NEWSLETTER

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Temple Timings: Sunday

10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon Arati 10:30 AM Tues, Fri & Sat

5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Arati 6 PM

Temple website http://htsnm.org/

Balvihar 2 President’s Message 3 Auspicious days 4 Reminders 5 Past/upcoming events 6-10

Table of Contents

In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you. — Hindu saying that Steve Jobs was fond of (as read in Apple-topia)

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Balvihar

Balvihar is up and running. Please come join us every

Sunday from 10:00 to 11:00 am.

Balvihar’s new teacher Hari Chandrashekar assigned students in

his group to research on India’s contribution to the world—

Homework for this week—the students were challenged to pre-

sent on the contributions to mathematics and science on Raman

effect, Chandrasekhar lim-

it, Bose–Einstein conden-

sate, Ramanujan's con-

stant, and, J C Bose.

Balvihar is a platform for

our younger generation to

be proud of our heritage.

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Greetings, Happy November to everyone—it is the start of the holiday season and cooler weather for us here in the southwest. Many events have come to pass in these past 10 months at the temple. Many more are being organized for execution. The first one I would like to bring your attention to is the Non-violence walkathon to commemorate the 150th birth an-niversary of Mahatma Ghandi. I invite each and everyone of you to participate and show our strength in numbers at this event. It will be held at the Albuquerque Academy school. Even if you are not an avid walker—you can come and participate by volunteering at our booths or handing out water bottles. Our presence in the state is very subtle, these types of events will boost our children’s self confidence. I urge everyone to show support in order to showcase and advocate our presence in the state of New Mex-ico. Another task that the board is undertaking this year is to promote a membership drive. This will enable the temple to receive necessary funds to make plans for our new tem-ple. Showing an influx of income on a regular basis helps us to secure loans and funds that will be required to establish a new location for our deities. It is my pleasure to welcome the following new officers to our organization—Pritha Ghosh (Co-director of cultural activities and temple activities), Ashok Ghosh (Director of Income Assurance and verification/Audit), Prakruthi Santosh (Director of Charita-ble activities) and, Nikita Jaiswal (Website contents). With the added influx of new blood it is my believe that we will serve our community with new vigor.

If you know of families that are not receiving the newsletter, kindly send me a message (krishna.realtyone@gmail.com) so we may include them in the mailing list.

Wishing you all a very safe and happy Thanksgiving break.

President’s message

Krishna Jaiswal President

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Upcoming Auspicious days temple is open on days that are bolded

Nov

1 Friday Skanda Sashti, Soora Samharam, Labh Panchami

2 Saturday Chhath Puja

8 Friday Tulasi Vivah

9 Friday Pradosham

11 Monday Pournami, Dev Diwali, Anvadhan

12 Tuesday Kartik Poornima, Karthigai, Ishti

15 Friday Ganadhipa Sankashta Chaturthi

23 Friday Pradosham

24 Sunday Shivarathri

29 Friday Vinayaka Chathurti

Dec

1 Sunday Shasti vratam, Vivah Panchami, Champa Shashthi

7 Saturday Guruvayur Ekadasi, Gita Jayanti

9 Monday Pradosham

10 Tuesday Karthigai Deepam

12 Thursday Ishti

15 Sunday Sangada Hara Chathurti

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1. No footwear allowed in the mandir and on the

second floor, unless worn due to medical rea-

sons. Our Temple requirements are that all foot-

wear be stowed in the cubbies provided to pre-

vent young children from tripping over them.

2. During temple sponsored events Board mem-

bers and/or Advisory committee members will

be available to answer your questions.

3. For renting the HTSNM Community Hall,

which is available for private functions such as

birthdays, graduation, get togethers etc. the cost

is $250 which includes water and trash bags. It

is up to the organizing committee to provide all

others. There is a 20% discount for members of

Our Temple.

4. New parking signage coming up, please obey

all parking signs to avoid fines.

5. If you would like to access the temple at any

time, keys are available to checkout from Bom-

bay Spice grocery store (505 232 6661).

6. Thank you for all you do to help ensure Our

Temple’s cleanliness.

Upcoming events Reminders

• Balvihar 10:00—11:00 Sundays

• Ekadasi Nov 8th, 23rd 7:30-8:30pm

• Tulsi Vivah/Ekadashi Nov 8th

• Walkathon—Nov 9th

• Lakshmi Puja—Nov 24th

• Bhandara Dec 8th

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Durga Puja

Karvachauth

Durgastami was celebrated grandly at the temple on Oct 6th, the celebrations also include oth-er major deities of Hinduism such as Lakshmi , Saraswati, Ganesha, and Kartikeya. In Bengali tradi-tions, these deities are considered to be Durga's children and Durga puja is believed to commemorate Durga's visit to her natal home with her children.

Hindus believe that if married women fast on this day, it helps in prolong-

ing the life of their husbands and also brings happiness in the family.

Nowadays many unmarried girls also keep this fast to pray and wish for a

good husband.

Event was successfully organized by our very own Rajani Dhawan on Oc-

tober 17th. Beautifully clad women and girls performed the pooja.

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Chappan Bhog

The celebration of 56 offering to Lord Krishna was grandly celebrat-ed on 27th October at 6pm. Devo-tees prepared and offered sweets welcoming the Hindu New Year at our temple. May the coming year

bless everyone with health, wealth and happiness.

Damodara Yajna

The month of Damodara or Kartik cele-

brations have been on-going every Sat-

urday evenings. Children and adults are

performing lamp offering with love and

devotion to Lord Krishna. Stories about

Krishna’s birth

and his life are

shared with de-

votion.

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Diwali at the temple

Balvihar parents and children sang Ashta Lakshmi stotram, listened to the story of Brahmasura. He was an asura who was granted the power to burn up and immediately turn into ashes (bhasma) anyone

whose head he touched with his hand. The asura was tricked by

the god Vishnu's only female av-atar, the enchantress Mohini, to turn himself into ashes. We also

lighted sparklers and enjoyed the day with good food and

good company.

Lakshmi Puja (upcoming event)

HTSNM will be celebrating Lakshmi Puja

on 24th of November—please contact or-

ganizer and coordinator

Pritha Ghosh at

pritha.ghosh@nmt.edu to

sponsor and or volunteer for

the event.

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Upcoming events

Visit https://htsnm-walkathon.wixsite.com/website

and register your friends, family and yourself to receive a free t-shirt.

All are welcome, this is a non religious event. Please invite all your co-workers and friends to come and enjoy the outdoors

before it gets too chilly. Also browse the booths while you are there to learn more about non-violence awareness.

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Next bhandara is sched-uled on Sunday, December 8th. A vegetarian meal will be prepared at the temple

and served to all who come to the temple that day. If you would like to sponsor/donate towards the food service please

contact (krishna.realtyone@gmail.com) or any of the board members found at htsnm.org. Please help support

your temple.

Upcoming events

If your student needs volunteer hours, HTSNM is offering certificates as an

incentive for someone who has served wholeheartedly despite of not being paid for the work done. We will make every effort to find tasks that are appropriate for students to accomplish and a certificate to prove it! Contact our board to get more information

on this.