Karwa Chauth Puja and Dinner

Please join us for colorful celebration of Karwa Chauth.
Saturday October 15th, 2011

(Dinner -$10PP- must RSVP)
(With popular we have decided no women will cook this year .They can enjoy the day with their husbands and children).

Puja - 6pm to 8pm

Dinner will be available by reservation only.
Dinner will be served after everyone offer Arg ( offering ) to Chand.

Husbands are welcome to join!
Lets us all dress up in festive clothes (you may want to wear your wedding outfits.)
All ladies usually wear some kind of red on this day (wedding color).

Get your best Jewelry out Ladies
- it is your day to dress up and impress your husband's

In our Hindu culture this is the day when women fast all day (starts before sunrise and finishes after moon rises) wishing for a long life and Good health for their husbands. It has been a tradition for last 7 years (since we opened) at our temple, when all ladies get together in their festive clothes and celebrate this day together with other ladies. Every year we see our group getting bigger and bigger. Our Goal is to be able to offer this to our whole community and become one Big Family.

Items you need for puja.

(Please make sure your Thali is prepared with every item mentioned below)

Thali
Karwa ( steel or silver glass of water- originally made of clay- if you can get it , it is best)

Deepak and Machis ( maches)
Idol of Parvati (originally made of cow dung- can be made of dough) or any idol that you may have.
Roli ( Sindhoor Powder), Haldi, Rice, Moli Flowers for puja.

For Baya in your Thali - Badam. Mathari ( Mathi) , Mithai ( Bharfi or what ever you may want ) , Cash you may want to send to your mother-in-law or you may want to donate to the temple. Suhag Items that you would give to any Suhagan ( could be your friend or relative) Bindi, Nail Polish, Lipstik, Bangles etc.
A nice Scarf to cover your thali.

Please come prepared so that we can start Puja on time.

You can get water in the temple - this will make it easy for you.

We request you not to get late. Let us all be very considerate and come on time so that puja can be started with all of us at the same time. It gets very hard when few people do not come on time and then we have to interrupt puja.

RSVP required:

Contact: Neelu Sharma e-mail : neelu@sarvadevmandir.org
508-864-3881 Temple- 508-987-8441