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Bhagvad Gita

Bhagvad Gita Vishvaroop
Bhagvad Gita Vishvaroop

Who is the Supreme Person (God)?

Only the Bhagavad Gita answers this basic and most important question. The Bhagavad-Gita is the  word of God in person. The one of oldest scripture on the Planet.
One can read the non-vedic scriptures for millions of years but will never know who the person God is. Simply by looking at the Bhagavad-Gita for 1 second, one can immediately see God. This is the difference between the Vedic (eternal) and non-vedic (recently created) scriptures.
“There is no truth superior to me.” (Lord Krishna, Bg. 7.7)
“The whole cosmic order is under me. By my will it is manifested again and again, and by my will it is annihilated at the end” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-Gita 9.8)
“Furthermore, O Arjuna, I am the generating seed of all existences. There is no being, moving or unmoving, that can exist without me” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-Gita 10.39)
“I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who perfectly know this engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-Gita 10.8)
“Of all that is material and all that is spiritual in this world, know for certain that I am both the origin and the dissolution” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-Gita 7.6)
Knowing God means knowing his name, address, description, history, how he maintains and so on.

What is Religion?

The purpose of religion is to know and love God. You can only love someone if you know them. You cannot love an invisible or unknown person. Seeing is believing. Only the Vedic scriptures describe exactly who the person God is. The non-Vedic scriptures don’t have a clue as to who God is. Loving God includes loving all God’s creatures. This means loving all humans and animals. We don’t eat our brothers and sisters, the animals are also our brothers and sisters.

Does God want Blood?

The majority of people in the World. In this age of Kali, the age of ignorance. Seem to think that animal killing is prescribed by God.
This is not so for the real God, Lord Krishna. He only wants your love and not the blood of living beings.
“If one offers me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.”  (Lord Krishna, Bg. 9.26)

Your death is certain

Your grandfather has died, you will also die, and your children will also die. Death is certain, it’s only a matter of time. Still you are madly accumulating money and working very hard all day like a donkey. You do not care for the soul which is eternal, but you care for the body which is temporary. This is ignorance. In ignorance the soul becomes degraded and after this life. Such people take birth as dogs and hogs. There are 8.4 million different bodies that the soul keeps circulating in, one after the other. The fools will not think of the life after this one. They will simply mate, eat, sleep, and be merry. This is animal mentality. The animals also mate, sleep, eat and be merry. The only difference between the animals and the humans is that humans enquire;

Who am I?

Where have I come from?
What will happen to me at death?
Why do I suffer?
Why do others suffer?
Who is God?
How can I serve God?
Why is there variety of living beings?
How can I get out this cycle of birth, old age, disease, and death?
How can I live eternally?

Nagajan Modhwadia appears on Eastenders

Nagajan Modhawadia has appeared on recent episode of Eastenders (an UK drama series). This is the first time that a person from our Maher Community has featured on national television in the UK.

Nagajan’s fame came on Tuesday night’s (02-03-2010) Eastenders episode as a waiter in an Indian Restaurant.

Nagajan Modhwadia on Eastenders

He has had roles in Holby City, Home Time, Mobile, Green and See You at the Altar. Najan Ward and Aml Ameen will embark on their first film production The Pick Up in 2010.

Nagajan was born with the name Nagajan Chano Modhwadia in Leicester, England to a father who worked as a welder and a mother who worked as an over locker at a local textile firm; both of his parents are from India. He studied acting at Brooksby Melton College for 2 years when he reached the age of 25. Before acting Nagajan had started a record shop called In The Groove in his home town of Loughborough. The shop came to a close with the decline of 12” vinyl sales in March 2005. Upon closure Ward started a house label called Lost My Dog Records with 2 friends he met from the shop. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najan_Ward

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGH_NL6HNgo&feature=channel_page

 

Amba Mataji

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Amba Mataji

Ambaji Mataji

Ambaji

At a distance of 65 Kms from Palanpur and 45 Kms from Mt. Abu near Gujarat Rajasthan border the religious town of Ambaji is located. This town is famous for the Maa Ambaji temple, one of the richest and holiest temple in Gujarat attracting lakhs of pilgrims from Gujarat and neighbouring Rajasthan every year. The original seat of Ambaji Mata is on Gabbar Hilltop, which is 3 Kms away from Ambaji town. Ambaji Mata temple is one of the 51 shakti peeths where it is believed the heart of Goddess Parvati fell.

Ambaji Mata temple at Gabbar is very ancient, origin of which is lost in antiquity. It is believed that Goddess Amba was one of the deities of Pre-Aryan race, which Aryans absorbed in their pantheon. On the Gabbar Hill the footsteps of Goddess are imprinted. The imprint of Her chariot is also found here. It is believed that the tonsure ceremony of Lord Krishna also took place here. Ambaji temple has a golden yantra made jointly with the yantra of Nepal Shaktipeeth at Ujjain. There are 51 shlokas on the yantra.

Lakhs of devotees visit the temple every year especially on Purnima days culminating into a large mela on Bhadarvi Purnima. Goddess Ambaji Mata has been fulfilling wishes of her devotees for thousands of years.

