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1 JSNE Newsletter: September 2015 – www.jsne.org

Jain Sangh of New England 223 Middlesex Turnpike, Burlington, MA 01803

www.JSNE.org 781-221-7864

President Rinesh Palkhiwala - 978-256-1620

Vice President

Ushir Shah - 603-880-6222

Secretary

Dipak Kamdar - 603-888-5607

Treasurer Sanjay Shah - 781-354-9148

Building Operations Ajay Vora - 508-543-0626

Pathshala Director Hemant Shah -781-784-7098

Directors

Pushpa Shah - 781-270-9237

Vijay V Shah - 412-320-1426

Miral Shah - 978-501-7508

Jayesh Kamdar - 603-881-8090

Gaurav Shah - 781-492-3083

Samkit Shah - 315-350-9452

Jagruti Mehta - 781-376-0176

Sandeep Bothra – 508-493-4311

Riddhi Palkhiwala – 978-614-5054

[Youth Representative]

Board Of Trustees Vijay Shah -- 781-245-0051 Anil Shah -- 781-272-3666

Bipin Parikh -- 781-334-3580 Vijay Lathia -- 978-808-2510

Jasvant Shah -- 781-272-5344

JSNE - Upcoming Events

September 10 –September 17 : Paryusan Parv with

Shri Hiteshbhai Shah of Baroda.

September 12, Saturday: Shri Saraswati Devi

Poojan with Hiteshbhai [with individual small

yantra]

September 13, Sunday: Swapna Darshan & Mahavir

Janma Vanchan

September 17, Thursday: Barsa Sutra Vanchan &

Samvatsari Pratikraman

September 18, Friday: Shree Sangh Samuh Parana

September 19, Saturday: Sattar [17] Bhedi Pooja and

Tapasvi Bahuman [ Shri BhadraBahuji]

October 19 to October 27: Ayambil Oli

November 11, Wednesday: Diwali - Aarti & Mangal Divo

and Diwali Night Jaap

November 12, Thursday: New Year Gabharo Opening &

Sangh Greetings

Other regular rituals:

Daily “Ashta Prakari Pooja” performed by volunteers in

rotation

Daily Aarti and Mangal Divo: Aarti – Mangal Divo is performed

every day in the evening at JSNE temple by different volunteers.

If you wish to participate, please inform the assigned

volunteer(s) and confirm the time. Visit

http://jsne.org/aartidivoschedule.aspx to check current list of

volunteers.

Adult Swadhyay on every Thursday evenings. Samuh Samayik

on every third Sunday.

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Recent activities at JSNE

4th Pratishtha anniversary program: Sangh members celebrated 4th anniversary of pratishtha with great enthusiasm

and “Bhav” with Shri Nayanbhai Sanghvi of Surat. We had 18 Abhishek and Shri Bruhad Shanti Poojan performed

during the week end of April 18th & 19th. Music by Kalpesh Shah & Kanubhai from Washington DC helped increase our

“bhakti bhav”.

July 30, 2015 | Chaumasi Chaudas & Pakkhi Pratikraman: About 20 Sangh members performed 8 Prakari Pooja,

“Ekasana”, & traditional “Dev Vandan”. 20+ ladies and six men [separately] performed Chaumasi Pratikraman on the

Chaumasi Chaudas on July 30, 2015.

Detailed schedule of activities during Paryushan Parva 2015

Date Time Event

09/10 & 09/11 Thursday & Friday Shravan Vad Baras & Teras Paryushana Day 1 & 2

9:30AM -11:00AM Ashtprakari Pooja – Prakshal starts at 9:30 AM sharp

11:00AM - 12:00PM Lecture

12:00PM – 1:00PM

Ekasana - Please RSVP – Regular lunch will not be served on this days

6:30PM – 8:00PM Evening pratikraman

8:00PM - 9:00PM Lecture and/or Bhavna followed by Aarti Mangaldivo

09/12/2015 Saturday Shravan Vad Chaudas Day-3

9:00AM -10:00AM Ashtprakari Pooja and– Prakshal starts at 9:00 AM sharp

10:00AM – 12:30PM Shri Saraswati Devi Poojan with Hiteshbhai [with individual small yantra]

12:30PM- 1:30PM Lunch & Ekasana - Please RSVP

5:45PM - 8:00PM Evening Pakkhi Pratikraman


09/13/2015 Sunday [Day-4]

