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Following is the pooja schedule: (Click here for the Program Brochure and Sponsorship Details)

For further details about above mentioned rituals, see below:

Ganapati Pooja: Sri Ganesha (Vighnaharta) is propitiated first in order to eliminate all obstacles and
ensure that the ceremonies that follow proceed smoothly.

Rama Parivara Samprokshana: Pooja of Rama Parivar including Ram, Sita, Lakshman, Bharat,
Shatrughan and Hanuman. The Temple and its surroundings will be sprinkled with holy water.

Alaya Pradakshina and Yagashala Pravesham: Devotees carrying the Pradhana Kumbhas, Parivara Kumbhas,
Padukas, Mangala Dravyas, Pooja materials will circumambulate the Temple along with the Acharyas. All
will then enter the Yagashala to initiate the rituals.

Punyahavachanam: This ritual is performed to purify the Yagashala before the Yagnya and Homa are
performed.

VastuShanti Homam/ Havan: Completion of this Homam will eliminate all the negative energy present.
MahaSankalpam: The devotees make a resolution to go through with all the rituals, as prescribed in the
shastras, that culminates in the Vigraha Prana Pratishta of Saibaba.

RakshaBandhanam: A sanctified thread is tied around the wrist of the devotees for their protection.
Mritttika Samgrahanam: The Acharyas will collect Earth (soil) from the North East corner of the site for
Ankurarpanam.

Ankurarpanam: The Archaryas will plant NavaDhanya in earthen pots. The germination of the Dhanya,
symbolizes the beginning, and prosperous growth of the Temple.

KalasaAdhivaasam: Pradhana Kumbhas are arranged in the Yagashala for use in further ceremonies.

JalaAdhivaasam: The murti (Bhoga murthi) of Sri Saibaba will be immersed in water.

Dwara Devata Pooja: This pooja exalts the Dwara Palakas (Attendants).

Pradhana Kumbha Sthapana: Lord Sainath Himself is invoked into the PradhanaKumbha, which will be
worshipped through the ceremonies.

MandalaAaradhana: Yagnya is performed in different Yagnakunda, each for a particular deity.
Shri MahaGanapati Homam: Lord Ganesha in his eight forms is worshipped.

Dattatreya, Shri Sainatha, Sri Rama Parivara Moola Mantra Havan: These Havans are performed
reciting the Moola Mantra of each deity.

Rudra Havan: Rudra is worshipped by chanting mantras from Rudram. This Homam confers protection
from evil spirits.

Tatwanyasa Homam (Havan): 24 tatwas to be offered to God through the Homam. These 24 Tatwas are
in nature are created by God in this universe.

ShreeraAdhivaasam: The murti (Bhoga murthi) of Sri Saibaba will be immersed in milk.

DhaanyaAdhivaasam: The murti (Bhoga murthi) of Sri Saibaba will be kept in a container full of grains.

PushpaAdhivaasam: The murti (Bhoga murthi) of Sri Saibaba will be covered with flowers.

Ratnanyasam: Nine precious stones (Nava Ratna) will be offered by devotees at the lotus feet of Sri
Saibaba.

Panchadhatu: Panchdhatu is a mixture of five metals: copper, gold, lead, silver and iron. These will be
offered by devotees at the lotus feet of Sri Saibaba.

Yantra Sthapana: Engraved with mantras, the Yantra will be positioned such that it is under the Saibaba
Murthi. The Idol of Saibaba will derive Divine powers from the Mantra on the Yantra.

Vigraha Prathista: Installation of Sri Saibaba’s Murthi on the pedestal.

PranaPrathistanga Homan (Havan): Competent Acharyas reciting mantras, bring the unmanisfest Nirguna
Bramhan to a manifest form, the idol of Sri Saibaba.

MahaPoornaAhuti: Offer everything to Agni, the Fire God.

