HARI Times... SITA-RAMA * RADHE-SHYAM Vol. 15 No. 04 NOV-DEC We Wish You a Very Happy Diwali & Prosperous New Year!

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1 HARI Times... SITA-RAMA * RADHE-SHYAM Vol. 15 No. 04 NOV-DEC 2015 We Wish You a Very Happy Diwali & Prosperous New Year! Diwali & Annakut Celebration at HARI Saturday, November 14 th, 2015 from 4:30 pm Annual General Body Agenda Diwali Puja and Annakut Darshan Address by Mr. Sunil Desai, Chairman, HARI Board of Trustees Annual Report by Mr. Ramesh Parmar, President, HARI Executive Committee Financial Report by Mr. Ramesh Bathini Elections by Mrs. Meena Ravi Address by President-Elect Aarti and Dinner sponsored by HARI DEVOTEES *** We encourage you to join HARI volunteers for the Diwali Annakut preparation *** *** Please bring in your Annakut items to HARI before noon on Saturday *** *** Visit to view the list of Annakut items ***

2 HARI PROGRAMS FOR NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER DIWALI CELEBRATION: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2015 at 4.30 pm. Annakut & Annual General Body meeting pm Arti followed by dinner. *Overflow parking arrangements are made for your convenience. DIWALI ACTUAL DAY PUJA: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, Contact priest for details. Sri Tulsi Vivah November 22, :00 PM-7:00PM: On the auspicious day of Karthik Purnima and Dev Diwali.(Please see inside for information about the program, and sponsor details.) Sri Suktha Homam November 28, :30AM-12:00PM: Sri sukta Homa of Devi Lakshmi is a major spiritual procedure for attaining of financial desires and prosperity. (Please see inside for information about the program, and sponsor details.) Sri Kruthika Deepotsavam December 12, :30 PM -7:00PM: Festival of lights as celebrated in Thirumala Thirupathi during the auspicious Damodara Month (Please see inside for information about the program details.) Vaikunta Ekadashi December 21, :00 AM 7:00 AM. Uttara Dwara Darshanam, Thiruppalliyezhuchi and Arti. (Please see inside for information about the program details.) REMEMBER TO RENEW YOUR ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP (FOR 2016) ON THE AUSPICIOUS DAY OF DIWALI 2

3 CONTACT INFORMATION Requests for Priest Services (outside of HARI) and Hall Rentals: Mr. Ramesh Parmar: Phone: HARI Times Editors: Executive Committee Members Mr. Hiten Amin Mr. Ashok Shukla Mr. Jagannath Yedatore ANNOUNCEMENTS HARI TIMES: HARI Times is mailed to paid HARI members only except for the New Year and Diwali editions which are mailed to all HARI Community. You can view or download HARI Times at our website HARI s: Please update or provide your or contact information at the upper right-hand corner of You may also drop your contact information in the Hundi (donation box) at the temple or send an to We will notify you of all HARI events as well as other major community events via . HARI ON-LINE CALENDAR: Visit to access HARI 2015 Calendar for the scheduled events, actual dates of events, priests availability for services at home and for the temple hall rentals. We urge you to verify this calendar before scheduling priest services and/or hall rentals. CLOSING/CANCELLATION ALERTS: Unplanned temple closings are announced on HARI website and also over local TV channels. When applicable, such closings include HARI School and HARI spon- sored events cancellations due to adverse weather conditions. The TV Channels are ABC27, CBS21, FOX43 and WGAL8 (look for HARI Temple under York County Closings and/or Churches ). REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENTS Shri Vishnu Sahasra Namam and Govinda Naamaalu Recital: Every Saturday at 6:00pm (except for other schedule events) Hanuman Chalisa Recital and Satsang: Every Saturday between 7:15pm and 8:15pm (except for other schedule events) Lord Shri Satyanarayana Puja: Every Purnamasi (full moon) from 7:15pm to 9:00pm. A token donation of $21 is recommended for each participating family. Jain Swadhayay/Puja: First Sunday of the month from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. Organized by the Jain Samaj of South Central PA. Lord Venkateswara Swamy (Balaji) Abhishekam: First Saturday of the month from 9:30 am. A token donation of $21 is recommended for each participating family. Havan: Second Sunday of the month from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Organized and conducted by HARI Devotees. (Contact any of the HARI committee members for further details) Note: Regularly Scheduled Events may change due to priority of other events 3

