With the blessings of the saints from Bhuj Temple, even today all the religious festivals are celebrated gracefully. By celebrating the religious festivals like Vasant Panchmi, Shravan Maas Katha, Janmashtmi, Ramnavmi, Hari Jayanti, Ekadashi, Hindola Mahotsav, Diwali, and other religious utsavs as well, the Mombasa satsangis are trying to compose the Udhav Sampraday’s customs and Hindu religious image more actively. For this to continue it is necessary to part the knowledge of all these deeds to the future generations by educating today’s youth.

With this in mind and with the consent of the saints, elder Haribhaktos’ suggestions and efforts by the youngsters, the Bal-Yuvak Mandal, as is today was established in 1987 with a noble beginning of a very few youths. The main objective to establish this Bal-Yuvak Mandal was to spread religion and Sanskars to the entire community for a strong foundation for the next generation. With time as more and more youths and their parents became aware of the benefits of attending the Sunday sabha, the number increased drastically from a few to the current over 400 youths. With the increased numbers, and the thirst of the Haribhaktos to follow up each person to attend and monitor their progress, a grouping system was created based on the age of the individual. By so doing it became easier to teach the members what they could digest best based on their age rather than bombard them with the knowledge which would mean nothing less than nuclear science to them. Basic principles of life of attendance, timeliness, respect are installed into the minds of the youths from a tender age of 3 years.

Today, in this Bal-Yuvak Mandal, about 650 to 700 children and elders acquire the sanskars of honesty, righteousness and knowledge which apply in their day to day life. They also achieve knowledge on how to walk on the spriritual path to attain Moksha. The girls also gain knowledge from the ladies as they are the future mothers. That is the way the children will gain sanskars from the mothers. For this, ladies are the only support of sanskars for the children; As the saying goes. “One educated mother equal a hundred teachers”

Just like the success of theatricals plays, movies etc. is dependent on the people working behind the curtains, our Bal-Yuvak Mandal are the ones responsible for all the successful activities under the temple banner while they stay behind the “curtains”. These activities range from the day-to day running of the Sunday Sabha to special activities for these sabhas, organizing celebration of various religious festivals, to organizing major events for the temple like the “Shree Sahajanand Mahotsav” marking 50 years since the inception of the temple.

The Lazim & Band

Bal Yuvak Mandal takes pride in the Lazim & Band which is a gem in the crown of the Mombasa Temple. We have 36 Players in the Band and 80 Players in the Lazim Unit ranging from the age of 9 to the seniors of 35 years. We normally have the session during the Festivals of Vasant Panchmi, Ram Navmi, Janmastmi and the Shravan Month Parayan celebrations. We also took pride in playing lately during the Nutan Mandir Mahotsav in Bhuj, and the Murti Pratishta Mahotsav in Eldoret

Decorations

The youth take pride in the organization and participations in the Parayan’s Raas Utsav and decorations which entail to the celebrations as per our Sampraday Niyams. These festivals include Ram Navmi, Janmastmi, Vasant Panchmi, Shravan Maas and Hindola Utsav to cap them All. The Bal Yuvak Mandal Take pride that Mombasa Mandir has a Record of Decorating different Hindola Parayan for the Full month and each day has a different Design.

Come Diwali and the whole of Mombasa Fraternity (Hindu’s and Non Hindu’s included) eagerly wait to have a glimpse of the decorations done and soothe their eyes. A perfect example set for your view on the back page.

Raas Utsav

All major religious festivals are marked with a Raas Utsav which is organized in the temple hall for ladies and gents respectively. The Bal Yuvak Mandal take pride in the organisation of the Music and have a very good team of vocals who entertain the Raas with their large database of kirtans.

Bal Yuvak Mandal Weekly Activities

The Sabha is held every Sunday from 8am to 9am. It starts with a Prathna and then we have various activities lined up for each day. These include discourses in from the old and the learned, we have children taking up the lectures on various occasions, there are quizzes, antakshri held oftenly. There is an exam held annually which summarises talks and paper given to the children. A file has been given to all the children with various questions and literature on our sampraday. We have been having the opportunity to get the discourses from our learned saints from India from Both the Ahmedabad Gadi and Vadtal Gadi and Bhuj Mandir. These provide valuable input for the organizers in their efforts to impart spiritual knowledge to the Children.
Painting competition is organized every Diwali to celebrate the festival of colours in our way

Picnics.

The Bal Yuvak Members are entertained to an outing every school holidays, games which include both spiritual and physical are organized for the various age groups and children get to bond with one other in all the activities.

Sanskrutik Karyakram

BYM Mombasa take pride in the organization and performances of the best kind on stage when it comes to the stage programmes which are very strictly in line with our core traditions.

Service to the Community.

The BYM family is always on the forefront when it comes to giving a helping hand in any DONOR activity be it by the Temple, Samaj or other Service Agencies in aiding the less fortunate members around us.