Special Bodhi Pooja and Seth Pirith Chanting - Session 1 - 1st May

01 May, 2021 @ 06:00PM - 08:00PM | Organized by Letchworth Dhamma Nikethanaya Buddhist Centre
Date & Time
01 May, 2021 @ 06:00PM - 08:00PM
Organizer
Letchworth Dhamma Nikethanaya Buddhist Centre
Welcome to our Saturday Evening Blessings and Dhamma Programmes on Saturday 01st May 2021 at 6PM.

Saturday 01st May at 6PM we have the following Special Dhamma Programme. All Are welcome to join from Home Online...
For this Saturday we do not have a sponsor. If you would like to sponsor this programme or any of the future Saturday programmes, please let us know.

06:00PM: Bodhi Pooja
06:20PM: Sinhala Dhamma Sermon
06:45PM: Seth Pirith Protection Blessings Chanting
07:00PM: English Dhamma Sermon
07:20PM: Children Dhamma School Presentation
07:50PM: Meditation and Closing Blessings

Today Dhamma Topic:
Having Little wealth but bears big ambitious mentality even for high political positions in mega greed; is a cause of downfal.

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මැයි මස 01 වන සෙනසුරාදා සවස 6ට
විශේෂ සදහම් වැඩ සටහන
මාතෘකාව: වත්පොහොසත් කම් අඩු කෙනෙකු මහා තණ්හාවෙන් උසස් දේශපාලන බලාපොරොත්තු ඇති මානසිකත්වයෙන් විසීම පිරිහීමේ කරැණකි.

මේ උතුම් ධර්ම දාන ආශිර්වාදයට සහභාගී වන ලෙස සැමට මෙත් සිතින් ආරාධනා.!

ධර්ම දානමය පිංකමේ දායකත්වය
ලබාගෙන නොමැත. කැමති කෙනෙකු විහාරස්ථානය අමතන්න.

06:00 PM - Bodhi Pooja & Sinahala Dhamma Talk on
පරාභව සූත්‍රය 24 වන ගාථාව
‘‘අප්පභොගො මහාතණ්හො, - ඛත්තියෙ ජායතෙ කුලෙ;
සො ච රජ්ජං පත්ථයති, - තං පරාභවතො මුඛං’’.

“මදවූ වස්තු ඇති තෘෂ්ණා ඇත්තෙක් ක්ෂත්‍රිය කුලයෙහි උපදීද, ඒ ක්ෂත්‍රිය ජාති ඇති අල්පභොග මහා තෘෂ්ණා ඇත්තේ වනාහි තමා සතුවූ හෝ තමාට නොලැබෙන අනුන් සතුවූ හෝ රාජ්‍යය ප්‍රාර්ථනා කෙරේද ඒ පිරිහීමට කාරණයයි” වදාළසේක.

07:00PM - English Dhamma Sermon on
The Discourse on Downfall (Parabhava Sutta) 24th Gatha (verse)

"Appabhogo mahātanho
Khattiye jāyate kule
So ca rajjam patthayati
Tam parābhavato mukham."
"He who has little wealth but great ambition (due to greed), is of born a Khattiya but aspires to (an unattainable) kingship – this is the cause of one’s downfall."

Talk By Bhante Akurala Samitha


07:20PM Children Dhamma School Programme

Children Presentation on 22nd Gatha (verse) on Discourse on Downfall (Parabhava sutta)

"Itthi sondim vikiranim - Purisam vāpi tādisam
Issariyasmin thāpeti - Tam parābhavato mukhamm.."

"He who places in authority a woman given to drinking, greedy on meat eating and
squandering, or a man of similar nature – this is the cause of one’sdownfall."

‘‘ඉත‍්ථිං සොණ‍්ඩිං විකිරණිං - පුරිසං වාපි තාදිසං
ඉස‍්සරියස‍්මිං ඨාපෙති - තං පරාභවතො මුඛං’’.

“මත්ස්‍ය මාංස මද්‍යපාන ආදියෙහි ලොල් වූ ඒ සඳහා ධනය වියදම් කරන කාන්තාවක් හෝ එබඳු පුරුෂයෙකු අධිපති කමෙහි තබා ද එය පිරිහීමේ කරුණුය.” වදාළසේක

Please encourage your children make a short presentation (1-2 minutes) about that gatha. They can learn it by heart and recite or explain the purpose or meaning in it.

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We host this online dhamma dana blessing service with Meditation, Dhamma Sermons, Children Dhamma School, Other religious rights and rituals..

You can sponsor any of these services to gain and share the highest Dhamma Dana Merits and also it helps to keep the centre going and make this spiritual support available to the community. Thank you for your on going support. May all these blessings help you all to recover from any difficulties with good health, protection and progress.

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We have been continuing our programmes very successfully online and it has been greatly helpful for the community.
To keep these programmes available, we need the help of the community.
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