratswami Adeshwar Namrata Shah (Ramesh & Nayana Shah) $125 Hemant & Tarulata Shah $125 Rohit & Nilpa Shah $101 Hemant & Tarulata Shah $101 Naminath Ajitnath Suresh & Rekha Shah $125 Hemant & Tarulata Shah $125 Dipak & Panna Shah $101 Hemant & Tarulata Shah $101 Neminath Sambhavnath Jagdishchandra & Hasumati Shah $125 Hemant & Tarulata Shah $125 Praful & Pratima Shah $101 Harindra & Mayurika Shah $101 Parshvanath Abhinandanswami Biren & Avani Shah $125 Suresh & Bina Shah $125 Dharam & Rashmi Shah $101 Tushar & Birva Shah $101 Mahavirswami Sumatinath Bhupendra & Neena Shah $125 Chirag & Darshita Jhaveri $125 Chirag & Darshita Jhaveri $101 Total $5424 Padmaprabhu Dinesh & Gita Shah $125 Shashin & Chandany Shah $101 Suparshvanath 20th Anniversary – Eighteen Abhishek Ceremony: Manoj & Minaxi Shah $125 Nalin & Gita Shah $101 Name For Amount Chandraprabhu Nanda Gajarawala (Manish Gajarawala) $125 Harindra & Mayurika Shah Surya Darshan $901 Ankit & Riddhi Shah $101 Harindra & Mayurika Shah Chandra Darshan $901 Suvidhinath Rashmikant & Hemlata Shah $125 Jayant & Heena Shah Ashtaprakari Puja - Mahavir Swami $1,111 Girish & Asha Shah $101 Sunita Shah; Rishi; Mihir Ashtaprakari Puja - Parshvnath $901 Sheetalnath Jyotsana Ajmera (Ajay & Trupti Ajmera) $125 Raj & Shakuntala Jain Ashtaprakari Puja - Adinath $301 Archana Shah (Manoj & Minaxi Shah) $101 Raju & Pratibha Modi Aarti $801 Shreyaansnath Bipin & Sohoni Shah $125 Nanda Gajarawala (Manish Mangal Divo $701 Jayant & Heena Shah $101 Gajarawala) Vasupujyaswami Prakash & Kirti Sanghvi $125 Sharad & Nalini Shah Shanti Kalash $3,636 Manish Zaveri $101 Vimalnath Total $9253 Manish Zaveri $125

Rohit & Jyoti Shah $101 Anantnath Jagdish & Bhanu Shah $125 Dipak & Kiran Shah Dharmnath $101 8

20th Anniversary – Dhwaja Ceremony (Ghabhara): Jigar & Purvi Shah Chandraprabhu $201 Kumarpal & Indiraben Shah Suvidhinath $201 Name For Amount Rushabh & Kavita Mehta Sheetalnath $201 Rahul & Neeyati Shah $2,334 Samkit & Pooja Shah Shreyaansnath $201 Dipen & Kavita Shah Dhwaja - Main Shikhar $2,334 Dipen & Kavita Shah Vasupujyaswami $201 Tushar & Birva Shah $2,334 Rajesh Jain & Vinita Parekh Vimalnath $201 Dhwaja - Guru Gautam Hiren & Radhika Shah $2,001 Jagdish & Shaila Shah Anantnath $201 Swami Shikhar Sushila Shah (Jagdish & Shaila Shah) Dharmnath $201 Dhwaja - Padmavati Devi Subir Shah (Bipin & Sohini Shah) $4,001 Chintan & Dipal Shah Shantinath $201 Shikhar Arvind & Ramila Shah Kunthunath $201 Arvin & Jaya Shah Aarti $2,424 Ramesh & Sheela Shah Aranath $201 Arvin & Jaya Shah Mangal Divo $2,001 Manish Zaveri Mallinath $201 Jignesh & Jayshree Madhani Shanti Kalash $1,616 Jagdish & Geeta Shah Munisuvratswami $201 Total $19045 Dharam & Rashmi Shah Naminath $201 Arpan & Sonali Gandhi Neminath $201 20th Anniversary - Asthamangal Biren & Avani Shah Parshvanath $201 Kalpesh & Tarang Shah Mahavirswami $201 Name For Amount Total $4824 Jaimik & Reenal Shah Swastik $501 Jinali Shah (Hemendra & Devangi Shah) ShriVatsa $601 Harindra & Mayurika Shah Nandavart $601 20th Anniversary – Food Sponsorship: Lalit & Bharti Shah Vardhman Samput $351 Pushpa Shah & Ina Shah Purna Kalash $601 Name Amount Arvind & Ramila Shah Bhadrasan $601 Niranjan & Vibha Shah $101 Kalpesh & Tarang Shah Matsya (Min) Yugal $551 Jayant & Heena Shah $151 Arvind & Ramila Shah Darpan $888 Samkit & Ronak Shah $101 Total $4695 Rashmikant & Hemlata Shah $151 Nivaan Kothari (Bhavin & Kinjal Kothari) $51 20th Anniversary – Dhwaja Ceremony (Bhumti): Harsukhlal & Bhadra Doshi $101 Pankaj & Malini Vakharia $101 Name Tirthankar Amount Bansi & Bharti Shah $51 Vinay & Sneha Shah Adeshvar $201 Vastupal & Varsha Shah $101 Bipin & Sohini Shah Ajitnath $201 Vinay & Sneha Shah $101 Hemant & Tarulata Shah Sambhavnath $201 Dinesh & Sunita Dagli $201 Bhupendra & Neena Shah Abhinandanswami $201 Nilesh & Hina Shah $101 Tushar & Birva Shah Sumatinath $201 Sanjay & Manisha Bhandari $101 Shashin & Chandany Shah Padmaprabhu $201 Suresh & Ila Shah $51 Ramesh & Nayana Shah Suparshvanath $201 Arvind & Ramila Shah $101

Ankit & Bina Shah (Ishana & Arya) $51 Bhupendra & Neena Shah 9/5 Mangal Divo $151 Yeshwant & Meeta Tolia $151 Rashmikant & Hemlata Shah Day-1 Aarti $121 Sudha Jain $101 Kumarpal & Indira Shah Day-1 Mangal Divo $101 Bhupat & Aruna Shah $101 Kalpesh & Tarang Shah Day-1 Shanti Kalash $171 Tirthesh & Shreya Shah $51 Kirti & Bhavna Shah Day-2 Aarti $101 Homil Shah (Dinesh & Geeta Shah) $101 Lalit & Bharti Shah Day-2 Mangal Divo $121 EC 2017-2018 $504 Bipin & Sohini Shah Day-2 Shanti Kalash $221 Total $2625 Jagdish & Shaila Shah Day-3 Aarti $151 Anonymous Day-3 Mangal Divo $221 Bhupendra & Neena Shah Day-3 Shanti Kalash $301 Samuhik Maha Abhishek Utsav Food Sponsorship: Pravin & Surabhi Shah Day-3 Kalpasutra $701 Anonymous Day-4 Aarti $61 Name Amount Anonymous Day-4 Mangal Divo $61 Abhishek & Dhara Shah $101 Anonymous Day-4 Shanti Kalash $71 Vastupal & Varsha Shah $101 Sharmilaben Mehta Day-5 Aarti $71 EC-2017/18 $105 Sharmilaben Mehta Day-5 Mangal Divo $221 Total $307 Sharmilaben Mehta Day-5 Shanti Kalash $401 Bipin & Sohini Shah Day-6 Aarti $111 Acharya Shree Vidyasagar Ji Pujan: Pravin & Surabhi Shah Day-6 Mangal Divo $201 Kirti & Bhavna Shah Day-6 Shanti Kalash $251 Name Amount Pravin & Surabhi Shah Day-7 Aarti $151 Akshat & Priyanka Jain $101 Manoj & Minaxi Shah Day-7 Mangal Divo $161 Neelesh & Megha Jain $51 Pravin & Surabhi Shah Day-7 Shanti Kalash $251 Total $152 Hasmukh & Bharti Shah Day-7 Barsa Sutra $1414 Atul & Jagruti Patrawala Day-8 Aarti $321 Sharmilaben Mehta Day-8 Mangal Divo $321 Baar Bhavana Puja: Atul & Jagruti Patrawala Day-8 Shanti Kalash $301 Total $6579 Name Amount

