BALABHAVAN NEWSLETTER VEDIC CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO September 2012
PERIYA PURANAM Balabhavan Coordinators BBC Announcements: Latha Sundar Venkat Maddipatla Periya Puranam is the poetic Namaste Balabhavan families! [email protected] compilation of the 63 Nayanmars devotion to Welcome back! Lord Shiva. It is composed by/ written by We trust you had a wonderful Chekkizar Peruman, during the 12th Century. It relaxing summer. The Balabhavan Summer 2012 Electronic Communication reveals the path that all 63 Nayanmars took to Camps, as well as the Ganesha Cooordinator pray to Lord Shiva and how they achieved the Clay Molding activities on 8/19 Rama Srinivas Paramaatma, all through their undying and 8/25 were enjoyed by [email protected] devotion to Lord Shiva and all his devotees. both BB kids and parents! Besides being a Minister in the Royal palace of Class Coordinators Please feel free to give us Chola King Kulothunga Chola, Chekkizar himself written feedback. was a poet and also a great devotee of Lord Super-Senior Class: Shiva. Padmini Mylavarapu Upcoming: *Balabhavan classes resume Latha Rajkumar th [email protected] on September 8 , for Juniors, Periya Puranam is a poetic composition of Seniors, and September 15th, Senior Class: life history of the devotees. The literature is for Toddlers, Super Seniors. Vasantha Madavi Sudhakar found to be of highest order. Later it was also * No BB Classes during the Nalini Venugopal considered as the 5th Veda for the Shaivites. Labor Day weekend [email protected] The song praises the devotees for the path they * Ganesha Puja by BB kids will took, to pray to Lord Shiva. Not all the be on 9/22 at 4PM sharp– Junior Class: Nayanmars were scholars. Though some are please decorate your clay Hema Rangaswamy learned scholars, some were Kings, while many Ganesha at home and bring it Anupama Rajagopalan others are normal people, who excelled only in to the temple [email protected] the way they prayed / showed their devotion to Lord Shiva. In their undying bhakthi, they With just a third of the BB year Toddler Class: showed how one could reach God and how God remaining, start thinking of the Aparna Vemuri comes in one’s service when in need. These year end Talent Show. Vandana Santhanam Shaivites just followed their normal prescribed [email protected] way of living, i.e. their Profession, as told in ------their caste system, (the basic differentiation of September Birthdays Registration coordinators: people based on their work), but differed in Juniors: Krishnaswamy Panneer Selvam the way of praying to God. Anika Sharma [email protected] Harini Shankar Sanchita Koppa Newsletter Coordinator: It is said that, Chekkizar wanted to Seniors: Krishna Meduri: change his Kings interest from Jivaka Shreya Gopala K [email protected] Chintamani (worldly pleasures) to God’s way. Siya Sharma So the King challenged him, which made him to Srinivasan Madhavan compose a poem of all the Shaiva saints Festivals of the Month: Super Seniors: (followers of Lord Shiva) called the Periya Keerti Tadimeti 9/12/12 - Ganesh Chaturthi Puranam. Chekkizar composed it in the halls of Meghna Thiruvazhi 9/30/12 - Pitr-paksha Begins the Thousand pillars Temple- Chidambaram Naveen Thiruvazhi Nataraja Temple in Cuddalore district of Tamil Srikanth Kalluri Please visit: Nadu. Sudarshan Srinivasan www.shiva-vishnu.org for By Anirudh Yadavalli Utkrisht Rajkumar more details
7930 Arjons Drive, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549-3940 1 BALABHAVAN NEWSLETTER VEDIC CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO September 2012
BBC Announcements (continued) Questions of the Month Bathukamma BB Parent Volunteers : 1. Brahma has 4 heads. How Bathukamma is a spring many heads does Subrahmanya festival celebrated by the 1. Practice Classes for Bhajans and Shlokas Hindu women of Telangana have? (Hint: Shanmukha) start on September 8 – please contact Lalitha region in Andhra Pradesh, 2. Once, when Ganesha was Kodandapani for Shloka Practice and Latha India. It is also called as dancing, a deva made fun of Sundar regarding Bhajan practice – on SVT Bodemma. This festival falls in premises. ALL volunteers for Bhajans and him. So, Ganesha cursed him. the months of Shlokas have to attend practice classes to September/October called as Name this deva whom Ganesha review their materials well ahead of their class Ashvin or Aswiyuja. cursed. (Hint: Waxing & Bathukamma festival is Waning) 2. For Bhajan practice other than celebrated for nine days Saturdays at SVT – e-mail or check with Latha during Durga Navratri. It starts Sundar on the day of Mahalaya Amavasya. It concludes two 3. Story Volunteers are encouraged to days before Dassera called as contact Ramnarayanan Krishnamurthy, or one of Durgashtami. On the final day, the other Story Telling mentors the closing ceremony of Bathukamma panduga is celebrated as a great festival – 4. Starting September, we will be Pedda Bathukamma or Saddula recruiting parent volunteers for various Bathukamma. responsibilities and roles for upcoming dance/drama and plays. Bathukamma is a beautiful 3. What is Ganesha’s vehicle flower stack, arranged with (vaahana)? BBC Team seasonal flowers, in seven concentric layers, of potter’s 4. Name Ganesha’s maternal clay like a cone. Bathuku in uncle. Telugu means live/life, and 5. M.S. Subbalakshmi is a Amma means mother, hence famous vocalist for which form Bathukamma, is celebrated for the glory, later denoted as of Classical Music? Goddess Gauri- the patron Goddess of womanhood. 6. What is Vishnu’s vehicle (vaahana)? ------Answers: Newsletter Editors 1. 6 Keerti Tadimeti 2. Somadeva (Moon god) 3. Moosaka (Mouse) Kamakshi Ramanarayanan 4. Vishnu 5. Carnatic Music Topics of the Month 6. Garuda (Eagle) Anirudh Yadavalli
7930 Arjons Drive, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549-3940 September 2012 Issue 9 2
BALABHAVAN NEWSLETTER VEDIC CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO September 2012
Balabhavan Summer Camps 2012
Dance Pooja Vidhanam
By Lalitha Krishnamoorthy By Ram Krishnamurthy
Ancient Mathematics of India
By Sriram Srinivasan and Pani Ramadurgam
7930 Arjons Drive, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549-3940 September 2012 Issue 9 3
BALABHAVAN NEWSLETTER VEDIC CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO
September 2012
Bala Bhavan's Summer Field Trip To Deer Valley Monastery
7930 Arjons Drive, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549-3940 September 2012 Issue 9 4