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September 2012
7930 Arjons Drive, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549-39401
Balabhavan CoordinatorsLatha Sundar
Venkat [email protected]
Electronic Communication Cooordinator
Rama [email protected]
Class Coordinators
Super-Senior Class:Padmini Mylavarapu
Latha [email protected]
Senior Class:Vasantha Madavi Sudhakar
Nalini [email protected]
Junior Class:Hema Rangaswamy
Anupama [email protected]
Toddler Class:Aparna Vemuri
Vandana [email protected]
Registration coordinators:Krishnaswamy Panneer [email protected]
Newsletter Coordinator:
Krishna Meduri:K [email protected]
Festivals of the Month:9/12/12 - Ganesh Chaturthi 9/30/12 - Pitr-paksha Begins
Please visit:www.shiva-vishnu.org for more details
PERIYA PURANAM
Periya Puranam is the poetic compilation of the 63 Nayanmars devotion to Lord Shiva. It is composed by/ written by Chekkizar Peruman, during the 12th Century. It reveals the path that all 63 Nayanmars took to pray to Lord Shiva and how they achieved the Paramaatma, all through their undying devotion to Lord Shiva and all his devotees. Besides being a Minister in the Royal palace of Chola King Kulothunga Chola, Chekkizar himself was a poet and also a great devotee of Lord Shiva.
Periya Puranam is a poetic composition of life history of the devotees. The literature is found to be of highest order. Later it was also considered as the 5th Veda for the Shaivites. The song praises the devotees for the path they took, to pray to Lord Shiva. Not all the Nayanmars were scholars. Though some are learned scholars, some were Kings, while many others are normal people, who excelled only in the way they prayed / showed their devotion to Lord Shiva. In their undying bhakthi, they showed how one could reach God and how God comes in one’s service when in need. These Shaivites just followed their normal prescribed way of living, i.e. their Profession, as told in their caste system, (the basic differentiation of people based on their work), but differed in the way of praying to God.
It is said that, Chekkizar wanted to change his Kings interest from Jivaka Chintamani (worldly pleasures) to God’s way. So the King challenged him, which made him to compose a poem of all the Shaiva saints (followers of Lord Shiva) called the Periya Puranam. Chekkizar composed it in the halls of the Thousand pillars Temple- Chidambaram Nataraja Temple in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu.
By Anirudh Yadavalli
BALABHAVAN NEWSLETTERVEDIC CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO
BBC Announcements:
Namaste Balabhavan families!Welcome back!We trust you had a wonderful relaxing summer. The Balabhavan Summer 2012 Camps, as well as the Ganesha Clay Molding activities on 8/19 and 8/25 were enjoyed by both BB kids and parents! Please feel free to give us written feedback.
Upcoming: *Balabhavan classes resume on September 8th, for Juniors, Seniors, and September 15th, for Toddlers, Super Seniors. * No BB Classes during the Labor Day weekend * Ganesha Puja by BB kids will be on 9/22 at 4PM sharp– please decorate your clay Ganesha at home and bring it to the temple
With just a third of the BB year remaining, start thinking of the year end Talent Show.
-----------------------------------September Birthdays
Juniors:Anika SharmaHarini ShankarSanchita Koppa
Seniors:Shreya GopalaSiya Sharma
Srinivasan MadhavanSuper Seniors:Keerti Tadimeti
Meghna ThiruvazhiNaveen Thiruvazhi
Srikanth KalluriSudarshan Srinivasan
Utkrisht Rajkumar
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BBC Announcements (continued)
BB Parent Volunteers :
1. Practice Classes for Bhajans and Shlokas start on September 8 – please contact Lalitha Kodandapani for Shloka Practice and Latha Sundar regarding Bhajan practice – on SVT premises. ALL volunteers for Bhajans and Shlokas have to attend practice classes to review their materials well ahead of their class
2. For Bhajan practice other than Saturdays at SVT – e-mail or check with Latha Sundar
3. Story Volunteers are encouraged to contact Ramnarayanan Krishnamurthy, or one of the other Story Telling mentors
4. Starting September, we will be recruiting parent volunteers for various responsibilities and roles for upcoming dance/drama and plays.
BBC Team
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Newsletter Editors
Keerti TadimetiKamakshi Ramanarayanan
Topics of the Month
Anirudh Yadavalli
Bathukamma
Bathukamma is a spring festival celebrated by the Hindu women of Telangana region in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is also called as Bodemma. This festival falls in the months of September/October called as Ashvin or Aswiyuja. Bathukamma festival is celebrated for nine days during Durga Navratri. It starts on the day of Mahalaya Amavasya. It concludes two days before Dassera called as Durgashtami. On the final day, the closing ceremony of Bathukamma panduga is celebrated as a great festival – Pedda Bathukamma or Saddula Bathukamma.
Bathukamma is a beautiful flower stack, arranged with seasonal flowers, in seven concentric layers, of potter’s clay like a cone. Bathuku in Telugu means live/life, and Amma means mother, hence Bathukamma, is celebrated for the glory, later denoted as Goddess Gauri- the patron Goddess of womanhood.
Questions of the Month
1. Brahma has 4 heads. How many heads does Subrahmanya
have? (Hint: Shanmukha)2. Once, when Ganesha was
dancing, a deva made fun of him. So, Ganesha cursed him.
Name this deva whom Ganesha cursed. (Hint: Waxing &
Waning)
3. What is Ganesha’s vehicle
(vaahana)?4. Name Ganesha’s maternal
uncle.5. M.S. Subbalakshmi is a
famous vocalist for which form of Classical Music?
6. What is Vishnu’s vehicle
(vaahana)?--------------------------------------
Answers:1. 62. Somadeva (Moon god)3. Moosaka (Mouse)4. Vishnu5. Carnatic Music6. Garuda (Eagle)
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Balabhavan Summer Camps 2012
Dance Pooja Vidhanam
By Lalitha Krishnamoorthy By Ram Krishnamurthy
Ancient Mathematics of India
By Sriram Srinivasan and Pani Ramadurgam
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Bala Bhavan's Summer Field Trip To Deer Valley Monastery
