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Sri Vasavi Jayanthi Celebrations 2016 at Sri Meenakshi Temple

Sri Vasavi Jayanthi Celebrations 2016 at  Sri Meenakshi Temple

By Seshagiri Pabbisetty PEARLAND: As is well recognized Sri Meenakshi Temple has been a place of miracles. Sunday May 22 was another day of a miracle with a gloomy weather forecast of a day-long thunder showers turning out to be a bright cloudy day by the grace of Sr Vasavi Kanyaka Parameswari, an incarnation of […]

Chinmaya Jyoti on Chinmaya Jayanti at Chinmaya Prabha

Chinmaya Jyoti on Chinmaya Jayanti at Chinmaya Prabha

By Padmashree Rao HOUSTON: Anticipation,  Arrival, Happiness unlimited – The AAH moments of an unforgettable centenary birthday event to culminate a greater Chinmaya movement. Pujya Gurudev’s own glory filled Chinmaya Prabha Houston when the brilliant joy of the Chinmaya Jyoti arrived on the beautiful morning of May 8, the most auspicious occasion of the centenary […]

Meenakshi Chithirai Thiruvizha Mahotsavam

Meenakshi Chithirai Thiruvizha Mahotsavam

By Sasidharan Pillai PEARLAND: The festival of Meenakshi Chithirai Thiruvizha is one of the most important annual festivals held at the famous Meenakshi Temple at Madurai. Here in Pearland we follow the same tradition. This year it began on April 15, with several special attractions within the festival, such as Meenakshi Pattabhishekam, Thirukalyanam of Lord […]

Chaitra Sud Purnima: Hanuman Jayanti

Chaitra Sud Purnima: Hanuman Jayanti

HOUSTON: The temple celebrated Hanuman Jayanti on Friday, April 22. The pooja started around 2:00 pm, which was followed by havan and aarti. Mahaprasad was served after aarti and was sponsored by Shiv Sagar. The temple is open daily from 8 am to 8 pm and everyday aarti is performed at 7:30 pm.  The Gauri […]

Chaitri Navaratri Celebrations at Gauri Siddhivinayak Temple of Houston

Chaitri Navaratri Celebrations at Gauri Siddhivinayak Temple of Houston

HOUSTON: The temple celebrated Chaitri Navaratri on Friday, April 15 which was attended by over 300 devotees. The navami pooja started around 2:00 pm, which was followed by havan, garba, and aarti. Mahaprasad was served after aarti. Pandit Pradip Pandya wants to thank all devotees for their support and for attending the pooja. The temple […]

Sri Meenakshi Pattabhishekam at Sri Meenakshi Temple

Sri Meenakshi Pattabhishekam at Sri Meenakshi Temple

By Haripriya Sundar PEARLAND: What a grand sight it was to see many devotees gathered in the newly renovated Sri Meenakshi Temple on Saturday evening, April 16. It was windy and clouds were looming overhead, but that didn’t stop the devotees from attending the Meenakshi Pattabhishekam. Inside the Main Temple, there were three sets of […]

Enthralling Ramayana Katha and Mass Prayer at Namadwaar

Enthralling Ramayana Katha and  Mass Prayer at Namadwaar

MANVEL: Srimad Ramayana Navaham – a 9-day English discourse series on the timeless Ramayana – was rendered by Sri Poornimaji, disciple of HH Maharanyam Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji at Namadwaar Houston from March 12 to 20. Sri Poornimaji also conducted a Mahamantra Mass Prayer during Namadwaar’s sixth anniversary celebrations on March 27. In her unique, enthralling […]

Annual 5-K Walkathon at The Sri Meenakshi Temple

Annual 5-K Walkathon at The Sri Meenakshi Temple

By Dr. Al. Alagappan PEARLAND: The much awaited annual 5K walkathon event happened on Sunday, April 3, at the Sri Meenakshi Temple in Pearland. Around 125-150 cheerful participants both young and old with active sporting gear started to assemble slowly from around 7:30 am on a beautiful sunny spring morning.  The event kicked off with […]

Gaura Purnima at ISKCON of Houston

Gaura Purnima at ISKCON of Houston

HOUSTON: Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was born in Bengal (India) on a full moon night during a lunar eclipse. It is typical for people to bathe in the Ganges during an eclipse and chant the Lord’s holy names for spiritual purification. So, everyone in the area was chanting the holy names when He was born. His parents […]

Sri Meenakshi Temple Celebrates Panguni Uthiram Festival on a Grand Scale

Sri Meenakshi Temple Celebrates  Panguni Uthiram Festival on a Grand Scale

By Kamala Raghavan PEARLAND: Panguni Uthiram is celebrated at many temples throughout South India and the world. Devotees flock to many well-known temples such as Perur, Palani, Kapaleeswarar temple in Mylapore and Vadapalani Murugan temple, to name a few. The festival was celebrated in a grand manner at Sri Meenakshi Temple on Sunday, March 27. […]

