October 2008 Balabhavan Coordinators SUBHADRA Ram Krishnamurthy Subhadra is one of BB Announcements: the deities Krishna Meduri worshipped at Puri BB Re-registration for Jagannath temple Aparna Vemuri with her brothers, 2009: Krishna, and th Contact: Balarama 2008 Oct 4, 11, 18, 20 – [email protected] Subhadra - literally means auspicious/blessed Everyone must submit forms Class Coordinators one and she truly was being the sister of (electronically) for each Super-Senior Class: Krishna, wife of Arjuna and mother of child with a $50 (materials & Abhimanyu. She was born to Vasudeva and Padmini Mylavarapu registration) fee per child [email protected] Rohini Devi and hence was also the sister Balarama. Arjuna, in the guise of a per year (30$ check to SVT & Senior Class: mendicant, spent his last month of exile in 20$ cash to BB). Bharathy Thridandam Dwaraka. He met Subhadra here. Balarama [email protected] wanted to give Subhadra in marriage to Talent Day:Saturday, Rajasri Kota Dhuryodhana but Subhadra felt Arjuna was a th [email protected] November 8 , 3.00 p.m. to better suitor and so they fled and secretly 6.00 p.m. at Shiva Vishnu Junior Class: married. This, of course, was done with the Temple main hall. Please blessings of lord Krishna. arrive and be seated by Lakshmi Srinivasan [email protected] The picture below shows Subhadra, 2.45 p.m. Please do not Moorthy Akella one of the deities worshipped in the forget to bring your CDs and [email protected] Jagannath temple of Puri. There is a story CD players, and other items behind this. Once a king called Indradyumna necessary for your Toddler Class: had a dream of a great Krishna idol in a cave. presentation/ performance. Nithya Sudhakar But he could not identify the cave! So he sent [email protected] We are unable to Pallavi Sridhar his army to find the real cave. After a long accommodate last minute [email protected] search they came up on a cave and inside – Lo requests on the day of and Behold! The exact Krishna statue the king performance. To all those Registration coordinators: had dreamed of! But, on knowing that the who signed up: your Panner Selvam statue owner, Vishwasu would not part with child(ren)'s items have been [email protected] it! King Indradyumna, a great Krishna bhakta, noted and entered. Matangi Munikutla was very dejected. His intense desire to have REMINDER:PRESENTATIONS [email protected] a statue made was fulfilled when Vishvakarma MUST BE BASED ON INDIAN Priya Ram came disguised as an old architect and agreed [email protected] CULTURE AND TRADITIONS. to make three statues. But he laid one ---------------------------------------- Participation in Talent Day October Birthdays condition that nobody should disturb him until program is restricted to Super Senior: he finished the statues!” The curious queen children enrolled or None went and peeked into the room where the waitlisted in BB program. Senior: sculptures were being made. The architect Aishwarya Vuppala vanished into thin air! The folly of the queen Festivals of the Month: left king Indradyumna to be content with the Bhairav Peri Chidambaram Sept 29-Oct 9 -Dasara unfinished statues. Sajan Palanki Navarathri Shreya Janani Shriram Subhadra is portrayed as a valorous Junior: woman. When Ghatothgaja attacked Oct 26 – Naraka Chaturdasi Mukta Phadnis Abhimanyu mistaking him for an intruder in Oct 27 – Deepavali the forest, Subhadra challenged and took up Aparna Akella /Dhanalakshmi Puja arms to enter into combat with the former! A Toddler: Visit (http://www.shiva- Priyanka Samavedam truly gallant mother of legendary heroic son. vishnu.org) for more details Alisha Werry By Sankaran R 7930 Arjons Drive, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549-3940 October 2008 ISSUE10 - 1 - October 2008 UTHARA Class Schedules Class Schedules 10-11-2008 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 10-4-2008 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Senior Class: Toddler Class: Story: Story of Durga -Prasad Kota Story: Shuka Deva Sloka: Soundaryalahari 14-16: -Pallavi Nagaraj -Lalitha Kodandapani/ Sloka: Annapoorney Sada Poorne Shanti Kalluri Bhajan: Jag Sukh Karini, -Nithya Sudhakar Prathama Ganapathi Bhajan: Amba Paramesahwari –Srujana Srinath Latha Sundar/ Anandhi Sriram Uthara was the princess of Matsya and she was the daughter of king Virata. Pandavas Junior Class: disguised themselves as ordinary citizens Super Senior Class: and served king Virata after 13 years of Story: Story of Durga exile in the forest. Story: Kauravas -Renuka Krishnan Arjuna disguised himself as an eunuch -Ram Krishnamurthy Sloka: Sharada Bhujangam 5-6 Sloka: Soundaryalahari 17-19 named Brihannala and taught dance and -Anupama Sudarshan music to princess Uttara. Arjuna led the - Lalitha Kodandapani Bhajan: Jaya Mithilesha Kumari Bhajan: Jaya Jaya Maa cowardly prince Uttara, brother of princess Saraswathi: Durga Bhavani Maa Uthara to the war against Kauravas. He -Latha Sundar - Sangeetha Prahalad acted as his charioteer and defeated them. King Virata was happy to know that the 10-25-2008 