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7930 Arjons Drive, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549-3940 August 2011 Issue 8
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August 2011
Balabhavan Coordinators
Seetha Janakiraman Venkat Maddipatla
Gayathri Vidyasankar
Class Coordinators
Super-Senior Class:
Krishna Meduri [email protected]
Senior Class: Radhika Chari
Hema Rangaswamy [email protected]
Junior Class: Rama Srinivas Hema Santhosh
Toddler Class:
Prasanna Madabushi Sushma Natarajan
Registration coordinators:
Krishnaswamy Panneer Selvam [email protected]
Newsletter Coordinator:
Krishna Meduri: [email protected]
Festivals of the Month: 8/12/11- Varalakshmi Puja 8/22/11- Janmashtami 8/30/11- Swarna Gowri Puja & Varasiddhi Vinayaka Vratam
Please visit:
www.shiva-vishnu.org for
more details
BBC Announcements:
This month, BB kids are having a lot of fun learning at the Summer camps. Please mark your calendars for our annual “Ganesh Idol Making” 8/14/2011- 2.30pm-4:00pm 8/20/2011- 4:00pm-6:00pm Please respond to the evite that was sent earlier by the balabhavan coordinators. We also need volunteers to help in Idol making. Please email to [email protected]
BBC TEAM
August Birthdays:
Toddler:
Aryav Srinivas Prem Kumar
Shaurya Kadiyala Sree Krishna Sai Sidharth
Juniors:
Akshaya Venugopal Shraddha Kadaba Pranav C. Maddali Pranav Puttaparthi
Seniors:
Susmeetha Sanugula Tejas Srinivasan
Vaishnavi Viswanath
Super Seniors:
Vikas Sarathy
BALABHAVAN NEWSLETTER VEDIC CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO
Who are Rajas ?
Raja is an Indian term for a monarch, or princely ruler of the Kshatriya varna. The earliest civilization was the Aryan Civilization. The Aryans gradually began to penetrate eastward, clearing dense forests and establishing "tribal" settlements along the Ganga & Yamuna plains between 1500 and ca. 800 B.C. The administrative system headed by tribal chieftains was transformed by a number of regional republics or hereditary monarchies that devised ways to appropriate revenue and to conscript labor for expanding the areas of settlement, agriculture and wealth. These emergent states collected revenue through officials, maintained armies, and built new cities and highways. By 600 B.C., sixteen such territorial powers including the Magadha, Kosala, Kuru, and Gandhara stretched across the North India plains, from modern-day Afghanistan to Bangladesh and many kingdoms towards south the kingdoms were ruled by the rajas. They had the right to the throne, no matter how it was gained, it was usually legitimized through elaborate sacrifice rituals and genealogies concocted by priests who ascribed to the raja divine or superhuman origins. The rajas maintained the power in the family and it continued through as hereditary right over the kingdom. The Raja is the sole ruler of the region and ancient India was comprised of several regions, each ruled by a different Raja. The rajas used to protect the kingdom and the people of the kingdom; they were great warriors and some rajas were patrons of arts and architecture.
---By Deepika Vuppala
7930 Arjons Drive, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549-3940 August 2011 Issue 8
August 2011
Questions of the Month
1. What was Bheeshma’s birth
name? Hint: It starts with a D.
2. With whose help did Vyasa
write the Mahabharatha?
3. What is Draupadi’s other name that starts with a K? Hint: It is also the name of another character in the Mahabharatha, who is well known as the “butter – thief”.
ANSWERS: 1. Devavrata 2. Ganesha 3. Krishna
What is the bondage of action?
This freedom from the bondage of
actions is possible when you are doing
everything for Krishna. The person doing
Krishna conscious acts out of pure love for
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and
therefore he has no attraction for the results
of the action. The people who carry out their
duties according to gods command and also
follow this teaching faithfully become free
from the bondage of silent actions. You
cannot attain your spiritual goal by
nonperformance or by the rejection of
actions.
Nobody in the world can remain
unengaged for even a second in activity
because everyone is made to act by the
character of matter. Whoever having
controlled his organs of action still continues
to brood over the objects of senses is called
a fraud. Krishna's advice to Arjuna turns from
a discussion to a viewpoint of action.
People cannot attain spiritual
progress just by rejection of his/her desires
alone; in addition to denial, there must be
action. For example, suppose you have
stolen something with your own hands. In
this instance there is no doubt that you have
committed an act of theft. Thinking you will
be caught you arrange for the people to
believe that you didn’t do the crime but an
innocent person who did absolutely nothing
did the crime. You sill are doing the crime
behind the scenes. If you think that you will
not suffer the horrible consequences for a
theft committed mentally, you are wrong.
You will face the consequences and suffer
forever even when the consequences are
over.
---By Sarthak Madan
More Questions:
5. Name the Rishi who cursed Pandu a) Rishi Kindam b) Rishi Vyasa 6. Name the new kingdom built by the Pandavas a) Hastinapura b) Indraprastha 7. How many days did the Mahabharata war last? a) 18 days b) 21 days 8. Who were the two wives of Pandu? a) Shakuntala and Draupati b) Kunti and Madri Answers: 5. a 6. b 7. a 8. b
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Newsletter Editors
Kamakshi Ramanarayanan Keerti Tadimeti
Topics of the Month Sarthak Madan
Deepika Vuppala
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August 2011
Cooking Camp
“The camp was indeed a superb introduction to cooking and the perfect way to enhance our tastes! It was truly a great way to learn while interacting with other Balabhavan members and having piles of fun! In fact, we covered a wide range of dishes from the various cuisines all over India – extending from Northern paani puri and Kannadiga kosamri to Pazhani panchaamrutam and Bombay sandwich - in just 3 hours –! Many many thanks to Smt. Nithya Sudhakar and Smt. Seetha Janakiraman for this wonderful hands-on cooking experience! The cooking camp is a huge success!” …….. Kamakshi Ramanarayan
Camp instructors are : Seetha Janakiraman & Nithya Sudhakar
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