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This past Thanksgiving Day was a togethernes "I9can feel
particularly joyous one for members of speaker,said to the group,
the local Indian community as they your energy filling this room — thisisa
celebrated the opening of their new happy occasion for all of us."
community center on Pye lane in The*altar in the large meeting room
Wappingers Falls. The opening marks of the center displays a lighted niche
completion of the first phase of the surrounded by symbols representing a.p
building of the Hindu Sama j theSa,tmajaP inediothst all religions are
(association p gathering)• plan treated as equals in the Hindu way of
The second phase of the building
Will be the construction of the Sri life. "We believe all religions lead to the
I,axminarayan Dashavetara Temple. same place," he commented, "like
e ocean."
The temple willsbeud theated to the.
P otector.vers The Hindus belieintove the doctrine of
Hindu deity
According to Hindu beon earth in
u is
thought to have appearedVishnu's
ten incarnations (Avatara)•
tenth incarnation is Sri Laxminara Yan•
According to a member of the local
group, Mr. A. Satya, this temple will be
the first United States temple dedicated
to this tenth incarnation. It is hoped
construction can be launched next
spring.
The Thanksgiving open APPY
the
community center saw many
faces, young and old, giving thanks for
a .Pw Qatharinu place and for
a universal soul or being'
6to which in-
dividual souls will be reunited after
`maya, the illusion of time and space, is
conquered. Mr. Satya says Hinduism
recognizes three pat4s to God:
devotion, good works and wis,dom
(meditation).
Now that the first stage of the local
building effort has been completed, the
Indian community looks forward to the
building of its temple. Financial aid and
artisans from India are expected to
assist in the completion of -Pet Y project.