Presentation the Plight of Hindu Temples - Ghhf-Atlanta-PublicEvent-Pamphlets
YOGA WORKSHOP
YOGA WORKSHOP
5851, GA HWY 85, RIVERDALE, GA 30274
Phone Number 770-907-7102
www.hindutempleofatlanta.org
Contacts: Dr Sudhanva V Char (schar@life.edu), Atul Khorana (atulkhorana@yahoo.com)
Date: Sunday, March 27, 2011
Time: 11 AM - 1 PM (2 hours)
Venue: The Temple Auditorium
Cost: FREE
Highlights:
1: Invocation: Vande Gurunam Charanaravinde…. Pranamami Patanjalim (All can join).
2: Welcome: Temple President: Jayasree Moparthy
3: Human Anatomy and Physiology and Yoga: Dr. Mangaraju Vanapalli
4: Speakers: Dr. Srinivas Gangasani, Dr. Jayanthi Srinivasiah, and Dr. Tulasi Vanapalli, and others
5: Scientific Evidence from Controlled Studies in Yoga: Presentation by: Dr Sudhanva Char
6: Anecdotal Evidence: Individual Presentations
7: Tertium Quid
The workshop is FREE to attend and concludes with a FREE Saatvic Aaahar (light repast).
Yoga Positives:
1. Stress management is made easy, and stress is the mother of 80% of all illness
2. Improves cardio-vascular efficacy and hastens homeostasis
3. Skeleton-muscular system is strengthened
4. Helps menopausal women manage change
5. Helps regularize monthly cycles and during pregnancy/delivery
6. Yoga hailed as the best prophylaxis and even as future medicine
7. Slows the Aging process, prevents arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, cancer and osteoporosis
8. Yoga assures enduring physical and mental fitness and spiritual progress.
9. Millions Practice it routinely worldwide, 20 million in America alone
10. Yoga has stood the test of time and proved itself for several millennia.
11. Helps develop objectivity, positive feelings, remedies depression.
Yoga Negatives:
1. Needs to be practiced habitually!
2. Devours about 20-30 minutes of your precious time each time!
3. Makes a practitioner maladjusted amongst non-practitioners making you more efficient than non-practitioners!
For over 18 years regular Yoga Classes are conducted at the Temple between 11:00 AM and 12 PM every Sunday.
The classes are FREE to attend. Registration can be done on the day of the event.
References: Yoga Articles by Dr S Char (www.kavitachhibber.com) Dec2005, Jan2006 , Feb2006, Sep2005, Sep2006, and more.
South Indies: Gojjavalakki
Today is Krishna Janmashtami & you can have a look at my Krishna here. All the worshipping was done by my family & the eating was done by me 
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1 Cup Poha - Thick or Medium variety
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2 tsp Rasam powder - Home made or any other brand. MTR works great
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A small piece of jaggery
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Tamarind extract from a lemon sized tamarind ball
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1 tbsp seasme seeds - roasted & powdered
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1 tsp mustard seeds
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4-5 red chillies - broken
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A sprig of curry leaves
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1 tsp chana dal
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1 tsp urad dal
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A handful of groundnuts
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2 tbsp fresh grated coconut
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Salt as per taste
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Cooking oil
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In a pan, dry roast poha until slightly warm. Transfer to a mixer & pulse the poha for a couple of times so that it is crushed coarsely. Do not make it into a fine powder.
- In a vessel, take a little more than 3/4th cup of water, Add Rasam powder, tamarind extract & jaggery. Mix well & allow the jaggery to dissolve completely.
- Add this water to the poha mixture, little at a time. Mix well such that no lumps are formed. Set aside for about 15-20 mins. The poha would have soaked up all the water & should be crumbly. If there are any lumps, separate them with your fingers. It should look like Rava.
- Heat oil in a kadhai, splutter mustard seeds. Add groundnuts, red chillies, curry leaves. urad & chana dal & allo them to slightly change colour. Add poha, sesame seeds powder, Salt & a tbsp of oil & mix well.
- Keep mixing over low heat for about 3 mins.
Transfer to a bowl & serve with yogurt. Enjoi !!!
NOTE:
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I used thin variety poha today. If you are using the thick variety, you made need a little more water. But I really does not make any difference in the taste
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Grated dry coconut can be added instead of fresh coconut. But I personally prefer using fresh coconut
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A tsp of roasted cumin & pepper powder can be added towards the end. I usually do not add this.
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Gojjavalakki is a dry dish so, it pairs well with yogurt.
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HOW TO TACKLE THIS SITUATION?
IMPERISHABLE SOUL AND THE PERISHABLE BODY OF OUR RELIGION
-K N Shivashankararao
We should see religion sans mythological, ritualistic and sociological forms. Vedanta as a religious philosophy should be viewed independent of the Indian caste system or mythology or rites and ceremonies. If we cannot penetrate its outer covering which had grown thick during the middle ages, the philosophy based on spiritual experience cannot be understood and the soul of the religion which is different from its body will be missed. The soul is imperishable and the body is perishable. Our myths, rites and castes belong to the body and not for the soul of our religion.
Let us view the state of Hindu society today with what it was before the social reforms which started with Rajaram Mohan Roy’s agitation for abolition of Sati.
1. Sati has become an incredible thing of the past.
2. Child marriages and polygamy have become illegal.
3. Widow marriages have become possible.
4. There is provision for divorce.
5. Foreign travel has become common.
6. There is no ban on inter dining.
7. Caste system has become less rigid.
8. Untouchability is over thrown. etc.,
Thus there is no going back to the evil customs and harmful restrictions of the age of decadence.
Swami Vivekananda, Prof. Radhakrishnan and a few others have carried the message of Hinduism to the western nations because of their ability to interpret Vedanta as a religious philosophy independent of the rites and ceremonies.
It is necessary to adjust the teachings of Hinduism to the scientific thought and the political and social philosophies of the West. The truths of our religion endure for all times. However, these have to be correlated from time to time to the growing scientific political and social thoughts of the ages and reinterpreted and worked up into systems of philosophy. We must remember that our own Darshanas were systems of this kind. But the contemporary scientific knowledge of their times is now obsolete. The society has grown tremendously more complex and the religion requires to be reinterpreted in the light of modern ideas.
The philosophy of the upanishads comes home to us today with a new meaning and a fresh application to our own social problems.
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