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Dear Bhaktas:


The Hindu Temple and Cultural Society, Inc
Sri Venkateswara Temple (Balaji Mandir) and Community Center
780 Old Farm Road, Bridgewater, NJ 08807.
Phone (908) 725-4477 http://www.venkateswara.org
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Dhanur Masa Puja Offerings to Lord Vishnu and Lord Siva 

Sunday, December 16, 2001 to Monday, January 14, 2002.

Suprabhatam:  
Weekdays: 5.00 AM; 
Weekends/Holidays: 8.30 AM
Dhanurmasa sevakalam: (Tiruppalliyezhuchi, Tiruppavai and Tiruvempavai)
Weekdays: 5.30 AM; 
Weekends/Holidays: 9.00 AM
Important Days: 

December 16 ? Tiruppavai song 1 Margazhithingal
December 18 - Tiruppavai song 3 Ongi ulagalanda
December 26 ? Vaikunta Ekadasi-
Vaikunta Dwara darshanam 6.30 AM
December 30 ? Arudra darshanam:  
Suprabhatam : 5.00 AM, 
Seva kalam: 5.30 AM
January 1 ? New Year Day-
Suprabatham: 7.00 AM,  
Seva kalam: 7.30 AM 
Tirumanjanam for all deities: 9.00 AM
January 11 ? Tiruppavai song 27 ? Kudaraivalli
January 13 ? Bhogi, Andal Kalyanam 4 PM
January 14 ? Makara sankranti ? Tiruppavai sattumurai

About Tiruppavai

The Tiruppavai is a poem of 30 songs, composed by Andal, the only lady Alvar of
the 
twelve Alvars whose compositions of devotion and mystic experiences, put
together is 
termed as Nalayira Divya Prabandam (4000 divine hymns). Tiruppavai consistsof
two 
words namely Tiru meaning Sacred, Holy, Auspicious and Pavai meaning vow and
also 
a girl. Thus Tiruppavai is a poetic description of a sacred vow taken by a girl.
The theme 
of Tiruppavai is spiritual awakening of an individual soul, which then yearns
for the 
Divine Union. This great poem of 30 songs is sung in the month of Maargazi (mid 
December ? mid January), auspicious to Lord Krishna. Also, in Srivaishnava
tradition of 
Bhagavadaradhana (Lord's worship) done at homes and temples, the last two songs
of 
Tiruppavai are sung at the end.

About Tiruvempavai

The Tiruvempavai is a poem of 20 songs (hymns), composed by Manikavachagar,one 
of sixty-three Saiva saints known as Nayanmars, while at Tiruvannamalai in South
India. 
Like the Tiruppavai, the Tiruvempavai hymns occupy a special place in the
Maargazhi 
worship services. The theme of Tiruvempavai is about the spiritual awakening of
the 
individual soul (jeevatman) to seek union with the Paramatman and is directed at
Lord 
Siva as an intense prayer for the fulfillment of this heart-felt desire of the
yearning 
Jeevatman.

For Dhanur masa archana sponsorship contact temple.

NOTE: Scripts for the seva kalam will be provided for devotees to use in the
temple in 
Telugu, Kannada, Devanagari (Sanskrit/Hindi) and Tamil languages.


Regards

govindarajan (New Jersey)




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