4 HARI PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE Happy Diwali and greetings from the PR committee, The fall season is upon us and leaves are changing colors. Fall also reminds us of rebirth and is start of a period for reflecting. We are still enjoying the color change, and by the time the newsletter will be in your hands, most leaves would have floated to the ground. As fleeting this all may be, it is still a great experience every year. Life is something similar! Our temple priests offer services covering life events from celebrating birth to end of life. Hari offers a great support system to the community members. Call us if you need any support or help. Also, please continue to let us know how we are meeting the needs of our growing community. The season also coincides with Diwali bringing in each of our homes festivities, feasts and celebrations with colorful lights. Enjoy the season and we hope to see you soon at the temple! Best wishes, Dr. Deepanker Tewari PR Committee Chair ANANDAM - HARI SENIOR FORUM HARI Seniors Forum Anandam consists of paid HARI members, age 60 and up. The group organizes various activities few times a year, including trips to places that are of religious or historic importance. For more information, please contact HARI Seniors Forum Chair Mr. Kirit Shah at seniors@haritemple.org <mailto:seniors@haritemple.org> or (717) or ANADAM group activities. Anandam members meet monthly since April 2015 at HARI Temple and carry out group activities that range from social, cultural and young at heart activities. We plan to do some community service next year. Our activities are listed below. 1. ANNAPOLIS BUS TRIP to see Naval Academy and Schooner Woodwind Sailing in Chesapeake Bay on Thursday, August 20, Mr. Rajani Shah presented a slide show and a talk on Holistic Approach to Life at HARI on August 27, Bowling at ABC lanes on Thursday, September Fall Foliage hike at the Rickett Glean State Park on October 11, Diwali Dinner at Taj Palace, Carlisle Pike on November 5, Bus Trip to New York to see Spectacular Christmas Musical Show at Radio City Music Hall, Christmas lights at Rockefeller Center and visit World Trade center on December 3, Best Wishes, Mr. Kirit Shah 4

5 Namaste A MESSAGE FROM THE COMMITTEE Finally we are near the end of this year and inching closer to our Diwali Annakut and annual general body meeting day of November 14. Reflecting back to past 10 months, we are feeling great sense of satisfaction and achievement with another successful year at HARI. Throughout the year, the Executive Committee members were very busy coordinating and celebrating HARI programs and HARI facilitated programs. Along with busy schedule at HARI, the Executive Committee successfully organized HARI Fair in July and 5K Rakhi Run in August. HARI also raised the donation to help the earth quake victims of Nepal and fund will be used to rebuild the school in Nepal with the help of a non-profit organization in the USA. This year, Anandam group for the senior members of our community was formed by a current board member Mr. Kirit Shah to celebrate the young at heart spirit of our seniors. Under the leadership of Dr. Deepanker Tewari, the PR Committee participated and represented HARI in community programs like Interfaith Conference and harmony walk. Throughout the year, Finance Chair, Ramesh Bathini and Treasurer Ayyappan Ganesan worked behind the scene in streamlining HARI accounting, banking, trust fund management and auditing process with help of HARI Trust Fund Coordinator Ravi Venkatasubramanian, CPA Kavita Shah, and office manager Tracy Horetsky. As promised in the beginning of the year, we focused on transparency and published HARI financial information and trust fund updates regularly through HARI Times. As you all know, since past three years, we have undertaken major maintenance and building upgrade/ renovation projects. In 2013, we replaced 20+ years old HVAC system with new brand named energy efficient system. Last year, we replaced decades old windows with new leak proof energy efficient windows with help of long time HARI devotee Mr. Subhodh Sharma. We also installed new decorative lighting and ceiling in the upstairs prayer hall in This year we had two major projects on our TO Do list; one, carpet replacement and two, addition of parking spaces for the convenience of devotees during major HARI events. We are proud to announce that we have closed the deal on purchase of new carpet. The carpet replacement project will commence immediately after the Diwali program and will be completed before the end of the year. However, we have suffered major setback in HARI parking lot project. After a year long Land Development Legal Process, we failed to achieve the desired outcome regarding the purchase of 3 acres lot from PA American Water Company for additional parking spaces. Considering the restrictions on land use imposed by the Authority Having Jurisdiction, the purchase the neighboring 3 acre land will not be useful to our additional parking spaces project. However, we are working with Dawood Engineering to develop a plan for additional 45 parking spaces within existing HARI premises. With grace of Lord Rama, we are confident in success of these efforts in coming days. We are very proud and thankful for all the volunteers who devoted their valuable time throughout the year in service of HARI despite social and professional responsibilities. We are also very thankful to you the HARI Community for believing in us and for giving us this precious opportunity to serve you, HARI temple and Lord Rama. On behalf of the executive committee members and the board of trustees, we wish you all Happy healthy peaceful and prosperous Diwali. We thank the HARI community for offering a wonderful opportunity to serve Lord Rama and the community and hope we have fulfilled your expectations. If you have any suggestion for improvements of your institution, please contact any of the EC or BOT members or us at haritemple@gmail.com Yours in service, Mr. Sunil Desai Chairman, Board of Trustees Mr. Ramesh Parmar President, Executive Committee 5