Tirthesh & Shreya Shah $151 Vastupal & Varsha Shah $151 Paryushan Mahaparva – Swapna Darshan Day : Tirthesh & Shreya Shah $151 Name For Amount Total $453 Arvind & Ramila Shah $101 Deepak & Kiran Shah “Lion” Swapna Flower Mala $101 Paryushan Mahaparva – AM Puja & Other: Rahul & Neeyati Shah $101 Shreyans Mukesh Kothari “Lion” Swapna Pearl Mala $151 Name For Amount Bhupendra & Neena Shah “Lion” Swapna Darshan $551 Peenal & Niral Shah 9/5 Aarti $101 Nalin & Gita Shah $101

Arvin & Jaya Shah $101 Shirish & Vidya Shah “Sun” Swapna Darshan $3,535 “Elephant” Swapna Flower Kalpesh & Tarang Shah $101 Snehal, Payal & Ina Shah $101 Mala Arvind & Ramila Shah $101 Sneha & Vinay Shah $101 “Flag” Swapna Flower Mala Nalin & Gita Shah “Elephant” Swapna Pearl Mala $151 Suresh & Rekha Shah $101 Arvin & Jaya Shah “Elephant” Swapna Darshan $601 Jagdish & Shaila Shah $101 Rajesh Jain & Vinita Parekh $101 Mital & Binish Shah, Stuti $151 Gunvant Shah “Bull” Swapna Flower Mala $101 Vijay & Punita Shah “Flag” Swapna Pearl Mala $151 Bipin & Sohini Shah $101 Ankit & Bina Shah $151 Rajesh Jain & Vinita Parekh “Bull” Swapna Pearl Mala $151 Bhupendra & Neena Shah “Flag” Swapna Darshan $2,828 Bhupendra & Neena Shah “Bull” Swapna Darshan $901 Niki & Ashmi Mehta $101 “Laxmi Devi” Swapna Flower Tushar & Birva Shah “Purna-Kalash” Swapna Flower $101 Gunvant Shah $4,501 Mala Vinit & Anjua Shah Mala $101 “Laxmi Devi” Swapna Pearl Udaya & Karana Parikh $101 Arvin & Jaya Shah $3,001 Mala Rajiv & Reepal Shah $151 Arvin & Jaya Shah “Laxmi Devi” Swapna Darshan $40,005 Nitin & Pooja Jain $151 “Purna-Kalash” Swapna Pearl Bhadra H Doshi (Kavya Davina) $101 Atul, Robin, Samit, Meera “Garland of Flowers” Swapna Mala $151 Sanjay & Raxa Shah $101 Patrawala Flower Mala Samkit & Ronak Shah $101 Manoj & Surabhi Modi $151 Bhadra H Doshi (Tanvi-Sanjana) “Garland of Flowers” Swapna $151 “Purna-Kalash” Swapna Monil & Forum (Nilkesh Shah) $2,424 Shivani & Bhavesh Shah Pearl Mala $151 Darshan “Garland of Flowers” Swapna Pratik & Nehal Shah $101 Mahendra J Shah $2,001 Darshan Manjit, Ishita, Nishi Shah “Padma Sarovar” Swapna $101 Ankit & Riddhi Shah $101 Kumarpal & Indira Shah Flower Mala $101 Praful & Pratima Shah $101 Siddharth & Manu Shah $101 “Moon” Swapna Flower Mala Kirti & Bhavana Shah $101 Piyush & Femina Shah $151 Pravin & Surabhi Shah $101 JSGD EC Volunteer Group “Padma Sarovar” Swapna Pearl $151 Ramesh & Sheela Shah $151 Ajay & Trupti Ajmera Mala $151 Dilip & Kalpana Shah $151 Jiansh Karan Dedhia $151 “Moon” Swapna Pearl Mala Pradip & Hema Shah $151 “Padma Sarovar” Swapna Jignesh & Jayshree Madhani $2,424 Jagdish & Shaila Shah $151 Darshan Pravin & Surabhi Shah “Moon” Swapna Darshan $2,001 Kirti & Bhavana Shah $101 Chirag & Darshita Jhaveri $101 Jinansh & Priya Shah, Aarush “Milky Ocean” swapna Flower $101 Tushar & Birva Shah $101 Dipal & Chintan Shah Mala $101 “Sun” Swapna Flower Mala Saurabh & Sonal Shah $101 Akshay & Darshana Gala $101 Pravin & Surabhi Shah $101 Jagdish & Bhanu Shah $151 Deval & Namrata Shah $151 Priyank & Bhumika Vora “Milky Ocean” Swapna Pearl $151 Neha Dean $151 Kekin & Ami Seth Mala $151 “Sun” Swapna Pearl Mala Ajay & Trupti Ajmera $151 Chirag & Darshita Jhaveri $151 Shailesh & Priti Shah $151 11

“Milky Ocean” Swapna Gunavant Shah - Amit & Purvi Ami Zarna $3,636 Kumarpal & Indira Shah $1,611 Darshan Jignesh & Jayshree Madhani Aarti $801 Dipak & Panna Shah $101 Arvind & Ramila Shah Mangal Divo $1,414 Biren & Avni Shah $101 Sharad & Nalini Shah “Viman” Swapna Flower Mala Jigar & Purvi Shah $101 Pravin & Surabhi Shah Ashta Mangal - 1 : Swastik $501 Arvin & Jaya Shah $101 Rajiv & Reepal Shah Ashta Mangal - 2 : Shri Vatsa $451 Nirav Doshi $151 Shashin & Chandany Shah Ashta Mangal - 3 : Nandavart $301 Trithesh & Shreya Shah $151 Ketan & Daksha Doshi Ashta Mangal - 4 : Vardhman $351 “Viman” Swapna Pearl Mala Arvin & Jaya Shah $151 Rohit & Devyani Shah Ashta Mangal - 5 : Bhadrasan $301 Manoj & Minaxi Shah $151 Manoj & Minaxi Shah Ashta Mangal - 6 : Purna Kalash $351 Arvin & Jaya Shah “Viman” Swapna Darshan $3,001 Shashikant & Sandhya Shah Ashta Mangal - 7 : Min Yugal $301 Jignesh & Jayshree Madhani $101 Vijay & Ranjan Shah Ashta Mangal - 8 : Darpan $401 Kirti & Bhavana Shah “Heap of Jewels” Swapna $101 Total $109960 Kritesh & Hiral Mehta Flower Mala $101 Rushabh & Kavita Mehta $101 Paryushan MahaParva - Bhavna Sponsorships: Ketan & Janki Shah $151 Gunvant Shah “Heap of Jewels” Swapna Pearl $151 Name Bhavna Day Amount Prakash & Kirti Sanghvi Mala $151 Pravin & Surbhi Shah $201 Day-1 Suresh & Bina Shah $151 Jagdish & Bhanu Shah $201 “Heap of Jewels” Swapna Nalin & Gita Shah $201 Shailesh & Jyoti Jain $2,001 Day-2 Darshan Ketur & Sejal Doshi $201 Hiren & Radhika Shah $101 Atul & Jagruti Patrawala $201 “Smokeless Fire” Swapna Jaswant & Mita Shah $101 Pravin & Surbhi Shah Day-3 $201 Flower Mala Hemendra & Devangi Shah $101 Manish & Bharti Shah $201 Ketan & Janki Shah $151 Binish & Mital Shah $201 Girish & Asha Shah “Smokeless Fire” Swapna Pearl $151 Vijay & Punita Shah $201 Day-5 Rohit & Devyani Shah Mala $151 Kekin & Ami Sheth $201 Kalpesh & Tarang Shah $151 Pradip & Hema Shah $201 “Smokeless Fire” Swapna Ekasana Team – Aarti $201 Anand & Mona Bora $2,205 Day-6 Darshan Ekasana Team – Mangal Divo $201 Rohit & Devyani Shah “Parna” Flower mala $1,001 Girish & Asha Shah $201 Day-7 Bipin & Sohini Shah “Parna” Pearl mala $701 Nalin & Gita Shah $201 “Parna” ma Bhagwan ne Divyakant & Meena Shah $3,333 Pravin & Surbhi Shah $201 Padharavavanu Dinesh & Sunita Dagli Day-8 $201 Samkit & Ronak Shah “Parna” Darshan / Taking home $9,501 Bhupendra & Neena Shah Samvatsari Pratikam $201 Ketan & Janki Shah Tilak Karvanu $301 Rajendra & Pratibha Modi Sponsorship $201 Arvind & Ramila Shah Munimji $151 Pradip & Hema Shah $201 Reekhav; Jainav; Reeshav Indra & Indrani $1,414 Total $4020 (Jaimik & Reenal Shah) 12

