SITA-RAMA * RADHE-SHYAM Vol. 15 No. 04 NOV-DEC 2015

HARI Times...

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 www.haritemple.org to view the list of Annakut items ***

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DIWALI CELEBRATION: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2015

at 4.30 pm. Annakut & Annual General Body meeting. 7.00 pm

Arti followed by dinner.

*Overflow parking arrangements are made for your convenience.

DIWALI ACTUAL DAY PUJA: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11,

2015. Contact priest for details.

REMEMBER TO RENEW YOUR ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP (FOR 2016)

ON THE AUSPICIOUS DAY OF DIWALI

HARI PROGRAMS FOR NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER

Sri Tulsi Vivah November 22, 2015

5:00 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, 2015

9:30AM-12:00PM: Sri 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 December 12, 2015

4:30 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, 2015

6:00 AM—7:00 AM. Uttara Dwara Darshanam, Thiruppalliyezhuchi

and Arti. (Please see inside for information about the program details.)

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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

Requests for Priest Services (outside of HARI)

and Hall Rentals:

Mr. Ramesh Parmar:

Phone: 433-9548

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

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 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 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 cancella-

tions 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”).

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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 experi-ence every year. Life is something similar! Our temple priests offer services covering life events from cele-brating 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) 728-9989 or 717-728-8900.

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, 2015 2. Mr. Rajani Shah presented a slide show and a talk on Holistic Approach to Life at HARI on Au-gust 27, 2015. 3. Bowling at ABC lanes on Thursday, September 24 4. Fall Foliage hike at the Rickett Glean State Park on October 11, 2015 5. Diwali Dinner at Taj Palace, Carlisle Pike on November 5, 2015 6. 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, 2015.

Best Wishes, Mr. Kirit Shah

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A MESSAGE FROM THE COMMITTEE

Namaste…

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, Anan-dam 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 pub-lished 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 effi-cient 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 2014. 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 replace-ment 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 Devel-opment 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 im-posed 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 tem-ple 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 commu-

nity 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 email us at haritemple@gmail.com

Yours in service,

Mr. Sunil Desai Mr. Ramesh Parmar

Chairman, Board of Trustees President, Executive Committee

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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 con-

tinue to organize these important events in the future.

As promised in our previous message, we already have rolled out some of the exciting chang-

es and, as we move along, we plan to add more spiritual spice to our students’ Sunday morn-

ings.

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 teach-

ers 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 pos-

sible 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 Vijay Varadarajan

HARI School Director HARI Youth Forum Coordinator

HARI SCHOOL

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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, 2015.

HARI Funds

Trust Fund Yearly Growth

HARI operations has expenses of $119,533 as of Sep 30 against the Income of $138,907. How-

ever, 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

HARI FINANCE

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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 2015….

and KUDOS to all the members of HARI Executive Committee for their diligent work and sincere commit-

ment. 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 Trus-

tees 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 Palace , Mechanicsburg

Taj Mahal, Lancaster Rasraj Catering

Mita Patel Ramesh / Alka Parmar

Meena / Ravi Venkat Pramod / Anju Srivastava

Satya / Manisha Arya Harish / Jyotsna Patel

Amita Shah Sashidhar Jasty

Adinarayanarao Rayavarapu 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 encour-

agement 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 email to president@haritemple.org.

** Please note: Publishing any news is at the discretion of the HARI Times editorial team.

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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), Man-galasasanam,Sattumora,

Teerdha Goshti and Prasada Viniyogam(Prasad distribution Participation: To participate in archana a token donation of $21 is recommended.

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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, 2015

7.05 pm

N/A

Diwali Puja (Actual day) Wednesday, November 11,

2015 7.05 pm

N/A

Diwali Puja / Annakut & General Body

Meeting 4.30 pm

Saturday, November 14, 2015 HARI Devotees

Vikram Samvat 2072 Panchangam

Shravanam

Thursday November 12, 2015

7.05 pm

N/A

Sri Sukta Homam Saturday November 28, 2015

9.30am-12.00 noon

Mr.s. Madhavi & Mr. Ramesh

Bathini

Kruthika Deepotsavam Saturday December 12, 2015

4.30 pm– 7.00 pm

N/A

Vaikunta (Mukkoti) Ekadashi Monday, December 21, 2015 N/A

Gita Jayanti Monday, December 21, 2015 N/A

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

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ANADAHAM FUN MOMENTS….

