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ent and entertaining the

audience and inspiring

everyone present.

This was followed by

evening snacks and a

Bhajan concert by re-

nowned violinist, vocalist,

composer and conductor

Shri Dinesh Kumar Prab-

hakarji from New York

and accompanying art-

ists. The group sang vari-

ous Bhajans starting with

Ganesh Vandana, Sant

Kabir, Shri Sai Baba,

Lord Shiv, Lord Krishna

etc., pleasing one and

all present. After the

concert, there was regu-

lar evening Dhoop Aarti

followed by dinner spon-

sored by The Mughals

r e s t a u r a n t .

All the seniors appreciat-

ed the program and

said that they enjoyed

the entire day and were

extremely touched by

the hospitality and love

that was showered on

them by Dwarkamai.

On Sat May 12th,

Dwarkamai hosted the

Spiritual Gold 2012

program at Shri Shirdi

Sai Temple, North Billeri-

ca, to honor our Senior

citizens and elders. It is

an annual cultural and

spiritual all day pro-

gram to honor and re-

spect our seniors and to

seek their guidance and

blessings.

The day began with Shri

Sai Baba's Kakad Aarti

along with Baba Ab-

hishek followed by

Samuhik Satyanarayan

pooja for devotee fami-

lies. The registration was

free and open to all sen-

ior citizens and their

families. The pooja was

conducted by Shri

Bhairavji from the Ash-

land Temple, MA. After

the pooja, food and

seating arrangement for

lunch was made by the

team of volunteers for

the seniors where the

younger generation got

an opportunity to serve

the elders.

The afternoon session

began with a cultural

program by our seniors

who sang beautiful mes-

merizing songs, with kids

playing the musical in-

struments, thus showcas-

ing their wonderful tal-

Spiritual Gold 2012 -By Poornima Goli

Programs conducted by

Dwarkamai DAILY EVENING SAI BABA

DHOOP AARTI

MORNING KAKAD AARTI ON

THURSDAY AND SATURDAY

RELIGIOUS FUNCTIONS AND

POOJAS

MEET THE DOCTOR

GUEST SPEAKERS

AYURVEDA COURSES

MATH CLASSES FOR KIDS

YOGA SESSIONS

DEVOTIONAL MUSIC CONCERTS

SPIRITUAL GOLD 2012 1

CHICAGO AND DENVER PALKHI 2

BOSTON PALKHI 3

PALKHI SPONSORSHIP 3

VIDYAPEETH PROGRAMS 4

MEDICAL EVENTS 5

TEMPLE EVENT PHOTOS 6

HARI BHAJANS BY LEELAJI 7

BHAJAN UTSAV 8

In this Issue:

Volume 1, Issue 3 7/1/2012

S H R I D W A R K A M A I Q U A R T E R L Y N E W S L E T T E R

Sai Sandesh - Dwarkamai Newsletter

Shri Shirdi Sai Temple, North Billerica, MA

Baba Aarti on Spiritual Gold day 2012 held to honor senior citizens

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Shri Shirdi Sai Temple

Dwarkamai Vidyapeeth

267 Boston Road, Suite #10

North Billerica, MA 01862

978-27-MY-SAI

For the first time,

Dwarkamai conducted

Annual Shri Sai Palkhi

Utsav in the Denver met-

ropolitan region along

with the help of the

Shirdi Sai Rockies group

from June 09 -June 24.

Over 70 homes invited

Shri Sai to their homes in

the three weekends dur-

ing this period and the

areas covered included

devotee homes in Den-

ver and its suburbs, Col-

orado Springs and Fort

Collins.

Devotees were com-

pletely mesmerized to

see the devotion and

joyous spiritual feelings

generated during by the

Palkhi and wished for

more such weekends.

Chicago Sai Palkhi Utsav 2012

Sai Sandesh - Shri Dwarkamai Quarterly Newsletter


The 6th Annual Chicago-

land Palkhi Utsav started

on Mar 23, 2012 with

Shri Sai devotees from all

walks of life coming to-

gether and immersing

themselves in singing and

dancing to the glory of

Shri Sai. This year the

Utsav, held every year

during the Chaitra month,

was spread over a month

and visited over 70

homes.

