Digamber Jains London

Jai Jinendra!
Das Laxan Maha Parva 2017

Saturday 26th August till Tuesday 5th September

As we approach Das Laxan Parva, we are presented once again with an excellent opportunity to make significant in-roads in embarking and furthering our individual spiritual journeys, journeys that we are all privileged in even being able to make in the first place, journeys that we may not have the opportunity to make again for a long time. So come and join the celebrations !
This year, unfortunately, our visiting lecturer’s visa application has been rejected. However, we will have the benefit of our resident Shastri – Saurabhji Jain, who accepted our request to step in immediately, despite having work commitments.
Weekdays 

08.00 – 08.15: Jinendra Prakshalan 

08.15 – 09.30: Das Laxan Puja 

09.30 – 10.30: Saurabhji’s Swadhyay

10.30 – 11.30: Pujya Gurudev’s CD Pravachan
18.45 – 19.15: Jinendra Bhakti 

19.15 – 20.15: Pratikraman 

20.15 – 20.30: Jinendra Aarti 

20.30 – 21.30: Saurabhji’s Swadhyay 
Weekends & Bank holiday

08.30 – 09.45: Jinendra Prakshalan & Puja

09.45 – 10.45: Saurabhji’s Swadhyay

10.45 – 11.45: Pujya Gurudev’s CD Pravachan

18.45 – 19.15: Jinendra Bhakti

19.15 – 20.15: Pratikraman

20.15 – 20.30: Jinendra Aarti 

20.30 – 21.30: Saurabhji’s Swadhyay
There will be some slight changes to the above programme to accommodate the following:

 

Sunday 27th Aug : Children’s sanskrutik programme at 10.45am & sanskrutik programme at 9.15pm

Friday 1st Sept : Sanskrutik programme at 9.15pm

Saturday 2nd Sept : Sanskrutik programme at 9.15pm

Sunday 3rd Sept: Sanskrutik programme at 9.15pm
We have tried to adjust the timings so that maximum number of people can take part in all the programmes. Please bear with us if there is a delay of a few minutes here or there in any of the above timings

Kshamavani Parva will be on 7th September. We will ask for kshama in front of Dev Shastra Guru at 10.30am. 

Swami Vatsalya Bhojan

Sunday 17th September 2017

12.30 – 14.30: Swami Vatsalya Bhojan at Masefield Suite, Harrow Leisure Centre, Christchurch Ave, HA3 5BD

To enable an accurate list for catering purposes, please give your names if you will be attending to Nileshbhai, our pujari, by Sunday 10th September at the latest.There will be a charge of £10 to all over 8 years old. There is free parking for 3 hours at the leisure centre, however, A VALID TICKET MUST BE DISPLAYED.

Finally, we have the following fund raising schemes also in place. Kindly take part in dharma daan by way of:

1) Mangal Kalash to be installed on Day 1 on Mandlo – Center @ £75 and rest 4 sides @ £51 each.  

2) Arti for each day of Das Laxan – boli starting at £25

3) Das Laxan Puja – 11 days @ £55and 1 day @ £11 

4) Das Laxan fund
5) SV Bhojan fund

SHREE DIGAMBER JAIN ASSOCIATION www.mahavirjaintemple.com

Jai Jinendra!  
Many thanks to all of you for having responded to the adult Pathshala survey. Based on the data, and on suitable teacher availability, we have decided to hold the Pathshala every Wednesday only. The classes will be conducted in English language, and will start from Wednesday 13th September. They will run from 8:15pm to 9:30pm every week at the Mandir.
We encourage anyone looking to join the classes to attend in person, since it will make a vast difference to the learning experience. However, if anyone really cannot make it to the Mandir, we plan to broadcast the classes on YouTube Live. The broadcasts will be recorded too, so that they can be watched back at leisure in case you miss a class.
If you have not already been in touch regarding the Pathshala, but are interested to join (either in person or remotely), please can you send an email to sdjapathshala@gmail.com ASAP.         

Regards & Jai Jinendra!
EC
Please visit atmadharma.com & vitragvani.com for all your Jain needs!

Jj

Children’s English Pathshala

We have a fantastic children’s Pathshala at the Mandir that runs every Sunday morning. We currently run 3 classes, for children aged 4 onward.

Adult English Pathshala

From Wednesday September 13th, we will be running an adult Pathshala at the Mandir, that is open to all ages (even those that are not quite “adults”). We will be teaching the principles of Jainism from a foundation level in a very interactive manner. The classes will be broadcast live on You Tube, and will also be recorded so that you never have to miss a lesson.

We already have over 60 people interested in joining the classes, either in person or remotely, so don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity that may not come around again.

Contact

In case you are interested in either Pathshala, please contact sdjapathshala@gmail.com.

 
Jai Jinendra!

Kartik – Ashtanika Parva Celebration
Monday 7th – Monday 14th November, 2016

Nutan Varash na Abhinandan!

We hope you all enjoyed a spiritual and uplifting Diwali. We enjoyed seeing large numbers attend the Diwali programme at the Mandir over the weekend whilst we celebrated the Nirvan Ladoo ceremony for the first time along with Maha Abhishekh, children’s skit and a lively debate on Kram-Bandh-Paryay vs Purusharth.
Next Monday is the start of the Nandishvar Ashtanika Parva that takes place over 8 days.

The Ashtanika Parvas are celebrated three time a year from the eighth day of the second fortnight of Kartik, Fagun and Ashad months where Dev travel to Nandishwar Dhweep.

The Jain community generally celebrates this great festival with profound religious fervour. In many centres the religious ritual of Siddhachakra Vidhan is arranged and external scholars would deliver lectures on subjects of life and soul.
At the present time we cannot travel to Nandishwar Dhweep but we are still able to celebrate it’s importance and relevance with the same spirituality.

Saurabhji will have daily lectures for these 8 days from Monday November 7th – Monday November 14th from 8 to 9 pm everyday; he will lecture on aspects of ‘Moksh Marg Prakashak’.

We sincerely hope as many of you that can will take advantage of this and mark a very appropriate start to your spiritual new year!
Jai Jinendra!
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Jai Jinendra!
This Sunday 9th October, in place of Shitalbhais lecture, for one week only we will be having an English class conducted by Anubhav Jain, a young shastri who visited us back in 2012.
In this class, aimed at youngsters 8 years and above, Anubhav will be exploring the festival of Diwali, and the relevance of the principles of Jainism as preached by Mahavir in our day to day life.
Although the target audience is the younger generation, all are welcome to attend this class.
Jai Jinendra!