H.A.R.I Temple: 774-7750

Priests: Pu. Shastri ji 460-1522 Pu. Swamy ji 395-6562

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: President: Mrs. Meena Ravi 651-0620

Senior Vice President: Mr. Ramesh Parmar 728-1143

Vice President/Secretary: Mr. Rajkumar Das 856-1061

Vice President/Treasurer: Mr. Barath Srinivasan 573-639-0102

Vice Presidents:

Mrs. Nira Andharia 767-3727 Mr. Satish Chundru 418-8324 Mr. Vibeeshan Gereddy 620.5122 Mr. Sathya Krishnamurthy 395-8521 Mrs. Manjiri Pangarkar 730-6717 Mr. Hitesh Patel 319-8834 Mr. Kiran Polsani 312-545-0427 Mr. Anil Shenoy 766-2040 Dr. Deepanker Tewari 566-7999

School Director: Mrs. Kalpana Sheth 242-3881

Youth Forum Director: Mr. Vijay Varadarajan 395-2588

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Chairman: Mr. Hiten Amin 732-0513

Members:

Mr. Sunil Desai 792-4661 Mr. Srinivas Gamini 421-8718 Dr. Jeffrey Long 361-8761 Dr. Madhu Menon 329-7125 Mr. Harish Patel 576-1223 Mr. Mafat Patel 764-3288 Mr. Pravin Patel 329-7457 Mr. Krishna Repaka 829-3551 Mr. Kishor Sheth 774-6746

SITA-RAMA * RADHE-SHYAM Vol. 14 No. 05 NOV-DEC 2014

HARI Times...

301 Steigerwalt Hollow Road * New Cumberland * PA 17070

(717) 774-7750 * haritemple@gmail.com * www.haritemple.org

Sundara Kand Yagna November 1,

2014—4PM-7PM. HARI cosponsored

Sundarkand Yagna for Wealth, Health, and Peace

for you and people near & dear to you, and for

the entire community.

Sri Tulsi Vivah November 6, 2014

6 PM-7.30PM: 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 8, 2014

4.30PM-7.00PM: Sr i sukta Homa of Devi

Lakshmi is a major spiritual procedure for

attaining of financial desires and prosperi-

ty. (Please see inside for information about the

program, and sponsor details.)

Sri Kruthika Deepotsavam Decem-

ber 13, 2014 4:45pm to 7:00pm Festival of

lights as celebrated in Thirumala Thirupathi dur-

ing the “ auspicious Damodara Month” (Please

see inside for information about the program de-

tails.)

Vaikunta Ekadashi December 31, 2014

6.00 am—7.50 am. Uttara Dwara Darshanam,

Thiruppalliyezhuchi and Arti. (Please see inside

for information about the program details.)

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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 web-site www.haritemple.org

HARI Emails: Please update or provide your email or contact information at the upper right -hand corner of www.haritemple.org. You may also drop your contact information in the Hundi (donation box) at the temple or send an email to haritemple@gmail.com. We will notify you of all HARI events as well as other major community events via email.

HARI ON-LINE CALENDAR: Visit www.haritemple.org to access HARI 2014 Calendar for the sched-uled 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 by email.

REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENTS

Bhajans & Bhagavad Gita Study: Every Friday from 6:30pm to 9:00pm, followed by Prasad. Organized by the Institute of Higher Understanding (IoHU). You may contact IoHU directly at HbgVedic@yahoo.com or (717) 791-9138 for further details.

Shri Vishnu Sahasra Namam and Govinda Naamaalu Recital: Every Saturday at 6:00pm (except for other scheduled events)

Hanuman Chalisa Recital and Satsang: Every Saturday from 7:15pm to 8:15pm (except for other sched-uled events)

Lord Shri Satyanarayana Katha: 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 09:30am. 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.

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Note: “Regularly Scheduled Events” may change due to priority of other events

Requests for Priest Services (outside of HARI)

and Hall Rentals:

Mrs. Meena Ravi:

Phone: 651-0620 (Home), 503-6567 (cell)

Email: president@haritemple.org

HARI Times Editors:

Executive Committee Members

Mr. Hiten Amin 732-0513

Mr. Ashok Shukla 737-1919

Mr. Jagannath Yedatore 932-4161

CONTACT INFORMATION

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Dear Devotees,

Another page is turned in the book of HARI’s history, marking the conclusion of another team of(Executive Committee and Board Of Trustees 2014). We are grateful to all of you for having given us this wonderful opportunity to serve our Community HARI.

This year has been a year of HARI renovation projects executed as part of repairs and maintenance. We fixed the two well pumps, two pressure tanks, priest quarters ,roof leaks, temple entrance, electrical fix-tures, Yarnell Security system upgrades, and upper hall beautification all of which are easily recognizable.

Our beloved priests worked alongside the EC & BOT teams to bring programs like Dwajaarohan, Bhak-totsavam, Rudhrabishekam, Tusli Vivah, and Sri Vari Kalyanotsavam. Over the year, our priests have also performed about 375 puja services(160 in-temple and 215 outside temple premises) in addition to the regular pujas at the temple.

