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Naalaiyira Divya Prabhandam - Verses 5 - 10 - Chapter 8

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 30 Nov 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Here continuing the verses from 5 - 10 with meanings

In these verses, it takes about different types of devotees 1) who prays to get materialistic enjoyment 2) who prays to get spiritual knowledge, 3) who prays to attain the feet of GOD

Meaning of Verse 5:

There are second set of people in the universe who worship lord for the wealth and materialistic happiness towards GOD who kills demons, rakshasas and enemies;
The request is to kill your desires around materialistic and come , join the group who just meditate at GOD's feet by chanting his thousand names to get spiritual wealth;
And the GOD's sacred feet is protected for thousands and crores of years

Meaning of Verse 6:

My father, his father, my great grand father and all of my earlier generations for 7 cycles were reciting only LORD's name who had killed Hiranyakasipu on a evening time during Thiruvonam day and I and my future generation will continue to protect the sacred feet of GOD for thousands and crores of years

Meaning of Verse 7

The one who has broad shoulders and carry Sri Sudarsana chakram which is revolving with fire and in deep red color, our entire generation will keep singing about Srikrishna who killed Asura Vanasuran through Sudarasana chakram which made the blood of Asura to flow as river;
We continue to pray and protect the sacred feet of GOD for thousands and crores of years.

Meaning of Verse 8

Dear Swamy. you had provided us rice and equal amount of Ghee, you also gave us a good place to stay, and also gave beetle leaves, oranaments like necklace, chain, hand ring and also ear ring. you also gave sandle paste that we desired to have on our body; you also made us to acquire spiritual knowledge and made that to flow in our family; We continue to workship who is the opponent of Nagaraja ( here it is Garuda which is the vahana of Lord Vishnu ) and we continue to pray and protect the sacred feet for thousands and crores of years

Meaning of Verse 9:

We wear the dress ( Pattu Pithambaram ) worn by you, we take the food left over as prasadam from you and we also take the fragrance of the flower that were taken from you; Even with all this we do have a fear O' Swamy you born on Thiruvonam star and who takes rest on Nagaraja, we continue to serve and protect the sacred feet for thousands and crores of these years

Meaning of Verse 10:

Swamy, the day we surrender to your feet, Me and my family were all relieved from the quest of self materialistic enjoyment and we reach a stage of spiritual level; You are the one who appeared on the day of Rohini star at Madura as Sri Krishna and killed Kamsa and also danced on the heard of 5 faced Nagaraja; we continue to serve and protect the sacred feet for thousands and crores of years

Verses to continue ...

Naalaiyira Divya Prabhandam - Verses Starts - Periyazhwar Thirumozhi - Chapter - 7 - My 100th post...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 06:54:00 +0000

Naalaiyira Divya Prabhandam - Verses Starts - Periyazhwar Thirumozhi - Chapter - 7 -
My 100th post...

This is my 100th post, started 7 years back to bring on my readings and leanings of Guru Raghavendra Swamy; Thanks to GOD and my Guru to keep going; There had been phases where I was totally off from the blog; Infact from 2017 to Nov 2019 was a long period and I have restarted this to write about Naalaiyira Divya Prabhandam, this is not for others, but more for me to read all the 4000 verses and live the life in a right way;

wanted to start with Periyazhwar Thirumozhi pasurams; The very first verses that I heard is from him and hence wanted to start the series with this and move to other alwars.

