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May

Hindu Center of Virginia Monthly Newsletter “BHARATVANI” — May 2020

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Puja Calendar for May 2020

This newsletter is produced by: Hindu Center of Virginia 6051 Springfield Road, Glen Allen, VA 23060

Publication Frequency: Monthly Issue Number 2020.05 For June 2020 Puja calendar please refer to page 8

Temple request to devotees: For booking puja in the temple or at your home, send email to [email protected]. Unless you receive confirmation from [email protected], your puja service request is not confirmed

Day Date Time Event

Fri 5/1/2020 7:00 PM Mahalakshmi Abishekam

Sat 5/2/2020 11:00 AM Balaji Abishekam

Sat 5/2/2020 1:00 PM Navagraha Abishekam

Sat 5/2/2020 6:00 PM Lord Ayyappa Abishekam

Sun 5/3/2020 9:00 AM Venkateswara Suprabhatam

Sun 5/3/2020 11:00 AM Srinivasa (Balaji) Kalyanam

Sun 5/3/2020 5:00 PM Lord Jagannath Abishekam and Bhajans

Sun 5/3/2020 6:00 PM Murugan Abishekam

Mon 5/4/2020 6:45 PM Shiva Abishekam (Pradosham)

Tue 5/5/2020 5:45 PM Sundarakand

Tue 5/5/2020 7:00 PM Hanuman Chalisa

Wed 5/6/2020 6:00 PM Sree Krishna Abishekam & Vishnu Sa-hasranamam

Wed 5/6/2020 7:00 PM Sathyanarayana Puja

Thu 5/7/2020 7:00 PM Sree Rama Abishekam




Sat 5/9/2020 6:00 PM Sankata Hara Chathurthi



Sun 5/10/2020 11:00 AM Ganesha Abishekam

Sun 5/10/2020 11:30 AM Havan

Sun 5/10/2020 12:15 PM Bhajans by Krishna Mahato

Sun 5/10/2020 1:00 PM Maha Mangala Aarathi



Mon 5/11/2020 6:45 PM Shiva Abishekam





Sat 5/16/2020 10:00 AM Hanuman Jayanthi




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Day Date Time Event



Sun 5/17/2020 12:15 PM Durga Chalisa and Bhajans





Tue 5/19/2020 6:00 PM Pradosham - Shiva Abhishekam



Thu 5/21/2020 6:00 PM Karthikai (Sri Subramanya Abishekham)


Fri 5/22/2020 10:00 AM Vat Savitri Vrat







Sun 5/24/2020 12:00 PM Amritvani

















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2 May

Musical Concert Sunday May 17th 7:00 pm

Dear Devotees, The emotional power of music, especially in these times of pandemic, has been an effective way of relaxation to mind and soul. Hindu Center of Virginia is pleased to inform that a Bollywood musical streaming program is scheduled for Sunday, May 17, 2020 at 7:00 pm. The program will be performed by members of Richmond Stringz group for our community. It will be cast on Hindu Center YouTube channel at: www.YouTube.com/c/Hinducenterofvirginia

Stay Safe HCV Cultural Team

PROGRAM DETAILS

10:00 AM: Snana Mandap Rituals & Abhisekam

(Snana); Sahasranama Chanting

12:00 PM: Gajanan Vesa, Archana, Bhajans

1:00 PM: Maha Arathi

LiveStream

www.YouTube.com/c/Hinducenterofvirginia

Sponsors: Email names and gothram info for Sankalpam

to [email protected] and join by 10AM. Zoom

information will be shared close to the event.

FOR SPONSORSHIP & DETAILS CONTACT:

Temple: 804-346-9954

Jyoti Mohapatra: 804-615-6830

Ram Misra: 804-263-5628

Pratap Sahoo: 216-972-2355

Anju Jain: 804-833-4114

THE RICHMOND TEMPLE

Celebrates Deva Snana Puja

Holy Bath of Lord Jagannath

Saturday, June 6th, 2020 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Devasnana Puja or Snana Yatra is exclusively a festi-

val of Lord Jagannath and is said to be one of the

oldest. Snana Puja is the day the deities are bathed

by 108 pitchers of water. The deities bathe, dress up

in the Gajanana or Ganesha Vesha and even their

daily food offering or Bhogalagi is done in full public

view on the Snanamandapa. There remains no virtual

difference between the devotees and their Lord. This

day deemed to be the birthday of the Lord Jagan-

natha also accounts for the traditions followed before

the Ratha Yatra. Setting in motion the final count-

down to the famous Lord Jagannath ‘Ratha Jatra’, the

auspicious Deva Snana Puja or holy bathing ceremo-

ny of Lord Jagannath will be held.

