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Fremont Temple Newsletter JAN 2009

Vedic Dharma Samaj

FREMONT HINDU TEMPLE

Estt 1983 • 3676 Delware drive, Fremont, CA, 94538 • Phone 510-659-0655 • E-mail templeadmin@fremonttemple.org

Upcoming Events for January 2009

Jan 9, 2009
10:30AM to 12:30 PM Scientific & Medical Basis of yoga By Hemant Tiwari

Jan 17, 2009

7PM to 10 PM MATA Ka Jagrata
10:30AM to 12:30 PM Scientific & Medical Basis of yoga By Hemant Tiwari

Regular Events for January 2009

Arti
Every day, 7:30 PM

Shiva Abhishek
Monday, 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Hanuman Chalisa
Tuesday, 6:30 PM followed by Preeti Bhoj

Ramayan Katha
Wednesday, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Senior Citizens Meeting

Wednesday, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM (Bhajans, Kirtans and discourses followed by
Lunch)

Sri Lakshmi Abhishek

Friday, 12:30 PM

Durga Pooja & Sri Lalitha Saharanamam

Friday, 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Sri Balaji Abhishek

Saturday, 11:30 AM

Gita Class
Saturday, 10:40 AM to 12:30 PM

Sri Vishnu Saharanamam

Saturday, 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Sunder Kand Ka Path

every 3rd Saturday, 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Mataka Jagrata
every 2nd Saturday, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM.

Bhajans & Pravachan

Sunday, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Sri Ganeshji & Navagraha Abhishek

Sunday, 2:30 PM

Sadhu Vaswani Satsang

every 3rd Sunday, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM

Yoga Class
Monday and Wednesday , 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM

January 2009 Fremont Hindu Temple Newsletter 1

 Dear Devotees, Temple Management
First of all, may the New Year brings Happiness, Peace and prosperity to you and Dr. Pawan Chadha Chairman
your family.
Mr. Gokal Gupta Co-Chairman
We are very happy to present you the first issue of monthly newsletter. We hope Mr. Rajesh Verma Treasurer
that with this we’ll be able to serve you better. Dr. Rajiv Ahuja Trustee
The News Letter has been possible by the article provided by the learned member’s Mrs. Vijaya Bhatt Trustee
of our community. Mr. Subru Vhatt Trustee
Dr. Shyam Narayan Shukla will be providing one article every month from his un
published book. Mr. Heera L. Birla Trustee
Mr. Kulbhushan Gupta Trustee
Joshua M. Geene (Yogesvara Das) will be writing article on Hanuman Ji for our
Dr. Romesh Japra Trustee
younger generation.
Mr. Pankaj Kalra Trustee
Mrs. Anita Kapoor(Our Temple Administrator) has promised to give at least one Dr. Naresh Kapoor Trustee
poem or article every month.
Mr. Radha Krishan Trustee
Now we have about nine hundred members enrolled for News Letter, this is also a Mr. Mahesh Nirmal Trustee
very good medium to offer your product or services to the Indian Community in Bay
Area by advertizing in this News Letter. Mr. Abhay Pati Trustee
Mr. Surya Patnayak Trustee
Please let us know what else you want to see in the News Letter and we’ll try our
best. Mrs. Namrata Patnayak Trustee
Dr. Dharam Salwan Trustee
Thank You
Mr. Ashish Sanan Trsutee
Rajesh Tripathi Mr. Sridhar Sreenivasan Trustee

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Management Board
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Ekadasi PM to Wed 9:26 Mrs. Rekha Malik Preeti Bhoj
AM Mr. Govindan Nair Education
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Sankasht Chaturthi 01 – 13 TUE 5:30 PM Mr. Srikanth Tangirala Community

Service
Thyagraj Pushyam 01 – 14 WED Temple Priests
Swami Viveka- 01 – 16 FRI Puja / Celebration
nanada Jayanti on Sunday Jan 18 Pt. Sri Damodar Shashtri Ji
Shatatila Ekadasi 01 - 21 WED 510-445-1410
Som Pradosh 01 – 22 THU Pt. Sri Govind Srinivasan Ji
MAUNI-THAI 01 - 25 SUN 510-445-1410
AMAVASYA
Pt. Sri Bhusan Kumar Ji
Vasanta Panchami 01 – 30 FRI Saraswati Puja 8
510-445-1410
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Mrs. Anita Kapoor

