Happy Janamasthmi to all my family and friends celebrating it today. Neelesh and I are busy setting up for our celebration tomorrow night, the house looks amazing, and prep for the offerings is all underway! Excited!
Alpa dwhara Hari
Bhole Nath! Hari Hara!!
Sri Sri Harihara
Sri Hasya Narasimha
Midnight Darshan
Most beautiful sight!
When the curtains opened! Candle lit aarti
Offerings: Buckwheat biriyani, salad, caramel cheesecake, lotus root chips, potato gauranga and mango lassi
Abhishek
Abhishek - i love this pic!
Abhishek
Abhishek
Ekadashi Offerings: Potato Gauranga
Ekadashi Offerings: Roast Veges (baby potatoes, kumera and yams)
Ekadashi Offerings: pumpkin soup
Ekadashi Offerings: Buckwheat biriyani with paneer and broccoli
Ekadashi Offerings: caramel cheesecake
Radha Asthami Alter & feast
Radha Asthami Alter & feast
Radha Asthami Alter & feast
Radha Asthami Alter & feast
Radha Asthami Alter & feast
Nrsimha Chaturdasi ki jayho
All settled into the new place
New temple all set up for Diwali.
New temple all set up for Diwali.
Abhishek and offerings of our first Janamastmi together
Abhishek and offerings of our first Janamastmi together
Abhishek and offerings of our first Janamastmi together
Our Alter for Balaram Jayanti, 2013
Our Alter for Balaram Jayanti, 2013
Our Alter for Balaram Jayanti, 2013
Tulsi Devi
Balaram Jayanti, 2013
Varuni for offering on Balaram Jayanti
Varuni for offering on Balaram Jayanti
Our offering this morning for Balaram Jayanti. Woke up and made Varuni
(there's a first time for everything) then carried on with our offerings
Our new Lingam.
Shaligram is in the form of a lingam. The name given is Hari-Hara,
it is the combined form of both Vishnu (Hari) and Shiva (Hara) OR Shankaranarayana
(Shankara -Shiva, and Narayana -Vishnu).
Abhishek of our Lakshmi Narasimha
Abhishek of our Lakshmi Narasimha
Fruits for the offerings
Keer (sweet rice) for offering
Our temple x
Jai Sri Nrsingadev
All glories to Hasya Narasima, all glories to Laxmi Nrsimha, all glories to Alpa dwhara Hari.
Ram Navami altar
A muslim friend at work gave me the gift of this Salagram after he saw me looking on-line at some on my phone. He told me he had one of them at home that someone gave him, and after some discussion and his realizing what it was he offered to give it to me. I took upanayanam samskara at the age of 9 but haven't been wearing my thread, still according to a friend as a dwija I can try to look after Him.
Here are some pictures we took of us welcoming Him to our home yesterday.
Setting up for the cleansing and welcoming
Setting up for the cleansing
Mr. Desai setting up for the cleansing
The rest of the family, looking on giving their blessings
Looking on, giving their blessings
Shiv Ji looking on
Sri Sri Laxmi Narasimha saligram
Abhishek with water
Abhishek with water
Abhishek with water
Abhishek with water
Abhishek with Milk
Abhishek with Milk
Abhishek with Milk
Abhishek with yoghurt
Abhishek with yoghurt
Abhishek with yoghurt
Abhishek with water
Abhishek with water
Abhishek with ghee
Abhishek with ghee
Abhishek with ghee
Abhishek with water
Abhishek with honey
Abhishek with honey
Abhishek with honey
Abhishek with sugar water
Abhishek with sugar water
Concentrating
Doing Abhishek
All done, ready for Aarti
Our temple
Getting ready after Abhishek
waiting on His asana
Getting ready after Abhishek
Getting ready after Abhishek
All pretty
All pretty
All pretty
Offering
Offering
Temple
Temple
Prasadam anyone?
Prasadam anyone? Feast for the lord, started at 9pm... finished at about
12am.
Right-to-Left: Paneers & Peas, Rice, Raaita, Mango laasi, Dates,
Mango sweet rice and Suji ladoo in the middle.
Suji Ladoos - yum!
Paneer and peas
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