SPONSORSHIP : Entire Ceremony $251 *

Lord Jagannath $101 * Kalash Water $51

Pay online at

https://www.therichmondtemple.org/services.aspx?

cat=1 OR https://www.paypal.me/hinducentervirginia?

locale.x=en_US

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3 May

Celebrates

Divine Wedding of Lord Karthikeya

SRI VALLI THIRUKALYANAM

Sunday, June 7th, 2020 11:00 AM - 01:15 PM

The Richmond Temple

POOJA SCHEDULE

09:00 AM - Suprabatham

11:00 AM - Sankalpam

11:30 AM - Wedding Program

Starts with Ganesh Pooja

12:05 PM - Kaappu

12:20 PM - Thirukalyanam

01:00 PM - Arathi

SPONSORSHIPS

Kalyanam — $1001

Bride/Groom — $501

Clothes/Flowers/etc $251, $101, $51

Pay online at

https://www.therichmondtemple.org/services.aspx?

cat=1 OR https://www.paypal.me/hinducentervirginia?

locale.x=en_US

LiveStream

www.YouTube.com/c/

Hinducenterofvirginia

Sponsors: Email names and gothram for Sankalpam to

[email protected] and join by 11AM. Zoom

information will be shared close to the event.

For Sponsorship & Details Contact

Temple 804-346-9954 Selva Navaneethaguru 804-229-5212

Murali Chemudupati 804-627-2702 Lakshmi Sridhar 804-677-6192

Kedar Thoota 804-543-5559 Venkat Chettiar 804-729-6266

Padma Kancharla 804-874-2858 Mahesh Sukumaran 804-971-5133

Ram Gomadam 410-499-0084 Ramesh Appathurai 703-863-7806

Valli Kalyanam celebrates the divine wedding of Lord Murugan (Karthikeya) with Valli,

who was the daughter of a tribal chief and Devayani (Devasena) who was the daughter

of Lord Indra. In the previous birth, Valli and Devayani were the daughters of Lord

Vishnu and undertook severe penance to become the consorts of Lord Murugan. Valli

represents Kriya Shakti, the power of action and Devayani represents Iccha Shakti, the

power of will, while Lord Murugan represents Gyana Shakti, the power of wisdom.





4 May

Devotee Donations for Temple Operations Hindu Center of Virginia thanks the following devotees have donated $101 or more to support Temple Operations during the months of March & April 2020. HCV will publish this list monthly until normal Temple Operations resume.

