Remembering Mother Easwaramaa and Matru Pitru Puja

Om Sri Sai Ram. 

On 5th May 2020, the Balvikas children and their parents, along with the Balvikas Gurus of Kandivali Borivali Dahisar samithi, organised an online programme, in celebration of the auspicious Easwaramma week. 

The event started with the chanting of the Vedam and Stotram, which followed with a video presentation featuring photographs of all the Balvikas families. Next on the list was a series of stories about great mothers like Jijabai (mother of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj), Bhagabati Devi (Mother of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar) and our beloved mother Easwaramma.

Then followed the beautiful celebration of the 'Matru Pitru puja' by the children, along with the divine chants of the Ashtotras. The evening ended with an Oath taking ceremony and cultural programme by the children.

We had a huge participation of over 300 members of the Balvikas families (including the parents and children). The rest of the devotees could witness this beautiful programme online on Youtube. Considering the total reach, Swami's blessings were received by more than 1000 devotees from over 400 families. 

You can also watch the recording of the programme on the link below.

https://youtu.be/JmbqQLEB__w 

Hope you are all safe and doing well. Prayers to Swami to keep blessing each one of you. 

"Samastha Loka Sukhino Bhavantu"

Sairam.

Easwaramma Day Celebrations 1st May 2020

🌸 Om Sri Sai Ram🌸

Easwaramma Day was celebrated by the Balvikas children of Kandivali - Borivali - Dahisar Samithi on May 1st, 2020. 🙏😇

Program was attended by senior devotees and families of Balvikas Children, who participated with full enthusiasm and excitement. A total of 73 families with over 100 devotees were online to witness the event and seek Swami's blessings. 🙏

The celebration started with a Special 10 minute video presentations of stories from Chinna Katha and other value education, followed by Vedam and Stotram Chanting by the Balvikas children. 

Then followed a beautiful 1 hour Bhajan session where the children were given chorus by their parents. This was accompanied with constant feed of Swami and mother Easwaramma's videos on the screen. 😇

After all the Bhajans were offered, we witnessed another special video presentation on the theme - 'Love is my form', followed by Aarti and group family photograph session. 🌻

Here is a link to the video recording of the event - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykq0AOGAbl4&feature=youtu.be 

Food Distribution on Aradhana Diwas

On the auspicious occasion of Aradhana Devas we prepared in our kitchen lunch for the following staff working in our Oberoi Garden Society at Thakur Village Kandivali East:

1. Security guards

2. Mali

3. Housekeeping staff

4. Office staff

The total No. who were present today works out to 32. They enjoyed the lunch and the food served and there was no shortage as we had already mixed Vibhuti after preparation of food. 

Photos attached.

With Bhagwan‘s grace on Aradhana Devas we could distribute 50 food kits to poor families at Lalji Pada slums area in Kandivali East. Distribution will continue tomorrow in view of the Time restrictions imposed by CRPF deployed there. 

Photos Attached.

Food kits Distribution

A Survey was carried out of Lalji Pada areas in Kandivli West where Borivali Samithi holds medical camp.  80 very poor families were identified. Materials (comprising 5 KG rice 5 KG Aata etc etc) for food kits for 80 families was purchased and brought to a hall which was already sanitised. 80 food kits were prepared after proper packing and strictly following sanitisation and other protocols . The Distribution was started in early morning hours of 21 April 2020 and successfully completed without any hindrances, with Baba’s Grace, by 2 PM. Seeing the ground conditions of the families purchase of 101 more food kits and their subsequent distribution is being thought of in the near future after resource and manpower planning.

Kandivali-Borivali-Dahisar Samithi organised a Bhajan with 39 participants.

It was fun and at the same time uplifting with participants coming up with unique and melody bhajans round after round.

There were syllable, word, identifying the bhajan through a fortune of wheel (Shravanam), English version of bhajan to be identified and rapid fire questions and so on.

Devotees enjoyed a lot and we expect to have a similar kind of session in the near future.

