Mandala Pooja and Sri Dattaterya Vigraha Prathistapna

The North America Shirdi Sai Temple of Atlanta cordially invites you and your loved ones to participate in Mandala Pooja and Sri Dattatreya Vigraha Prana Prathistapana consecration ceremony from Saturday, April 25th 2009 to Sunday, April 26th 2009. Please avail this once in a life time opportunity to witness the auspicious event with your loved ones.

Vigraha Prathistapana - President's Message

It gives me immense pleasure to announce that the Vigraha Pratistapana Mahakumbabhishekam was a huge success. During the seven day event, thousands of devotees from all over metro Atlanta and many devotees from many southern states thronged the temple in spite of incessant rains and cold weather. On Saturday, over four thousand devotees participated in Shikara Yantra Stapana and Sainatha Yantra Stapana. Sunday, devotees gathered at the temple as early as 4:30am so that they can partake in the festivities at the crack of dawn. They waited patiently for hours together in long lines so they can have a glimpse of Baba. I want to thank you for your cooperation and moving quickly in the lines so others behind got an opportunity to have Baba darshan even though it meant you did not get to fully participate in the Aarthi. For those of you who could not make it to the event, please click on News section at http://www.atlantasaitemple.org/nassta-news.html.

I want to thank the executive committee, committee coordinators and members for working together to make this event such a huge success. I want to thank priest Sri Suresh and priest Sri Ravi for their hard work and dedication evident throughout this event. I want to thank priest Sri Gopal Bhattar of Hindu Temple of Atlanta for architecting and leading and visiting priests for conducting the religious ceremonies.

I want to express my sincere gratitude to hundreds of volunteers for their hard work especially in the areas of pooja services, food arrangements, offsite parking, ground facilities, fundraising and queue maintenance to name a few. I was repeatedly congratulated by the devotees for volunteers’ professionalism, courtesy and thoughtfulness. I want to congratulate each and every member of the volunteer community for such an outstanding job.

While we tried our best to honor everyone’s needs and wishes, I request your forgiveness for any mistakes that might have been committed, knowingly or unknowingly.

I want to acknowledge, while the opening was a major milestone for the temple, there is lot of work still to be done. Following are few that I can name:

• Bring to closure last few outstanding construction items
• Create and follow a robust operational plan, sound fiscal plan and organizational discipline to support the much larger institution
• Raise funds to payoff mortgage balance as soon as possible and make the temple a financially self sustaining entity
• Plan and arrange/construct better living quarters for our priests
• Make temple, not only a place of worship, but also a vehicle for community service and institute for spiritual education

Finally, I want to thank you all once again for your support over the years for the temple.

May Sai’s blessings be with us all.