Meaning of Verse 1:
Years after years, and thousands and crores of years, Manivanna ( another name of Sriman Narayanan ) your strong shoulder and surrendering to your feet is the savior for all in this materialistic world

While in this materialistic world, we go to GOD to pray either for getting materialistic thing or get his blessings on us; There is a belief that Bakthi is to pray for what we want; Alternatively people will also pray for their well being, their parents, their family and their near and dear ones;
But here PeriyAzhwar says instead of saying all this, he is requesting the well being of Sriman Narayanan; so once he is doing good he will take care of the rest; He informs that if we surrender and ask if he is all and his well being is all we wanted, rest will be taken care by itself; What a belief in Bakthi

Meaning of Verse 2:
As a devotees we pray that we are bonded and thinking of you for several crores of years; Mahalakshmi who resides on your chest continues to stay there for several crores of years and bless us all; The powerful Sudersana chakra that continues to stay in your right hand and the conch ,
Pancha chaniyam which is used during the beginning of wars continue to stay in your left hand for years and crores of years

Meaning of Verse 3:
We all who are work shipping to reach the sacred feet of Lord Sriman Narayanan will continue to do so by following rituals and events in temple; We will never entertain to focus on materialistic things in the world; We respect continues to all seven generations and more in serving lord and no stains / disrespects attached; We will continue to surrender the feet of Lord Sriman Narayanan who freed Lanka people from rakshasas ;

Meaning of Verse 4:
Before we reach the state of surrendering to Sri Narayanan's feet where there is no return to this world, we will first learn to separate atma from this mortal body; Join the devotees and spread the benefit of reciting the maha mantram OM NAMO NARAYANA to the world and pray for Lord to continue for several crores of years to protect this universe

Verses to continue...

Naalayira Divya Prabhandam - Birth star of 12 Azhwars - Chapter - 6

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 07:29:00 +0000

Naalayira Divya Prabhandam - Birth star of 12 Azhwars - Chapter - 6

Here is the list of all 12 Alwars and their birth star; There are festivals happening in their birth place temples during this star and month

As we all know, while there is birth star and month for Pogai Alwar, Boothathalwar and Peialwar, they are believed to be born directly

In next chapters we will further go into alwars and their pasurams / hymns

Verses to continue ...

Naalayira Divya Prabhandam - List of Alwars and their birth place - Chapter - 5

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 08:55:00 +0000

Naalayira Divya Prabhandam - List of Alwars and their birth place - Chapter - 5

Here we will see the list of 12 Alwars and their birth place. Without them we will not have got this 4000 Pasurams in Tamil

In next chapter we will see the star sign and month of each of Alwars

Verses to continue ...

Naalaiyira divya prabhandam - Its Uniqueness Chapter - 2

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 14:20:00 +0000

Naalaiyira divya prabhandam - Its Uniqueness Chapter - 2

Naalaiyira ivya prabhamdam is unique in many ways; first hymns that were written way back in Tamil, the 3 Alzwars are believed to be part of Dwapara Yuga and it also proves that Tamil has been in existence since then.

Above all, there is a famous verse which says " Perumal follows Tamizh" this is because in any vaisnava temple events, during thiruveethi ula, first the elephants will go, followed by musical instruments, then Divya prabhandam and then Perumal comes, which means Tamizh comes first followed by Perumal, this the importance of the hymns;

Brings back my Vishnu kanchi days where this event will happen for 10 - 11 days in a year across temples and each day there will be a vahana (carrier) on which Lord Perumal appears and comes through the major streets of the city and the ritual is same day after day with just the Vahana changes, the major event would be on Garuda vahana and the last one is Theru; this will be so tall that the city power lines will be switched off and the main prasadam would be brown sugar

coming back, the word Azhwar means 'the one who immerses himself in pure bakthi' and all of them are beleived to be coming from some part of Lord Vishnu; like Poigai Azhwar comes from counch ( Sangu );

List of Azhwars and the belief of their incarnation from Vishnu

Poigai Azhwar is from Sangu;

Bhoothath Azhwar is from Vishnu's gada;

Pei Azhwar is from Vishnu's sword;

Thirumalisai Azhwar is from Sudarshanam;

Nammazhwar is from Vishnu's commander;

Madhurakavi Azhwar is from Garuda;

Kulasekhara Azhwar is from Lord's necklace;

Periyazhwar is from Garuda;

Andal of Bhoodevi is from Lakshmi in her form as Bhudevi;

Thondaradippodi Azhwar is from Vishnu's garland;

Thiruppaan Azhwar is from the mark on Vishnu's chest;

Thirumangai Azhwar is from Rama's bow;

Verses to continue...

