Sunday 9 December 2012

google-site-verification: google1106979ad9fc8aab.html

Wednesday 5 December 2012



NAMO NARAYANAYA
Om Mahalakshmicha Vidmahe Vishnupriyaye Dhimahi
Dear Devotees,
There will be a Maha Abishekam for Lord Venkateshwara Balaji and Lord Shiva on Saturday, the 8 December 2012 from 4.30 pm at our temple, Shree Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Temple at Bradford. This is being sponsored by Mr & Mrs Sudhakaran of Bradford. The Abhishekam will be followed by Bhajans and Pooja ending with the Temple daily Aarti at 7.30 pm. All the devotees will be served Maha Prasadam after the Aarti.

On behalf of Mr & Mrs Sudhakaran and on behalf of the temple we invite all devotees to the Temple to participate in the Maha Abhishekam and seek the blessings of the Lords.

For any further information, please contact Mr Balakrishnan at the temple office.

S Balakrishnan
Shree Lakshmi Narayan Temple

Murugan Puja this Sunday/Forum Update

The Murugan puja for the second Sunday will be held on Sunday, 9th Dec 2012, 1pm.

Saturday 17 November 2012

Forum Update

The forum is going well. Mr Murugan from Flushing, New York has submitted the first topic discussed on the forum which I have just published. http://lifesettlementfunds.blogspot.co.uk/
Please take part in the contest as we need to find a name for the forum that will reflect the Professional Hindu community in The United Kingdom, The United States and Canada.
Also welcome to the community and forum, Dr Saulat. The doctor specialises in spiritual medicine, here's the link http://www.saulat.com/

Friday 16 November 2012

An Important Announcement - Our Western Hemisphere forum is officially OPEN

Forum Details

As of 16/11/2012 I am sending you the links to our new forum and related blogs via this email, please read the attachment. I will continue with my Hindu Temple Community projects in Leeds, Birmingham, Leicester and London. This is a personal project that I started about six months ago because of all the friends that I have made from the other Hindu Communities in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. The internet has made it possible for all of us to exchange so much of information over the years that we have taken this technological marvel for granted. I get so many emails every day which started off as simple questions about the Hindu community in Leeds, questions like 'where do you get incense from in Leeds?' which have evolved into questions which cover many diverse topics within the Hindu Community worldwide over the past 7 years.

As I mentioned in my newsletter the purpose of having a forum is to allow individuals to ask questions and get answers from other members to actually talk and to promote quality interactivity within the community as we have so many professionals in every field I can think of, this is the next logical step. As of today, when I use the word community, I'm not talking about just Hindus in the UK .We have a forum which already has about 173 members for the test phase alone - I only wanted a 100 but someone told somebody else who told his cousin and so on and so forth. About 37 members are from Birmingham, Leicester and London  Most of our members are second and third generation Hindu professionals living in the United States, Canada. This is a joint venture with our sister sites in the US and Canada and their respective webmasters

How do you sign up?
Please read the attachment. It has all the necessary information based on the opt-in form you filled out. The forum is free. It is a private forum and I have corresponded with most of you over the past few years, so I know who I'm inviting. The general criteria is that you have to be a Hindu professional born in the West, living here or working here for at least 2 years and above the age of 21. I am looking at starting a Junior sub-forum for those below 21 once I find the right moderator(s).
You will be required to register to participate in the forum which will cover everything from religious activity, cooking, finances, education, medical - anything that you can think of that relates to the modern Hindu living in the western world today.

Member contributions will also be more than welcome. Mrs Patel from Mount Pleasant, Vancouver, BC, Shree Mahalakshmi Temple - you've been telling me about your vegetarian sausage recipe, send me your recipe and I will publish it in our vegetarian recipe blog. The same applies to everyone who has something valuable to contribute, whether you're a doctor who wants to write about golf, an engineer who wants to talk about mountain climbing - it's all good. Also my good friend Mr Mohan from New York. Mohan is a habitual house buyer and owns about 12 houses in NY. He started from scratch and I'm sure he can provide a great deal of sound advice on buying houses.

I am moderating the forum initially with a couple of volunteers as that job has fallen on my shoulders. I would like more volunteers to come forward and help moderate- I cannot stay awake 24/7. Our servers currently handle a few hundred members every day and our host will be happy to increase our bandwidth as membership goes up and I expect this to happen soon as I have sent out the official invites this evening.

I will still be sending out the newsletter attached to our regular emails.

Please participate. This project will bring the Hindu community in the West a lot closer.

Our friends in the United States and Canada are members of
 Sathya Sai Baba centres,
 Shirdi Sai Baba centres,
 Swaminarayan Mandir,
 Ganesha Temples, Vinayakar Temples
 Murugan Temples, Skanda Temples,
 Durga Temples,
 Kaliamman Temples,
 Meenakshi Temples,
 Sivan Temples,
 Lakshmi-Narayan Temples
 Mahalakshmi Temples
 Mahavishnu Temples
 ISKCON Worldwide
 and more

We will be following the events and festivals of all the above including community activity, seva (service to the community) on the forum.

thank you

Saturday 31 March 2012

Friday Puja 6.30pm

Please remember that the Murugan Group conducts prayers every friday evening at 6.30pm at the Leeds Hindu Mandir for Lord Muruga All devotees are welcome.

Sunday 4 March 2012

Second Sunday March

The Murugan Group will meet for Abishekam and Pooja on the 11th of March 2012 at 12.30pm.

Tuesday 7 February 2012

Thaipusam 2012

Thaipusam 2012 will be held on 
Sunday 12th February, 11.30pm 
at the Leeds Hindu Mandir