Ketur & Sejal Doshi Samayik Paravavanu $601 Shashin & Chandany Shah Pratikraman Bhanavavanu $901 Paryushan MahaParva – Swapna Darshan Day Food-sponsorship: Total $7977 Name Amount Dharam & Rashmi Shah $101 Paryushan MahaParva - Ekasana Food Sponsorship: Nilesh & Hina Shah $101 Name Amount Pradip & Madhu Modi $101 Shardaben Shah (Jagdish & Shaila Shah) $101 Suresh & Ila Shah $101 Jignesh & Jayshree Madhani $101 Ankit & Bina Shah $51 Nalin & Gita Shah $101 Chandrakant & Ramila Ravani $101 Jayesh & Nayna Gosalia $101 Pradip & Hema Shah $101 Sohini & Bipin Shah $101 Satish & Aarti Doshi $101 Niki & Asmi Mehta $101 Ramaben C Haria $101 Praful & Pratima Shah $101 Jaswant & Saroj Sheth $101 Rajesh Jain & Vinita Parekh $101 Krutik Bajani $51 Rashmikant & Hemlata Shah $151 Sushilaben & Kusumben, Hemant Premji Lalan $101 Jaswant & Mita Shah $101 Kinjal, Nivaan, Bhavin Kothari $51 Ankit & Bina Shah $101 Bipin & Vijaya Shah $151 Vinay & Sneha Shah $101 Chirag & Angel Shah $101 Niranjan & Vibha Shah $101 Bharat R Doshi $101 Satish & Keerti Shah $101 Sharad & Nalini Shah $151 Bhupat & Aruna Seth $101 Total $1667 Suresh & Ila Shah $101 Hemant & Veena Shah $101 Paryushan MahaParva - Samvatsari Pratikaman: Kalpesh & tarang Shah $101 Name For Amount Jayant & Heena Shah $150 Samkit & Ronak Shah $101 Anonymous Samayik Levravavanu $501 Dinesh & Geeta Shah $101 Divyakant & Meena Shah Saklahrath $201 Vastupal & Varsha Shah $101 Ketur & Sejal Doshi Snatasya Thoy $351 Sundarlal Uttamchand Damanwala $51 Rajesh Jain & Vinita Parekh Sat Lakh $551 Samar & Purvi Teli $51 Shashin & Chandany Shah Vanditu-1 $401 Arpan & Sonali Gandhi $101 Bipin & Vijya Shah Atichar $901 Pradip & Hema Shah $151 Shrikumar& Mayurika Poddar Michhami Dukkadam $701 Hastimal Mandha $101 Bipin & Sohini Shah Vanditu-2 $201 Rohit & Nilpa Shah $101 Arvind & Ramila Shah Vanditu-3 $151 Bipin & Vijaya Shah $151 Hemant & Veena Shah Ajit Shanti $701 Ankit & Riddhi Shah $51 Vastupal & Varsha Shah Moti Shanti $1,414 Bhavesh & Shivani Shah $101 Vastupal & Varsha Shah Santikaram $401

Nilesh & Hina Shah (Sumanba) $101 Shashi & Devyani Dani $101 Vijay & Usha Vasani $101 Rajendra & Pratibha Modi $101 Dhanraj & Sadhana Sheth $101 Amit & Usha Singhi $201 Yogendra Sheth $101 Divyakant and Meena Shah $101 Girish & Asha Shah $101 Sharad & Nalini Shah $151 Badhuben Shah (Girish & Asha Shah) $101 Total $7773 Gunvant Shah $101 Shailesh & Jyoti Jain $101 Das-Lakshan Parva/Kshamavani – Puja Sponsorship: Pratibha Shah $151 Dharam & Rashmi Shah $151 Name For Amount Mahendra & Padmini Sheth $151 Neena (Sudha) Jain $51 Jaswant & Saroj Sheth $151 Vishal & Nisha Doshi Day-1 $51 Vijay Shah & Hemlata Menon $101 Raj & Shakuntala Jain $51 Kulin & Ranjan Shah $101 Purushottam & Manjul Deo $51 Day-2 Pravin & Kalpna Shah $101 Manit & Jini Jain $51 Lalit & Usha Doshi $101 Amit & Priya Jain $51 Ajay & Trupti Ajmera $101 Anuja Deo $51 Day-3 Dinesh & Sunita Dagli $101 Shrayan & Jwala $51 Ramesh & Sheela Shah $101 Ashok & Asha Jain $51 Sanjay & Manisha Bhandari $101 Neena (Sudha) Jain $51 Pradip & Divya Shah $51 Manish Jain (Kota) Day-4 $51 Pradeep & Madhu Modi $101 Manish Jain (Indore) $51 Manoj & Surabhi Modi $101 Neena (Sudha) Jain $51 Bhupendra & Neena Shah $151 Manish Jain (Kota) Day-5 $51 Kartik & Mansi Shah $101 Manish Jain (Indore) $51 Chirag & Darshita Jhaveri $101 Neena (Sudha) Jain $51 Day-6 Pramod & Jayshree Sheth (Reena) $101 Vishal & Nisha Doshi $51 Abhilash & Dhara Shah $101 Purushottam & Manjul Deo Day-7 $51 Rakesh & Lisa Sheth $101 Akshat & Priyanka Jain Day-8 $51 Ankit & Krina Gogri $151 Neelesh & Megha Jain $51 Biren & Avani Shah $51 Amit & Megha Shah Day-9 $51 Arvind & Ramila Shah $101 Manit & Jini Jain $51 Bansi & Bharti Shah $51 Sunita & Santosh Pandya $51 Suresh & Rekha Shah $101 Amit & Priya Jain $51 Ramaben C. Haria $101 Raj & Shakuntala Jain $51 Day-10 Chintan & Dipal Shah $51 Vinay & Nidhi Jain $51 Nalin & Gita Shah $101 Manit & Jini Jain $51 Jit & Manda Turkhia $101 Pritam & Sakshi Pahade $51

Abhishek & Anjali Agarwal $51 Shri Kalpasutra Puja Sponsorship: Neena (Sudha) Jain Parna Day $51 Vishal & Nisha Doshi $101 Name Amount Sudha Jain $101 Rashmikant & Hemlata Shah $151 Raj & Shakuntla Jain $101 Kalpesh & Tarang Shah $151 Kshamavani Pujan Ashok & Asha Jain $101 Pravin & Surabhi Shah $251 Purushottam & Manjul Deo $101 Total $553 Amit & Priya Jain $101 Total $2136 Shri Kalpasutra Puja Food Sponsorship:

Kshamavani – Food Sponsorship: Name Amount Rashmikant & Hemlata Shah $101 Name Amount Vishal & Trupti Gogad $101 Rohit & Shalini Jain $101 Total $202 Vinay & Nidhi Shah $101 Vishal & Nisha Doshi $151 Manit & Jini Jain $151 Hindi Puja Sponsorship: Raj & Shakuntla Jain $151 Purushottam & Manjul Deo $101 Name Amount Sudha Jain $101 Neelesh & Megha Jain $51 Ashok & Asha Jain $101 Dr Ashok & Asha Jain $51 Ankur & Shilpee Vakharia $101 Santosh & Sunita Pandya $51 Samdeep & Amruta Patil $51 Ajay & Gunjan Jain $51 Anurag & Rita Jain $101 Total $204 Prasad & Rajshree Guggari $101 Amit & Priya Jain $151 Ajay & Sujata Jain $101 “If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, Amit & Megha Shah $101 Jayant & Heena Shah $51 you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the Manish Jain (Kota) $51 other 99 per cent.” EC 2017/18 $101 ― Warren Buffett Total $1868

