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[Guest guest]

krishNabhaktas,

As you must have read by now, sri sri puthige swamiji has arrived

in the US. Sri jayatheerthara Aradhane took place at sri Bindu Madhvan's

residence in Allentown, PA last weekend with sri puthige swamiji leading

the celebrations. The atmosphere was full of devotion, poojas, devara

nAma singing, philosophical discussions transporting the devotees to a

different spiritual world.

 

sri puthige swamiji suggested that a children's conference be held

in the NY area during the labor day weekend (Sept. 4-6). There was an

enthusiastic response from the people at the conference. Couple of

volunteers were chosen to be coordinators for this event. They are RamA

srinivAsa Rao (Seema.Rao)- Washington area, Bhavani Rao and

Mrs. GururAja Rao (bhavi11)- NY area, Geetha Muralidhar

(maanasa)- Detroit area and Aravind Acharya

(AsifJah)- NY area.

 

The objectives for the conference are to teach children about

mAdhva and Hindu religion, its practices and principles in a fun and

enjoyable way. Children from 6-20 are welcome. sri puthige swamiji has

conducted similar camps which were very successful in India. sri puthige

swamiji is very good at working with and inspiring children and teaching

spiritual values to them. The program details are still being worked

out. These will include games and Yoga, religious story & stotra

sessions, talent sessions, fun and games.

 

Please let the coordinators know if you are interested in attending

the event by August 9th.

 

The announcement by ramA srinivAsa Rao is attached below.

 

Regards,

Vasu

 

 

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[vmsvolunteers] children's conference

Wed, 4 Aug 1999 10:05:05 -0400

Seema.Rao

vmsvolunteers

vmsvolunteers

 

Seema.Rao

 

Namaskara to all VMS volunteers. As everyone know, Swamiji proposed a

children's conference during the labor day weekend (Sept 4-6) to be held

in

New York area. This is completely focussed on Children with varying

ages

upto 20. VMS finalized the program dates and prepared a list of

coordinators, as posted by Vasu Murthy, couple days ago. I am also one

of

the volunteer coordinators from Washington area and on behalf of

volunteer

coordinators, I would like to request all of VMS members take few

minutes to

respond to this mail regarding the attendance of children and their age.

Any

madhwa families who are not currently members of VMS should be

encouraged to

obtain a membership and attend the conference.

Based on the attendance, programs can be coordinated. Any tips and

suggestions to make the conference interesting and enjoyable for kids

are

welcome.

thank you,

Rama Srinivas

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Dear Shri Vasu Murthy,

 

Thanks a lot for organizing children conference. I think we can

announce this in the dvaita list also. I understand that there are many

in dvaita list who are not in VMS for one or other reason. But many of

them may be interested in this conference. Also I feel we can announce

in news groups ( Vaishnava, Hindu etc) also. There may be many,

interested in this conference whom we don't know. So I would appreciate

if the message is published in all possible forums, unless you want to

limit the numbers for some reasons.

 

Shri Hari Priyatham

B.Gopalakrishna

 

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