Editor
Mr. Rajesh Tripathi

January 2009 Fremont Hindu Temple Newsletter 2

 HANUMAN – NO ORDINARY MONKEY

A Series of Retellings for Young People Inspired by Valmiki’s Ramayana

by

Joshua M. Greene (Hofstra University)

EPISODE 1 – THE MONKEY KINGDOM

A Devoted Warrior
Hanuman was mischievous
as a child, a brave warrior in
his youth, and a musician and
scholar when he was older. And
for all eternity he is the symbol
of devotion to his beloved Lord
Rama. Hanuman looked out at
his world through eyes shining
with anticipation, with a half-
smile of amusement over his
own great abilities. We can
imagine him walking out from
his Himalayan cave where, it is
said, he still lives—to scan the
horizon in search of his beloved
Lord, swaying gently, as if to
tell the world by his impatient
movements that however well we
serve, however good we think we
are, there is always more to do and
that life’s greatest adventure is in
the doing.

Hanuman happened to be a
monkey. More precisely he was a
Vanara, or member of a monkey-
like tribe of forest-dwellers. Most
of the time, according to reports
in India’s ancient texts, he was not
conscious of how he looked. His
monkey-like body was like armor to a soldier or robes to a priest: something useful but not more im-
portant than that. As a celibate, he held no interest in making himself attractive to the opposite sex.
And as a student of scripture he understood the difference between body and soul. His monkey-like
nature surfaced from time to time, but those who seek to know him must move past the obvious, for
his story strikes at the core of human experience and at the very heart of self-discovery.

January 2009 Fremont Hindu Temple Newsletter 3

 The Traditional Story Retold

Hanuman’s story has been

adapted by many traditional cultures.
The oldest version is contained in the
Sanskrit Ramayana of Sage Valmiki
who lived in an ancient period of
India’s history, and it is his work that
inspires our time together today.

Who is Hanuman? According to

Valmiki he was the child of Anjana, a
celestial woman cursed to incarnate
in monkey form; and Vayu, god of
the wind. Because his mother had
much to do and his father was always
traveling, Hanuman was obliged to
discover the world on his own. He
loved to play pranks, breaking pots and helping
himself to the neighbors’ groceries. He was
unaware of the havoc he created with the strength
he had inherited from his demigod father. On
one occasion he mistook the sun for a giant fruit
and leaped into the sky to enjoy it. Indra, king
of heaven, was flying by at that moment and,
mistaking Hanuman for an enemy, knocked him
back to earth. The fall broke Hanuman’s jaw, which Joshua M. Greene is an
earned him his name Hanu-man: “broken jaw.” author, filmmaker, and
communications consultant
specializing in religion
Vanaras went out of their way to stay on good and the peace process. He
terms with humans and demigods such as Indra, teaches in the Religion
and one can only imagine their concern over such Department of Hofstra
incidents. When Hanuman broke open the doors of University and at Jivamukti
the temple and ate the sacrificial offerings, that was Yoga School in New York.
when the Vanara priests held a meeting and agreed In 1970, Mr. Greene
that something must be done. They cast a spell that was initiated into bhakti
erased the child’s knowledge of his powers. And (devotional) practice by
so it was that Hanuman grew up, studied scripture A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
under the sun god, and developed admirable skill Prabhupada and given the
spiritual name Yogesvara
as a musician—but all this time, and despite his Das. He spent thirteen years in Hindu ashrams and returned
evident strength, Hanuman remained unaware to New York in 1982 to being his career in media.
of his extraordinary abilities and considered
himself nothing more than an ordinary monkey. Before joining Hofstra University he served as Vice
President for Global Affairs at Ruder Finn (an international
communications firm) and Director of Programming for
Just how extraordinary was Hanuman? That is Cablevision (the nation’s sixth largest cable provider). He
something worth telling another time, in another is the author of several bestselling books, is a frequent
story. lecturer, and sits on the boards of the American Jewish
Committee, the Holocaust Memorial and Educational
Center of Nassau County, and the Coalition for Quality
Children’s Media. He lives with his family on Long Island.

