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Theerta Ghosti (June 30 - July 8, 2004)| Theerta Ghosti was held at Sriman Vishnugaru's residence every morning. Devotees would sit together and start reciting shlokas and strotrams from 8:30 am to 9:45 am. At around 9:45 am Swamiji would call us all inside for taking the theertam. At this time Swamiji would have finished performing puja to the Lord. This is a very pious occasion every morning as Swamiji gives theertam, the holy water, to the devotees by "his own hands." After the theertam there would be prasadham served and by 10:30 am Swamiji would begin to proceed for the Pada Puja. |
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Youth Meet (July 1, 2004)| The JET California Youth Forum invited various youths and adults for the Youth Camp held at Stanford University. The session was an interesting interactive session with Shweta and Ranjini asking various questions to Swamiji. Swamiji answered all the questions much to the liking of the youths and adults alike. The questions included topics such as GOD, Panchanga, Vedas and Science. Swamiji explained every point with reference to the rich cultural heritage of Spiritualism and our Vedas. |
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Sri Lakshmi Hayagriva Yagna (July 2, 2004)Sri Lakshmi Hayagriva is the supreme lord with the Horse's face and is the presiding deity for knowledge. When two demons stole the Vedas from Brahma, while he was yawning, Lord Brahma sought the help of Srimannarayana. The lord took the form of the horse-faced Hayagriva, destroyed the demons and restored the Vedas to Brahma. Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji performed the Sri Lakshmi Hayagriva Yagna at Sunnyvale temple to bestow the grace of Sri Lakshmi Hayagriva and make us more proficient in any field of knowledge.
Jai Srimannarayana |
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Livermore Temple (July 4, 2004)Swamiji visited the Livermore temple and gave an hour long talk on lord Sri Venkateswara. In this process also HH explained to everyone the destructions going on in Tirumala and how we as devotees to the lord can help save the history. HH explained very clearly what Venkata means - the word is formed by 2 syllables 'Ven' - evil and 'kata' - one who burns. Hence Venkata is one who burns aways all the evil.
Jai Srimannarayana! |
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Quinlan Community Center (July 7, 2004)| In Quinlan Community Center in Cupertino, Swamiji talked about the various organizations the JET has begun to improve the spiritual knowledge amongst rural Indian people. Swamiji also explained about the various programs started out like - Vikastaragini, Gita Jyoti, Krishnam Vande Jagadguru and the various Vedic Schools and plans for future gurukulams. Swamiji also stressed on the main motto - Respect All, Worship your own! This talk was more an informal talk to working people to get an idea of how things were working towards a spiritual goal in mind. |
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Swamiji leaves for Texas (July 8, 2004)| On the last day of Swamiji's stay in California, HH graced me with an occasion to meet him again at the Theerta Ghosti @ Sriman Vishnuji's house. After the theerta ghosti Swamiji left for the San Jose airport. A few of us stayed there until the flight took off and Sriman Vamsi got permission to walk Swamiji up until the gate alongwith Swamiji's other disciples. Here are some of those memorable moments and pictures. |
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