There are three major sites to be visited on Gabbar Hill. One is the Holy New Temple of Mata Ambaji, where there are some Foot prints incurved on the rock. The other one is Holy Tree of Pipal, under which Lord Krishna’s hairs were removed as a ritual in his childhood. And the third one is Cave of Ambaji, where devotees can hear voice of the swinging of Mataji. Shri Arasuri Ambaji Mata Devasthan Trust has also planned to resurface the surrounding rocks at the Gabbar temple and to enlarge the Gabbar Chowk, with marble floorings. It is also decided to repair all the foot steps on the way to Gabbar and to construct a broad Sun Set Point on the top of Gabbar Hill. The Temple trust has also proposed to design a big parking plot, restaurant, canteen and shopping complex at the bottom of the Gabbar Hill Chotila dedicated to Goddess Chamunda is built on a hill called chotila at a height of 1,173 feet. The temple is crowded with tourists and pilgrims all round the year specially during the Navratri Festival. The Chotila village is sited at the foot of the Chotila hill.At the end of the navaratri festival a big havan is taken place on top of the chotila hill. Chotila has more than 700 steps. At the bottom when you come down from chotila hill there are many shops were you can by many religious items such as matajis chundari,kunko(religious powder), cassetts and lots more.thestory is when Demons Chand and Mund came to conquer Devi Mahakali and in the fight that ensues, the Devi cut their heads and presented these to Maa Ambika, who in turn told Mahakali that you will be worshipped as Chamunda Devi.

Other Maher Websites

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Maheronline was the first website dedicated to Maher Community/ Samaj, launched in 1999. It’s most visited and comprehensive site on on net for our Maher Community. In recent years several other websites has been developed for a specific target market.
www.mahersamaj.org
Website launched in November 2009 by The Supreme Maher Council India, information is in Gujarati and it’s aimed at Mahers Samaj in Guajarat, India.
www.maherfoundation.net
Website launched in 2008. Providing loans and scholarships for talented but deprived students in India.
http://maherakta.wordpress.com/
Maher Ekta is an online blog website providing news and articles in Gujarati.
http://suratmahersamaj.in
Owing to the high influx of immigrants, Surat Maher Samaj has grown to an organisation having over 250 families across Surat, Gujarat, India.
The objectives of Surat Maher Samaj are to promote Brotherhood, Social Upliftment & Gathering, Charity, Educational & Cultural activities and to foster good relations with other Communities.
https://mahersamajmumbai.com
Mumbai – Maher Samaj Was Founded In 1990. The Goal Of Maher Samaj Was To Unite All People Under One Roof And To Promote And Preserve Our Culture, Heritage, Language, Social And Cultural Awareness And Respect Of Gujarat, India By Providing A Platform To Gujarati Community While Serving The Community Needs.
http://vanchanyatra.wordpress.com/ 
A gujarati online blog website providing articles in gujarati by Ashok Modhvadia
સત્ય હંમેશા બે અંતિમ ધ્રુવોની વચ્ચે ક્યાંક સંતાયેલું હોય છે.જેનો અલ્પાંશ પણ શોધવા માટે બંને અંતિમ ધ્રુવોથી મધ્ય તરફની સફર અનિવાર્ય છે. જે માટેની એક સફર છે આ વાંચનયાત્રા

Odedra leaves Delhi reeling against Saurashtra in Ranji

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Odedra leaves Delhi reeling against Saurashtra in Ranji

Volleyball and Netball Tournament 2009

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Volleyball and Netball tournament re-ignites Maher Sport UK

Maher Sports Association UK news update

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The samaj’s sports committee have been silent for the last few years now but we have still been working away and making steady progress with the assistance of members from the samaj.

Maher 11 a side Football Tournament

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Loughborough greeted all the anxious football players with rain, wind and muddy fields, according to all the participants “Perfect football conditions” on the 1st August 2009.

FootballSunday was the youngster’s time to shine and show the rest of the Maher community what they had to offer to the sports world, and it seemed the weather was on their side as the conditions were completely opposite to the day before. Regrettably there were only two teams in both the under elevens and sixteen’s category therefore the tournament was fixated on the seniors. The two teams for Under Elevens were Loughborough and London with the participant of a Luton player. Loughborough took home the winners trophy leaving London with the runners up trophies.The eleven aside tournament took place across two days beginning with the senior teams being split in to two groups. Group one included London, Loughborough and Luton and group two contained Leicester, Peterborough and Milton Keynes. Unfortunately both Milton Keynes and London didn’t make it to the semi finals. Shivam Modhawadia summed up the pair’s progress “We were off to a bad start and it just got worse and worse.”
London, Luton and Loughborough had to come together to form the second team to play Leicester in the under sixteen’s category and Leicester triumphed over the other team. With only two teams in each category it was not only dull for the few spectators but also for the players who came so far to play in the competition. Is it the job of the players to find their way to the tournaments and form teams or is it all of ours as a community?
The senior’s category was much more eventful as they played the semi-finals and finals the second day. Luton won against Peterborough in the semi-finals securing a place in the finals against Leicester who won against Loughborough after coming back from 2-0 down.
We were treated to an exciting final with the traditional superb football, amazing goals that left the spectators shocked, fouls of all kinds and loads of male testosterone. At the end of the match Luton prevailed, leaving Leicester with the Runners up trophies as Amar Odedra (Luton) scored in virtually the last kick of the game to make it 2-1.
The event was not only a success in the sense of sports achievements but also gave the players a chance to socialise with people they don’t see regularly.
Article by Sonia Suresh Modhawadia

Maher Cricket Tournament 2009

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Bats polished, wives complaining and Umbrellas out.  Maher’s gather round once again for the annual Maher cricket tournament. 

Annual Maher Sports Tournament 2009

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“One of the best tournaments we’ve had in a long time,” was one of the most repeated phrases at the Maher Tournament that took place in Luton on the 14th September 2009.