NaadiSandhanaam: This ritual transfers the power from the Kalasaas to Baba’s Idol through a silver wire.

Netronmelanam: Opening of the eyes of the Sri Saibaba’s Idol. Baba, through this idol, will Grace all
Devotees from this moment on until eternity.

MahaAbhisekam and Alankaram: Bathing of Baba’s Idol and decoration.

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LIST AS OF 6/24/2010..

	Diamond pooja sponsors : $1001 Bhagavatula, Usha & Srinivas Desai, Vinutha & VJ, Rani Gadiraju, Ram & Smitha Gogireddy, Jaya & Papireddy Juneja, Rashmi & Girish Mathur, Sanjeev & Ritu Mukka, Jagadish & Vaishali Patel, Dahyabhai & Jassiben Patel, Manilal & Shardaben Patel, Taru & Pravin Ravi, Dhanyasree & Vamsidhar Reddy, Usha & Kiran Kumar Spice Of India & Ponnuru Family Santhana Krishnan & Priya Talla, Vidyulatha & Jayapal Voruganti, Saritha & Srini Gold Pooja Sponsor: $501 Late Shri G G Bhai Patel Bhargava, Alka & Suresh Bhat, Padma & Shridhar Bhatnagar, Anjana & Yateendra Bolla, Srinivas & Ramadevi Garigipati, Manjula & Gopi Gundepudi, Vani & Venkata Sasidhar Mahesh, Mahi & Dhanushree Maraboyina, Sreedhar & Bhavana Meesa, Rekha & Sudheer Mukundan, Lakshmi Pananghat, Meghna & Bijoy Patel, Prabhudas, Dahiben, Mukesh & Seema Patel, Rajubhai Patel Ranabothu, Sunitha & Prabhakar Shah, Lisa & Jiten Subramanian, Jeeva & Surya Sundaram, Suganthi & Sridhar Vuyyuru, Krishnaveni & Srinivas Patel, Rajani K & Pallavi Patel, Bhavesh & Dipti Vanteru, Thirumal & Rajitha Reddy Ramamurthy, Srinivassan & Jeyapraba S Temple Second Anniversary Sponsor: $ 251 Armugam, Ganesh Chandra, Smita & Amith Janardan, Mythri & Vas Kanvinde, Richa & Atul Puri, Sarla & Suresh Rajagopalan, Maya & Murali Reddy, Siva Prasad & Shoba Sharma, Shashikant & Padmaja Stella, Teresa & Fred Patel, Dhulabhai & Manjuben Vedanarayanan, Sunitha & Ramakrishnan Silver Pooja Sponsors: $151 Dogra, Munish & Hema Agarwal, Malti & Ram Arora, Gautam & Renu Arumilli , Sunil & Varija Baveda, Kalpana & Raju Bommaiahasamy, Perumal & Padmasini Challa, Satish & Ch&ana Chandra, Beena & Arun Chhabra, Ajay & Amish Chiravarapu, Satya & Hema Deshpande, Swathi & Sanjay Gamidi, Arun Gangisetti, Raghaveender & Gayatri Gangisetti, Suma & Sampath Gupta, Girish & Anamika Gupta Gurka, Srinivas Reddy Kancharla, Pradeep Kasiviswanathan, Aneetha Rajagopal & Ram Katragadda, Murali Krishna Kokkula Koumudhi & Venu Gopal Madireddy, Ram Reddy, Aruna, Ratnakar, Rajinikar, Radhika Marwah, Swapan & Rajesh Mendemu, Kiranmai Menon, Sailakshmi & Vinod Mishra, Mithilesh & Jitendra Motupalli, Saritha & Balakrishnan Narambhatla, Bhagya Lakshmi & Shashidhar Nashi, Ratna & Melappa Pamera, Venu Madhava Rao Purvi, Raval & Uday Radadia, S&eep & Jagu RaghavaRaju, Mahesh & Reena Saxena, Mona & Dilip Kumar Sripurapu, Sobha Vara Prasad, Vasantha Kumar, Bobby Srividya Singh, Usha Sivakadacham, Thiyagarajan & Nithyadevi Thamman, Sanjeev & Bindu Tickoo, Anita & Praduman Vaidya, Geeta & Pavan Vanama, Satyanarayana & Kalyani Veerouthu, Rajasekhar & Shilpa Verma, Manish & Abha Yarra, Krishna Prasad Sripurapu, Sobha Varaprasad, Vasantha Kumar, Bobby Sri Vidya Gorthi, Panibhushana & Praveena Halappa, Rischith & Lingadahalli Jariwala, Vijay & Jinal Singh, Balkar & Preetam Kaur Modi, Dhaval & Krutika Venky Sundareshan & Meera K Satya Priya Nagaraju & Bhaskaran Hadimani, Narendranath & Jyothi Balaji Kumar & Yamuna Patel, Bhogiben & Lilaben Mydur, Pradeep & Archana