6 HARI SCHOOL Dear Students and Parents, Namaste! Wish you all a Very Happy Deepavali and a Prosperous New Year! We have almost completed two exciting months in the current school year. And lo and behold, Deepavali lamps are almost twinkling in front of us. We started off with Lord Ganesha pooja and recently, for the first time, we celebrated Ravan Dahan. There s nothing more satisfying for than seeing our students enjoy these events and its cultural significance. We hope to continue to organize these important events in the future. As promised in our previous message, we already have rolled out some of the exciting changes and, as we move along, we plan to add more spiritual spice to our students Sunday mornings. Our diligent Hindi teachers have reported that the newly adopted curriculum has been very well -received by both students and parents. Likewise, our committed Gujarati teachers, too, have adopted standard textbooks to teach the language. But, that s just half the job done. Our teachers hardwork will only fructify, when you encourage your child to speak the language they are learning Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Tamil. In fact, we d suggest you to keep aside a day of the week or a few hours on a specific day or a few minutes daily during meals when you will only speak the language your child is learning in HARI School. We plan to visit the Swaminarayan Temple, Robbinsville, NJ, April 24, 2016 for our annual field trip. The idea behind field trip is to expose our students to a place of Hindu culture that is both educative and enjoyable experience. This also is an exciting opportunity to make new friends and develop camaraderie with HARI community. We will send out registration details shortly. Some of the activities and events our students recently celebrated and enjoyed have been possible due to your active participation and volunteering. Please feel free to give your ideas and suggestions to us so we can enhance students experience while they attend HARI School. While your kids are taking classes, please seek out volunteer seva opportunities at the temple. By doing seva, we will be setting an example for our kids to emulate. Once again, enjoy the festival of lights with your family and friends and May this light lead us to spiritual enlightenment and May there be peace and harmony in the world. Sincerely, Dinesh R. Pai HARI School Director Vijay Varadarajan HARI Youth Forum Coordinator 6

7 End of the year is here. With the blessings of Lord Rama, and with your generous heart, HARI accounts are strengthening year on year in operational and long term self-sufficiency aimed Trust Fund accounts. However, HARI maintenance costs and capitol project needs are rising at same rapid pace. With the advice and dedicated work of our talented community members, we were able to strike a perfect balance between our income and expenses in Operational fund and achieve growth in the long term Trust Fund account. We would like to thank all the donors and also the dedicated volunteers who have helped us in the financial planning and maintenance this year. Below is the HARI Trust Fund status as of Oct 31, HARI Funds HARI FINANCE Trust Fund Yearly Growth HARI operations has expenses of $119,533 as of Sep 30 against the Income of $138,907. However, there are lot of short term needs at HARI Temple such as parking expansion and carpet replacement. Carpet replacement itself will cost around $35,000. We request you to continue your generosity so that some of the immediate needs can be addressed. May Lord Rama shower his blessings on you! Sincerely, Ramesh Bathini Ravi Venkatasubramanian Ayyappan Ganesan Finance Chair Trust Fund Coordinator Treasurer 7

