April Festivals

Friday April 3- Hanuman Jayanti

Hanuman Abhishek

Sindhur puja

Paan Patta Archana

Vada Mala Dharana

Saturday April 4 – Partial Lunar Eclipse

Lunar Eclipse Starts – 04:17:38

Lunar Eclipse Ends (With Moonset) – 07:08:52

(It is recommended that people with Hastha nakshatram do not watch the moon and avoid travel during the eclipse)

Tuesday, April 7 – Sankata Hara Chathurthi

Monday, April 20 – Akshay Tritiya (Lakshmi Puja)

Thursday, April 23 – Shankar Jayanti (Adi Shankaracharya Jayanti)

Saturday, April 25- Sri Anagha Devi Abhishekam @ 10am

Sunday, April 26 – Shirdi Saibaba Abhishekam @10:30am

Rama Navami Celebrations – March 28 2015

7:30 am Temple Open

7:45 am  Shirdi Sai Baba Abhishek

9:00 am   Sita Rama Kalyanam (Sita Rama Vivah)

If you wish to sponsor  Pure Silk Clothes (Pattu Vastram) for the divine couple Sri Rama and Sita mata, Please email info@anaghadatta.org.

Devotees wishing to join for the Sankalpam and Kalyanam are requested to donate $51.00. 

Archana tickets will be available at the front desk for $21.00 donation. Please make your payment and obtain tax receipt at the front desk.

(Any dakshina to the priest directly goes to the priest and the temple cannot issue receipt for that amount).

Please make your donation cheques payable to Sri Anagha Datta society of Calgary.

Event is free to attend.

If you wish to bring Prasadam or Food for this event, please call Mrs. Madhavi Venna on 403-770-6115 or Mrs. Mamta Trivedi on 587-719-3454.

We also need Flower Sponsors, and volunteers to help setup and cleanup before, during and after the event. Devotees wishing to bring Flowers are requested to bring it in a Garland Form.

Devotees wishing to bring Modak for Lord Ganesha and Vada/SweetAppam mala for Hanumanji are welcome to do so.

March 5 – Rangwali Holi

March 8 – (9am to 7pm) Tax return filing assistance.

March 20 – Gudi Padwa/Ugadi/Chaitra Navrathri

March 28 – 9am – Rama Navami –  Sita Rama Kalyanam

Maha Shiv Raatri Puja

Monday February 16, 2015.

Agenda:

TEMPLE OPENS AT 5:30pm

5:35pm – Ganesh puja

5:45pm – Shiv Puja and Abhishek and Archana.

7:00pm – Dhoop Aarti

7:30pm – Baba Abhishek

8:00pm – Shiv Puja and Abhishek and Archana.

8:30pm – Shej Aarti

8:55pm – Shiva Archana

9:15pm – Ruram/Namakam/Chamakam  sahita Shiv Abhishek

12:00pm –Aarti

12:21am to 1:17am – Nishita Kaal Puja. (Those who are fasting can break their fast during this time)

** Devotees who wish to perform Shiva puja and archana on their gotranama please register your details at the front desk. Suggested donation $11.00.

** Devotees may sponsor Baba Abhishek and Devi Saree for occasion of Maha Shivaratri. (Donation requested $351)

** Please bring Flowers & Rose petals for the Archana.

** Devotees who wish to donate regularly by post dated monthly cheques, may please do so.  Mandir requests your support.

Tuesday, January 13 – Bhogi / Lohri

7:00pm  – Dhoop aarti

7:25pm – Ganesh Puja followed by Bhogi Pallu.

Bhogi is celebrated by showering blessing on young children under age 7,  Panditji will be blessing the children by doing Asirvachanam., Those who are interested to celebrate Bhogi may please come to the temple with your children by 7:25pm.  Please bring berries  such as Ber, Cranberrys , flower petals etc, for Bhogipalluu.

As Bhogi falls on a Tuesday this year, Those who wish to offer  a Vada Mala for Hanumanji on Bhogi, on your children’s name, please bring the vadamala with a count of either 21/54/108  vadas. Please email us back if you would like to offer the Vadamala.

8:30pm – Shej Aarti.