A Unique and Symbolic Mahasivaratri at Chinmaya Prabha

A Unique and Symbolic Mahasivaratri at Chinmaya Prabha

By Vinod Sharma & Padmashree Rao HOUSTON: Lord Siva, the ideal of auspiciousness, was invoked at Chinmaya Prabha and Sri Saumyakasi Sivalaya in a weeklong Mahasivaratri celebration that began on March 6 and culminated on March 13. Befitting the holiest time of worship of the great three-eyed Lord, the celebrations were highlighted by three events […]

Grand Mahasivarathri Celebrations at MTS

Grand Mahasivarathri  Celebrations at MTS

By M.K.Sriram & Anu Mahesh PEARLAND: It was a Grand Mahasivarathri Day celebration at Sri Meenakshi Temple on Monday, March 7.  Devotees started streaming in soon after the doors opened in the morning and swelled to a large gathering when the puja started at twilight. The weather was beautiful and more than 1,000 devotees thronged […]

Maha ShivRatri Celebrated with Devotion and Fervor in Houston

Maha ShivRatri Celebrated with Devotion and Fervor in Houston

HOUSTON: Thousands of devotee’s gathered on March 7, Monday to celebrate Shivratri at the Sanatan Shiv Shakti Temple located at 6640 Harwin. Maha Shivratri is celebrated around the world and has many symbolisms and stories attached to it. Among householders, it is considered the night when Shiva married Parvati. Among the ambitious, Shiva is said […]

Masi Magam Celebrations at Sri Meenakshi Temple

Masi Magam Celebrations  at Sri Meenakshi Temple

By M.K.Sriram PEARLAND: Masi Magam, a special event for Lord Murugan was celebrated by Sri Meenakshi Temple on Feb 22.  This auspicious day usually falls on the Magam nakshathra of the Tamil month Masa (Generally Feb 15 – March 15). This year’s event had more significance because it coincides with Maha Magam festival celebrated once […]

A Community’s Devotion Slowly Comes to Focus, One Phase at a Time

A Community’s Devotion Slowly Comes to Focus, One Phase at a Time

By Jawahar Malhotra HOUSTON:  Visible from the Sam Houston Tollroad, right across from the Sam Houston Racepark, the site of the Sikh National Center has slowly taken shape over the past 15 years, as donated funds have been collected. In the past two years, the steel structure of the main gurdwara has risen from the […]

The Shiva Purana – Science Through Stories

The Shiva Purana – Science Through Stories

Sadhguru explains how the Shiva Purana includes many aspects of fundamental science in its text, as well as a powerful tool to transcend limitations. Sadhguru: This vast emptiness that we refer to as Shiva is a boundless non-entity – eternal and always. But since human perception is limited to form, we created many wonderful forms for Shiva in […]

Sri Meenakshi Temple Celebrates Pongal Sankranthi and Anadal Kalyanam

Sri Meenakshi Temple Celebrates Pongal Sankranthi and Anadal Kalyanam

By Nachal Sethuraman and Kamala Raghavan PEARLAND: The twin celebration of Pongal and Andal Kalyanam occurs at the end of Dhanur Masa (Marghazi) and this year the events were on the weekend of January 16 and 17. Sri Meenakshi Temple, celebrated the Pongal – Sankranthi festival on January, 16.  Keeping alive the vibrant harvest festival […]

Historic Collaboration Signing Event: Rice University to Offer Regular Programs in Jain Studies

Historic Collaboration Signing Event: Rice University to Offer Regular Programs in Jain Studies

By Dr. Sulekh C. Jain and Payal Kapadia Patani HOUSTON: As the world celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day for his commitment, compassion and passion to non-violence, Jain Society of Houston took pride and honor to witness a historic signing ceremony on January 17, for the establishment of a full-time Bhagwaan Mahavir Post-Doctoral Fellowship […]

Pongal 2016: From Cooking Up a Feast to Decorating Rangolis and Bull Baiting

Pongal 2016: From Cooking Up a Feast to Decorating Rangolis and Bull Baiting

Ashwin Rajagopalan  My first memories of Pongal are synonymous with the ‘Pongal test match’ at the MA Chidambaram stadium. The Indian equivalent of the boxing day match when almost without exception, Chennai would host a visiting test team every January. A tradition that dates back almost 100 years when the Annual Indians vs Europeans Pongal match would […]

Pongal O’ Pongal: More than a Harvest Festival

Pongal O’ Pongal: More than a Harvest Festival

Sadhguru looks at the significance of Pongal, celebrated in the month of Thai in the Tamil Calendar. Sadhguru: Celebrations at the time of the winter solstice have been universal in almost every culture on the planet. It is seen as the rising of the new sun. In ancient Rome, this was celebrated as Saturnalia, which means […]