Volunteer Appreciation

20th Anniversary Celebrations: Study Class Corner

We celebrated 5-Day auspicious event - "Panchanika Mahostav" with full zeal, marking our 20th Temple Anniversary. We are very thankful to Shri Narendrabhai Nandu and his group for their exceptional support to perform pujans & vidhis at our temple for past 20 years. This event would not have been possible without help from many of you. Decorating temple to creating wonderful "Aangi", hosting visitors to coordinating gheebolis, performing & setup religious activities to clean up after event, making delicious food, Help serving food to cleaning utensils - We have seen many of you supported us and gave your valuable time to temple during this auspicious mahostav. We thank all of you from the bottom of our heart. We would like to Thank following Team members: For 18 Abhishek/Dhwaja Ceremony: Leading set-up and preparation work as well as during event support from Rahul & Neeyati Shah, Tushar & Birva Shah, Dipen & Kavita Shah, Sharad & Nalini Shah. During event help from Likhit Shah, Rushabh Mehta, Jagdish Shah, Chirag Gandhi, Purvi Shah, Hiren Shah, Pritam & Sakshi Pahade. Our young volunteers Keval Shah, Jayna Shah, Veer Shah, Vandan Shah, Rishi Zaveri For Gheeboli(s) – Praful Shah, Peenal Shah did wonderful job. Vinaybhai helped silently noting everything down. Early morning help in temple: Likhit Shah, Shital Shah, Hemlata Shah, Parva Shah, Neena Shah, Bharati Shah. Aangi: For all 5 days, Wonderful Aangi everyday by Rajnikant & Jyotsna Shah, Vinita Parekh and Alka Shah Food Co-coordinators: Big thanks to Entire food team - Pratiksha Shah, EC spouses & Volunteers prepared mouthwatering food for four (4) days and Smita Sheth, BOT spouses & volunteers prepared delicious food on Dhwaja day. Decoration: Megha Jain, with help of young volunteers did eye catching, creative and beautiful decoration. Keval Gada & his Family donated all the decoration items. Also thank you Sharad Shah for providing previous year’s photographs and Arvind Shah for decorating materials. Photos: Sharad Shah captured all the moments all 5 days. Hosting: Shri Narendrabhai Nandu: Praful & Pratima Shah Rabi Bhattacharya (On Tabla): Shashin & Chandany Shah Patla Making: Deval Shah, Harindra Shah, Nirav Sheth, Likhit Shah, Arpan Gandhi made patla for Bhagwan. Overall during all 5 days ceremony following volunteers have put hours without looking at clock : Ajol Shah, Supan Shah, Virat Shah, Pritam Pahade, Milin Doshi, Ruchika Shah, Chirag Gandhi, Likhit Shah, Nisarg Shah, Aishwarya Kubre , Rushabh Mehta, Parswa Patwa, Arpan Gandhi, Kavita Mehta, Nirbhay Mehta, Devam Sanghavi, Akshay Gala, Darshana Gala, Anand Kamdar, Pratik Shah Special Thanks to Deepak Shah (Pujari Ji) and Kiran Shah For the Drama “Bhimo Kundaliyo” we would like to thank, our main characters, Vinit Shah, Reepal Shah, Rishi Zaveri, Nirav Sheth, Ankit Shah, Pratiksha Shah and Reenal Shah. Also the great team of some of our new volunteers did extremely fantastic without practice being the Sheths. We also thank all donors and members for their generous donations and participation in gheebolis. With your support, we have raised $64,258 in total pledges.

During these days of celebrations, if we have hurt anyone, knowingly or unknowing, by our words, actions or deeds, we sincerely seek your forgiveness. Michhami Dukkadam.

Paryushan Maha Parva:

Thank you all the members for taking part in the Paryushan. We would like to thank • All Donors for sponsorship and taking Gheebolis • Religious committee – Sharad & Nalini Shah, Rahul & Neeyati Shah, Chirag & Darshita Jhaveri, Tushar & Birva Shah, Dipen & Kavita Shah, JOY and all other volunteers. • Bhartiben Doshi, Jayaben Shah and their entire group for the Ekasana food preparation. • Rohit Shah, Likhit Shah, Parva Shah, Bharti (Jayprakash) Shah, Gayatriben Munot, Rishi Zaveri – for their help with Kesar Preparation • Lalit Shah, Kalpesh Shah, Rashmikant & Hemlata Shah, Praful & Pratima Shah, Sharad & Nalini Shah – for coordinating AM Snatra-Puja. • Peenal Shah, Praful Shah and Biren Shah – for their help to lead Gheebolis during Paryushan days. • Atul & Jagruti Patrawala family to host visiting scholar Sh. Parasbhai. • • All Study-Class Coordinator(s) to help lead Children Prabhavana. • Vinaybhai, Anand Bora and Ankit shah – for coordinating Barsa Sutra Vidhi. • Vinit Shah, Rahul Shah, Chintan Shah, Dipak (Panna) Shah, Pratima Shah, Shaila Shah, Manish Shah, Hiren Shah, Amit Shah - for their help on Swapna Darshan Day. • We have enjoyed wonderful Aangi during all Paryushan days. Many months of planning & preparation and utmost dedication. Our sincere thanks to “Rajnkantbhai and Jyotsnaben” for designing and creating magnificent Aangi(s) for all 9 days. Thanks to Vinitaben, Alkaben for helping us. • We would like to thank following families for sponsoring Sakal Sangh Parna: . Shah Divyakant & Mina . Shah Jagdish & Gita . Shah Rohit & Nilpa . Shah Ankit & Bina . Shah Nilkesh & Nina . Shah Binish & Mital . Shah Saurabh & Sonal . Kothari Nikhil & Smita . Kothari Bhavesh & Ragini . Shah Abhay & Rekha . Shah Hemendra & Devangi . Shah Jagdish & Hasuben

Das Lakshan Maha Parva:

• Das Lakshan Maha Parva was followed by Paryushan. This is a great festival of soul purification. • We would like to thank all coordinators for Puja, Das Lakshan Vidhan & Cultural Activity (Vishal Doshi, Megha Shah, Purushottam Deo, Akshat Jain, Jwala Gotadke, Jini Jain) & key volunteers for making Das Lakshan Parva Successful. • Kshamavani is the unique function for which every Jain should be proud of. Like previous years too we have celebrated the Kshamavani with great zeal.

• We would like to thank all Leads & Co-coordinators for Delicious Food (Richa Jain, Megha Shah, Pratiksha Shah), Beautiful Decoration (Megha Jain), Puja & Hosting Scholar (Vishal Doshi, Parul Shah), Planning (Neelesh Jain, Vishal Doshi, Amit Shah), Kshamavani Speak (Purushottam Deo), Bhajan (Manit Jain), Audio (Pritam & Parshwa Patwa) & Social Hall Setup (Shrayan Gotadke, Naveen Jain, Akshat Jain). • Special thanks to key volunteers Naveen Jain, Amit Shah, Nisarg Shah, Nirav Sheth, Virat Shah, Ankur Vakharia, Shefali Vakharia, Shashin Shah, Pratiksha Shah, Jini Jain, Sakshi Pahade, Vinay Shah, Nidhi Shah, Pritam Pahade, Akshat Jain, Priyanka Jain, Rajshree Guggari, Mahi Doshi, Krishi Shah, Naisha Doshi, Nisha Doshi and Priya Jain. • Thanks to our Seniors (Raj & Shakuntala Jain, Purushottam & Majul Deo, Dr. Ashok & Asha Jain for their guidance for this wonderful event. Special thanks to Rashmikant Shah for keyboard, Sharad Shah for Photos. We seek forgiveness if unknowingly we hurt anyone. Uttam Kshama. Michhami Dukkadam!

EC, on behalf of JSGD would like to thank all volunteer help that everyone has provide in form or other to make all the event successful throughout the year. We also thank everyone for actively participating all the events.