Swapna Darshan and Janma Vanchan

9:00AM -11:30AM Ashtprakari Pooja – Prakshal starts at 9 AM sharp

11:30AM - 1:30PM Lunch and Ekasana. - Please RSVP *Last dish will be served at 1:00PM*

1:30PM - 5:30PM Boli, Swpna Darshan, Janma Vanchan

5:30PM - 6:30PM Light snacks will be served after the Swapna Darshan (To avoid Ratri Bhojan, No food will be served/allowed to eat after the sunset)

6:45PM - 7:15PM Aarti – Mangaldivo

7:30PM - 8:30PM Evening Pratikraman

8:30PM -9:30PM Bhavana (If the family with Parna boli wants to hold Ratri Jago at home, we will have Bhavana at their home)

09/14/2015 Monday [Day-5]

Bhadarva Sud Ekam Besto Mahino

9:00AM - 11:30AM Ashtprakari Pooja & Snatra Pooja– Prakshal starts at 9:00 AM sharp


12:30PM - 1:30PM Ekasana - Please RSVP – Regular lunch will not be served on this day

6:30PM - 8:00PM Evening Pratikraman

8:00PM - 9:00PM Lecture and/or Bhavana followed by Aarti Mangaldivo



Date Time Event 09/15/2015 Tuesday [Day 6] & 09/16/2015 Wednesday [Day-7]

9:30AM - 11:00AM Ashtprakari Pooja – Prakshal starts at 9:30 AM sharp


12:00PM - 1:00PM Ekasana - Please RSVP – Regular lunch will not be served on this day

6:30PM - 8:00PM Evening pratikraman


09/17/2015 Thursday

Samvatsari Maha Parva

9:00AM -10:30AM Ashtprakari Pooja – Prakshal starts at 9:00 AM sharp

10:30AM - 12:30PM Barsa Sutra Vanchan & Dhaliya

12:30PM – 1:30PM Only Ekasana – regular lunch will not be served on this day

4:15 PM Samvatsari Pratikraman, Start with sutra boli (Separate boli for Men’s and Women’s pratikraman)

7:30 PM Aarti - Mangaldivo

09/18/2015 Friday *Parna*

7:00 AM Samuh Darshan and Chaityavandan

7:45 AM Parna

Upcoming Events after Paryushan:

Saturday, September 19: o Sattar [17] Bhedi Pooja and Tapasvi Bahuman at 9:00AM, followed by Lunch

Sunday, October 25: o Samuh Aayambil at Derasar – 12:00 Noon

Diwali and New Year Celebration:

Wednesday, November 11th: o Aarti – Mangaldivo and Diwali Ratri Jaap at 8 PM

Thursday, November 12th:

o New year – 7:00AM – Derasar Dwar opening and Sangh greeting with snacks

Please follow all parking guidelines provided below during Paryushana Events: Please Do NOT Park on our neighbor BD Carpet building parking lots in the Front, Side and Back of the building as marked in RED in the map. They will tow your vehicle. We may use JSNE back parking lot for Tents for Food service, so DO NOT Park in the back of the Derasar.

For more detail please visit JSNE website: http://jsne.org/parking-guidelines/


http://jsne.org/parking-guidelines/


How Can You Take “Labh”

NEW: We are excited to announce that now; you can easily pay for your pledges / make donations electronically through our website.

Swamivatsalya / Prabhavana Sponsorship:

Ekasana at the Derasar for all eight days, nakro to sponsor ekasana on Paryushan days is $351 per

day. -- please RSVP for daily Ekasana

Saturday, September 12: Shri Saraswati Devi Poojan - Swamivatsalya for 200 people = $2001 [Two or

three families can join hands together]

Sunday, September 13: Swapna Darshan & Mahavir Janma Vanchan –Swamivatsalya for Approx.

250 people = $2501 ----- In Loving Memory of Arvindbhai Pancholi, Nilaben Pancholi of Boxford,

MA and Ashmi Pancholi of Milford, CT will sponsor the Swamivatsalya.