No.	Program	Choreographer	Participants	Description	Album

1	Ganayakaya	Priya Bhaskaran	Bharathi RaviKumar Senthuri Vasanthan Mithra Bijoy Parvata Keerthivasan Maya Rodhes Oviya Maheshwaran	This dance is a salutation to Lord Ganesha, One of the best known and most widely worshiped God in our religion. Lord Ganesha is assosiated with auspicious beginnings and good fortune. He is considered as a remover of obstacles, patron of arts and science and the Deva of intellect and wisdom. The single-tusked one, Lord with arched trunk, O son of Parvathi - we bow to thee.	Album:Vishwa Vinayaka
2	Ram Bhajan	Smita Chandra	Akansha Das Nishka Majumdar Priya Meesa Megha Pandhare Tanya Juneja	A Bhajan describing the aura of Lord Sri Ram.
3	Kuravanji	Iswarya Arun	Saranya Sundaram	Kuravanji is a popular dance drama placed among the minor literacy genres in Tamil. The main theme in a Kuravanji is the love and affection the artist expresses towards the deity of the temple or the local ruler. During the performance, she praises the local deity and glorifies the land. Here the lord being praised is Karthikeya and one of the abode he resides in which is Palani.
4	Krishna Madhurashtakam	Smita Chandra	Pooja Agrawal Ambika Agrawal Shivam Agrawal	An original score written by Sri Vallabhacharya.	Beautifully rendedred by Pandit Jasraj
5	Ganesha Pancharatnam	Priya Krishnan	Janvi Mukka Tanishka Shenoy Simran Tickoo Naomi Mukka Shreya Viswanathan Teja Ravi Tanvi Ravi Shansa Viswanathan Vaishnavi Krishnan	It is a famous sloka addressing Lord Ganesha; who is the destroyer of obstacles.
6	Video on Sai Baba	Jayapal Talla
7	Krishna Kaivaram	Bhavana Sridhar	Ria Ramakutty Reena Mathews Tina Bastin Pearl Kurian Rachel Thomas	Kaivaram are songs in Praise of God. The Artiste describes the dance of 'Lord Krishna'.
8	Bhagawati Devi Stuti	Smita Chandra	Palavi Vaidya Khyatee Desai	An offering to Sri Durga ji.	By Rajan Sajan Mishra
9	Dasavatharam	Bhavana Sridhar	Ria Parocaran Reshma Mathews Reena Bastin Pooja Ramakutty Ria Ramakutty Reena Mathews Tina Bastin Pearl Kurian Rachel Thomas	Dasavatharam are the ten incarnations of 'Lord Vishnu'. This is a rare composition comprising ten different tala. In this dance the artiste exhibits ten avatars of lord Vishnu.
10	Mangalam	Iswarya Arun	Deepika Suresh kumar	Mangalam, is an auspicious conclusion of most of the Indian dances	Composed By:Ravi Shankar