Special prayers offered to God for long and healthy life of ‘Paratpar Guru’ Dr. Athavale and for establishing Hindu Rashtra !
Mumbai : Special prayers were offered at different temples in Mumbai under ‘Hindu Rashtra-jagruti Abhiyan’ in the background of birthday-celebrations of ‘Paratpar Guru’ Dr. Athavale, the Founder of Sanatan Sanstha; praying for his long, healthy life; so also for removal of obstacles in establishing Hindu Rashtra. Slogans of ‘Jayatu Jayatu Hindu Rashtram’ were raised on the occasion.
Bhandup : Special prayers were offered at ‘Gram-devi’ Gaodevi Temple in Bhandup near railway –line by Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) in the presence of a devout Hindu Shri. Suresh Kakade. Sou. Surekha Kadam, a well-wisher of HJS offered ‘oti’ to the Goddess. 7 devout Hindus were present for the prayers. Special prayers were offered at Gaodevi Hill temple when ‘Sanatan Prabhat’s readers Sou. Prachi Bapardekar, Sou. Jayashree Walkar, Sou. Kumudini Zagade offered ‘Oti’ to the Goddess. 31 people were present on the occasion including Shri. Brijesh Singh of ‘Pujyapad Asarambapu Sampradaya’; Shri. Lalbahadur Singh, Shri. Vinod Jain of Bajarang Dal; priest Shri. Vijay Thombare; Shri. Mahesh Kambali and Shri. Suresh Datar of Shiv Sena; Shri. Shekhar Gawade, President of ‘Pratham Safalya Seva Sangh’ and 8 readers of ‘Sanatan Prabhat’. Shri. Chandrakant Naik, Vice President of Gaodevi Hill temple extended full cooperation for organizing the program.
Followers of Jagatguru Ramanandacharya Shri Narendra Maharaj spontaneously participated in the special prayers offered at Chikaneshwar temple at Koparkhairane; besides 12 devout Hindus including Shri. Prakash Lore of ‘Yoga-Vedanta Seva Samiti’. At Zulelal Temple of Nerul, Shri. Rajkumar Sadhawani, President of the temple joined the prayers along with 55 devotees.
Special prayers offered at Shriram Mandir, Navapur Road, Boisar were attended by Hina Mangaldas Shah, Sanatan Prabhat’s reader with her family; when 12 devout Hindus including priest of the temple were present.
Special prayers were offered at Jogeshwari Mata (Gumpha) temple by 10 readers and ‘jidnyasus’ along with devout Hindus viz. Shri. Prasad Jagushte, Shri. Anil Kale etc among them.
Wadala : 12 devout Hindus joined the special prayers held at Muralidhar Temple in Sion. Two women devotees among them showed interest in attending ‘Dharmashikshan’ classes conducted by HJS. Shri. Narayan Dhupkar Guruji made the prayer on behalf of all participants. Devotees coming to temple for ‘darshan’ spontaneously joined the prayers on hearing the subject.
Special prayers were offered at Shri Sai Datta Mandir of Sanyuktanagar when representatives of Yoga Vedanta Samiti, Rashtra Pratham and Shiv Sena were present. Devout Hindus viz. Shri. Jitendra Hazare, Shri. Nilesh Khokani, Shri. Rahul Soni, Shri. Manoj Joshi, Shri. Ajit Aroskar, Shri. Hari Sawant, Shri. Narayan Sawant etc were present on the occasion. Shri. Devidas Virkar guruji offered the main prayers and showed interest even in making such special prayers on regular basis.
22 persons made special offers at ‘Gram-devata’ Shri Padmavati Mata Mandir, Ghatkopar.
Special prayers were offered at Mumbadevi Mandir at Mumbadevi, Masjid area while prayers were made by Shri. Deepak Dubey, a devout Hindu and Shri. Balwant Pathak of HJS. Shri. Hemant Jadhav, administrative officer of the temple extended lot of cooperation for holding prayers.
Special prayers offered at Sangli and Kolhapur !
Sangli / Kolhapur : Collective ‘Gudhi-pujan’, lecture and book exhibitions were held in Sangli ad Kolhapur districts on the occasion of ‘Gudhi Padva’ and special prayers were also made at various temples on the occasion of birthday celebrations of ‘Paratpar guru’ Dr. Athavale, the Founder of Sanatan Sanstha.
1. Collective ‘Gudhi-pujan’ was performed at Vita (Dist. Sangli) and special prayers were offered at Shriram Mandir in the presence of 25 devout Hindus.
2. Special prayers were offered at Bhairavnath Mandir of Pachgaon (Dist. Kolhapur) by 35 devout Hindus.
3. Special prayers were offered to Shri Hanumant at Herle (Dist. Kolhapur)
4. A lecture was held at Marali (Kolhapur) on the occasion of ‘Gudhi Padva’ which was attended by 150 devout Hindus. Exhibition of Sanatan’s books and ‘sattvika’ products received good response from people.
5. Devout Hindu women offered special prayers at Talangade (Dist. Kolhapur) in Hanuman Mandir.
