Food Festival Event, Erode
Gyanodhayam Educational Trust & Nalan Hotel jointly organised 9th year Food Festival. It was conducted for 4 days from 29th December 2018 until 1st January 2019 ( From Saturday until Tuesday) at Erode Perundhurai Road Eshwaramurthy Mahal . Its our tradition to celebrate various Functions for each of the important events in our life . The function would be conducted for a good cause and a proper reason such that it would benefit everyone who participate in the function and the environment around us . Of all these events which are conducted in our traditional practice a Festival is considered to be the most important one.
We celebrate variety of festivals like Chariot Festival , Thaipoosam Festival , Chithirai Festival , Aadi Festival , Kaarthigai Festival and the so on . Festivals are called as Thirivizha in Tamizh . The word thiru means “Great Goals and Great Thinking” – Guruji
One Such Festival with high goal and thought for creating awareness about the importance of food for protecting our lives was conducted at Erode. Food is an important aspect of our lives . From our childhood to until now uur body is built from food we ate already and food we are consuming now . 90% of disease is caused due to improper food habits .
Our Food Festival emphasized Those who take food as medicine need not take medicine as food .. The food festival was an eye opener to the people who attended the event
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Some of the feedbacks from the guests who attended the event R.Sumathi from Sampath Nagar Erode :
“She said she understood what is the suitable food for her”
G.K Ramalinga mentioned that the food festival was very useful and much needed event for everyone .
These feedbacks by the people gave us a great satisfaction that the festival had reached the society.
Each one of our member had several thoughts about the food festival when it was decided to be conducted at erode. Our organising team had searched several event hall for rental but everyone’s choice was Easwaramurthy Mahal.
There were several meetings regarding the Event held at our Erode Gyanodhayam Center on how to advertise the event so that it can reach the public. Proper planning was done by our organising team regarding the advertising the event .
We advertised about our food festival through Government Buses , Autorickshaws , advertisements on Newspapers , Television Channels local to erode , Web ( whatsapp , facebook etc ) and Invite people door to door personally . In this manner 40000 invitations were distributed among the people. At the same time Our Guruji guided our volunteers to prepare around 200 varieties of food .
Our food does’t have the following unwanted things like tamarind , Chilli , Masala , Mik , Curd , Butter milk , Dalda , Mushroom and artificial colouring and taste agents . Food Cooked in this manner can get spoiled so food need to cooked and served when its hot.
On the other hand the fund required for conducting the event came from correct people at correct time .Festival was inaugurated by our Gurumaargal by Lighting the Dheepam at around 5:30 pm .
Our Food Festival also had herbal exhibition which was a special surprise to our guests. There were stalls setup to emphasize the importance and uses of the Millets .
An Food Awareness Exhibition area was also setup specially for the people to know about how much to eat , what to eat at various times etc .All the 4 days we served food from 7am in the morning until 10pm in the night . Around 150 Volunteers participated from various Gyanodhayam Centers participated in the event and played part perfectly .
Around 6500 people benefited by attending the food festival . They felt very happy to eat our, tasty and delicious food . For whoever attended our food festival we had distributed the “unnai uyarthum onbathu” which would create awareness about food among the people. Most of the public had expressed their interest in knowing how to cook such delicious healthy food
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We had given saplings free of cost to people who attended the event to show the importance of growing trees for getting proper rains.
Stalls for Ishetra , Gyanodhayam , Publication , Ispark , Tharam , Ootta were setup separately for the public
Our Gurumaargal did conselling and provided solutions for the people who had body and mind related issues .
The food festival concluded on the january 1st 2019 . it gave great satisfaction to those who volunteered in such blissful event.
Food Festival Event, Johor, Malaysia
On the New Year 2019 celebration, the 3rd food festival of Gyanodhayam was held at the Sri Balamurugan Temple in JB Malaysia. Gyanodhayam members organized and served more than 20 types of food and healthy soups verities. For about 1000 plus
people’s were participated in the festival during the day and at night time. More than 50 Gyanodhayam volunteer’s are joined together and participated in this food festival with a spirit of service. A month before the food festival, the Gyanodhayam group
was split into several groups and invite the public to visit different locations in JB and announced in the local Radio & arranged Banners for public awareness.
The highlight on the food festival was posters about the body, food, exercise, relationship, soul, high penance, high senses, ethos, arts, rituals, temple interpretations of spiritual science. It has fascinated the public. They discussed it with us and got the answers. In addition, the Childers from Gyanodhaym yoga group performed yoga stage program to the public during the stage program many of the parents were inspired and requested to conduct such program year on year. As the important awareness to the public were presented the books and Tharam products for their healthy life living. Through this event of the food festival, we were able to realize how Guruji leads us and how we handle that situation in challenging times. All of our team members who served in the ceremony returned home with great satisfaction.
Thank you to our volunteers and the temple administration for the excellent performance of the food festival.
Pongal Celebration at Siddhartha Oldage Home – Karur
On 11/01/2019, with Gurujis’ blessings our Gyanodhayam members got a chance to serve our elder people at Siddhartha oldage home in Karur. Our team members prepared Pongal and served them with love and care, with regards to Pongal Celebration.
Pongal Celebration at Kalaiselvi Karunalaya Oldage Home – Mugaper, Chennai
On 15/01/2019, with Gurujis’ blessings our Gyanodhayam members got a chance to serve our elder people at Kalaiselvi Karunalaya oldage home in Mugaper. Our team members prepared Pongal and served them with love and care, with regards to Pongal Celebration.
Awareness Service on Yoga, Selam
On 21st Jan 2019, our Gyanasiddhargal issued Gyanodhayam Notice to the public at Suganeswar Temple. Importance of yoga was clearly stated to the public. Our sincere thanks to Guruji for giving us this opportunity to serve our society.
Government Hospital Cleaning Service - Thirupur
With the blessing of almighty and Guruji, our Gyanodhayam students and teachers participated in a cleaning activity done at Government Hospital in Avinasi on 26/01/2019 from 9Am till 5PM by our Thiruppur Gyanodhayam team. Our sincere thanks to Guruji for giving us this opportunity to serve our society.
Kangaroo Karunai Illam Service – Trichy
On 26/01/2019, with Gurujis’ blessings our Gyanodhayam members got a chance to serve people at Kangaroo Karunai Illam, Srirangam. 10 members from Trichy Gyanodhayam centre participated in this event and they prepared Sundal with love and cove and served them. Biscuits and daily utilities like Soap, Paste were also provided with love and care.
Pneuma Trust, Home for Boys - Madurai
On 26/01/2019, with Gurujis’ blessings our Gyanodhayam members got a chance to serve the boys at Pneuma Trust Home located at Ramakoundampatti, Palamedu.