Saturday, September 19: Lunch for 150 people after Sattar Bhedi Pooja = $1501 [Two or three

families can join hands together]

Friday, September 18: Parana – volunteers to prepare one/two items for 25 – 30 people

Swapna Darshan Ceremony day Prabhavana “Ladoo”: The sponsorship for this is $451. EC will

take care of order/delivery of this. --- Will be sponsored by Dhruti & Suresh Aashra and Ushma &

Chirayu Mehta.

Samvatsari Pratikraman day Prabhavana “Shrifal”: The sponsorship for this is $401. Approx 110

men and 110 women take part for Samvatsari Pratikraman. EC will take care of order/delivery of

this. --- Will be sponsored by Ajay & Minita Vora and Dr. Bipinbhai Parikh.

Annual Derasar Maintenance Fund:

As all of you are already aware, and many of you committed to for many years towards JSNE sustaining

member donation of $350 on an annual basis which has been a big help in taking care of our expenses

related to maintenance of our Derasar e.g. electricity bill, heating bill, Derasar cleaning, snow removal, any &

all repairs etc. Since we have our different memberships well defined now, per EC; we are going to rename

this fund to "Annual Derasar Maintenance Fund" with the same amount of $350/- per year. The name better

fits the purpose of this fund.

We hope the members who were contributing $350 on an annual basis towards sustaining a/c will continue to

contribute towards the newly named fund. We also would like to encourage more and more members to join

the "Annual Derasar Maintenance Fund".

This is less than one dollar a day commitment for your derasar. You can pay $350 at once or sign up for

automatic monthly installment of $30/month; on our website. JSNE volunteers will personally contact you

during Paryusan Parv for your commitment. Please make a commitment to keep up and maintain the

derasar in the best condition.

Please contact any EC member if you would like to sponsor any of the above events or



volunteer your services

JSNE Pathshala:

Jai Jinendra and Pranam. Hope you all had a great summer and are ready with renewed energy and enthusiasm to learn and practice Jainism at Pathshala.

JSNE Pathshala is now 11 years old and entering in the 12th year. Congratulations and special thanks to all Pathshala students/families, teachers, and JSNE Executive Committee for this spiritual journey. During the past year; we once again successfully accomplished many tasks on hand while we continued to add new dimensions to make Pathshala a better place for students, parents and teachers. Most importantly, support from the parents, community, hard work of staff and the spirit of our students made this happen.

Pathshala activities – In addition to learning Jain Philosophy, rituals, sutras and stutis, Pathshala students

enthusiastically participated in the following activities this past year –

Jain Art Workshop – A beautiful learning event took place at JSNE. Art workshops for kids (and parents) were organized on May 3rd and June 7th. The event was open to entire JSNE community and both Adults and children were invited to participate. More than 40 students/adults participated enthusiastically in making various kinds of arts, some of which will be displayed at the temple.

There were three main arts/crafts activities this time. (1) Making Torans for windows in the Rang Mandap, (2) Making Gahulis and Sathiyos of different shapes, and (3) Making a collective mosaic art piece.

This event was led by our Pathshala teacher Nimisha Asthagiri and the JSNE Art Workshop Committee, including the following workshop leaders: Anuja Shah, Aruna Masi, Dhvani Doshi, Pauravi Teabo, Shilpi Bothra, Surbhi Pokharna and Yesha Mehta. We take this opportunity to acknowledge and recognize the efforts of all our Pathshala students, parents and volunteers.

Please contact us if you are interested in organizing, leading, or helping with another such event in the future.

Test - On June 14th pathshala, students took written and oral exams on what they learned during the year. Graduation Ceremony – The seven graduating students-‘Esha Shah ’, ‘Elisha Shah’, ‘Ria Savla’ ‘Vishruti Shah’,

“Stuti Shah’ ‘Krutak Shah’ and ‘Divyansh Shah’ were recognized and honored with a Certificate. They briefly shared their reflections on Pathshala – why it is important to attend pathshala, what they learned at pathshala over the years which will last forever with them. We wish them all the best.

End-of-year outing – On the last day of Pathshala on June 14th, students, along with parents/teachers, went to

the Lazercraze place in Woburn, MA. 50+ students and parents/teachers gathered to have fun and everyone had a good time.

On-line Registration – Pathshala registration form is available under Pathshala section. One form per family is

required.



Volunteer activities for High School students - Pathshala staff is working on finalizing a proposal that would officially recognize the volunteer hours spent by Pathshla High School students for the JSNE temple activities. Stay tuned – more details to come.