We also celebrated 41 HARI facilitated events apart from the 11 HARI sponsored functions, for a total of 52 HARI programs. EC 2014 members provided incredible support to each of the programs.

This year HARI School has received about 100 registrations so far. Dedicated volunteer teachers pro-vide many new classes for the benefit of the community.

HARI Community Youth conducted the Rakhi Run fundraiser event raising about $17,000.

BOT organized fundraisers, projects like HARI upper hall beautification, front entrance repairs and worked on long term plans for the betterment of HARI and its future.

While mentioning some of the efforts concluded this year, we wish to add that there are many more to be undertaken. In welcoming the new team, it is our fervent desire that HARI will continue to fulfill its mission as the place for all religious and cultural needs and bring happiness to our community.

At your service

Mr. Hiten Amin Mrs. Meena Ravi Chairman President

Board of Trustees Executive Committee

MESSAGE FROM THE COMMITTEES

HARI SENIORS FORUM

Last year HARI started "Senior Center Forum" activities for our respected Seniors.

This year, we conducted two sessions of Computer Seminar for the Seniors. Mr. Ravi Venkatasubra-

manian and Mr. Sucharith Vanguri presented the first session. Mr. Ramesh Parmar, and Mr. Satish

Chundru did presentations the second time. Both seminars were well received by the seniors of our

community. Our thanks to all the presenters.

Recently we went on a Seniors Bus trip to Vraj Temple and Arsha Vidya Gurukulam. Thanks to all

the seniors for participating in this bus trip and making it thoroughly enjoyable. We received numer-

ous emails from the participants expressing their gratitude to the temple and kudos to the organiz-

ers.

Thanks to Harish Patel, Yogesh Parikh, Renuka Parikh, Gowri Desikachar, Virendra Trivedi, Hiten Amin

and Minoo Amin, Manisha Smith, Meena Ravi and Ravi Venktasubramanian for making this trip suc-

cessful.

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Namaste

We are very pleased to announce that HARI School has reopened since September. More than 100 students are enrolled in various classes that our school offers.

The students are very enthusiastic and the volunteer teachers are very excited to teach them various languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu and Tamil. The students in religion classes continue to learn about Hinduism, our culture and way of life.

Youth group takes SAT practice and they get involved in community volunteer activities.

We have also started Bhagwad Geeta reading club for parents under direction of Mr. Ken Kendre while students attend various classes.

We thank all our Sunday school lunch sponsors and we look for new lunch sponsors for com-ing weeks.

We invite you to visit the temple on Sunday morning and feel the school atmosphere. Please bring your children or grand children along with; it is never too late to enroll them in the school.

We sincerely thank the Board of Trustees and the executive committee for their full support for the school. As Mrs. Meena Ravi is completing her term as the President, we extend our special thanks for constant support for the past year and we look forward to working with Mr. Ramesh Parmar in coming year.

Mrs. Kalpana Sheth Mr. Vijay Varadarajan

HARI School Director Youth Forum Director

HARI SCHOOL

OUR HEARTFELT THANKS

TO Mr. Asuthosh Bhargave, Mrs. Usha Bhargave and family for sponsoring dinner Prasad on Sri Krishna Janmashtami Celebrations.

TO the Siddhi Vinayak Mandali and other families who sponsored dinner for Ganesh Chaturti cele-brations.

TO all the families who sponsored dinner during Ramayan Katha by Sri Kaushikji.

TO Mr. Kumar Piravipperumal and family, Kannada families and all the other families for sponsor-ing dinner and lunch during Bhaktotsavam

TO Gujarati Samaj families for sponsoring dinner on the last day of Navaratri.

TO all the Bengali families for sponsoring lunch during Dusshera celebrations.

TO Manisha & Satya Aarya, Anju & Pramod Ssrivatsava, Suman & Vipin Goel, Shabnam & Rohit Sachdeva, Alka & Ramesh Parmar, Meena & Ravi Venkatasubramanian, Pramita & Anil Shenoy, Bombay Junction, Taj Palace, Passage To India, and Taj Palace Lancaster for sponsoring dinner on Diwali celebra-tions.

TO Anjali & Mahesh Agrawal, Ragini & Vivek Maheshwari, Tripti & Manoj Gupta and Shweta & Anu-rag Agrawal for cosponsoring Sundarakand Yagna and sponsoring the dinner for the event.

Please contact us if you wish to voluntarily serve HARI in any capacity

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Agenda: -

6:00 am Uttara Dwara Darshanam, 6:15 am Tirupalli Ezuchi, Tiruppavai Sevakalam( Mass recital ), 7:15 am Sri Ranganatha, Andal (Goda Devi) Ashttottarams, 7:45 am Aragimpu(Naivedyam,Bhog, Amsi), Mangalasasanam, Sattumora, Teertha Goshti and Prasada Viniyogam(Prasad distribu-tion) To participate in archanas $21 donation recommended.

