October 2010 Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Balabhavan Coordinators BBC Announcements: Namaskaram BB family, Bharathy Thridandam Nithya Sudhakar It has been lovely to see all Seetha Janakiraman the children refreshed from Sriram Srinivasan summer break, returning to BB classes with enthusiasm. [email protected] September was a whirlwind of activity with the Ganesha Class Coordinators Sri Chaitanya clay idol making event and was born in Bengal, on a full moon night Ganesha Chaturthi puja Super-Senior Class: during a lunar eclipse to Jagannatha Misra celebrated by children at the Aparna Vemuri and Sachidevi on 4th February, 1486 A.D. temple. October brings much [email protected] Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Mahaprabhu means excitement as well. We will Ashok Malavalli "the great master") lived for only 48 years, celebrate Saraswati Puja on [email protected] th but his teaching bear special place and has October 10 (Sunday). Krishna Meduri touched lives of millions. During his Details will be sent later. [email protected] childhood he exhibited extraordinary Please note that we will start qualities, and his brilliant intelligence the registration for 2011 in Senior Class: began to become apparent. While still a October. Current BB Prasanna Madabhushi child, he mastered Sanskrit and logic to the students can register/send [email protected] updated applications online point of defeating local pundits, and Renuka Krishnan: and pay the BBC team before [email protected] established the truth of his spiritual and or after classes. We will Vedic philosophy. He received Vaishnava initiation from Ishvara Puri in Gaya. have only one class on Junior Class: 10/02/10 for the Toddler and Priya Ram Thereafter, he lost all his interest in Supersenior classes in [email protected] debate and got absorbed himself in chanting and singing the names of Lord October. Please make sure Radhika Chari Krishna. Through his devotional chanting of you find a BBC team member [email protected] to complete the registration Rama Srinivas the Lord’s holy names using the Hare Krishna mantra, he could bring out the process. If you miss the [email protected] class, the next opportunity natural loving sentiments of God. Lord Chaitanya took sannyasa at the age of 24 would be before or after the Toddler Class: parent meeting on Archana Sampath and left his family to teach the forgotten essence of the ancient Vedic wisdom 10/30/10. We would like to [email protected] wrap up the registration throughout India. He spent some time in Gayathri Priya Sarathy process by 11/15/10. There [email protected] Vrindavana, Varanasi & Jagannatha Puri and was absorbed in the devotion to are children on the waiting Ramanarayanan K list who will be admitted in [email protected] Krishna. His presence itself could transform everyone into a devotional mood. He open spots. So please hurry Vidyashankar and send in your application. [email protected] taught everyone how to directly feel the pure love of God. Lord Chaitanya is Please come to parent meeting brimming with your Registration coordinators: considered and was established by Vedic scripture as the most recent incarnation of ideas and volunteer spirit. E- Krishnaswamy Panneer Selvam mailing your ideas ahead will [email protected] God. During his whole life Lord Chaitanya induced people to chant Hare Krishna. He is definitely help due to time constraints. Thanks in praised as being the most merciful Lord as advance for your kind Newsletter Coordinator: he distributed his teaching and love to cooperation. Krishna Meduri: everyone without any discrimination. [email protected] By Tejas Srinivasan BBC TEAM 7930 Arjons Drive, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549-3940 October 2010 ISSUE 10 1 October 2010 Class Schedules Class Schedules AMARAVATHI RIVER 10-09-2010 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 10-02-2010 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Junior Class: The Amaravathi River, also called Toddler Class: Story: Krishna Avatharam-Part I Pournami is a tributary of the Kaveri River. Story: Goddess Durga and -Valli Annamalai The 282 km long Amaravathi River is one of Navarathri the longest rivers in the state of Tamil Nadu - Priya Sarathy Sloka and Bhajan: in Southern India. It is the continuation of Achutastakam 7-9 the Pambar and Chinnar rivers in Kerala. Sloka: Sharada Stotra -Bharathy Thridandam -Hema Vaidyanathan The Amaravati River begins at the Senior Class: Kerala/Tamil Nadu border at the bottom of Bhajan: Devi Lakshmi Mampahi, Story: Bhuvaneshwar, Puri – Manjampatti Valley between the Annamalai Durga Bhavani Ma Orissa - Ashok Malavalli Hills and the Palni Hills in Indira Gandhi -Sangeetha Prahlad Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park. It Sloka: and Bhajans- Sharada descends in a northerly direction through bhujangam 1-3 Amaravathi Reservoir and Amaravathi Dam Super Senior Class: -Shanti Kalluri at Amaravathinagar. It is joined by the Story: Viveka Deepika Kallapuram River at the mouth of the -Lalitha Kodandapani Jaya Ma Saraswathi Ajanda valley in Udumalaipettai. It joins - Lalitha Krishnamoorthy with the Kaveri River in