A cultural program, Sai

Rainbow, was held on

Mar 24, 2012, where

children and parents

danced to various devo-

tional songs choreo-

graphed by professional

choreographers who

volunteered their time

for this effort .

For the first time, we

visited neighboring Indi-

ana state and the devo-

tees there expressed

their joy in the following

words:

"Dear Sai Devotees:

We thank you from the

bottom of our hearts for

coming all the way from

Naperville and making

the Sai Palkhi Procession

a Wonderful celebra-

tion at our home !! All

the Sai devotees of

North west Indiana real-

ly appreciated the

beautiful event."

Denver Sai Palkhi Utsav 2012

Volume 1, Issue 3


Sai Palkhi need lots of flowers, garlands and

fruits for the Spiritual Walk. If you would like to donate towards Sai Palkhi please go to the Dwarkamai website (www.dwarkamai.org) and sponsor any of the following items for

the Sai Palkhi Utsav: Sai Palkhi Bhandara $51

Sai Palkhi $51 Paduka Garland

Sai Palkhi Rajupchar $75 photo Garland

Sai Palkhi Flower $75 Decoration Strings

Sai Palkhi Rental Van $225/weekend Sponsorship

Upcoming Sai Baba Palki Utsav in Boston

The next Palkhi Utsav will

be held in the Boston ar-

ea from July 21st on-

wards. The Sai Baba

Palki will visit 69 homes in

the Boston area over 5

weekends. This year, just

like last year, the Boston

Palkhi will also visit devo-

tee homes in New Hamp-

shire and Maine.

Sai Rainbow cultural pro-

gram will be held on the

first day of the Palkhi

Utsav. This cultural pro-

gram features devotional

songs and dance pro-

grams prepared by dev-

otees and kids.

Donate for Sai Palkhi Utsav



As summer kicked in,

Dwarkamai has orga-

nized a number of activi-

ties for kids enrichment

including a mix of musi-

cal, academic and spir-

itual programs. Activities

include Piano classes

taught by Sanjana Gup-

ta, Tabla classes taught

by Amit Kavthekar, who

is a very accomplished

Tabla player and a stu-

dent of the famed maes-

tro Zakir Hussain himself.

Shloka classes are taught

by Shobha Ramapriya

whereas Painting classes

taught by Anushka Sri-

vastava. More than 55

kids are collectively at-

tending the enrichment

programs to expand

their horizons. In addi-

tion, Shine-In Math, is al-

so running multiple day

workshops for kids to

strengthen skills in aca-

demics, crafts and enact-

ing plays.

Kids Enrichment Summer Programs Embedded Linux Development Course

Dwarkamai kicked off a

series of Professional De-

velopment courses start-

ing with 2 full days of

Embedded Linux Devel-

opment Course on May

19th for the industry pro-

fessionals and college

students. This was an ad-

vanced course consisting

of 90% hands-on practi-

cal work with the inten-

tion of adding advanced

embedded Linux skills to

part icipants profi le.

There were 8 partici-

pants registered and la-

boratory included Linux

workstations running Ub-

untu Linux. In addition, an

open source development

community was estab-

lished to encourage

shared learning by meet-

ing once a month. to fur-

ther the skills develop-

ment strategy that can

develop skills in individu-

als to look for jobs in cur-

rent market by upgrad-

ing skills to the require-

ment of current job mar-

ket. The course was

taught by Anil Naik, who

has extensive experience

in R&D and leading all

phases development in

areas of multi-core DSP-

based framework soft-

ware.

Volume 1, Issue 3


Red Cross Drive

The Dwarkamai Medical

services team worked

with the American Red

Cross to conduct its first

Blood Drive at Shri

Dwarkamai on June 3rd

2012. The Blood Drive

was conducted in a

bloodmobile in the park-

ing lot of the premises. A

total of 21 pints of blood

was collected throughout

the day and met the tar-

get set by Red Cross. The

Dwarkamai team along

with the Red Cross will

be conducting the blood

drive on a semiannual

basis.

Pranic Healing

Kavita Chibber’s work-

shop in Pranic healing

on June 4th weekend

taught students at

Dwarkamai what caus-

es physical disease to

manifest itself, how the

major chakras in our

body control organs

and have a psychologi-

cal component as well.

