Swami Saranam!
We will have Abhisekham followed by Bhajans and Aarathi to celebrate Vishu at our Shiva Vishnu temple in Livermore on Saturday, April 17 from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Please spread the word around to your friends.
Vishu is a New Year festival held in the state of Kerala, south India (and adjoining areas of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu). This occasion signifies the Sun's transit to the
zodiac Mesha Raasi as per Indian astrological calculations. The day is marked with offerings called Vishukkani. The offerings consist of a ritual arrangement in the puja room of auspicious articles like raw rice, fresh linen, golden cucumber, betel leaves,arecanut, metal mirror, the yellow flowers holy text and coins, in a bell metal vessel called lighted bell metal lamp called nilavilakku alongside. On the day of Vishu, the custom is to wake up at dawn and go to the puja room with the eyes closed so that the Vishukkani is the first thing one see throng the well-known temples like Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple and Guruvayur Sree Krishna temple to have a
"Vishukkani Kazhcha" on the early hours of "Vishu" day.
Click here to read more about the significance of Vishu.
Program Details:
5:00 PM: Sankalpam, Abhishekam
5:30 PM: Thalapolli
5:45 PM: Bhajan Starts
7:00 PM: Bhajan Ends followed by Archana, Aarti and Teertha Prasadam
Please join Ayyappasamaaj (http://www.ayyappasamaaj.org/) and our mailing list on Yahoo(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ayyappasamaaj/join) to get notified of Lord Ayyappa's pujas in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Swami Saranam!
Prasad Ramakrishnan
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