We need greater participation from you

[Guest guest]

Dear Colleagues

 

Our work is gathering pace and I need greater assistance and participation from you.

 

GCSE, A/S and A2 classes in Hinduism

 

New Hinduism classes at Slough Temple From 7th October we will have classes every Saturday between 12 and 1pm at the Slough temple. We are told that there is a huge demand from the Hindu youth in that area so that may be a major class to handle. I will start off the classes but over the coming period I will need one of our other teachers to take on the task.

The Leicester classes have restarted at the Geeta Bhavan Mandir They will be run by Beena Bhala who used to run them for us for many years in the past. These classes are held on Sunday afternoons.

Birmingham classes these have been ably conducted by Hemaben for past many years and continue to produce excellent results.

Rayners Lane Class & Willesden Green temple classes These normally start late in the year. Again I may need to involve some of the other teachers to help me run these.

Kenton Rd Swaminarayan temple Vijaybhai has been running these classes for many years now.

SKLPC class Pushpaben may need some help from Kantaben to run these classes.

Milton Keynes / Wellingborough / Northampton We are hoping these classes will resume shortly too. We will leave it to Krishnabhai to follow them up.

Ilford and Heston MadhooSoodanji has been handling these classes very well with some A/S candidates gaining 100pct marks last year.

Brent Tamil Association Kamalbhai has been doing a good job on these classes held at Copland School.

Hounslow class We are waiting for Harishbhai Deolia to tell us how we are progressing with his community group.

Luton Classes We are waiting to see if the temple committee manages to get them going again.

Sindhi Centre classes GCSE A/S and A2 classes will commence on 15th October

Crawley class We have been approached by the Crawley Hindu Association to start classes there. We are progressing and waiting to see when these can be off the ground

Wimbledon class The Joshi family is about to start classes in Wimbledon.

 

Hinduism Award Ceremony 13th December at Brent Town Hall

We have planned an award ceremony at Brent Town Hall for

Wednesday 13th December at Council Chamber

Time: 7 to 8pm

We have acceptances from Edexcel, QCA, DfES and CEL to participate and give out the certificates.

We will be launching our Primary Hinduism book with PowerPoint presentation.

 

 

Hinduism seminar for all RE teachers in the country 22nd March

In partnership with DfES we have succeeded in arranging a one day conference for all RE teachers in the country at the Neasden temple. This will take place on 22nd March from 10am to 3.30pm

 

 

MA in Contemporary Hinduism in partnership with a University in London

We are progressing well on this and will have a full MA accredited by a London University will be launched shortly. The classes will be run on Saturday and Sunday mornings only at the Sindhi centre and candidates can either do the course in one or two years. The course will highlight the strengths of Hinduism and its role in a modern science-oriented society. (modules like Religious Pluralism, Experiential religion, Religion and Science, Contemporary figureheads of Hinduism etc.)

 

regards and thanks

jay (dilip)

Vivekananda Centre London

http://www.vivekananda.co.uk

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi Jay, It fills my heart with great joy to see that so many activities are being performed under the great ideal of Hinduism. I feel there is the great need for the unity of Hindus who in turn would offer the world the light of knowledge and warmth of love and a justification for living as children of one God. Hinduism's rise ensures the death of fundamentalism and bigotry. I am very much proud to say that whenever I visit any Hindu temple, I never hear the priests and the assembled devotees saying "Glory to Hindus...". Instead they always say "Glory to the universe, Glory to the mankind...May good happen to all humanity and all living being and we would prosper together keeping faith on each other and everybody." This oneness I do find in Hinduism very alive and the very backbone of our spirituality is accepting and respecting other's beliefs. This I regard as the highest flight of spiritual freedom and it is

our duty to appreciate such actions as Jay mentioned, not only that, but also to take active part in spreading this idea of universal brotherhood and love. My respects at the feet of Sri Ramakrishna, Satrajit

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