FUND-RAISER FOR SANATAN MANDIR OF FLORIDA AT FAIRFIELD PAVILION

Pandit Yoga Ramnarain of Queens, organized a fund-raiser dinner and cultural evening at the famous Fairfield Pavilion at 131st Street on 101st Avenue, Richmond Hill, to gather funding towards building the Sanatan Mandir of Florida, located in Kissimmee, Orlando. That event was held on 7th February, Sunday gone.

The evening attracted a wide section of folks originally from Corentyne, Berbice in Guyana, who are now residing in New York State.

Pandit Yoga's father, Pandit Baljit Ramnarain has spent his entire life serving the Hindu community and helping them to uplift themselves spiritually and culturally. His spiritual journey began at a very tender age at Whim Village where he was born and the surrounding villages, then moveed on to New York City and now to Orlando, Florida, where he is currently residing.

His unconditional love for God and his Dharma is evident in the words he speaks and the manner in which he speaks. He is a very soft-spoken person, who chooses his words very carefully and makes sure that the words he utters are beneficial to the people he is speaking to.

At over 70 years-old, he should be retired and be enjoying the remainding part of his life, living with his children and grandchildren. He should not be taking on the monumental task of building a huge mandir for his Florida community from stratch. But, he is a man of God and he has tremendous faith in his Dharma and himself. He saw the need of the people in the community and decided to build them a place of worship. That is the most beautiful and fundamentally important task any leader, be it spiritual, community or political, can undertake for his/her people.

He has mortgaged his own home in Florida to help build this new mandir for the people in Florida. Currently, devotees go to his house in his living room to perform Puja and worship. Satsangh is held every Sunday and on all major festivities and parbs at his home.

For someone who has took on this extremely challenging task single-handedly, he deserves our full support. This great act will go towards the upliftment for the future generations to come in Florida and for the preservation of Dharma.

My heart goes out to him because of such a great job that he is doing down there. He is an embodiment of goodness. To top it all, he is such a humble, kind-hearted and divine soul, who went through quite alot to see this project come through for the folks in Florida. We need to help him see this great dream become a reality.

I'm calling on all of you out there who is concerned about the preservation of Dharma and the spiritual upliftment of future generations, to pitch in and help this Florida Mandir Project. For more information on how you can help, go to the website: http://www.sanatanmandirflorida.com/ or call Pandit Yoga Ramnarain at: 917-302-3813.

Let's come together and support this project - it's a great cause. Below, some photos of the dinner at Fairfield Pavilion.

Pandit Baljit Ramrarain thanking the New York folks for their continuous help ...

A section of the gathering ...


Three generations of Ramnarain, Pt. Baljit, Hema and Pt. Yoga (L-R).