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Brihannala was none other than the 10-18-2008- - - - - - - - - - - - - Madyama Pandava, Arjuna and he offered Senior Class: his daughter to Arjuna for marriage. But Story: Review of Durga, Arjuna accepted her as his daughter-in-law. Toddler Class: Story: Review Shuka Deva with Lakshmi & Saraswathi – Facts & Uttara married Abhimanyu. Abhimanyu was values learnt- values learnt killed in Kurkshetra war and at the same -Ashok Mallavalli time Uttara was pregnant and was carrying - Pallavi Nagaraj Sloka: Annapoorney Sada Sloka: Soundaryalahari 17-19 the boy baby, Parikshit, who was a great -Lalitha Kodandapani/Shanti devotee of lord Krishna. poorney - Nithya Sudhakar Kalluri At the end of the war Ashwattama - Bhajan: Devi Lakshmi Mam Pahi Bhajan: Deva deva deva son of Drona - wanted to kill the whole Krishnaa; Prathama Ganapathi Pandava dynasty. He killed the sons of - Nalini Natarajan -Latha Sundar Draupadi by setting fire to their tent. Later /Sheela Malavalli he used Bramhastra to kill the unborn baby Junior Class: (Parikshit) of Uttara and Abhimanyu. The Super Senior Class baby was a great devotee of lord Krishna Story: Review of Durga, even when he was in the womb of Uttara, Discussion:Karna -Ram Krishnamurthy Lakshmi & Saraswathi- Facts & and was just stunned by the great values learnt Bramhastra. The stunned baby, Parikshit, Sloka: Soundaryalahiri 20-22 - Ravi/Kalpana Palakodety was saved by Lord Krishna; he later became - Lalitha Kodandapani Bhajan: Jaya Saraswathi Sloka: Sharada bhujangam 7-8 successor to Pandavas and ruled the dynasty - Anupama Sudarshan as a just ruler. - Latha Sundar Bhajan: Jagado Dharini Maatha By Srinidhi M - Sangeetha Prahlad 7930 Arjons Drive, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549-3940 October 2008 ISSUE10 - 2 - October 2008 Why we do what we do: What is the significance of Class Volunteers Why do we ring the bell before, during and Namaskara? after the pooja? Story: Ashok Malavalli Kalpana/Ravi Palakodety In most temples there are one or more Pallavi Nagaraj bells hung from the top, near the entrance. The Prasad Kota devotee rings the bell as soon as he/she enters, Ram Krishnamurthy thereafter Children love jumping up or being Renuka Krishnan carried high in order to reach the bell. According to our Vedas, Bhajan: Is it to wake up the lord? - The lord never Namaskara is a formal Anandi Sriram sleeps. Is it to get his permission to enter the traditional greeting by Latha Sundar premises? - It is a homecoming and The Lord showing respect to one Nalini Natarajan welcomes us all the time. Is it to let him know another. Sangeetha Prahlad that we have come for his darshan? - The lord Sheela Malavalli knows everything. Then, why do we ring the How do we do Surjana Srinath bell? Namaskara? Bend the arms The ringing of the bell produces what is from the elbow upwards and Sloka: regarded as an auspicious sound. It produces the face the two palms of the Anupama Sudarshan sound Om, the universal name of the Lord. hands. Place the two palms Lalitha Kodandapani There should be auspiciousness within and together and keep the folded Nithya Sudhakar without, to gain the vision of the Lord who is palms in front of the chest. Pallavi Nagaraj all-auspiciousness. Utter the word namaskara Shanti Kalluri We ring the bell before proceeding for and while saying the word darshan of the Lord and prayers. the pooja to bow the head slightly. Class Presentations indicate the start of the pooja and draw everybody’s attention towards the pooja. Even Why do we do Senior Class: while doing the ritualistic aarati during the Namaskara? Namaskara pooja, we ring the bell. It is sometimes could be just a casual or 10-11-2008 accompanied by the auspicious sounds of the formal greeting, a cultural What is the original name of conch and other musical instruments. An added convention or an act of our religion? significance of ringing bell, conch and other worship. However, there is instruments is that they help drown any - Maya K much more to it than meets inauspicious or irrelevant noises and comments 10-25-2008 the eye. The real meeting that might disturb or distract the worshippers in Why is India called Bharath? their devotional ardor, concentration and inner between people is the -Anugraha P peace. We also ring the bell after the pooja to meeting of their minds. Where is hell and heaven? indicate the completion of the pooja. When we greet one another -Shreya J S with namaste, it means, Junior Class: As we start the daily ritualistic worship (pooja) ‘may our minds meet’, 10-11-2008 we ring the bell, chanting: indicated by the folded What is the original name of "Aagamaarthamtu devaanaam Gamanaarthamtu palms placed before the our religion? rakshasaam Kurve ghantaaravam tatra chest. The bowing down of –Yogitha S Devataahvaahna lakshanam" the head is a gracious form 10-25-2008 I ring this bell indicating the invocation of of extending friendship in Why is India called Bharath? divinity, so that virtuous and noble forces enter love, respect and -Pranav P (my home and heart); and the demonic and evil humility.