- Executive Committee

Photo Links Study Class Corner Kshamavani Celebrations: https://tinyurl.com/Kshamavani-Day Daslakshna Celebrations: https://tinyurl.com/Das-Lakshan2018 https://tinyurl.com/Paryushan-Parna https://tinyurl.com/Paryushan-Part-1 Paryushan - 2018 https://tinyurl.com/Paryushan-Part-2 https://tinyurl.com/Paryushan-Part-3 Yatra-2018 https://tinyurl.com/JSGDYatra-2018 Scholarship Awards https://tinyurl.com/JSGD-Scholarship https://tinyurl.com/JSGD-TA-Part1 https://tinyurl.com/JSGD-TA-Part2 20th Anniversary / Panchanika Mahotsav https://tinyurl.com/JSGD-TA-Part3 https://tinyurl.com/JSGD-TA-Part4 https://tinyurl.com/JSGD-TA-Part5

EC Corner

Ayambil Oli: Study Class Corner We had 37 members successfully completed Chaitra (March-18) Ayambil oli. The Asomas Ayambil oli started on 10/16/2018. We request all members to take a laabh during this auspicious event. Please sign-up on the notice board or contact any committee member/Pujariji to put your name.

Parna for Year 2019: We have now the sponsors for 2019 Parna. Please see the current list of participating families and please contact any of following team member if you would like to take a laabh along with them or if you wish to participate in 2020 Parna, please contact any EC member:

1. Dipakbhai & Pannaben Shah (734-513-9949) 6. Jayeshbhai & Nayanaben Gosalia (248- 595-1356) 2. Pravinbhai & Surbhiben Shah (734-495-1380) 7. Jaswantbhai & Mitaben Shah (810-449-3678) 3. Rashmikant & Hemlataben Shah (734-495-1526) 8. Rohitbhai & Jyotiben Shah (248-390-7530) 4. Jagdishbhai & Shailaben Shah (248-348-1121) 9. Vastupalbhai & Varshaben Shah (586-323-2015) 5. Hemantbhai & Veenaben Shah (248-426-6565)

Swadhyay Update

Adult Swadhyay is every Wednesday from 7.00 PM to 8.30 PM. From 09/19, we have begun Swadhyay on very important Jain book "TATTVARTHADHIGAM SUTRA". Every Jain who is curious about the principles of Jainism must study this book. The book is divided in 10 chapters, covering subjects like 9 tattvas, 6 Dravyas, reincarnation, Indriyas and Mann, nature of universe and its inhabitants, vows, theory of karma and finally Salvation.

If you crave for knowledge and peace, you must find one and a half hour from your busy schedule and come to Swadhyay at the temple. It serves two objectives: Bhakti and Gnan.

EC is delighted to announce that we have finalized scholar for Paryushan 2018 through 2021. We sincerely thank all scholars for accepting our invitation and Swadhyay committee to help coordinate these efforts.

Paryushan (Year) Name of the invited Scholar 2019 Shri. Bhadrabahuvijayji 2020 Shri. Shrenikbhai Gala 2021 Shri. Samirbhai Shah 2022 Shri. Parasbhai This year we have invited 5 scholars to our Sangh to enlighten us with good values and knowledge. We sincerely appreciate all host families for their hospitality and coming forward to facilitate the Scholars! Scholar Name Dates Host Sh. Champakbhai Mehta April 23 to April 29 Atul & Jagruti Patrawala Muni. Jinchandraji Ji July 02 to July 04 Praful & Pratima Shah Sh. Shrenikbhai Gala July 25 to July 31 Rashmikant & Hemlata Shah Sh. Parasbhai Sept 05 to Sept 14 Atul & Jagruti Patrawala Bhadrabahuji Sep 24 to Sep 28 Shreyas & Purvi Shah

Paryushan Celebrations 2018

We had very energetic and eventful ParyushanStudy with aboutClass 40 known Corner Tapasyas of 8+ Upvas. Khub Khub Anumodana to all Tapasvis: Tap/ # of Tap/ # of Name Name Upvas Upvas Monica Shah (Raju Shah (D/O Praful and Bharti Shah (Hasmukh Shah) Varshitap 8 Pratima Shah)) Birva Shah (Tushar Shah) 16 Namrata Shah (Deval Shah) 8 Kalpesh Shah (Tarang Shah) 16 Neena Shah (Bhupendra Shah) 8 Arham Jhaveri (S/O Chirag & Darshita Jhaveri) 12 + 1 Niral Shah (Peenal Shah) 8 Jayna Shah (D/O Rahul & Neeyati Shah) 8 Nutan Shah (Alka Shah) 8 Keval Shah (S/O Dipen & Kavita Shah) 8 + 3 Purvi Teli (Samar Teli) 8 Vandan Shah (S/O Tushar & Birva Shah) 8 Ragini Kothari (Bhavesh Kothari) 8 Ranjan Shah (Ramesh Shah) 9 Ranjan Shah (Vijay Shah) 8 Monil Shah (Forum Shah) 8-Chauvihar Rishi Zaveri 8 Forum Shah (Monil Shah) 8 Rita Ratani (Shiraj Ratani ) 8 Anuja Shah (Vinit Shah) 8 Rohit Shah (Nilpa Shah) 8 Ashmi Haria (D/O Rama Chandrakant Haria) 8 Sharad Shah (Nalini Shah) 8 Bhavna Shah (Kirti Shah) 8 Smita Koradia (Chetan Koradia) 8 Harshukhlal Doshi (Bhadra Doshi) 8 Sohini Shah (Bipin Shah) 8 Indira Shah (Kumarpal Shah) 8 Sunita Shah 8 Jyoti Jain (Shailesh Jain) 8 Surbhi Modi (Manoj Modi) 8 Jyotsna Shah (Rajnikant Shah) 8 Vinita Parekh (Rajesh Jain) 8 Lalit Shah (Bharti Shah) 8 Surbhi Shah (Pravin Shah) 8 Manisha Bhandari (Sanjay Bhandari) 8 Dipen Shah (Kavita Shah) 8 Manoj Shah (Minaxi Shah) 8 Peenal Shah (Niral Shah) 7+ yrs ekasana

JIVDAYA Committee Update 2018

“Let each moment Studyof our life be illuminedClass with Corner the light of “Ahinsa & Compassion”

Jai Jinendra / Pranam,

On behalf of JSGD Jiv Daya committee we would like to thank you for your generous donation during 2018 Paryushan Parva in Detroit. We are able to collect close to $ 14,000 during the Parva and we have more fund available for this cause to distribute. Your continuous commitment and contributions will make a remarkable difference and will provide invaluable services to mute, sick, aged and helpless animals and birds in rural areas of India and here in USA.

No price is too great to save a single life. With the help of donations from supporters, we will continue to see improvements and will be able to expand our services for this humble cause to the right charities. We are planning to have shed projects in some Panjrapole in India.

We are pleased to share the information that Construction of the New Animal Shelter House at Wakaner Panjrapole , just got completed per member of Parliament Lalitbhai Mehta. JSGD was one of the sponsor on this project. Over the last years JSGD has sent more than $50,000+ to 30+ different panjarapoles, from donations received from individuals and families, and many animals are saved from slaughter houses from generous donations. Jivdaya committee also supports SASHA Farm, MI which is the Midwest’s largest farm animal sanctuary.

We are going to disperse this fund in coming months to Panjarapoles in India and animal centers in North America. Every year we would like to send fund to new Panjrapoles and it is crucial to send Panjrapoles which are old and in rural areas which are neglected due to migration of Jain population towards major cities and only few families are left to support for this humble cause. We also would like to send fund to Panjrapoles outside Gujarat and need info. If you have any info on Panjarpole or animal centers in need, please provide contact and project information to any member of committee by 11/06/2018. They can send info through email also;[email protected]

Thank you again for your generous support of our efforts towards JIVDAYA.

Hemant Shah, (248)426-6565 Jiv Daya Committee Coordinator

Jivdaya Team: Nutan Shah (248)442-1477, Bhupendra Shah (248)349-5130, Harsukhlal Doshi and Prakash Shah (248)307-0326

Jain Milan - 2018

Study Class Corner

Lansing Prayer Session

Jai Jinendra and Pranam to all! n last 46 years, since inception of our society history, first time, we are fortunate to have an invitation by Congressman. Tim Greimel and his team invited all society members to come to State Capital in Lansing for Jain Prayer. This trip was coordinated by Hemant & Veena Shah to visit State Capital on Tuesday (9/25/2018) during congressman caucuses. Thanks to Hemantbhai & Veenaben for long term vision.