Karur. Sloka: Revise achutashtakam / sharada bhujangam _________________________ This river irrigates over 60,000 acres -Bharathy T/Shanti Kalluri 10-23-2010 - - - - - - - - - - - - of agricultural lands in Coimbatore, Erode and Karur districts. The Amaravathi Dam Junior Class: Bhajan: Review: Jaya has 4 Megawatts electric generating Story: Krishna Avatharam - Part Saraswathy Mahalakshmi; capacity installed. The Amaravathi River II Vishnu Priye; Varade Veena and its basin, especially in the vicinity of - Vijaya Purohit -Latha Sundar Karur, are heavily used for industrial processing water and waste disposal and as 10-16-2010 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sloka: shiva panchakshara 1-2 a result are severely polluted due to large -Usha Koganti amount of textile dyeing and bleaching NO CLASS units. Bhajan: Madhusudhana Hare Madhava October Birthdays: -Lalitha Krishnamoorthy Toddler: Prathik Kannan - Juniors: Akhilesh L. Genneri Senior Class: Priyanka Samavedam Story: Dwaraka – Gujarat Shruti Chari -Ashok Malavalli Seniors: Mukta Phadnis Sloka: Sharada bhujangam 4-8 Niyanth Sarathy -Anupama Sudarshan Rengashree Muralidharan Shreya Sriram Bhajan: Review Devi Bhajans; Super Seniors: Mahalakshmi Jaganmatha Aishwarya Vuppala -Latha Sundar -By Arjun Kumar Bhairav Peri Chidambaram 7930 Arjons Drive, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549-3940 October 2010 ISSUE 10 2 October 2010 SRI VALLABHACHARYA KAVERI RIVER Class Presentations Kaveri River is the smallest of the five Junior Class: major rivers of the Indian peninsula, the 10-09-2010 others being the Mahanadi, Godavari, Lord Ayyapan Narmada, and Krishna. However, it forms -- Pranav Puttabarthi perhaps the most important watershed of 10-23-2010 Sri Vallabhacharya was a the South. Known as "Dakshin Ganga" (the devotional philosopher who God Dattatreya Ganges of the South), it serves as a -- Vedanth Iyengar founded the Pushti sect in India lifeline to the people of Southern that follows the Advaita Karnataka, and the Cauvery basin of Senior Class: philosophy (non-dualism – that Tamil Nadu. teaches that the Brahman, the 10-09-2010 Dasaratha or Janaka? absolute, supreme reality and the Legendry Saga: atman, the self are identical). He -- Mukta Phadnis According to mythology, there was a 10-23-2010 was born as the second child to childless king named Kaverna and Brahma Sri Lakshmanna Bhatt and Viswamitra or Vasista gifted him a beautiful girl Kaveri. She was -- Deepika Vipulla Yellamagaru in 1479 A.D in married to Agastya muni on the condition Champaran near Raipur in the that he would never leave her alone. One Super Senior Class: Indian state of Chhattisgarh. day, Agastya muni began teaching his Lakshmanna Bhatt was from a 10-02-2010 disciples a difficult lesson in philosophy. Yogananda family of learned vaishnavas and Assuming that something unfortunate had Yellama was also from an -- Akhilesh Vemuri happened to him and not wanting to live influential family – her father was alone she jumped into a tank. But she did a priest in the kingdom of Annamacharya not die. She became a river, flowed up -- Satish Chandran Vijayanagar. Lakshmana Bhatta the Brahmagiri Mountain and reappeared migrated with his family to as a spring. ----------------------------------- Benaras and was forced to flee the city in 1479 due to Muslim Festivals of the Month: The Journey: invasion. On their way, The River Kaveri flows through the states Vallabhacharya who was thought Oct 8: Bathukamma Festival of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Its source to have been born a still-born is a spring in the Brahmagiri Mountains in baby was miraculously saved by Oct 14: Saraswathi Pooja Mysore at a height of 1320 meters above his mother who received a divine sea level. The Kaveri is not the same call from Lord Krishna who throughput its length of 765 kilometers. Please visit: revealed to her that he was being As the Kaveri flows down the Brahmagiri www.shiva-vishnu.org for more born as Vallabhacharya. Mountain and enters the plain, two small details Vallabha's education began when rivers, the Kanaka and the Gajoti, join it. he was 6 years old under the They meet at the town of Bahamandalam tutelage of Vishnucitta. In 4 years till here it is a small river. Two more Newsletter Editors time, Vallabhacharya had learnt rivers, Hemavati and Lakshman all the Vedas, Upanishads, Theertham join it, that it becomes a Vikram Thridandam Bhagavat Gita and other scriptural large river, broad and deep. It is here texts. When Vallabhacharya was that the water of the three rivers is Yashes Srinivasan 11 years old, it was when his collected in the Krishnaraj Sagar father died that he undertook a reservoir, on the banks of which is laid Topics of the Month pilgrimage of the whole of India one of the most beautiful gardens of for the next 20 years, spreading Mysore - Brindavan. Arjun Kumar his philosophy to the masses. He Pranavi Maddipatla is widely considered one of the By Pranavi Maddipatla Tejas Srinivasan four great Vaishnava Acharyas of Vinod Krishnamoorthy his time. –Vinod Krishna Moorthy 7930 Arjons Drive, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549-3940 October 2010 ISSUE 10 3 .