Naalaiyira Divya Prabhandam - Recollection of lost verses - Chapter - 4

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 14:09:00 +0000

Recollection of lost 4000 verses - Chapter - 4

There had been a phase after 700 odd AD most of this sacred hymns / pasurams had been forgotten or lost for generations.

There is place called Veeranarayana puram in Kattu Mannar Koil town which is some 15 kms away from Gangai Konda Cholapuram, this was the home town of a vaishnavate Nathamuni adigal or Nathamuniyar during 950 AD, he was born in Annuradha Natchathiram during Jyestha month. It is believed that he lived during either Rajaraja or Rajendra chola period.This place has a perumal temple Veeranarayana perumal.

Nathamuniyar has been a servant of lord in this temple and use to do seva every day thinking of lord. One day while he was performing his daily pooja, a group of devotees came Thirunarayanapuram in Melkote. They were singing the pasuram of Aravamuthey, a pasuram from Nammazhwar thirumozhi which was praising the lord Perumal from Kumbakonam.

The devotees ended this with these pasurams as these are " 10 out of 1000". These pasurams were so great that made Nathamuniyar happy and asked them to sing remaining 990, unfortunately none of them were aware of that.

This made Nathamuniyar not able to concentrate on anything and he started to Kumbakonam in search of remaining 990 pasuram along with his 2 disciples Melaiyagattazhwar and Kilaiyagattazhwar. From there he was asked to go to Thirukarugur, however he was not able to find anything, he again went 5 km east to Thirukolur. There he got the verses of Madura kavi Azhwar who wrote verses in praise of Nammazhwar starring with
Kannin Siruthambinaal ( கண்ணிநுண் சிறுத்தாம்பு ). He was able to get the 12 verses of this and he went straight to a tree and sat down and sung these 12 hymns 12000 times after which NammAzhwar appeared before him and handed over all the 4000 verses which we are reading today as Naalayira Divya Prabhandam.

After this he went back to his native Kattu mannar koil and started to spread this to all vaishnavaite temple and made a vaishnava sampradayam from then on

He also had couple of disciples with whom the spread of divya prabhandam started.

There is also an interesting aspect , Nathamuniyar's 'son name is Ishwaramuni and Nathamuniyar's grandson name is Yamunai Thuraivan, who is fondly called as Alavanthan, he continued to take the responsibility of spreading Vaishnavate sampradayam. His diciples include Periya Nambi, Thirukoshtiyur Nambi, Thirukachi Nambi. Alavanthar is the one who made Sri Ramanujar as Acharya after him;

The current vaishnavism is started with Nathamuniyar and with his direction Alavanthar and Sri Ramanujar started to spread and standardised it; He is the first guru of current Vaishnavaite Sampradayam;

In next chapter we will see little more details of 12 Azhwar , their birth place etc

Verses to continue...

Naalaiya Divya Prabhandam - how it started.... Chapter - 3

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 09:25:00 +0000

Naalaiya Divya Prabhandam - how it started.... Chapter - 3

We will see how first verses were written which was the base for the remaining 4000 verses. As mentioned earlier the first three Azhwars were believed to be from Dwapara yuga ( while some say during 7th century).

The first three Azhwar were believed to be born directly with no parents, like Poigai Aalwar was born from Vishnu's conch , Boothath Azhwar was born from Vishnu's mace and Pei Azhwar was born from Vishnu's sword.