Mahendrabhai Guruji & Shailaben were on the stage during the congressman session at 1:30pm to chant the prayer and explained the meaning of it.

This process was witnessed by many of our members who were present as shown in the picture below. After the prayer chanting, Tim Greimel team gave us the tour of one of the finest capital building.

Thanks to Manojbhai and Minaxiben who brought Masala tea and served before the event. Congressman and his team were enjoying tea before the event started, and were pleased with our hospitality.

As our society is growing, it is nice to have good relations with government officials who have interest in our religion to be aware of. Our religion is nonpartisan and as a society, we do not support any party. But it is in the benefits of our society members to invite some government officials during our special event and keep them abreast of our activities.

This is very proud moment for our Sangh and we feel honored as our Jainism is recognized & well received at state level due to active participation of our JSGD members in community outreach.

Our JAINA Directors, Manish Mehta, Jinansh Shah and Pritish Shah are working with JAINA, so that detailed material prepared by JSGD for this kind of event can be utilized to carry out events at other centers in North America

BOT Corner

 ELECTRONIC VOTING PROCESSStudy APPROVAL: Class Corner

Letter Dated: 09/24/18

Respected Jain Society of Greater Detroit Members, Jai Jinendra and Pranam.

Jain Society of Greater Detroit is requesting members for your approval to add an electronic ballot process for updates to our Constitution and Bylaws. The process was recommended by the Constitution Committee and endorsed by BOT and EC Committees. The electronic ballot process has been validated by our IT group for confidentiality. The following pages will explain the process of approval.

This information was also shared with the General body on August 26 and again on the Mahavir Swapna Day Celebrations, on September 9th.

If you have any questions, contact any one of the Constitution Team Members: Sincerely,

Girish Shah – Chairman Bipin Shah, Hemant Shah, Manish Mehta, Pradeep Modi and Pradip Shah

Chetan Koradia Girish Shah BOT – Chairman Constitution – Chairman

The following are the Proposed Changes

Constitution:

Article No. VIII – Amendments to the Constitution 4. The following procedure shall be followed for presentation of a proposed amendment by a mail ballot: a. An informational mailing including the proposed amendment and the Board of Trustees recommendation shall be mailed to all members within thirty (30) days prior to the mailing of the ballots either through United States Postal Services or by electronic mail (e-mail). Along with mailing a posting will also be done at temple notice board. b. At the conclusion of the 30-day review period, the ballot, along with written questions and suggestions received by the Board of Trustees’ responses shall be mailed to each member either through United States Postal Services or by electronic mail (e-mail). Along with mailing a posting will also be done at temple notice board. c. Members shall have thirty (30) days in which to return the ballots, after which the Executive Committee secretary shall count the ballots. The approval of the amendment requires (i) that a majority of the voting members return the ballots and (ii) that three fourths of those returning the ballots approve the amendment. Article No. VIII- Amendments to the Constitution 5. The following procedure shall be followed for presentation of a proposed amendment by a mail ballot:

a. An informational mailing including the proposed amendment and the Board of Trustees recommendation shall be mailed to all members within thirty (30) days prior to the mailing of the ballots either through United States Postal Services or by electronic mail (e-mail). Along with mailing a posting will also be done at temple notice board. b. At the conclusion of the 30-day review period, the ballot, along with written questions and suggestions received by the Board of Trustees’ responses shall be mailed to each member either through United States Postal Services or by electronic mail (e-mail). Along with mailing a posting will also be done at temple notice board. c. Members shall have thirty (30) days in which to return the ballots, after which the Executive Committee secretary shall count the ballots. The approval of the amendment requires (i) that a majority of the voting members return the ballots and (ii) that three fourths of those returning the ballots approve the amendment. ByLaws:

Article No. 13 – Amendments to Bylaws

The following is the process by which the Bylaws can be amended: 1. Any member(s) of the society suggests an amendment to the Bylaws, the suggestion is submitted in writing to the Chairperson of BOT. 2. The BOT Chairperson forwards the suggestion to the Constitution and Bylaws Committee chair. The committee either: a. notifies the proposer (s) and the BOT of the time period required to study the proposal and make recommendations in the case where a major revision is required. The notification must occur within sixty days of submission of the proposal. Or, b. makes appropriate recommendation to the BOT within ninety days of submission of the proposal in the case where a minor revision is required. 3. The BOT reviews the recommendation and decides within 60 days of receiving the recommendation to: a. change the suggestion to a proposed amendment. Or, b. reject the suggestion. The BOT must notify the proposer(s) in writing with reasons of rejection. The proposer(s) may acquire signatures of the greater of 50 electable members or 10% of elect able members to force the BOT to change the suggestion to a proposed amendment. 4. Within 30 days of a suggestion reaching to a proposed amendment stage, the BOT and the proposer(s) agree on a method to present the amendment to the general body either through United State Postal Service or by electronic mail (e-mail) along with a mailing a posting will also be done at the temple notice board, and timing to initiate it. 5. If the agreement is to present the amendment at a general body meeting: a. An informational mailing including the proposed amendment and BOT recommendation is mailed to all the memberseither through United State Postal Service or by electronic mail (e-mail) along with a mailing a posting will also be done at the temple notice board, at least 30 days prior to the general body meeting. b. The BOT chair along with the constitution and by-laws committee chair lead the discussion at the general body meeting. No substantive changes are permitted at the meeting. c. The EC secretary conducts the voting with the help of the constitution and by-laws committee. The proposal of the amendment requires a majority of the votes of voting members with a majority of the members attending. To calculate majority of the members attending, members registered with Michigan address shall be used. d. If majority membership (Members registered with Michigan address) is not present: i. voting would be extended for thirty (30) days. ii. Members who were not present at the meeting will be sent ballot along with written proposals received by the Board of Trustee’s. 34

iii. These members will have ten (10) days in which to return the ballots. iv. At the end of 30 days from meeting these returned votes along with votes from general membership meeting will be used to evaluate approval requirement as per item (c) above. 6. If the agreement is to have a mail ballot or either through United State Postal Service or by electronic mail (e- mail) along with a mailing a posting will also be done at the temple notice board. 7. : a. An informal mailing either through United State Postal Service or by electronic mail (e-mail) along with a mailing a posting will also be done at the temple notice board, including the proposed amendment and BOT recommendation is mailed to all the members either through United State Postal Service or by electronic mail (e-mail) along with a mailing a posting will also be done at the temple notice board, for a review. The members have thirty days to review and ask questions or make suggestions in oral or written form to the constitution and by-laws committee chair. b. Within 30 days after the review period, a ballot is mailed either through United State Postal Service or by electronic mail (e-mail) along with a mailing a posting will also be done at the temple notice board. The ballot mailing contains the proposed amendment (with only editorial changes to the informational mailing), BOT recommendation, and a list of all questions and suggestions received in the review period with appropriate answers. c. The EC secretary conducts the balloting with the help of constitution and bylaws committee. The approval of the amendment requires a majority of the voting members returning the ballots with a majority of the received ballots approving.

Ad-Hoc Committees of BOT: Nomination and Election Committee:

This committee develops the nominations for the upcoming election of all the open positions on the BOT and EC. The BOT appoints five voting members including a chairperson to this committee at least eight weeks prior to the general body meeting designated for election. Current members of BOT and EC are ineligible to be appointed to this committee. Members appointed to this committee are ineligible to run for the upcoming election. The committee is dissolved on completion of the elections.

The committee sends out the application forms to the electable members six weeks prior to the General body meeting designated for election. The applications are to be returned within three weeks of mailing (three weeks prior to the e election) either through United State Postal Service or by electronic mail (e-mail) along with a mailing a posting will also be done at the temple notice board.

If no names are received for a position, the committee invites, scouts, and seeks candidates from the electable members. If more than one name is received for any position, the committee facilitates a consensus building process among the candidates so that election can be non-contested. Failing to arrive at such consensus, the committee submits all names to the voting members. A preliminary list of all the candidates is mailed to the membership within two (2) weeks of receiving applications (three, 3, weeks prior to the election) either through United State Postal Service or by electronic mail (e-mail) along with a mailing a posting will also be done at the temple notice board.