January 2009 Fremont Hindu Temple Newsletter 4

 ARYANS AND THE SANATAN DHARMA
Shyam Narayan Shukla, Ph.D.
Dharma (religion) is the set of laws or values, which
holds the society together. Its origin is from the Sanskrit
verb ‘dhri’, which means ‘to hold’. Religion is not the
exact translation of Dharma. Religion may be loosely
translated as panth (sect), sampraday (denomination)
or upasana paddhati (method of worship), etc. The old
name of Hindu religion is Sanatan Dharma, which
means eternal dharma because it is believed that it was
started right from the time the human beings came to
this earth. It, of course, evolved gradually with time
to its present form. The Dharma of human beings is to
be compassionate, kind, truthful, loving, just, etc., as
described in the Bhagvadgita, Chapter 16, verses 1-3.
The word ‘Hindu’ was coined by Persian traders, who
pronounced ‘Sindhu’ (the Indus) as Hindu. Thus ‘Hindu’
is a geographical name for the people living beyond the
Indus river. Now the world recognizes Hinduism as the
ancient religion followed by majority of Indian people.
The British rulers of India found many common words
in English and Sanskrit. Also they observed that some
north Indians had lighter complexion and sharper
features, which led them to believe that the Aryans
of India and the Europeans had a common origin.
In 1834 a young politician, Lord Thomas Macaulay
was appointed the Governor General of India. Being
a staunch Christian he had a plan to convert the entire
population of India to Christianity. However, he
realized that the deep reverence of the population to
Brahmans and the Vedas would be the biggest hurdle
in his way to execute his plan. Therefore, he thought,
first he had to malign the Vedas in the eyes of the
world. For authenticity he needed a scholar to prove
his conjecture. Thus he approached Dr. Max Muller,
a young Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University
with a proposal to award him a research grant of £
10,000 for a period of 10 years. With his research
Max Muller was supposed to prove that the Vedas
were written by illiterate Aryans, who were nomadic
cowherds and came in a mass migration on horse-
backs from central Asia, somewhere near Caucasus
Mountains, to India as invaders. Max Muller, who
never visited India, assumed that the Aryans reached
India in around 1,500 B.C. and the Vedas were written
in 1,200 B.C. This time frame was arbitrarily chosen
January 2009 Fremont Hindu Temple Newsletter 5
by Max Muller, a staunch Christian himself, who
could not choose an earlier date because according
to the Bible, the God created the world 3,000 years
before the birth of Jesus Christ. Macaulay had also
wanted Max Muller to write that the Vedas were
nothing but crude verses written by the illiterate
Aryan settlers, who were overwhelmed by the beauty
of the new land, they had conquered. He thought
that only by demeaning the Hindu culture, India
could be a fertile ground for spreading Christianity.
Max Muller erected a mental barrier in his own mind
when he assumed that the Rigveda was unlikely to have
been written earlier than 1,200 B.C. Later he backed out
by saying, “Whether the Vedic hymns were composed
in 1,000, 1,500, 2,000 or 3,000 BC, no power on earth
will be ever able to determine.” He also confessed
later that the Vedas were definitely written by highly
intellectual people, and not by illiterate nomads.
In spite of the popular historical epics of Ramayana
and Mahabharata, it was believed until as late as 1920
that there was no evidence of any civilization in India,
prior to the period of the invasion of Alexander the
Great. But the excavations at Harappa (by Daya Ram
Sahni in 1921) and Mohenjodaro (by R.D. Bannerjee
in 1922) proved to be at least 5,000 years old. This
put the Britishers in a defensive position. Then they
developed a new theory, namely, the ‘Aryan Invasion
Theory’. Their new hypothesis was that the Harappan
civilization was the remains of the civilization of the
Dravidians, who were the indigenous people of India.
They also said that the Aryans invaded India, defeated
the Dravidians and pushed them southward. This
conjecture, without any historical proof, became part
of Indian history and it is being taught in Indian schools
for the last 150 years. Since there was no evidence of
horses being part of the Harappan civilization, it was
concluded that the Aryans brought the horses to India
This way the Britishers achieved two things. They
divided the people of India into two different races,
namely, the Aryans and the Dravidians, under their
‘divide and rule’ policy. They also gave a reply to
the freedom fighters, who were upper caste educated
Indians, to the effect that even they were outsiders and
had no right to ask the Britishers to quit India. One
