Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra Installation

at Newly built Hindu temple

10001 Riggs Rd, Adelphi, MD 20783

April 20-April 22, 2007

With the presence of Raj Guruji from Puri temple

General Information:

Indu Mishra: 410-428-7707

                                                                                                   Naresh Das: 410 531 7445

Please contact the following coordinators with any specific questions regarding the function

Public relation:  Bimal Mishra bimal_mishra@hotmail.com

Puja : Meera Mohapatra  suemohapatra@yahoo.com

Food: Sudeep Patnaik  sssnp@aol.com

Decoration: Mousumi Patnaik Maushumi_p@hotmail.com

Fund raising: Hemant Biswal hbiswal@hotmail.com

Cultural: Bigyani Das  (bigyanidas@yahoo.com)

               Julie Acharya Ray (ankapa67@yahoo.com)

               Debaki Nandan Chowdhury (debaki@yahoo.com)

Every one is welcome to participate in this once in a lifetime program. As you know, event like this needs a lot of involvement and financial contribution from all of you. Therefore we request all of you to contribute generously for this cause to make it a grand success. We have the following categories of service for you. Please take part on any of these and get Lord's blessings. Please come and join in this effort to make this historical ceremony a memorable event.

1) Sankalpa Sponsorship -$200.00 (Couple sitting for Puja )

2) Kalasha Puja Sponsorship -$110.00 (Ladies will get puja saree and Kalash)

3) Mahadeepa Sponsorship - $25.00

4) Flower Offer Sponsorship - $50.00/day (you chose your day Fri-Sat-Sun)

5) Sari Offer to Subhadra - Sponsorship for this offer will cost $50.00

6) Saturday Mahaprasad - $150.00.

7) Sunday Mahaprasad - $150.00 .

8) Special blessing draw - There will be a lucky draw for this. Each ticket will cost $2.00. 50% of the total amount will go towards puja and 50% will be awarded to the winner.

May Lord Jagannath Bless You !

P.S  - When you write a check to JOGA, please mention for "Jagannath Fund" so that the entire amount will be used for this event. and send to

JOGA, 4525 Rutherford Way, Dayton, MD 21036

Jagannath Organization for Global Awareness (JOGA) is a non-profit tax exempt organization and hence your donation is tax deductible.

 Please confirm us by 10th April, which service you would like to offer.

The detailed program for the installation ceremony is as follows.

Date Time Program
04/20/2007 7:00 -10:00 PM Ankunaropona, Dhanyadhibasa of the Deities, Mondolodhibasa and Salodhibasa
04/21/2007 7:00 -10:00 AM Surya Puja, Panchakarma, Mandladipujan, Pitha Pujan
  10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Jalajatra (Kalash puja)
  2:00 - 4:00 PM Vaishnabagni, sanskara and Homakarmarmbha
  4:00 - 6:00 PM Snnana and sayana ceremony of the Deities. Arati, Puspanjali and Dikbali.
  6:00 - 8:00 PM Cultural Program (Odissi Dance by Masako Ono, disciple of Protima Bedi, Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra - Living and Teaching in Orissa for the last 15 years)
  8:00 - 9:00 PM Mahaprasad
04/22/2007 7:00 - 8:00 AM Surya Puja, Gopujan and Guru pujan
  8:00 - 10:00 AM Panchakarma and all Saladevata Pujanam
  10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Homa Karma
  2:00 - 5:00 PM Pranapratistha, Nyasadikarma of the Deities and the temple
  5:00 - 6:00 PM Deiteis enter the temple and take their respective seats on the Holy throne and Pujan
  6:00 - 7:00 PM Purnahuti
  7:00 - 8:00 PM Bhajan
  8:00 - 9:00 PM Mahaprasad

 

List of Kalash puja (Jalajatra) Participants: Please try to reach by 9:30 AM on April 21st at the temple. The puja saree will ready for you to wear and join the procession to get water. The procession will be accompanied by kirtan by the devotees. Once you come back with water, the sacred water will be used for Lord's bathing, followed by puja till 12:00 PM. You are also invited to take prasad (lunch) and join other puja in the afternoon.

Kalash sponsors:

1.Julie Ray

2.Leena Mishra

3.Babita Nayak

4.Deepa Parija

5.Sushmita Behera

6.Sunanda Holmes

7.Sulochana Mohanty

8. Priti Biswal

9.Jhinu Chhotray

10.Lali Tripathy

11.Madhabi Das

12.Reema Raju

13.Sobhana Das

14.Bandita Mishra

15.Sujata Mohanty

16.Urmila Sahu

17. Bidhu Mishra

18. Linee Dhala  

19. Hema Behera

20. Asha Khaturia

21. Manaswini Sahu

 

Sankalpa Sponsors:

 

1 Maushumi and Sandeep Patnaik 

2.Meera and Shashadhar Mohapatra

3.Nita and Ajay Mohanty

4.Jhunu and Indu Mishra

5.Bandita and Nrusingha Mishra

6. Sulochana and Joygopal Mohanty

7. Namita and Chitaranjan Dash

8. Bigyani and Naresh Das