Any electable member may contest the election by obtaining signatures from the greater of 10% of voting members or 50 voting members supporting his/her candidacy after the publication of the preliminary list of candidates. The application form along with such signatures must be submitted to the nomination committee at least one week prior to the election.

The committee facilitates the election at the general body meeting with the help of EC secretary. Chairperson of the committee announces the names of the elected members at the meeting. 35

If for any reason, the election cannot be conducted at the designated general body meeting, the mail ballots should be sent out within a week after the meeting either through United State Postal Service or by electronic mail (e-mail) along with a mailing a posting will also be done at the temple notice board. The mail ballots should be returned within four weeks after the meeting. The committee should announce the results of the election within a week after the closing of ballots.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

1. What are the benefits of electronic ballot? (a) 100% confidentiality. Not even the admins would know anyone’s response. (b) Since there is no manual counting, there will be no chance of counting errors. (c) Reduces expense of ballot process. (d) Easier and faster for members to respond. (e) Reminders can be sent out quickly to all those who are yet to respond. (f) If an email is ever deleted by mistake, it can be resent. Link will always remain the same as it is associated with the individuals email address.

2. Will each individual member need to submit email address? Yes, we will require separate email addresses of each voting member of the household.

3. What info can the constitution team see? a. Who has responded and who has not b. Aggregate results

4. Are my poll/survey responses confidential or will it be shared with admins? Your responses are 100% anonymous and confidential. No one (including admins) would ever know what your response was.

5. What if I am not comfortable with all computer stuff and not able to participate in electronic ballot? While we would like to have most members use electronic ballot, you will need to let the EC Secretary know if you prefer paper ballot. If accepted, you will be sent paper ballot.

6. Why use SurveyMonkey.com? This third-party tool is used worldwide by various companies and non-profit organizations for their survey requirements. All the information is 100% confidential. Having said this, since technology changes rapidly, we reserve the right to change the software we use in the future for ballot purposes.

7. Do I need to have a SurveyMonkey.com account? No

Yatra - 2018

2018-JSGD-Sangh-Yatra-Summary

JSGD yatra committee organizedJain aOrganization Chaitya Pari Pati during the weekend of Senior of August 17 -18- -19,JOS 2018.

With Shashandev’s blessings, enthusiastic support of all the yatris, many JSGD volunteers, our EC/BOT and warm receptions from host sanghs, 90 yatris – in two buses - ranging in age from 2 yrs. old baby boy (Paras and Jigna Veera’s son - Vihhan) to seven 80+ yrs. young seniors successfully completed their 700 miles panch tirth yatra to various temples in Canada with good shata and in good health.

The yatris visited the following Centers during the yatra:  Hindu Cultural Center, London, Ontario o 62 Charterhouse Ct, London ON N5W 5V5 o Contact: Dr. Raju Shah Phone: 226-926-2687 o E-mail address: [email protected] o Website: www.hcclondon.ca  Jain Society of Toronto, Ontario o 48 Rosemeade Ave, Etobicoke, ON M8Y 3A5 o Contact: Vipul Shah, President Phone: 416-575-7598 o Website: www. jsotcanada.org  Brampton Jain Temple o 7875 Mayfield Rd, Bolton, ON L7E 0W1 o Contact: Gyan Chandra Jain, Founder Phone: 416-567-9405 o E-mail: [email protected]  Niagara Hindu Samaj, Shiv Mandir o 5284 2nd Ave, Niagara Falls ON L2E 4K2 o Contact: Mrs. Kanchan Rege, Founder Phone: 905-680-1631 o Website: www.niagarahindusamaj.org  Hindu Temple & Cultural Center of Windsor o 7007 Enterprise Way, Windsor ON N8T 3N6 o Contact: Chandubhai Morabia Phone: 519-254-3504 o Website: www.hmccw.org Friday August 17 After Navakarshi at our temple on Friday August 17, we did Samuhik Chaitya Vandan in our temple and had a group photo taken on the steps in the lobby. We left for London Ontario at 9am sharp as planned. As always, we recited Three Navakars, Uvasaggaharam and Moti Shanti after we left our temple. We crossed the border into Canada at Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron. We were initially concerned that border crossing may be a lengthy process given that we had 2 buses and 92 people (including two drivers). However, our concerns were unfounded and we were across the border in @ 20 minutes. Everyone from the buses were asked to get down at the immigration building – everyone’s passport was scanned and we re-boarded the buses. Hindu Cultural Center of London: We covered 70 miles distance to London in @ 75 minutes and arrived at about Noon. Although the London Jain group has a very small Jain population (@ 7-8 families), almost all of the members were at the temple, in addition to some of the Hindu center members - when we arrived. Mahavir Swami’s murti is in the Hindu cultural center. It was installed almost 25 years ago. After Darshan, Stuti recital and Samuhik Chaitya Vandan, we were treated to a nice lunch prepared by the local group. After lunch we sang some bhakti songs and heard a thought provoking sermon from the local pandit ji. We left London for Toronto at @ 3pm.

Jain Society of Toronto: We arrived at the Toronto Jain Temple at @ 5:30 pm – Many local sangh members were present to receive us. After Darshan and Samuhik Chaitya Vandan, we had dinner followed by Bhakti and Aarti/Divo. We checked into our hotel by 9:30 pm to rest for the night. The hotel, in Mississauga, was about half hour drive from the Temple. It should be noted that the Toronto Sangh does NOT use lilotari or dry fruits in any of their meals during four months of Chaturmas Saturday, August 18 After breakfast at the hotel, we all got ready to return back to the Toronto temple for Snatra Puja. We had planned on staying two nights at the same hotel to avoid pack up and check out in the morning. This made it easier for everyone to get ready for the puja. Toronto Temple had made all the arrangements for Snatra Puja for our group. Sharadbhai and Nalini conducted the Snatra Puja with help from other yatris and everyone had an opportunity to participate. We left Toronto temple by Noon and arrived at the Brampton Jain Temple - @ half hour drive. Brampton Jain Temple – Also known as - Bhagwan 1008 Adinath Swamy Jain Temple: This is one of the most beautiful Jain Temples in Canada/North America. The entire project was conceived, planned, designed and completed under the direction of the founder Shri Gyan Chandra Jain. He donated the land and funded the entire cost of the temple. The temple construction started in 2011 and Pratishtha Mahotsav took place in 2014. There is a 50+ ft. Manstambh at the entrance to the temple – The temple structure is a 3 story tall building and has all the modern facilities. Gyan Chandra ji has a very ambitious plan to add a school, community center and a senior residence complex on the 25 acre campus. Given his vision and determination, it is just a matter of time before it becomes a reality. Gyan Chadra ji, his wife, Mr. Talsania (Temple President), Dr. Raj Patil (Former JAINA VP for the Canada Region) and many others were all present to receive the sangh. The temple hall is specious with high ceiling and many religious paintings on the side walls. In the center, there are 3 digambar pratimajis – Shri Adinath, Shri Parshvanath and Shri Mahar Swami. After Darshan and Samuhik Chaitya Vanda, we proceeded down stairs for lunch prepared appropriately for “Atham” tithi. Gyan Chandra ji had tears in his eyes when he welcomed us to the temple. He was overwhelmed to see a Jain Sangh at his temple. We left Barmpton temple at @ 3pm for drive thru the downtown Toronto. We were able to get down and take some group/individual pictures at the Toronto City Hall and at CN Tower. This was a first time visit for many of the group and they thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Toronto City Hall is a modern structure with a large fountain in the front with a very large “TORONTO” sign. There is a mural, made of nails, in the front lobby of the City Hall and it is worth visiting. At the CN Tower, the group had an opportunity to take many pictures in front of the fountain and in front of the Sports Hall of Fame next door. We returned back to the Brampton Temple by 6:30pm – After dinner, we did Bhakti, Aarti/Divo and had an opportunity to hear from Gyan Chandra ji about the temple. He presented a small lighted replica of the temple to us which will be given to the JSGD management for display at an appropriate place in our temple. Just a side note about our visit to the Brampton Temple: While planning this yatra, we wanted to spend Saturday evening and night in Niagara Falls. We soon realized that it will be very difficult and expensive to find 50 hotel rooms in that area. So we decided to stay one more night in Toronto area. We did not want to bother Brampton Sangh for our dinner. This presented a challenge for us to organize a dinner in Toronto area. I talked to Gyan Chandra ji about our plan change and requested his assistance in finding an appropriate Jain caterer for our dinner. He said “Please consider this temple as your home and let us serve dinner to your sangh also – It will be our good fortune to do so”. This is the spirit of “Sadharmik Seva” and we were all touched by this gesture. Please google “Brampton Jain Temple Wikipedia” for more complete information. We returned back to our hotel by 9:30 pm. Sunday, August 19 After breakfast, we checked out of the hotel for our journey to Niagara Falls. We reached Niagara Falls Shiv Mandir at @ 10 am. – about 70 miles drive from our hotel. Although there are very few (6-8) Jain families in the area, they were all there in addition to the members of the Board of Trustees of the Shiv Mandir to welcome us.

