Dhanurmasa puja at Srinivasar temple (Sri Venkateswara temple/Balaji Mandir), SethuTirtham, New Jersey

[Guest guest]

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 consists of

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)