Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Madhava Navami 19-Feb-2013 - Celebrations in Mantralayam


Madhava Navami is being celebrated to remember Guru Lord Madhavacharya. Madhavacharya was the first to spread the Dwaitha philosophy which is considered as Philosophy of reality.

Lord Madhavarcharya is considered as an incarnation of Lord Anjeneyar.

Vayu deva -> Lord Anjeneyar - > King Bheema -> Guru Madhavacharya.

Guru Madhavacharyar's  birth name is Vasudeva. It is believed that he lived in this earth for 79 years and reached to Lord Narayana's feet directly. His period is considered between 1238 to 1317.

Guru Madhavacharyar installed Lord Krishna in Udupi based on the sandlewood that he got while saving a ship which was troubled in the sea close to Udupi due to bad weather.

Guru Madhavacharyar written several scriptures and they are called as "Sarvamoola Granthas", these scriptures are written by his disciples during the dictation of Guru. The life history of Guru Madhavarcharya has been captured in "Madhava Vijaya" which has 16 chapters.

There is also a saying that when "Raghavendra Vijaya" was authored to capture the life history of Guru Raghavendra Swamy, Guru did not included few chapters and wanted to limit the chapters less then 16 so not to exceed "Madhava Vijaya"

Guru Madhavacharyar started the Guru Parampara who followed Dwaitha philosophy and two famous diciples were Narahari Teerthar and Padmanaba Teerthar. Narahari Teerthar was the one who brought Moola Rama from the king for poojas which is still followed in our Mantralayam.



Madhavacharyar has a very strong body and good physical strength even to this day, the huge rock-boulder lifted up and placed in the river Bhadra by the Acharya to help villagers is still available and witness the strength of Madhavarcharyar, near Kalasa bears witness to his strength. This incident is confirmed by the sentence inscribed on that stone.

Guru Madhavacharyar won several debates and faced several oppositions while spreading the Dwaitha philosophy. Guru has travelled length and breadth of the country to spread the Dwaitha philosophy.

During the travel, when Guru reached Kurushetra, he showed the burried mace of Kind Bhima (previous incarnation) to his diciples and burried it again the land.

No one knew how Guru Madhavacharyar attained Lord Narayanan's feet, however he told his diciples that he will leave alone from Udipi to Badri and the day he left Udipi is celebrated as "Madhava Navami".

This year Madhava Navami falls on 19-Feb-2013, is celebrated in Mantralayam
(Below information is from http://www.raghavendramutt.org/madhwa2013)

19- Feb MADHVA VIJAYA PRAVACHANA - 9 AM to 10 AM
19-Feb  Render Sri Madhva Vijaya Pravachana - 7 PM

PRATISHTAPANA OF SRI MADHWACHARYA

His Holiness Sri Swamiji will be consecrating a captivating icon of Acharya Madhwa at Srimatha on 15.02.2013. The preliminary rituals of this pratishtapana will start on 11.02.2013. It will be installed above the Sheshadevaru at Sri Pranadevara Sannidhi. The stone for this icon has been fragmented by the same massive rock which is being used to carve the huge 32ft monolithic statue of Acharya Madhwa by H.H Sri Vidyadheesha Teertha Swamiji of Palimaru Matha at Pajaka/Kunjarugiri.

PRAJNA PRABODHINEE

Prajna Prabodhinee is a youth oriented program on Dwaita Philosophy. It is designed mainly for those who are working in non spiritual domains. There will be workshop for two days for young men and women for two days (16 Saturday and 17 Mondy February 2013). This workshop intends to fetch some of the precious gems from the abundant ocean of Madhwa Philosophy. The source and information is very vast, due to time restriction the workshop is set for two days. The program is as given below. The entire program will be headed by eminent scholar Prof. Hayavadana Puranikaru. Entry is free


MADHWA TATVA- NAVARATNA -PRAVACHANA

A series of discourses on Sri Vyasaraja’s Madhva Prameya Ratna is organized during this Navaratri as given below.