 result of their Aryan invasion theory was creation of the
Dravida Munetra Kadagam by Ramaswamy Naiker,
who called Lord Rama a destroyer of Dravida culture.
It was Bal Gangadhar Tilak, an astronomer politician,
who proved that the Rigveda was at least 5,500 years
old. In the Aitareya Brahman of Rigveda there is a
description of shifting of equinox from Mrigashiras
to Rohini Nakshatra. According to astronomical
calculations this could have taken place only in 3,500 B.C.
Actually the Aryan civilization was developed in
the ‘Sapta Sindhu’ Valley, which included the region
between the Sindhu (the Indus) and the Saraswati
rivers. Later, ‘Aryavarta’ or the land of Aryans was
the geographical region from Afganistan to the
Godavari river in the south and from the Sindhu to the
Ganga river valley in the east. It is believed that the
Rigveda was written on the banks of the Saraswati
river. There are 79 verses in the Rigveda in praise of
the Saraswati river. It is said that the Saraswati was
the mightiest and the most holy river of India. It is
now believed that about a thousand years before the
Mahabhatata period, Rajasthan area rose a few feet
above its original level due to a massive earthquake.
This diverted the flow of the Saraswati to the channel
of the Yamuna river and hence the Saraswati dried.
In Shalya Parva of the Mahabharata there is a
description of Balarama going to the pilgrimage of
Sapta Saraswat during the Mahabharata war. Seven
lakes formed at deeper parts of the drying Saraswati
river made the Sapta Saraswat Tirtha. Perhaps only to
perpetuate the memory of the sacred Saraswati river
the sages of the time introduced a new goddess of
education, music and art, namely, goddess Saraswati.
After independence of India more excavations
were made along the old Saraswati river. They
have found from these excavations at Kalibangan,
Lothal, Surkhotada, and many other places that the
civilization in these places is contemporary of the
Harappan civilization. Also they found terracotta
horses and remains of horses. They found yajna-
vedis (sacrificial fire places) and places for five kinds
of fire a household should maintain according to the
Vedas. Thus it has become very obvious that the
Aryan civilization is more than 5000 years old. It may
be mentioned that Aryan is not a race as the British
rulers assumed. It is the name of the cultured group
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of people who lived a civilized life, as compared to
illiterate people living in jungles. In the Rigveda
there is a mantra which says, “Let us make the
entire world Aryan (Krinvanto vishvamaryam). This
proves that ‘Aryan’ cannot be referred to as a race.
Swami Vivekananda, who methodically studied the
Hindu scriptures, was one of the first college graduate
monks of India. He had a very logical and scientific
outlook towards religion. He used to say that through
the studies of the Vedas one gets a bird’s eye view of
the evolution of the Hindu religion. In the Samhita
portion of the Vedas there are prayers of different
gods, namely, Surya (Sun god), Varun (water god),
Agni (fire god), Marut (wind god), etc. It seems that
man was afraid of the Nature’s forces and considered
them gods. To pacify them he offered prayers to them,
which were put in the Samhitas of the Vedas. Then he
must have imagined that there should be a world where
these gods live and where there are no hunger, diseases
and other miseries of the earth. He called it heaven.
He saw the flames of fire rising upwards and thought
that the gods live in Heaven, which is somewhere up
in the sky. To achieve the heaven through the grace of
the gods he performed yajna. The Brahmana portion
of the Vedas containing the methods of performing
yajnas became an important part of the Vedas. Later,
the Indian sages who were researchers, did not
feel satisfied with the idea that living in the heaven
should be the ultimate objective of man. It only gives
a better birth in the next life but not ‘moksha’. The
sages started living in forests (Aranya), which gave
them a good surrounding to think and study. There
they realized through meditation and thinking that
the Self (Atman) within man is divine and is none
other than Brahman (the Supreme Being) Himself.
The philosophy they developed was put in the new
portion of the Vedas, the Aranyaka. Their experiences
of god realization was described in the Upanishads.
Dr. Shyam Narayan Shukla did
his Ph.D. (Civil/Structural Engg.)
from Ohio State University.
He retired from University of
California, Lawrance Livermore
National Lab after working there
for 21 years.
He’s Past President, Brahman
Samaj of North America (2001-06) & World Brahman
Oeganization(2005-07). World Hindi Foundation.
 Measurement of Time in Hinduism
from WikipediA