8 DEDICATED SERVICE!!! Hearty thanks to our beloved priests Shree Naranji Pandya (Shastri ji) and Shree Seetharamaswamy (Swamy ji) & Office Manager Ms. Tracy Horetsky For their dedicated services to the temple and their support to us through out the year! Our Sincere Thanks and KUDOS to all the members of HARI Board Of trustees for a job well done for the year of and KUDOS to all the members of HARI Executive Committee for their diligent work and sincere commitment. Your enthusiasm and hard work has made this another great year for HARI. Our sincere thanks to all the Dwajarohan sponsors and Rakhi Run sponsors.. Our sincere thanks to all the great hearts who responded to our fundraising appeals via HTF throughout the year.. Our sincere thanks to all the HARI members for supporting the Executive Committee and the Board Of Trustees and giving us a wonderful opportunity to serve HARI to the best of our knowledge and ability Our Sincere Thanks to the Diwali Dinner Sponsors Passage to India Taj Mahal, Lancaster Mita Patel Meena / Ravi Venkat Satya / Manisha Arya Amita Shah Adinarayanarao Rayavarapu Taj Palace, Mechanicsburg Rasraj Catering Ramesh / Alka Parmar Pramod / Anju Srivastava Harish / Jyotsna Patel Sashidhar Jasty Pramita / Anil Shenoy Our hearty thanks to all Annakut Sweets, savories, fruits, nuts and other items sponsors! Our sincere thanks to all the HARI members for your continued support and encouragement to your HARI family. It is said that by sharing, happiness multiplies and sorrows reduce. If you wish to share the births, marriages etc or other news about your family with the community please send an to president@haritemple.org. ** Please note: Publishing any news is at the discretion of the HARI Times editorial team. 8

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12 Vaikuntha Ekadashi 12/21/2015 Monday 6:00am to 7:50am Agenda: - 6:00 am Uttara Dwara Darshanam, 6:15 am Tirupalli Ezuchi, Tiruppavai Sevakalam( Mas recital ), 7:15 am Sri Ranganatha, Andal (Goda Devi) Ashttottarams, 7:45 am Aragimpu(Naivedyam,Bhog, Amsi), Mangalasasanam,Sattumora, Teerdha Goshti and Prasada Viniyogam(Prasad distribution Participation: To participate in archana a token donation of $21 is recommended. 12

13 2015 HARI PROGRAM CALENDAR We welcome event sponsors any time of the year. New sponsors will be added to this list EVENT CELEBRATION DATE EVENT SPONSOR Kali Chaudash Sri Hanuman Aradhana Tuesday, November 10, pm Diwali Puja (Actual day) Wednesday, November 11, pm Diwali Puja / Annakut & General Body Meeting 4.30 pm Vikram Samvat 2072 Panchangam Shravanam Saturday, November 14, 2015 Thursday November 12, pm Sri Sukta Homam Saturday November 28, am noon Kruthika Deepotsavam Saturday December 12, 2015 N/A 4.30 pm 7.00 pm Vaikunta (Mukkoti) Ekadashi Monday, December 21, 2015 N/A Gita Jayanti Monday, December 21, 2015 N/A N/A N/A HARI Devotees N/A Mr.s. Madhavi & Mr. Ramesh Bathini * Any change in the event schedule will be notified via HARI Times and communications. NEPAL EARTHQUAKE DONATIONS It was sad that the earthquake in Nepal caused huge devastation. HARI Devotees always show their heart when helping the community in need. HARI raised the funds towards the Nepal Earthquake relief and all the raised funds were sent to Nepal Center of North Carolina, INC towards rebuilding the school at Himalaya Middle School of Lipeni, Hanspur in Nepal. We would like to thank the following donors. Anil Kumar Parikh Arjun Sanyal Bipin Doshi Devendra Parikh Goutam Mookerjee GuruKripa Realty Harish Patel Harit Trivedi Hiten Amin Jyotsna Antani K Janardhana Kirit Shah Mahendra Patil Mahindra Brahmbhatt Mukund Kulkarni Naresh Patil Prakash Patil Rajinder Chadha Ramesh Bathini Ramesh Parmar Sandip Mukherjee SeethaRamaswamy STP Vijay Patel Virendra Trivedi 13