11.02.2013 : Sriman Madhwa Mate Harih Paratarah by Dr. A. Raghavendracharya
12.02.2013 : Satyam Jagat by Sri Abbur Brahmanyacharya
13.02.2013 : Tatvato Bhedah by Sri Rochanacharya
14.02.2013 : Jeevaganah hareh anucharah by Sri Sanjeevacharya
15.02.2013 : Neechocha Bhavam Gatah by Sri Garaga Ramachandracharya
16.02.2013 : Mukhti naija sukhanubhootih by Sri Kanakachalacharya Wodeyar
17.02.2013 : Amala Bhaktih cha tat sadhanam by Sri L. Krishnacharya
18.02.2013 : Akshadi Tritayam Pramanam by Sri Bheemasenacharya
19.02.2013 : Akhila amnayaika vedyo harih : Sri K. Venkateshacharya
Time : 7.00 PM to 8.00 PM | Venue : Yagashala


PANCHA MAHA RATHOTSAVA AND AVABHRUTA SNANA

On Sri Madhvanavamee day His Holiness Sri Swamiji has organized a glorious procession of Sri Vedavyasa Devaru and Sri Madhvacharya wherein the procession will be headed by Sri Swamiji, Sri Rayaru and Sri Vyasarajaru in Golden Pallakki, Sri Haridasaru in wooden chariot, Sri Vijayeendra Teertharu and Sri Jayateertharu in Silver Chariot.  All these holy chariots will move together. It is a very rare occasion to see 5 chariots pulling together. This procession will be followed by a colorful Avabhruta Snana in the holy Tungabhadra River.

Time : 7.30 AM | Venue : Prakaram

MADHWA DEEPOTSAVA

The Madhva Navartri celebrations of this year will be concluded by a eye catching Deepotsava at 7.00 PM. Icon of Acharya Madhwa, Sri Prahladarajaru will be decorated with thousands of holy lamps around.

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Saturday, January 12, 2013

Sri Guru Raghavendra Swamy Jayanthi (Vardhanti) - 19th Mar 2013


This year, our Guru Baghavan Raghavendra Swamy's Jayanthi falls on 19th Mar 2013. The day has been calculated based on Phalguna Shuddha Saptami as per hindu calandar and in 2013, this falls on 19th Mar.


I have been posting this for last 2 years in my blog. On this day, we are blessed to give a gift to our Guru by chanting "Sree Raghavendraya Namaha" a minimum of 16,000 times before 19th Mar 2013.

Once you complete this, you can share the details to the email id "info@saptaaha.com".
Last year I was not able to meet this number , I was able to do only around 12,000 chants.
This time,I am very much devoted to chant above 16,000 times.

Since we have 60+ days, 500 chants a day, we can meet the minimum number.

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BIRTH DAY GIFT TO “SRI RAGHAVENDRA SWAMY” ON THE OCCASION OF HIS BIRTH DAY
(PHALGUNA SHUDDHA SAPTAMI :  19-03-2013)



Phalguna Shuddha Saptami is the BIRTH DAY FESTIVAL of “SRI RAGHAVENDRA SWAMY (GURURAJARU)”

It is customary that one gives out a gift to the beloved on the occasion of the Birth Day
The most liked item or the choice of Sri Raghavendra Swamy is the chanting of
“SRI RAGHAVENDRAYA NAMAHA” When we chant “SRI RAGHAVENDRAYA NAMAHA”, it is in turn offered by Sri Raghavendra Swamy to SRI VAYU DEVARU and SRI RAMA DEVARU.

Hence, chanting of “SRI RAGHAVENDRAYA NAMAHA” is not only liked by “Sri Raghavendra Swamy”
but it also fulfils the desires of the devotees because it is delivered to
SRI VAYU DEVARU and SRI RAMA DEVARU. So, here is a great opportunity to the devotees to
participate individually in this program by chanting “SRI RAGHANVENDRAYA NAMAHA” 16,000 times.

Devotees can commence the chanting and complete the same before 18-03-2013 and once you have completed the chanting inform the matter to:


Archaka Parimalacharya
Sri Raghavendra Saptaha Karyacharana Samithi
Mantralaya – 518345
Phone: 08512-279446
Cell : +91 99864 95989
Email: info@saptaaha.com
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Thodarpu.blogspot.com - 15,000+ Visits in 2012

Wanted to thank all devotees of Baghavan Raghavendra Swamy for their continued support on my posts and blogs.

With the blessings of our Guru, we had 15,000+ visits in 2012. All this is due to our Guru and his blessings...

Especially we had close to 2850+ visits during the month of Aug 2012 ( Guru's Aradhana )

We had 45 posts in 2012 with maximum of 10 posts on Feb 2012 and Aug 2012.

3 posts had more than 1000+ visits in 2012

www.google.co.in was the top referring site followed by widget.linkwithin.com.

Guru Raghavendra aradhana 2012, poornabodha stotra are the key search words referred in the site.

Visits from more than 10+ countries with India being the maximum visits followed by US and APAC

Wishing all a healthy , wealthy & prosperous New year. I pray to our beloved Guru Baghavan Raghavendra Swamy to bring happiness and lead everyone in the right path of life.


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