Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh,USA celebrates Raksha Bandhan

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Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh,USA celebrates Raksha Bandhan

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 11:40 AM PDT

Highlights: Naperville Shakha team of Chicago Vibhag planned the
celebration of Raksha Bandhan utsav 2009 well in advance as a team they
celebrated as given below:
Celebrated in the shakha on 9th August 2009
Shakha team went to the Naperville city hall and tied Rakhis to the Hon. Mayor and his staff on 3rd August 2009
Shakha team and kids went to tie the rakhis to the Chief of Fire and Police dept. on 9th August 2009
Shakha team met Bharat Seva Ashram Sangh and tied rakhis to Swamijis
Team met Bhutanase Hindus and tied rakhis to them.
http://www.hssus.org/gallery/v/MWEST/NaperRakshaBandhan2009/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRQAzxPrMMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWy-anMFbLc

Report:

Shakha Utsav, Chief Fire Officer and Police Dept.:
On
9th August, the shakha team celebrated the utsav in the shakha by tying
the rakhi to the dwaj and then the shakha upasthit swayamsevaks were
divided in two groups, one group of kids and parents went to the Fire
and police dept and the other group went to meet Bhutanese Hindus.



Bharat Seva Ashram Sangh and Bhutanese Hindus:
On 09-Aug-2009
around 10:30 AM CDT, Karyakartas from Naperville-Aurora shakha vistied
Bharat Sevashram at Aurora to celebrate Rakshabandan with Bhutanee
bandhus. We gave a brief introduction regarding the History &
itihas of Rakshabandan festival and importance in the society on the
same. Also vistied 9 different Bhutanee familes (around 30 members)
near by Bharat sevashram and tied rakhi.

The chairman, director, and principal coordinator and chief official representative of all overseas branches of the Bharat Sevashram Sangha
Sri Swami Purnatmananda impressed with our activities and spent his
valuable time with us and delivered a 20 minutes speech on Rakshabandan
in terms of Dharmic samskruti and its cultural
effects in society.

Fire officer and Police dept.
officer were briefed on the Raksha Bandhan and then kids and sevikas
tied rakhis to the officers, Fire officer and the police dept.
appreciated the HSS work and thanked for reaching out to them. Fire
officer distributed the dept. metallic gift coins to each participant.
They have promised to conduct a safety workshop cum awareness program
for shakha kids, they will explain their operations to the shakha kids.

Hon. Mayor's office:
On 3rd August, some of the karyakartas from Naperville-Aurora shakha visited and tied the Rakhi
to Hon. Mayor of the City of Naperville and his staff. We had a
scheduled appointment and as per that all the available karyakartas
assembled at the office. We gave a presentation on HSS Raksha Bandhan
along with a packet of information/handouts describing HSS activities
and future events such as Diwali.

Hon.
Mayor listened to the talk given by karyakartas about Raksha Bandhan
and about HSS. Mayor has promised to help HSS for the Diwali
proclamation and some joint activities during Diwali. He was pleased to
know of our seva activities.

His
official comment after tying the rakhi was: "I am pleased to see HSS
taking steps in creating an awareness about India's great traditions,
Rakhi's event is a very important one and has a great significance
especially during the troubled times, I truly believe that such events
bring about a change in the society and help create a peaceful society.
Raksha Bandhan creates the sense of universal oneness and can help
build a cohesive society of tolerance and peace. I thank HSS in taking
lead in that direction. Thanks for arranging this function. I look
forward to participating and supporting such noble events."

HSS
Naperville-Aurora team thanks Hon. Mayor and his staff for their
continued support. We are greatful to him for his help for the future
events.