Wednesday, January 14 – Makar Sankranti / Pongal / Uttarayan

7:00pm – Dhoop Aarti

7:30pm – Shirdi Sai Vrat and Anagha Lakshmi Puja  and Archana with your Gotranama.

8:30pm – Shej Aarti

Thursday, January 15 –  Kanuma

7:00pm – Dhoop Aarti & PallakiSeva

7:30pm – Baba Abhishek

8:30pm – Shej Aarti

Date: 10 January 2015

Time: 9:00 am to 11 am

On the auspicious occasion of Margasirsha , we are happy to invite you to attend the rendering of the Tirupavai. The Tiruppavai is a collection of thirty stanzas in Tamil written by Andal also Nachiyar, in praise of the Lord Perumal, (Vishnu). It is part of Divya Prabandha, a work of the twelve Alvars, and is dated before 8th century AD.

Meaning of the Lyrics of the Tiruppavai:

Sri ANDAL is the Quintescence incarnation of Sri BHUMI DEVI the Divine consort of SRIMAN NARAYANA,who took birth on this earth to liberate suffering human beings from worldly bondage.She composed and sang thirty sweet songs containing the cardinal principles of SriVaishnava Dharma during the month of MARGAZHI.Singing these songs,with understanding of their inner meaning, will bring to us peace, prosperity and above all Divine Grace.

ANDAL, though a Brahmin girl, assumes the guise of a cowherdess and yearns for Everlasting Happiness and Service of the Lord.It is the age-old practice of Sri Vaishnavas to sing these stanzas every day of the year in the presence of the Lord in the temple as well as in their homes.

It may appear in the beginning that Andal is intending to perform a particular
religious vow to marry the Lord and thereby obtain His Everlasting Company,and that she is inviting all her girl friends to join her.It is only towards the end of TIRUPPAVAI that we learn that she did not actually perform a religious rite and it was her Soul’s inner craving to redeem itself and to reach His Divine Nearness in order to serve him which forms the real purport of this poem.

Look forward to having you all attend this auspicious occasion.

Sri Guru Dattatreya Jayanti

Temple’s 1^st Anniversary Celebrations

Sri Anagha Datta Society of Calgary is celebrating its first anniversary and the opening of Shirdi Sai Baba Temple. We have a 3 day celebration planned.  All are welcome to attend the ceremonies.

December 5 – Friday (Purnima)

5:30pm – Ganeshji puja

5:45pm – Baba Abhishek

6:30pm – Guru puja for SriGuru Dattatreya and AnaghaDevi

7:00pm – Baba Dhoop Aarti

7:20pm – Satyanarayana Puja and Katha

8:30pm – Baba Shej Aarti followed by prasad

December 6 – Saturday

9:00am – Ganeshji, Hanumanji puja

9:15am – Shirdi Sai Baba Abhishek

10:00am – 10:30am – Anagha Devi Abhishek

10:30am -12:00pm – Shiva puja and Rudra homam(Havan)

12:00noon – Baba Madhyana Aarti

12:30pm – Lunch

2:00pm – 4:00pm – Open Bhajans/Keertans/Devotional Singing

4:00pm – 5:00pm – Vedic Chanting by Chinmaya mission

5:00pm – 5:30pm – Devotional Message by Sri Gouri Shankar

5:30pm – Hanumanji Abhishek and puja – vada mala, paan patta alankar & sindhoor alankaar.

7:00pm – Baba Dhoop Aarti

8:30pm – Baba Shej Aarti followed by prasad

December 7^th – Sunday

Morning 5:30 am – Kakad Aarti and Baba abhishek

6:30am – Akanda Parayana of the Sri Guru Charitra – All are requested to sign up for parayana for some time during the day starting at 6:30am.

12:00pm –Baba Madhyana Aarti

7:00pm – Baba Dhoop Aarti

8:30pm – Baba Shej Aarti followed by prasad

Light a Diya on the Karthika poornima, join us for Dhoop Aarti followed by the Karthika poornima diya lighting . Please bring your own diya and wick pre-soaked in Ghee.

St. Tyagaraja Aaradhana will be conducting the Composers day celebrations, this will involve several Classical singers from Calgary.