The workshop focused

on aura cleansing, pow-

erful ways to revitalize

chakras and organs,

healing relationships at

home and office, medi-

tation and how to main-

tain energetic hygiene.

Acupressure Workshop

Prof. K. Ravindran, a re-

nowned Acupressure,

Natural Therapist and

Healer conducted a

wo rkshop a t S hr i


on Sunday, June 17th.

Prof. Ravindra explained

the benefits and wonders

of acupressure that help

in pain management and

treating all parts of the

body. He showed live

demonstrations of how

common ailments can be

easily cured by acupres-

sure within minutes. He

also gave suggestions on

how diseases like diabe-

tes, indigestion, heart

burn etc can be cured

with the combination of

acupressure and natural

remedies. The workshop

was attended by more

than 60 people. The

crowd was very im-

pressed with the way

Prof. Ravindran ex-

plained the facts in a

plain and simple manner.

Shri Dwarkamai will be

working with Prof. Ravin-

dran and his team to

conduct a longer version

of this workshop over the

next year. In case any-

one missed the workshop,

a video recording is

available for viewing.

Temple Events



Dr. Tony Nader at the seminar on Veda, Consciousness, Ramayana, & Self

Sai Baba Murti on Guru Purnima day in temple

Bhajan concert by Shri Dinesh Prabhakar

Rajyoga meditation session by Sister Supriya of Brahmkumaris organization

Dwarkamai hosted an

evening of Hari Bhajans by Smt Leela Divadkarji on June 23rd. This was a musical evening dedicat-

ed to singing the glory of

Shri Hari Vishnu.

Smt. Leela Divadkarji has been singing for over 30

years. She has per-formed programs in the US, many programs in

India and has been fea-tured on radio and tele-vision in Mumbai. Her

repertoire consists of classical music, devotion-al songs and especially the music of Manik Var-

ma.

Hari Bhajans by Smt. Leela Divadkarji

Volume 1, Issue 3


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Temple Schedule:

Daily (Monday to Sunday)

6.30PM — 8.30PM

(Daily Dhoop Aarti at 7.30 PM)

Also morning hours on Thursday

and Saturday:

8.15AM — 12.30PM

(Kakad Aarti at 8.30AM and

Madhyana Aarti at 12 Noon)

S H R I D W A R K A M A I S H I R D I S A I T E M P L E , N O R T H B I L L E R I C A S A I S A N D E S H , S H R I D W A R K A M A I Q U A R T E R L Y N E W S L E T T E R S H R I S H I R D I S A I T E M P L E , N O R T H B I L L E R I C A , M A

On April 14th 2012, the

Dwarakamai Sai Baba

temple organized a

unique musical prayer

event with an all day

bhajan utsav. Several

music schools/groups in

the Boston area were

invited to participate in

this event. Among the

groups that performed

were: Smt. Shyamala

Bangalore and her Bha-

jan Tarangini group, Smt

Kumkum Sanyal's group,

Acton Sloka group, Priya

Anand and Uma Sankar,

Abhyaas school of music,

Smt Bhavadhaarini 's

gro up and the

Dwarakamai Bhajan

Mandal.

April 14th being the

Tamil New Year's day,

Vishu and Baisaki festival

- several groups chose

songs in different lan-

guages and wished the

audience a very happy

new year with an auspi-

cious start. It was a

great day, to listen and

join in the bhajans - and

seek blessings from the

Almighty.

The organizers had lined

up a non-stop sets of vol-

Bhajan Utsav 2012 -By Pushpa Baskaran

unteers to help with the

seating, audio setup,

food arrangements,

etc. Dwarakamai or-

ganizes all these events

free of charge. It is up

to the devotees to do-

nate anything they wish.

Several people com-

mented that this was an

enjoyable, unique ex-

perience for them and

wanted to attend simi-

lar event in future. An

elderly couple from

Bengaluru was hear

saying that they "hadn't

heard such bhajans

even in India !!"


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Sai Sandesh - Dwarkamai Newsletter Shri Shirdi Sai … Sandesh - Shri Dwarkamai Quarterly Newsletter Dwarkamai is a recognized non-profit, tax-exempt organization under IRS code section