Pathshala Statistics for year 2014-2015 – Following are some statistics from the last year –

Total Number of Registered students – 105

Total Number of families directly engaged in Pathshala – 65+

Pathshala Food and Class Sponsors – Thanks to all the sponsors, who had signed up to bring snacks for pathshala and donated generously to sponsor pathshala classes. We really appreciate your support and count on your continued enthusiasm during the upcoming year, as this is what really keeps all of us growing strong every year. Please visit the pathshala web page for the list of Food and Class Sponsors. The suggested donation amt to sponsor a pathshala session is –

One class (Rookies to Swadhyay) is $ 51 One Pathshala Session (all classes) is $ 251

Upcoming Pathshala Activities –

1st session - The first Pathshala session is on September 20th 2015. We welcome all the returning and new students and thank them to be part of this very important part of the JSNE. Please fill out on-line Registration Form. One per family ASAP. This is an important required form for Pathshala. Registration form is available under Pathshala section in JSNE web page.

Pathshala time/hours – Based on last year’s positive feedback, we plan to have a total of 12 sessions again this year. The time is from 1:30 to 3:45 pm. Please see ‘Pathshala schedule’ below for this year’s Pathshala session dates.

Minimum age requirement to attend Pathshala - The student shall be 4 years old and/or in Pre-K to attend

Pathshala as of September 2015.

Paryushana – This year, Parva begins on Thursday, September 10 and ends on September 17. The Parva Point sheet is available on JSNE web page under Pathshala section. Student/parent is requested to take the print out of this sheet before the Parushana starts and log all the activities daily Please fill out one sheet per student and bring the completed sheet on the 1st pathshala day –September 20th at temple.

Saraswati poojan – During the Paryushan Parva, there will be auspicious Saraswati Poojan by guest vidhikar Shri

Hiteshbhai. The expectation is that kids will join this pooja and perform pooja with the pooja samagri (Fruit, Akshat, Naivedya, etc.) they have brought.

Award Ceremony – During the October 4th 2015 pathshala, students will be recognized and awarded for the

Parva activity and for a job well done for 2014-2015. This will be based on the year-end award points students accumulate from attendance, homework, and test results.



Pathshala Schedule – Following is the schedule for the upcoming year 2015-2016.

September 20, 2015 November 08, 2015 January 31, 2016 April 10, 2016

October 04, 2015 December 13, 2015 March 6, 2016 May 15, 2016

October 18, 2015 January 10, 2016 March 20, 2016 June 12, 2016

Pathshala Level and Teachers: - Pathshala level and teachers for each level are as follows:

Level School Grade Teacher

Rookies Pre-K and KG Arpita Gosalia, Jainy Shah

Level 1 1 and 2 Nimisha Asthagiri, Neelam Maru

Level 2 3 and 4 Dhruti Ashara, Mitul Dalal

Level 3 5 and 6 Amit Shah, Himanshu Palkhiwala

Level 4 7 and 8 Haresh Mehta, Hemant Shah

Level 5 9, 10, 11 and 12 Ajay Vora

Swathyay Adults Pulkit Shah

Please visit the website http://jsne.org/pathshala/ for more information, like the Registration form, Paryushana Point

Sheet, Curriculum, homework, Food and Class sponsors, Attendance/Home Work and Food Policy, past event pictures

and other resources. The Pathshala web page is updated continuously with the most recent updates and forthcoming

events.


http://jsne.org/pathshala/


To:

Jay Jinendra

Directions to JSNE Derasar

From Rt. 3 North / South Take exit 26 for Rt.62 Burlington. Take Rt. 62 towards Burlington, go about a mile. Right on Middlesex Turnpike. Within 1/4th of a mile, Derasar on your left From Rt 93 / Coming from Boston, Andover, NH, etc.)Take Rt. 95 South, Exit 36-B Follow directions from Rt. 95 South below From 95 North / Rt. 128 North Take exit 32B for Middlesex Turnpike toward Burlington. Stay on Middlesex Turnpike. Derasar is on your right, next to B & D carpet From 95 South / Rt. 128 South / Coming from Waltham / R.I. Side Take exit 32B for Middlesex Turnpike toward Burlington/Arlington Turn right at Middlesex Turnpike Stay on Middlesex Turnpike. Derasar is on your right, next to B & D carpet


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