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veD of veDik LIFESTYLE:.....LIVE AND LET LIVE....IN THE WORLD OF "ONE CREATOR"...... Posted by Vishva News Reporter on August 20, 2004 |
CHICAGO USA veDik mNDir
(TEMPLE)
BUILT WORTH US$ 15 MILLION TO
veDik ARCHITECTURE & ENGINEERING
A WORLD CLASS WONDER
FROM
HINDUISM TODAY: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, August
9, 2004:
The following two summaries are from the Chicago Sun Times and the Chicago
Tribune, the city's leading papers, on the same event, the dedication of the
new Hindu temple:
Hindus in Chicago have a good reason to rejoice.
A US$15 million dollar temple now graces the area, and
Readers Digest has called the edifice a world-class
wonder.
Affiliated with the Swaminaryan BAPS sect, 82 year-old Sadhu Vishwamurtidas
says, "The temple is even more beautiful than I could have imagined. That
which we have not achieved in past thousands of [spiritual] births we have
achieved in this very birth."
The article elaborates, " Situated on 38 acres amid animal topiary and
splashing fountains, the ornately carved two-story temple is Bulgarian
limestone on the outside and Italian marble on the inside.
It is topped by 16 domes and has 151 pillars, five pinnacles and four
balconies. The 12,000-ton structure was assembled from 40,000 pieces of stone,
carved in India and shipped here in 400 containers."
Local politicians attending the opening of the
temple expressed their appreciation to the Indian community for their
contributions professionally and economically.
Please continue reading the second story about this amazing efforts of
volunteers who are performing their veDik DHARm in trying to live and contribute
the universality of veDik lifestyle in the well-being of themselves and United
States of America ......
| For thousands of Hindus in the United States, a temple in Bartlett was
transformed through age-old rituals into holy ground Sunday morning.
"Before the ceremonies, it was just a structure, an architectural beauty,"
BAPS Shree Swaminarayan devotee Uttam Dubal said of the building, part of a
$15 million, 27-acre BAPS complex in Illinois. "Now the spirit of God has been
invoked, and it becomes a mandir," or "temple," in Sanskrit.
The elaborately carved limestone building was consecrated during
traditional inauguration ceremonies led by His Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj,
the sect's spiritual leader. Swami traveled to the U.S. to inaugurate the
recently completed BAPS temples in Houston and Bartlett, said Sheetal Shah, a
BAPS media volunteer.
During the consecration, Swami Maharaj invoked the spirit of God into
richly costumed images of Radha-Krishna and other Hindu Deities as thousands
watched via a video feed in a large tent on the grounds.
The Bartlett and Houston buildings are the only BAPS
temples in the U.S. to be built from scratch according to guidelines of Vedic
scriptures, said BAPS media volunteer Harish Patel.
Rising nearly eight stories and boasting 16 gold-topped domes, the Bartlett
mandir covers more than 22,000 square feet and was assembled from more than
40,000 pieces of limestone and marble carved by artisans in India.
Under construction for 16 months and built by volunteer labor, it
represents more than 2.5 million hours of service on the part of 1,700 BAPS
devotees from the U.S. and abroad, according to estimates.
Dubal said the BAPS worship services attract 600 to 700 people from the
Chicago area on a regular basis.
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#2 Posted by anita on 10/9/2005 |
dear sir, Need to highlight you that there is person of yr gurajati nation in Chicago and is call by a name MR Kirti Metha who think of himself only and great about whether he is or not. He is greaterest cheater, liars and like to play with people lifesby raping them and leaving then on the road.This kind of person is not suitable for yr Gurajati Society. The reason for writing to you sir, because u are the right places to get help. Another thing can you help to get a legal advisor to file a case against this person. i thanks you in advance, pls spread around a word to gurajati society what kind of person Kirti is.
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#3 Posted by anita on 10/9/2005 |
dear sir, Need to highlight you that there is person of yr gurajati nation in Chicago and is call by a name MR Kirti Metha who think of himself only and great about whether he is or not. He is greaterest cheater, liars and like to play with people lifesby raping them and leaving then on the road.This kind of person is not suitable for yr Gurajati Society. The reason for writing to you sir, because u are the right places to get help. Another thing can you help to get a legal advisor to file a case against this person. i thanks you in advance, pls spread around a word to gurajati society what kind of person Kirti is.
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