H
induism’s understanding of time is as grandiose as time itself. While most
cultures base their cosmologies on familiar units such as few hundreds or
thousands of years, the Hindu concept of time embraces billions and tril-
lions of years. The Puranas describe time units from the infinitesimal truti, lasting
1/1,000,000 of a second to a mahamantavara of 311 trillion years. Hindu sages
describe time as cyclic, an endless procession of creation, preservation and dis-
solution. Scientists such as Carl Sagan have expressed amazement at the sci-
entifically appropriate scale of space and time descriptions given by the ancient
rishis and saints, who canonically were supposed to have fathomed the secrets of
the universe through their mystically awakened senses.

Small units of time used in the Vedas

a trasarenu is the combination of 6 celestial atoms.
a truti is the time needed to integrate 3 trasarenus, or 1/1687.5th of a second.
a vedha is 100 trutis.
a lava is 3 vedhas.
a nimesha is 3 lavas, or a blink.
a kshanas is 3 nimeshas.
a kashthas is 5 kshanas, or about 8 seconds.
a laghu is 15 kashthas, or about 2 minutes.[2]
15 laghus make one nadika, which is also called a danda. This equals the time
before water overflows in a six-pala-weight [fourteen ounce] pot of copper, in
which a hole is bored with a gold probe weighing four masha and measuring four
fingers long. The pot is then placed on water for calculation.
2 dandas make one muhurta.
6 or 7 muhurtas make one yamah, or 1/4th of a day or night.[3]
4 praharas or 4 yamas are in each day or each night.[4]

Reckoning of time amongst the Devas.

1 human year = 1 day of the Devas.
30 days of the Devas = 1 month of the Devas.
12 months of the Devas = 1 year of the Devas = 1 divine year.
The lifespan of the Devas is 100 years of the Devas (= 36,000 human years)

The Vishnu Purana Time measurement section of the Vishnu Purana Book I Chap-
ter III explains the above as follows:
2 Ayanas (six month periods, see above) = 1 human year or 1 day of the devas
4,000 + 400 + 400 = 4,800 divine years = 1 Krita Yuga
3,000 + 300 + 300 = 3,600 divine years = 1 Tretá Yuga
2,000 + 200 + 200 = 2,400 divine years = 1 Dwápara Yuga
1,000 + 100 + 100 = 1,200 divine years = 1 Kali Yuga
12,000 divine year = 4 Yugas = 1 Mahayuga(also called divine yuga)

Reckoning of time for Brahma.

1000 Mahayugas = 1 kalpa = 1 day (day only) of Brahma (4.32 billion human
years; which is the actual scientifically estimated age of the Sun, Estimated age of
Sun is 4.59 Billion Years).

(Two kalpas constitute a day and night of Brahma)

30 days of Brahma = 1 month of Brahma (259.2 billion human years)
12 months of Brahma = 1 year of Brahma (3.1104 trillion human years)
50 years of Brahma = 1 Pararddha
2 parardhas = 100 years of Brahma = 1 Para = 1 Mahakalpa (the lifespan of
Brahma)(311.04 trillion human years)

January 2009 Fremont Hindu Temple Newsletter 7

 One day of Brahma is divided into 10,000 parts called charanas. The charanas are divided as follows:

The Four Yugas

4 charanas (1,728,000 solar years) Satya Yuga
3 charanas(1,296,000 solar years) Treta Yuga
2 charanas(864,000 solar years) Dwapar Yuga
1 charanas(432,000 solar years) Kali Yuga

The cycle repeats itself so altogether there are 1,000 cycles of mahayugas in one day of Brahma.

One cycle of the above four yugas is one mahayuga (4.32 million solar years)

As is confirmed by the Gita statement “sahasra-yuga paryantam ahar-yad brahmano viduh”, meaning, a day
of brahma is of 1000 mahayugas. Thus a day of Brahma, kalpa, is of duration: 4.32 billion solar years. Two kalpas
constitute a day and night of Brahma

A manvantara consists of 71 mahayugas (306,720,000 solar years). Each Manvantara is ruled by a Manu.

After each manvantara follows one Sandhi Kala of the same duration as a Krita Yuga (1,728,000 = 4 Charana).
(It is said that during a Sandhi Kala, the entire earth is submerged in water.)

A Kalpa consists of a period of 1,728,000 solar years called Adi Sandhi, followed by 14 manvantaras and San-
dhi Kalas.

A day of Brahma equals (14 times 71 mahayugas) + (15 x 4 Charanas)

= 994 mahayugas + (60 Charanas)
= 994 mahayugas + (6 x 10) Charanas
= 994 mahayugas + 6 mahayugas
= 1,000 mahayugas

Our current date

Currently, 50 years of Brahma have elapsed and we are in the first Day of the 51st year. This Brahma’s day, Kalpa,
is named as ShvetaVaraha Kalpa. Within this Day, six Manvantaras have already elapsed and we are in the seventh
Manvantara, named as - Vaivasvatha Manvantara. Within the Vaivasvatha Manavantara, 27 Mahayugas (4 Yugas
together is a Mahayuga), and the Krita, Treta and Dwapara Yugas of the 28th Mahayuga have elapsed. We are in the
Kaliyuga of the 28th Mahayuga. This Kaliyuga began in the year 3102 BC in the proleptic Julian Calendar. Since 50
years of Brahma have already elapsed, we are in the second Parardha, also called as Dvithiya Parardha.