Career Guidance Session

State.... Mumbai Metro
District..Mumbai 2
School... Gandhi Vidhya Mandir School
Date.... 8/2/2020
Activity.. Career Guidance session
Standard..10th
No of students..28
Duration..1hr

* Career Guidance session started with an interaction about student's goals.

*Smt Dhara Shastri explained to them about different streams after Std 10, admission procedure in Mumbai colleges, list of good colleges in Mumbai, eligibility criteria, vocational courses and National level entrance exams for different courses.

*She also discussed the importance of Prayers in student's life.

*Program ended with Vote of thanks by Principal Sir.

YAP PPT
The following colleges have agreed:
A1 Thakur College of Science and Commerce Thakur village Kandivali East Mumbai
2 Date 7.2.2020
3 Time 10 AM
4 Meeting Point: Gate Number three Hall in front of that gate
5 Place where event will take place: First floor seminar hall
6 Duration of event: As prescribed 15 minutes (or more if okayed)
7 Kindly intimate the number of persons coming to the college
B1 Gokhale College Gorai Road Borivali West (a short distance away from Borivali West Fire station Gorai Road)
2 Date 5.2.2020
3 Time 9:30 AM
4 Meeting Point: Main gate of the college
5 Place where event will take place: First Floor Assembly Hall
6 Duration of event: As prescribed 15 minutes (or more if okayed)
7 Kindly intimate the number of persons coming to the college
Warm loving regards,
MK Chaudhary

Winter Seva

On 10th January 11:30 PM (near midnight)  large number of devotees collected near Tirumala Mall Borivali West. Six groups were made comprising of 5 to 6 devotees in each group. Areas spreading in Kandivali Borivali Dahisar were allotted to each group with the advice that whosoever is sleeping on/near the roads without adequate covering a blanket maybe spread on him/her. This exercise went on up to early morning 2 AM of 11 January 2020 as all the areas were scanned thoroughly. Those who were distributing the blankets and those who were receiving-both felt overjoyed.
Again on 12 January 2020 in Vedhe Village about 120 km from Borivali Adivasis ladies and gents collected near panchayat Ghar and one blanket was given to all those already registered and having token card. This covered 10 Padas/villages. Here also it was a sight to see the glow in the faces of adivasis with shining blankets in their hands after being given by the Sarpanch of the Panchayat
 and others.
Photos Attached.

Welcoming New Year 2020

State.... Mumbai Metro
District..Mumbai
School... Gandhi Vidhya Mandir School
Date.... 31-12-2019
Activity.. Welcoming New Year 2020

New Year Eve was celebrated at Kamla Vihar Sports Club from 9 PM to 12:30 AM On first January 2020 with about 350 devotees and non-devotees(56 students, 61 parents and 27 teaching staff and devotees)attending the function. It was for the first time such a large number of people residing in SLUMS could enter the Elite Club as the parents and students along with their teaching staff of Gandhi Vidya Mandir located at Lalji Pada in Kandivali West, Mumbai participated with full gusto.

Marathi and Rajasthani dances along with two plays/NASHA MUKTI and BAD EFFECTS OF MOBILE PHONE, nicely programmed and very well played by Gandhi Vidya Mandir school students enthralled the audience. Dance titled Achutam Keshvam, Lezim, Ram Ke Jhankian And Murli Bajege staged by  Gandhi Vidya Mandir school students
kept the viewers spellbound.

Finally bhajans followed by Divya Darshan and fireworks touched the hearts of everybody including the students in welcoming the New Year. Photos Attached.

Christmas

175 children, parents and devotees of Kandivali Borivali Dahisar Samithi celebrated Christmas by assembling in Don Bosco Church prayer hall at 5:15 AM on 25 December 2019. After the singing of carols and value songs, at Don Bosco Church was over a procession of children and ladies and gents with lighted candles in their hands and singing of glory of the Lord and value-based songs marched on the road towards the Lord Hanuman Temple in MHB colony. On reaching Lord Hanuman Temple Bhajans were continued and lastly Aarti was done by those students who were to appear in their final examinations. Photos attached.

Value Based Bharatnatyam

|| Shri Ganeshaya Namah ||

|| Shri Sharada Namah ||

|| Shri Sadguru Namah ||

19-Oct-2019