VEDA: Vedic Education and Dharma Association

10/21/2026

What a beautiful and spiritually uplifting Navratri week at VEDA – Vedic Education and Dharma Association! We were honored to serve families throughout our community through a variety of pujas, havans, and sacred ceremonies.

Our Navratri week included:

* Mata Ki Chouki (two)
* Chandi Havan
* Ashtami Havan
* Navami Havan
* Satya Narayan Puja
* Bhumipuja
* Griha Pravesh
* Mundan Ceremony
* Wedding Ceremonies
* Vijaya Dashami Celebration
*Hanuman chalisa
* Garba
* Durga Saptshati path daily.

Each ceremony was conducted with devotion, care, and personal attention, helping create meaningful and spiritually uplifting experiences for every family.

Planning a puja, havan, wedding, mundan ceremony, griha pravesh, or another religious service? VEDA is here to serve your family. Contact us today to discuss your needs and schedule a ceremony. Acharya Kailash Sharma 513-652-5382

6752 Cincinnati Dayton Road, Liberty Township, OH 45044 second floor

10/15/2026

Daily Aarti at 7:30 PM tonight at Tristate Durga Mandir! 🪔 Jai Mata Di!
🙏 TODAY - THURSDAY INVITE 🙏
Join us for Daily Evening Aarti 7:30 PM
Experience Maa's divine blessings at
📍 Tristate Durga Mandir & Cultural Center
6752 Cincinnati Dayton Rd, Liberty Twp, OH 45044 (2nd Floor)
💃 Garba 8:30 PM after Aarti - Bring your Dandiya sticks! 🪘
🌺 THIS SUNDAY 18th OCT - GRAND ASHTAMI MATA KI CHOUKI 3-7 PM
Please RSVP for food count:

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All families welcome!
Acharya Kailash Sharma | 513-652-5382
VEDA Team
Jai Mata Di!

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10/02/2026

Shraddha: An Offering of Memory

The word Shraddha comes from shraddha — faith and reverence. That changes how we see it.
Shraddha is not only pinda-daan, tarpan, or feeding Brahmins. Those are traditional forms. At its heart, it is remembrance with love and thankfulness.
Our tradition never saw death as a full stop. The body ends, but memory and sanskars live on. Our parents gave us life. Our grandparents held the family together. Someone lived in scarcity, someone faced adversity, someone sacrificed comfort to protect the values we now hold. The life we call ours stands on their foundation.
This is Pitri Rin — a debt money cannot repay. We repay it by serving parents, respecting elders, keeping love in the family, helping society, and passing good values to the next generation.
When we offer water with til, kusha grass and flowers facing south, it is not just water. It is a stream of memory and gratitude. When we feed the crow, cow, or a hungry person in our ancestors' name, our reverence becomes compassion in action.
Today this matters even more. Families are smaller, conversations between generations are fewer. Many children don't know their great-grandfather's name. Let Shraddha become a time to save family memory — tell stories, make a family tree, preserve old photos, share their struggles and values.
Shraddha is not about fear of pitru-dosha. Its message is gratitude, self-reflection, and right conduct.
So ask yourself: What is the greatest tribute?
Just offering water one day? Or living their best values?
If they held the family together, let us hold it together. If they showed patience, let us show patience. If they served others, let us serve.
Ancestors depart, memories do not.
Faces fade, sanskars do not.
Generations change, heritage does not.
The greatest tarpan is not of water, but of gratitude. The truest Shraddha is to live so that our ancestors' best sanskars keep breathing in us.