Vaikuntha Ekadashi 12/31/2014 Wednesday 6:00am to 7:50am

DONATION RECOGNITION (from Aug 20-October 31 2014)

Donor Name Donation Amount Donation Type

Bathini, Ramesh & Madhavi $200.00 Donation

Bhargave, Ashutosh & Usha (Dr) $301.00 Donation

Dhuri, Vivek $100.00 Donation

Jain Samaj of South Central PA $150.00 Donation

Patel, Hetax & Yesha $101.00 Donation

Patel, Jagdish & Nita $100.00 Donation

Piraviperumal, Kumar & Bagavathy $120.00 Donation

Raghvendra Rao, Satheesh Kumar & Parvathy $151.00 Donation

Ramanathan, Saravanan& Sreelekha K Nagarajanam $1,000.00 Capital Project

Repaka, Krishnaprasad & Swarna $101.00 Donation

Sekhar, Sundhar & Liane $1,001.00 Capital Project

Shenoy, Anil & Pramita $156.98 Donation

Shingala, Hiren & Gita $101.00 Donation

Srivastava, Pramod & Anju $202.00 Donation

Subramanian, Srinivasan & Meena $288.00 Donation

The Desai Family Fund $500.00 Capital Project

2014 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

Thulsi Vivah Thursday, November 06, 2014 Mrs. Rupal & Dr.Satish Shah

Sri Suktha Homam Saturday, November 16, 2014 Mrs. Madhavi & Mr.Ramesh Bathini

Gita Jayanti Tuesday, December 2, 2014 N/A

Kritika Deepotsavam Saturday, December 13, 2014 Mrs.Anuradha & Mr.Sekhar Ramaraju

Vaikunta Ekadashi Wednesday, December 31, 2014 N/A

* Any change in the event schedule will be notified via HARI Times and e-mail communications.

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New Committees: A Message from HARI Nominations Committee

At the Annual General Body meeting on Saturday, October 25, 2014 the Nomination Committee Chair Mr.

Harish Patel presented a slate of 2015-Executive Committee and three members for the Board of Trustees

(2015-2017). The following committee members were declared elected:

Three members for the Board of Trustees for a three-year term (2015, 2016, and 2017)

Mr. Ramesh Bathini Mr. Kirit Shah Dr. Deepanker Tewari

In addition, Mrs. Meena Ravi, President-2014, will serve on the Board for the year 2015

The following candidates were declared elected for the 2015-Executive Committee

President: Mr. Ramesh Parmar Sr. Vice President: Mr. Anil Shenoy

Secretary: Mr. Manpal Singh Treasurer: Mr. Ayyappan Ganesan

Vice Presidents(9 Positions)

Mr. Kausik Bandyopadhyay Mr. Vibheeshan Gereddy Mr. Sashidhar Jasty

Mr. Prakash Kolandra Mr. Sudhir Kumar Mr. Nayan Mitra

Mrs. Manjiri Pangarkar Mrs. Amita Shah Mrs. Anita Shah

We appreciate the Nomination Committee members, Mr. Harish Patel (Chair), Mr. Meena Ravi (President),

Mrs. Rasmita Amin, Mr. Ravi Anand, and Mrs. Gowri Desikachar for their selfless service to HARI. We also

would like to express our gratitude to the following outgoing committee members:

From BOT

Mr. Hiten Amin (Board member 2012-2014, Chair 2014)

Mr. Pravin Patel (Board member 2012-2014)

Mr. Krishna Repaka (Board member 2012-2014, Chair 2014)

Mr. Harish Patel (President 2013, served on the Board in 2014 as Ex-President)

From EC

Mr. Rajkumar Das (Secretary) Mr. Bharath Srinivasan (Treasurer)

Mrs. Nira Andharia (Vice President) Mr. Satish Chundru (Vice President)

Mr. Sathya Krishnamurthy (Vice President) Mr. Hitesh Patel (Vice President)

Mr. Kiran Polsani (Vice President)

Harish Patel

Chairman- Nominations Committee

HARI Board of Trustees

OUR HEARTFELT SYMPATHY

… to the family of Mrs. Aruna & Dr. Sudarshan Lal on passing away of their beloved daughter

Mrs. Sangeeta Pal on August 25, 2014.

*** MAY THE DEPARTED SOULS ATTAIN PARAM SADGATI ***

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Hindu American Religious Institute

301 Steigerwalt Hollow Road

New Cumberland PA 17070

www.haritemple.org

Shri Lord Venkateswara Swamy

(Balaji) Abhishekam:

(First Saturday of every month) Saturday, November 01, 2014 at 09:30am

Saturday, December 06, 2014 at 09:30am

Lord Satyanarayana

Bhagwan Puja: (Full Moon Day)

Thursday, November 06, 2014 at 7:30pm

Saturday, December 06, 2014 at 7:15pm

Note: “Regularly Scheduled Events” may change due to

priority of other events

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) 774-7750

Jain Swadhayay / Puja

(First Sunday of every month)

Sunday, November 02, 2014 at 2:00pm

Sunday, December 07, 2014 at 2:00pm

Monthly Havan

(Second Sunday of every month)

Sunday, November 09, 2014 at 06:00pm

Sunday, December 14, 2014 at 06:00pm