Niagara Falls Shiv Mandir: Mrs. Kanchan Rege, wife of Late Dr. Udayan Rege – Founder and Visionary – shared some of the details of this temple which was established in 1999. It showed the spirit and desire to maintain our culture and religious upbringing for our future generations. We had planned a picnic lunch after leaving Niagara Falls. We encountered some difficulties in finding an appropriate place where 90+ people can have a picnic. After some google search (Thanks to many of the yatris), we found a nature preserve near Grimsby for our lunch. Although it required some walking and carrying all the lunch supplies to the picnic area, our ladies prepared a delicious bhel for everyone. We also had Watermelon and Gulab Jamun for desserts before proceeding to our final destination in Windsor. We had planned to reach Windsor by @ 6:30pm but the delays in finding a picnic place added an extra hour to our plan and we reached the Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of Windsor at @ 7:30 pm. Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of Windsor: A large group of Windsor temple members welcomed us all when we arrived. The enthusiasm and excitement with which we were received can only be experienced in person. Because of the lateness of the hour, we proceeded for the dinner immediately. As always, a delicious dinner was served by the local volunteers and everyone enjoyed it. Following the dinner, we gathered in the prayer hall. Many religious deities, including a pratimaji of Shri Ajitnath Bhagwan is installed in the mandir. After Bhakti and Aarti/Divo, Chandubhai Morabia (also a member of JSGD) welcomed us all and expressed their appreciation for bringing our sangh to their temple. The welcoming group included many youngsters who received us warmly. It was almost 10pm when we left the Windsor temple for our journey home. The crossing at the border was uneventful and we all reached our temple at @ 11:30 pm. General Observations Throughout the yatra, we spent many hours in the bus. A great deal of the time in the bus was devoted to a variety of Jainism related activities including:  Games related to religious knowledge  Q&A about Jain topics  Stavan Antakshri  Bhakti songs & Desh Bhakti songa  Sharing of the Jain Knowledge and philosophy  Sharing of the memories and experiences of previous yatras Many of the yatris had come prepared with material necessary to help everyone learn while having fun. Although everyone helped, special mention goes to:  Sharadbhai and Naliniben for organizing all the religious activities  Jyotsanaben and Rajnibhai Shah for all the fun games, Q & A’s and also for prizes to game winners  Many volunteers who sang Stavans, Bhakti and other songs  All the donors/sponsors who helped cover some of the yatra costs  Sharadbhai for taking the yatra pictures Yatra photos have already been e-mailed by Sharadbhai. Yatra organizers greatly appreciate everyone’s efforts, support and dedication. Plenty of snacks and refreshments were available throughout the yatra to keep everyone nourished and energized. Many thanks to all the volunteers who prepared snacks. The weather was pleasant and comfortable throughout the yatra. Our bus drivers, Dannielle and Laila, were always helpful and smiling. They happily accommodated our plan changes and brought us home safe and sound. It is suggested that if you liked the yatra, please plan on joining us in future yatras and tell your friends and family to participate also. If you have any suggestions to improve our yatra experience, please feel free to share it with us via e- mail.

During the yatra, if anyone was hurt or offended by our conduct, we offer our “Michhami Dukkadam”. We extended an invitation to all the host centers to bring a yatra to our temple when convenient. We request all the yatris to participate in welcoming other sanghs when they visit our temple. This was another memorable JSGD yatra and we look forward to many more such experiences in the future.

Thanks and Jai Jinendra! On Behalf of the Yatra Organizing Team

Varsha & Vastupal Shah Panna & Dipak Shah Sneha & Vinay Shah Jigna and Paras Veera

Subscribing to JSGD Newsletters & e-Jainvani

Are you missing out on urgent news, program updates and reminders in-between issues of the Jain Vani? Any announcement in-between theSubscribing Jain Vani publications will to be sentJSGD out via email E- /mails Newsletters to the members who have signed up for this distribution list. Please use the steps below to sign up for the JSGD Email distribution List: . Send an email to [email protected] . Please provide your full name and email address and you'll be added to JSGD Email Subscription list. Reply to the confirmation email to activate your subscription.

We would like to thank all of you for signing up for E Jainvani. Not just the print/mailing cost to the Society but also to the environment - Reduction of paper/Ink/energy use to print - Saving trees - Receiving information immediately as compared to 2 days later in postal mail Please let us know your comments about your first experience of receiving eJainVani as compared to Paper JainVani at http://www.jsgd.org/feedback.php Regards Executive Committee, JSGD

Jainvani – Advertisement Rate Update

Jain Vani is a quarterly print publicationStudy sent to Jain Society Class of Greater Corner Detroit's members to communicate and keep them up to date with the society activities Starting 2018, we are taking new advertisements in Jain Vani. We publish around 4 Jain Vani in a year, which reaches to more than 450 member's family. As part of going green initiative, we started publications of e-Jain Vani.

Different levels of advertisement are listed below. Please contact any EC member if you or anyone you know would like to publish their advertisement. We will have total 4 pages (2 pages – both sides) dedicated for advertisement. We will continue to accept advertisements beyond 4 pages.

 Diamond Level (Full Page) – $1400 for full year  Platinum Level (Half Page) – $800 for full year  Gold Level (Quarter Page) – $500 for full year  Silver Level (1/8 Page - business card size) – $300 for full year  Bronze Level (1/8 Page - business card size) – $50 for one time publication 43

Study Class Corner

Jai Jinendra Study Class Corner Quote for the month:

“Only that science is a great and the best of all sciences, the study of which frees man from all kinds of miseries.” - Bhagwan Mahavir

Sutra Stavan Recital

Study class hosted the annual recital on 26th August. There were approx 50 participants. A first this year, the Adult Swadhyaya members joined in with Sutra and Stavan recitals.

Essay Competition  The students eagerly await the essay results as they are being assessed by the judges right now. This years essay topics include:  Groups 2, 3A and 3B : 27 Bhavs of Mahavir Swami ( Pictorial Project )  Groups 4 and 5 : 4 Gatis of Jainism  Group 6 and 7 : How am I Jain : Elevator Pitch  Group 8 : “Samayam Goyam Ma Pamayaye” – Gautam never cease to be Vigilant: Research and interpretation

Shibir  4 students from study class: Arham Jhaveri, Keval Shah, Jayna Shah ans Manya Dedhia  participated in the Tapovan NRI Jain shibir in Ahmedabad this summer. Learn about their experience in the following link.  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1BCAEk6U6ureeDffaPQCgKaFjvfWSURM-

Paryushan Anumodana to these study class Tapasvis who have done Atthai or more. Arham Jhaveri Keval Shah Jayna Shah To celebrate Bhagvan’s education, almost 150 students participated in Children’s Prabhavna. Prior to Children’s prabhavna, Shri Parasbhai spoke to the children.

StudyClass Expo: Come one, come all as Study Class invites you to our Expo style event to showcase student work and activities. See flyer for details.

Study Class Sponsorship:

Lifetime sponsorship is $1001 and you can select a month of your choice for lifetime. The monthly sponsorship is $125. For sponsoring study class, please contact Kamlesh Shah at or email [email protected] You may also sponsor lunch at study class to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries or maybe you need no reason. Please contact Rachna Parakh or Pratiksha Shah

Hindi Class time is 9:45 am – 10:45 AM Jain Study Class time is 11:00 – 1:00 PM

http://www.jsgd.org/studyclass.php