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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 (treasurer@haritemple.org) for any corrections in the

report.

Name of the Devotee Donation Amount Donation Type

Amin,Hiten & Minoo $1,111.00 Program Sponsor Fee

Anand,Ravi & Alka $101.00 HARI Trust Fund

Annurna Five LLC,DBA: Auntie Anne's Pretzel $101.00 Donation

Arya,Satya & Manisha $161.00 Donation

Bhargave,Ashutosh & Usha (Dr) $301.00 Donation

Bhat,Anand (Dr) & Shaila $100.00 Fundraiser

Bhattacharya,Syamal & Sulekha $100.00 Donation

Dalal,Priti & Gaurang $200.00 School Lunch Donation

Desai,Dhimant (Dr) & Jagruti (Dr) $180.00 Program Sponsor Fee

Desai,Sunil & Anita $1,001.00 Fundraiser

Gajjar,Tapasdip & Ahutiben Desai $1,111.00 Program Sponsor Fee

Gupta,Anshul & Mamta $140.00 Donation

Kiran & Anadi Patel Family Fund, $5,000.00 Capital Project Donation

KP,Technology $1,111.00 Program Sponsor Fee

Kulkarni,Mukund (Dr) & Prabha $101.00 Donation

Kumar,Padmani & Natasha $300.00 Donation

Long,Jeffery & Mahua Bhattacharya $501.00 Fundraiser

Modi, Rupen & Meera $501.00 Fundraiser

Pangarkar,Rajeev & Manjiri $1,005.00 Fundraiser

Pangarkar,Rajeev & Manjiri $1,111.00 HARI Trust Fund

Parikh,Mukul (Dr) & Neelima (Dr) $1,111.00 Fundraiser

Parikh,Mukul (Dr) & Neelima (Dr) $539.00 Fundraiser

Parmar,Ramesh & Alka $1,111.00 Program Sponsor Fee

Parmar,Ramesh & Alka $501.00 Fundraiser

Patel,Dusyant & Jagruti $101.00 Fundraiser

Patel,Kanti & Ruxmani $1,011.00 Program Sponsor Fee

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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, $250.00 Fundraiser

Popat,Vrajlal (Dr) & Anjana (Dr) $251.00 Fundraiser

Saini,Navdeep $251.00 Donation

Saini Express Inc,dba Sei Transportation $101.00 Donation

Shah,Jagdish (Dr) & Parul $1,111.00 Program Sponsor Fee

Shah,Sharad & Pushpa $250.00 HARI Trust Fund

Shenoy,Anil & Pramita $1,111.00 Program Sponsor Fee

Shenoy,Anil & Pramita $1,001.00 Fundraiser

Shenoy,Anil & Pramita $1,000.00 HARI Trust Fund

Sheth,Ketan (Dr) & Kalpana $1,001.00 Fundraiser

Sindiri,Atreia & Sangeeta $116.00 Fundraiser

Srinivasulu,Hema Latha $1,111.00 Program Sponsor Fee

Srivastava,Pramod & Anju $150.00 Fundraiser

Srivastava,Pramod & Anju $202.00 Donation

Tewari,Deepanker & Aruna $1,000.00 HARI Trust Fund

Venkatasubramanian,Ravi & Meena Ravi $1,500.00 Fundraiser

Vyas,Krishnakant & Jyoti $125.00 Donation

Zumkhawala, MD,Ashvin R & Dolar R $5,000.00 Capital Project Donation

Zumkhawala-Cook,Richard & Ami $176.00 Fundraiser

OUR HEARTFELT SYMPATHY

… to the family of Mr. Dinesh Parikh of York, PA on passing away of his be-

loved wife and mother of Neha and Tejas, Mrs. Mitaben Parikh on Septem-

ber 30, 2015.

*** 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 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

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) (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