I still remember my recent visit to Yathothkari Perumal temple in kanchipuram where saw the pond where Poigai Azhwar , though no water this requires some good maintenance, on the compound walls at outside there are notes left which highlights Poigai Azhwar birth reference and there is a shrine for him inside the temple...

http://goppuradarisanam.blogspot.com/2013/01/sri-yathothkari-perumal-koil-kanchipuram.html?m=1

Going back , once there was a heavy rain in a place near Thirukovilur and Poigai Azhwar found a small space to stay away from rain which can accommodate 3 ppl to stand , sometime later Boothath Azhwar joined in same place to hide from rain and Pei Azhwar also joined , it was so pitch dark and each other of the three Azhwar are not able to each other , however after a while Poigai Azhwar was able feel there is a fourth person in the room based on the feelings that got, during lightning he was able to see the face and it was so charm and peace and Poolai Azhwar right away knew it was Lord Vishnu and started to write 100 hymns on Lord and praying to have the light, he considered world as a big vessel and bakthi as oil in that vessel and surrender to got as a light , the hymn were called as Thiruandhadi , andhadhi means the ending letter of a verse will be a starting letter for the next verse, similarly both Boothath Azhwar and Pei azhwar also wrote 100s of hymns instantly and this is how Naalaiyira divya prabhandam started.

Even a paper that keep last week is lost and all will have a question how come a hymn written in dwapara yuga was available now, this is the blessing of God and Nammazhwar and Nathamuniyar.

Let's wait till chapter 4 to see how this happened...

Verses to continue...

Naalaiyira Divya Prabhandam - Why I wanted to scribe - Chapter - 1

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:34:00 +0000

Naalaiyira Divya Prabhandam - 4000 Divya Verses on Lord Vishnu - Chapter - 1

We are getting nearer to the month of Marghazi ( Tamil month), which is unique month for Hindu followers where it is believed that this is the early morning for all Devas and GOD ( approx 1 year is 1 day and Marghazi forms early morning ); hence during this month Viswa Roopa Darisanam is very famous in all ancient temples as people will long to see the god as first thing the moment temple is opened which is Viswa roopa darisanam;

The memories of me of Marghazi goes back to my childhood days in Kanchipuram; Usually marghazi is a cold month and people tend to have good sleep specially in early morning which i am doing today, however in my early days, as a child used to get up early during this month and sit at the outside of the house in a small stone and watch all the cows which were tied in line by their owners to draw milk for the society; ( in villages people do it and buy milk from that society, the so called organic today )

There was a small space ( still active ) in my street where near by street people will also come and join us to sing hymns in front of GOD pictures ( still remember a 7 feet Tanjore painting of lord Krishna), usually referred in local Tamizh as Bajanai koil at 5.30 AM and most of the kids and teen age students ( that's right , you are reading it right, kids and teen age folks mostly those days , a very rare / non existent sight these days ) get into the Bajanai koil and pick each instrument like drums, flute, nadaswaram and a small instrument that makes ringing sound ( called Jing Chuck ); usually I pick that up and sit next to a person who does drum ( after all these years I had a chance to meet him in my brother's marriage in 2013) and very first hymn starts "Pallandu Pallandu Palayirathandu Pala Kodi Noorayiram" and goes into Andal Thirupavai Pasurams for 45 mins;

while I sing and do this jing chuck sound in rhyming as anthathi ( ending phrase will be a starting phrase in next verse) multi-tasking activity which was done unknowingly and it continues till date and key aspect of management that was taught to me in my masters , my eyes will be looking outside the temple every 5 mins to make sure the pongal / sundal / sakarai pongal ( one of it ) is reaching the location of Bajanai temple for distribution at the end of singing hymns and this goes for all 30 days;

Infact it was one of the nicest ideas by elders to distribute food to get more kids and teens and involve them in hymns and bakthi; my very first memory of Marghazi goes like this and still brings me smile, happiness and the taste of ven pongal; without knowing in my age of 4 itself I started to get introduced to this divya prabandam of Lord Vishnu;

Naalaiyira divya prabhandam is all hymns on Lord Vishnu who is the savior of humanity and all hymns are about his kindness,love, beauty , grace and his blessings, this was all sung ,written workshiped and loved by 12 Azhwars at various centuries; The highlight of this is all written in Tamizh which is a unique feature as most of the hymns that we know were all used to be in sanskrit; These beloved 12 Azhwars were great devotees of Lord Vishnu;