The time elapsed since the current Brahma has taken over the task of creation can be calculated as

432000 x 10 x 1000 x 2 = 8.64 Billion Years (1 Kalpa and Pralaya of Brahma)

8.64 x 109 x 30 x 12 = 3.1104 Trillion Years (1 year of Brahma)
3.1104 x 1012 x 50 = 155.52 Trillion Years (50 years of Brahma)

(6 x 71 x 4320000 x 1000) + 7 x 1.728 x 106 = 1.840332096 Trillion years elapsed in first six Manvataras, and Sandhi
Kalas in the current Kalpa
27 x 4320000 = 116.640000 million years elapsed in first 27 Mahayugas of the current Manvantara
1.728 x 106 + 1.296 x 106 + 864000 = 3.888 million years elapsed in current Mahayuga
3012 + 2008 = 5020 years elapsed in current Kaliyuga.

So the total time elapsed since current Brahma is 155.52 x 1012 + 1.840332096x1012 + 0.00012053302 = 157.36 Trillion Years

The current Kali Yuga began at midnight 17 February / 18 February in 3102 BC in the proleptic Julian calendar.

Think about it, our maximun lifetime of 100 years is just a blip, are you really making best use of your life!!

January 2009 Fremont Hindu Temple Newsletter 8

 rn ’s
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K i rn
Co Kid

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d’s er
Foolish Lion and the Clever Rabbit

Once upon a time there lived a ferocious lion in the

forest. It was a greedy lion and started killing animals
in the forest indiscriminately. Seeing this, the animals
gathered and decided to approach the lion with the offer
of one animal of each species volunteering itself to be
eaten by the lion everyday. So every day it was the turn of
one of the animals and in the end came the rabbits’ turn.
The rabbits chose a old rabbit among them. The rabbit was
wise and old. It took its own sweet time to go to the Lion.
The Lion was getting impatient on not seeing any animal
come by and
swore to kill
all animals the next day.

The rabbit then strode along to the Lion by sunset. The

Lion was angry at him. But the wise rabbit was calm and
slowly told the Lion that it was not his fault. He told the
Lion that a group of rabbits were coming to him for the
day when on the way, an angry Lion attacked them all and
ate all rabbits but himself. Somehow he escaped to reach
safely, the rabbit said. He said that the other Lion was

challenging the supremacy of his Lordship the Lion.

The Lion was naturally very enraged and asked to be
taken to the location of the other Lion.

The wise rabbit agreed and led the Lion towards

a deep well filled with water. Then he showed the
Lion his
reflection
in the
water of
the well.
The Lion was furious and started growling and naturally
its image in the water, the other Lion, was also equally
angry. Then the Lion jumped into the water at the other
Lion to attack it, and so lost its life in the well. Thus the
wise rabbit saved the forest and its inhabitants from the
proud Lion.

MORAL:Wit is superior to brute force.

January 2009 Fremont Hindu Temple Newsletter 9
 Anita Kapoor
Temple Administrator

January 2009 Fremont Hindu Temple Newsletter 10

Peoms by Hetal Anjaria
As A Flower Blooms...... He’s Your Friend....

I just noted a little root, There was a small child like you ,
Who had a friend called Ram,
How fine and delicate,
He made friend’s with Krishna,
As the sunshine nurtures it, with water as its
They all grew together,
freind, Like best friend’s could ever be.
They played all day long ,
The root has now begun to grow,
And swore for each other,
In the best of the brown that I could see,
When things turned wrong.
As I get up one morning, They all smiled together when they were really
happy,
Its the most beautiful bud that I have ever seen.
And called in their friend, Ganesha,
I thank Thee, Mother Nature
In times of despairity,
The bud is now a flower, Let’s all be like them,
And truly value their friendship,
The painted petals and the leaves
Be it Ram or Rahim,
Are all perfect to Thee,
They are all Almighty,
I pray to you Oh Lord, In world full of people, of all caste and creed,
I am glad I had you as a friend,
Let me shine like this flower and grow with purity.
So very much like me.
January 2009 Fremont Hindu Temple Newsletter 11