Religious Activity 2010

KV open to having a Religious Activity Event ?

We can have Aastprakari Puja or maybe Bhavna at temple. If you can think of any other activity please feel free to comment.

18 Comments:

  1. Dimple
    January 26, 2010 at 9:58 am

    I am more up for bhavna or jaap then pujas.
    If possible we should choose more up beat songs for bhavna to keep kids & others involved. 🙂
    I was also thinking to volunteer during one of the temple cleaning event.

  2. Nilesh
    January 26, 2010 at 10:45 am

    Good initiative Nitul. My take on it is to understand the meaning and the significance of Pujas than merely reciting it.

  3. Minati
    January 26, 2010 at 2:33 pm

    I agree………wud love to have a basics in Jainism simplified – rite from sratch – once a month session is also good! Answers to basic questions like why can u eat dahi, but no potatoes despite dahi have zillion more micro-organisms than potatoes……

  4. Bhavini
    January 26, 2010 at 10:51 pm

    Great initiative Nitul. I assume you are saying religious activity in Q1 2010 and not in 2010 :). We could do little bit of jaap followed by Bhavna. During last years pathshala sleepover Bhavna, they let the kids sing some songs, we also could also let the pathshala going kids to sing the song/stavan they have learnt in their JCNC or KV shala. AshtaPrakari puja is a good idea as well, but given the length of the puja and the no. of younglings in KV, as Dimple pointed out it may be hard to get everyone’s participation and enthusiasm throughout the puja :(.

  5. Kalpana
    January 28, 2010 at 8:54 am

    We can have everything like one time Bhavna, puja, jaap with question/answers…etc 

  6. mala
    February 2, 2010 at 4:30 pm

    We can do’snatra puja’. Kids can participate in puja as well in songs. Snatra puja takes atleast 1 hour, combining with songs by kids can make it interesting for them.To make it more interesting we can dress them like some religous charaters.

  7. OneManArmy
    September 2, 2010 at 10:02 am

    For some reason this post lost its momentum…

    How about doing Aastprakari Puja on coming Saturday 9/4/2010 or Monday 9/6/2010 ? We all can do Puja together and i can teach/guide kids as to how to do Aastprakari Puja.

    Please respond if you or your kids are interested.

  8. OneManArmy
    September 2, 2010 at 10:09 am

    Hi Minati, here’s the answer to your question (As per my little knowledge and understanding), Dahi when it is completely firm or i would settled down there are no micro-organism in them, but there are lots of micro-organism in them when its not completely settled.

    When you put Butter-Milk (Mervaan) in the Milk, it causes chemical reaction when grow those micro-organism. The life of those micro-organism then take place on its own and per their life cycle to complete their aayushya (birth cycle) and it causes dahi to settle down.

    Coming to micro-organism’s in Potato I remember this from my childhood and have never forgotten this my whole life and that is… if you pierce a needle into a Potato and take it out the juice that appears on the needle itself has UN-COUNTABLE micro-organism… YES just the juice on the needle, you can imagine how many micro-organism’s a complete potato would have.

  9. OneManArmy
    September 2, 2010 at 10:14 am

    By the way i would encourage all to please post more of such questions, which will help us understand Jainism a little better.

  10. prashant
    September 2, 2010 at 10:30 am

    Changing date of the article to Sep 1 from Jan 25 so that this post appears on frontpage of KV (Nitul’s request). Will change it back to Jan 25 once discussion is over.

  11. Rashmi
    September 2, 2010 at 12:03 pm

    I am interested in Aastprakari Puja. I am fine with Sat/mon

  12. charmee
    September 3, 2010 at 10:38 am

    i’m also interested in Aastprakari puja. anyday is fine.

  13. NSRR
    September 3, 2010 at 3:10 pm

    So let’s finalize the event for Monday for Aastaprakari Puja. Is 11:30 AM fine with everyone ?

    For Aastaprakari Puja, you will need to get following things to Deraser

    1> Choka (Rice)
    2> Naived (Sweet)
    3> Fruit

    Dhoop, Deep are available at Deraser.

  14. Kalpa
    September 4, 2010 at 11:07 am

    Miloni and Rushabh will be there for the pooja

  15. Vaishali
    September 6, 2010 at 9:52 am

    Param and I will be there for the pooja.

  16. Manish Dharod
    September 7, 2010 at 2:18 pm

    Nitul……Thanks! for conducting the Puja. Here are some pictures that I clicked…..

    http://picasaweb.google.com/manish.dharod/DerasarPujaParyushan2010#

  17. Prashant
    September 7, 2010 at 5:19 pm

    Nice Photos Manish and Kudos to Nitul. 🙂

  18. Nilesh
    September 9, 2010 at 9:18 am

    Thanks Manish for posting the pictures.

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