This prabhandam has 4000 verses of covering Lord Vishnu in 108 temples visited and sung by these 12 Azhwars which are called DivyaDesams and majority of it is located specially in southern india with Srirangam Ranganathar temple and Lord Ranganathar being the first of these 108 divya desams where 85 are in Tamilnadu, 11 in Kerala , 2 in Andhra , 4 in UP , 3 in Uttarkand, 1 in Gujarat with the last one Vaikundam where the ultimate Lord Vishnu resides;

It is no wonder that I get introduced to Divya Prabhandam at the tender age of 4 because 15+ Divya desams are in Kanchipuram (Vishnu Kanchi ) which is my birth place and the first of all the Azhwars - "Poigai Azhwar" was born in Kanchipuram and I am blessed to be born in the same town which contains more spiritual history;

Verses to be continued ...

Back to posts - keep looking for updates

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 06:12:00 +0000

Back to posts

Thank you all for continuously visiting my blog and posts. I was in pause for more than 24 months; but still there has been consistent visitors and thanks to all of you;

I am back to blog and posts and will continue to start posting on spirituality, my Guru, his preachings,

Was pondering for a while if I could expand the blog to cover various aspects of spirituality and still primary focus on my guru and his preachings.

You can start seeing more posts covering various aspects of spirituality, spiritual books, my thoughts , Vedas and for sure about my Guru which is core and heart of this blog.

Thank you to all and your comments, visits are the motivational factor to keep going.

Do keep visiting the blog and also my other blog on my temple visits

Visit me there at http://goppuradarisanam.blogspot.com
for my visits to temple and its details..

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Appanacharya - The great devotee and Sishya of our Guru Raghavendra Swamy - Part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 16:43:00 +0000

Appanacharya - The great devotee and Sishya of our Guru Raghavendra Swamy - Part 2

Appanacharya has become so close to Guru Rayaru that he used to grind dhal to our Guru and both will spend most of their day time discussing about the Sri Hari on the banks of Tungabadra. During this time, Guru Rayaru understood the concern of Appanacharya and his family and advised Appanacharya to get into 2nd marriage, as per Guru's wish Appanacharya got married for the 2nd time and they both were blessed with the boy baby as per Sri Hari and Guru's wish and the lineage of Sri Appanacharya still continues till date and one of the family member of Appanacharya still lives in Bichali and maintains the Appanacharya's house where Guru and Appanacharya had spent their time during those days and the house is maintained in the same way and it is still intact

When Guru Raghavendra decided to get into Brindavana, the first thing he did was to request Diwan Venkanna to bring in a rock from Madhavaram, when Diwan brought, Guru knew it was not the right rock that he intended and also knew why this happened and asked Diwan to construct Brindavana and keep it open as it will be required by another Guru and went along with Venkanna and Appanacharya to Madhavaram and identified the rock by himself and told Appanacharya and Diwan the details of rock as it was the same rock where Lord Rama sat for 48 mins or 2 nazhigai when Lord Rama came in search of Sita devi towards Lanka and his wish was to have this rock as his Brindavana. Second thing Guru did was to request Diwan to bring him 701 Saligrama which advised to keep that on top of his Brindavana once it is shielded. Other important part that Guru did was to request Sri Appanacharya to go and inform others about his Brindavana Prevesha so that everyone is aware of it.

This came as a suprise to Appanacharya, however he did not question back Guru and went to perform his duty per Guru's ask and he hoped that he will be back with Guru on time.

However Guru's wish was different...