Devotee Name

Abhay Bajekal

Aditya Gondesi

Anilkumar Nair

Ankita Sridhar

Avik Roy

Avinash Sridhar

Badrinath Pulavarthi

Bal Ram Chopra

Balaji Vangal Soundararajan

Basava Sankar Makineni

Bhal Patel

Bharadhwaj Kolipakkam

Chakradhar Anumola

Devi Warrier

Dharamadas Ramnani

Dheeraj Katangur

Dileep Dwivedi

Dinesh Vennu

Dixit Bhayana

Doraiswamy Sundar

Eashwer Iyer

Ganesh Krishnamurthy

Devotee Name

Gautham Sabbu

Geenthanjali Devi

Jeevan Ramagiri

Kartik Talati

Kedarnath Thoota

Koteswara Panguluri

Kranthi Apuri

Krishna Cheekati

Krishna Prabhala

Lakshmi Phani Kommaraju

Mayoor Mohan Raj Dubey

Muralidharan Gujuluva

Natarajan Ganesh

Padmasree Kancharla

Palaniappan Ilakkuvan

Parthasarathy Madurantakam

Raghavan Sadagopan

Rajendra Konduru

Rakesh Chug

Ravi Kalkunte

Ravi Manchem

Renuka Moothathu

Devotee Name

Sanjeev Giribhattanavar

Sankaran Raman

Sastry Mandalika

Satish Bankuru

Seshikanth Bandlapalli

Shilpa Gaddameedi

Shilpa Yedama

Sreekanth Narra

Sreekeerthi Mopuri

Sridhar Sundaram

Srinivas Nuvvala

Suchasmitha Yarlagadda

Sudhir Chopra

T K Somanath

Thiagarajan Krishnamurthy

Urmila Tammisetty

Varun Golla

Venkat Sambaraju

Vinitkumar Patil

Vivek Gangal

Yougesh Jain

5 May

Club 500

Greetings Devotees! Please help your temple by becoming a

member of "Club 500” group. I will be serving as the future

contact for the Club 500 membership. Thanks to Munmayaji

for his efforts with Club 500 fundraising activity over the past

few years. If you have not already made your donation for

2019 or previous years please do so before the end of the year.

Thank you and God bless you!

Very Best,

Rakesh Gupta

Note: Donors’ Names published monthly in Bharatvani &

Temple Lobby monitor. For more information, please

contact: Rakesh Gupta, Brij Mago, Vijay Ramnarain,

Sanjay Thirunagari.

The Board of Directors thank all Club 500 sponsors for helping

us pay off our temple loan and encourages others to join this

unique club: “Club 500.” The following member(s) paid the

Club 500 donations recently.

Lakshmi Suresh

Ganesh Hariharan

Manikoth Kurup

Kamlesh Kundalia (2)

Pramod Mohanty

8 May

Puja Calendar for June 2020

Please note that timings of some of the regular Pujas and Abhishekams have been adjusted to accommodate major festivals.

Our Priests: Pt. Subramanyam Kannan, Pt. Rajagopal Thuppal, Pt. Abhay Padhi Pt. Ampolu Venkata Satya Pra-

sad

Hindu Center of Virginia Thanks kind contributions from the Dance / arts/ language class teachers

Nritya Dance Academy - Sudha Vadlamani

Yoga Classes - Ravi Menon

Apsaras Arts Dance Group - Uma Chetty

We thank all Corporate Members who have paid their dues through 2019.and request anyone who has not paid to remit payment to become current through 2020. If you need help, please con-tact [email protected].

Temple request to devotees: For booking puja in the temple or at your home, send email to [email protected]. Unless you receive confirmation from [email protected], your puja service request is not confirmed

Day Date Time Event

Mon 6/1/2020 7:00 PM Mahalakshmi Abishekam

Tue 6/2/2020 5:45 PM Sundarakand


Wed 6/3/2020 6:00 PM Pradosham (Shiva Abishekam)



Thu 6/4/2020 7:00 PM Sathyanarayana Puja


Sat 6/6/2020 10:00 AM Devasnana Puja - See Flyer



Sun 6/7/2020 11:00 AM Valli Kalyanam - See Flyer



Mon 6/8/2020 6:00 PM Sankata Hara Chathurthi

Mon 6/8/2020 6:45 PM Shiva Abishekam (Pradosham)










Sun 6/14/2020 11:30 AM Havan

Sun 6/14/2020 12:15 PM Bhajans by Krishna Mahato




Day Date Time Event





Thu 6/18/2020 6:00 PM Pradosham (Shiva Abishekam)

Thu 6/18/2020 7:00 PM Karthikai (Sri Subramanya Abishekham)







Sun 6/21/2020 12:15 PM Durga Chalisa and Bhajans













Sun 6/28/2020 10:30 AM Ratha Yatra





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10 May

Hindu Center of Virginia 6051 Springfield Road Glen Allen, VA 23060

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Richmond, VA Permit No. 3022

Temple Hours: Weekday: 7.00 A.M. to 11.00 A.M. 5.00 P.M. to 8.30 P.M. Weekend: 9:00 A.M to 8:30 P.M.

For special occasions, please contact

[email protected] .

Directions: Take Exit 49-B on I-295 West. Turn right on Springfield Road. Temple is on your left.

Phone: (804) 346-9954

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