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Sat and Sun: 9 am to 8.30 pm.
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Date : 18-Nov-2015

MONTHLY AYYAPPA POOJA and MANDALA POOJA

 


OMKARA MAHAGANAPATHY DEVASTHANAM
THE HINDU TEMPLE OF CENTRAL TEXAS
4309 Midway Drive, Temple, TX 76502
www.hindutemple.org /254 771 1270
 
MONTHLY AYYAPPA POOJA & BEGINNING OF MANDALA POOJA
Saturday, November 21, 2015, 6:30 p.m.

This month’s Ayyappa Pooja will mark the beginning of MANDALA POOJA at your temple.  
The pooja starts at 6:30 p.m. with BalaGanapathy Pooja followed bySankalpam, Abhishekam with Vedic Chanting, Alamkaram with bhajans (by devotees),
Mantrapushpam, pradakshinam, Namaskaram, saranaghosham, lighting of the 18 steps,Recitation of Ayyappa Aarati, Omkara mahaGanapathy Pooja and  Harivarasanam.  
 
A light meal that the devotees prepare and bring will be served after.
 
MALAYIDEEL (Wearing of the sacred garland) FOR THOSE PLANNING WILL BE AFTER THE POOJA.
 
Starting Sunday, November 22nd, until MakaraSankranthi on Thursday the 14th of January, 2016, there will be daily special pooja for Swami Ayyappa.
Each day’s pooja may be sponsored by devotees on their or their loved ones’ birth nakshatra.
The sponsors need not be present for the pooja. Prasadam will be mailed out after the sponsored pooja to the address given.
 
Makara Sankranthi Celebration at the temple will be in the morning on Saturday the 16th of January 2016.
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Priests:
    Sreeram Hariharan
    BS Srinidhi 
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