Source: wake.mync.com
[HPI note: A technical mishap caused the first item of yesterday’s edition of HPI to appear truncated. We are sending today the corrected version, below.]
CARY, NC, USA, May 28, 2009: After almost ten years and more than $3 million, the Hindu temple in Cary is officially open. In a grand opening celebration, priests have purified the temple with fire and water. On Thursday, Lord Venkateswara was moved into place.
Hindus and non-Hindus alike are invited to come experience the temple. Morrisville resident Sharat Reedy said, “I would definitely recommend people just come and visit and see the rituals that go on and see the culture of India.”
The temple devotees reported about the great ceremony, “It was a moment beyond words. Thousands of devotees, all gazing into the sky to get a glimpse of the Kumbhasamprokshana. The sound of ‘Srinivasa Govinada, Cary Vasa Govinda!’ reverberated throughout the Temple campus, from all sides of the temple. The thoughts that were crossing the minds of the devotees were all deep and varied as they shared later in several languages, English, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi and Bengali. Some said, it is a life time opportunity. Some said, they feel like they are in India. Others said they never thought they would witness such an event and have such an experience in their life. As they describe it, their faces were glowing, competing with the spectacle in front of them, with deep satisfaction and amazement!”
The temple’s elaborate and dynamic website is http://svtemplenc.org/