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15 OUR SINCERE APPRECIATIONS General Donation Recognition We would like to acknowledge the following devotees for their donations: Received from 09/01/2015through 10/31/2015 Please contact the HARI Treasurer Mr. Ayyappan Ganesan for any corrections in the report. Name of the Devotee Donation Amount Donation Type Amin,Hiten & Minoo Anand,Ravi & Alka Annurna Five LLC,DBA: Auntie Anne's Pretzel $1, Program Sponsor Fee $ HARI Trust Fund $ Donation Arya,Satya & Manisha $ Donation Bhargave,Ashutosh & Usha (Dr) Bhat,Anand (Dr) & Shaila Bhattacharya,Syamal & Sulekha Dalal,Priti & Gaurang Desai,Dhimant (Dr) & Jagruti (Dr) $ Donation $ Fundraiser $ Donation $ School Lunch Donation $ Program Sponsor Fee Desai,Sunil & Anita $1, Fundraiser Gajjar,Tapasdip & Ahutiben Desai $1, Program Sponsor Fee Gupta,Anshul & Mamta $ Donation Kiran & Anadi Patel Family Fund, $5, Capital Project Donation KP,Technology Kulkarni,Mukund (Dr) & Prabha Kumar,Padmani & Natasha Long,Jeffery & Mahua Bhattacharya Modi, Rupen & Meera Pangarkar,Rajeev & Manjiri Pangarkar,Rajeev & Manjiri Parikh,Mukul (Dr) & Neelima (Dr) Parikh,Mukul (Dr) & Neelima (Dr) Parmar,Ramesh & Alka Parmar,Ramesh & Alka Patel,Dusyant & Jagruti Patel,Kanti & Ruxmani $1, Program Sponsor Fee $ Donation $ Donation $ Fundraiser $ Fundraiser $1, Fundraiser $1, HARI Trust Fund $1, Fundraiser $ Fundraiser $1, Program Sponsor Fee $ Fundraiser $ Fundraiser $1, Program Sponsor Fee 15

16 OUR SINCERE APPRECIATIONS General Donation Recognition We would like to acknowledge the following devotees for their donations: Received from 09/01/2015through 10/31/2015 Continued. Name of the Devotee Donation Amount Donation Type Piersoft Information Systems LLC, $ Fundraiser Popat,Vrajlal (Dr) & Anjana (Dr) $ Fundraiser Saini,Navdeep $ Donation Saini Express Inc,dba Sei Transportation $ Donation Shah,Jagdish (Dr) & Parul $1, Program Sponsor Fee Shah,Sharad & Pushpa $ HARI Trust Fund Shenoy,Anil & Pramita $1, Program Sponsor Fee Shenoy,Anil & Pramita $1, Fundraiser Shenoy,Anil & Pramita $1, HARI Trust Fund Sheth,Ketan (Dr) & Kalpana $1, Fundraiser Sindiri,Atreia & Sangeeta $ Fundraiser Srinivasulu,Hema Latha $1, Program Sponsor Fee Srivastava,Pramod & Anju $ Fundraiser Srivastava,Pramod & Anju $ Donation Tewari,Deepanker & Aruna $1, HARI Trust Fund Venkatasubramanian,Ravi & Meena Ravi $1, Fundraiser Vyas,Krishnakant & Jyoti $ Donation Zumkhawala, MD,Ashvin R & Dolar R $5, Capital Project Donation Zumkhawala-Cook,Richard & Ami $ Fundraiser OUR HEARTFELT SYMPATHY to the family of Mr. Dinesh Parikh of York, PA on passing away of his beloved wife and mother of Neha and Tejas, Mrs. Mitaben Parikh on September 30, *** MAY THE DEPARTED SOULS ATTAIN PARAM SADGATI *** If you wish to sponsor an issue of HARI Times completely or in part, please contact any HARI Committee members. If you wish to go green and read HARI times online only, please to president@haritemple.org. 16

17 Hindu American Religious Institute 301 Steigerwalt Hollow Road New Cumberland PA Nonprofit Org. US Postage Paid Harrisburg, PA Permit No. 304 Directions: Take Exit 39A, Lewisberry Road, off I-83 Make left at the STOP for Route 114 West Go 1/3 mile; make Left on Steigerwalt Hollow Rd Go 1/2 mile to HARI Temple on right Phone: (717) Jain Swadhayay / Puja (First Sunday of every month) (Please Note date change) Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 2:00 pm Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 2:00 pm Monthly Havan (Second Sunday of every month) Sunday, November 8, 2015 at 05:30 pm Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 05:30 pm Shri Lord Venkateswara Swamy (Balaji) Abhishekam: (First Saturday of every month) Saturday, November 7, 2015 at 09:30 am Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 09:30 am Lord Satyanarayana Bhagwan Puja: (Full Moon Day) (Please Note Change in timings) Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 7.15 pm Friday, December 25, 2015 at 7:15 pm Note: Regularly Scheduled Events may change due to priority of other events 17