Image Courtesy: appanacharya.org

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Appanacharya - The great devotee and Sishya of our Guru Raghavendra Swamy - Part 1

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 16:43:00 +0000

Appanacharya - The great devotee of our Guru Raghavendra Swamy

Bichali is a place close to Raichur in the Karnataka side and separated from Mantralaya Andrapradesh by River Tungabadra. This is such a holy place because our Guru Rayaru stayed their for long time. Appanacharya is a great knowledge and guru to students in that area. Knowing his knowledge and magnitude people around the village started to send their child to him to acquire knowledge. Day by day his students strength started to increase and at some point, he was not able to provide food for every student and requested student to get alma or Biksha and it is quiet common during those time and people also recognize his students and provide food happily and hence the village was named as Bichali. Appanacharya is a strong beleiver of Madhwa philosophy with Sri Hari Sarvotama and vayu Jeevotama. There is strong saying that Appanacharya used to bake rice by tieing it on the branch of the tree where he teaches and exactly during afternoon when he opens the cloth, rice would have been baked. He does this regualarly without fire , wood and water which shows his devotion and knowledge.

Rayaru decided to get into Brindavana in Mantralaya ( read here why Guru chooses Mantralayam ) due to its importance and reached mantralyam and requested Diwan Venkanna to get that place for him. During that time he also crossed river Tungabadra and reached Bichali. Hearing Guru, Appanacharya reached him and requested to follow him whereever he goes. Appanacharya knowledge, obedience, devotion, kindness all attracted Guru and made him as his sisya. Both Guru and Appanacharyaru used to spend time for hours to talk about Madhawa philosophy, about Sri Hari for hours and hours. Still the place where they used to sit and talk is available. Guru Rayaru spend more than 4 - 5 years in this place and stayed in Appanacharya's house.

He infact do Moola rama pooja in the hall of the house and Appanacharya used to grind dhall and peanut chutney himself to Guru regularly.

Being so close and main sisya to Guru Rayaru, why Appanacharya was not there with him during Brindavana Prevesha, Why there is a Brindavana in Bichali when Mantralayam is just few mins away... will share this in next Thursday

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Significance of Saligramam / Shaligram in Mantralayam

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 14:52:00 +0000

Significance of Saligramam / Shaligram in Mantralayam

Sri Guru Raghavendra swamy resides in Mantralayam in 6x6 width and 7 feet height Brindavana doing Japam on Sri Hari, Sri Krishna, Sri Rama and Narashima devaru for the benefits of world devotees irrespective of caste, creed and location, being in that place itself gives abundance punya to everyone.

As we all know, there are 702 Lakshmi Narayana Saligramam's of same nature has been placed on top of the brindavana.

History of Saligramam / Shaligram

Legend has it that once Bramha was exasperated at the rate of increase of the sinners among his creation. Then drops of sweat rolled down his cheeks which inturn became a form of a female child called “Gandaki.” She did severe penance which became so overwhelming that the Devas started trembling before her. when she requested a boon to be mother all of them, Devas pleaded their inability, at which Gandaki became furious and cursed all the devas to be born as worms on the earth below.

The Devas in their turn placed a countercurse on her head that she should become inert matter. This made brahma unhappy and all the three turned to Vishnu, who said: “As already curse pronounced, it cannot be revoked. However Lord said: ” I shall take up my abode in the Chakra Teertha near Salagramakshetra. You, Devas, shall migrate to this hallowed region as “Vajrakitas” eating into the pebbles. Gandaki shall in the form of a river fill the universe enveloping the shilas hallowed by me.” Salagrama stones are obtained only from the river Gandaki, which is a Himalayan stream.

The puranas also describe it as a sacred stream in which all the gods and devas abide . By merely looking at it, dipping in it and drining it, one would eliminate all his mental defilement’s, by touching it his bodily sins are burnt up and will be liberated from the cycle of birth and deaths, even if he be a sinner.

So is the power of one saligrama and now we all know why our beloved Guru had requested to have it placed on top of his brindavana. Just having 12 of same Saligrama will provide a benefit of visiting 7 punya shetras. With 702 Saligrama on top of brindavana, one who visits Mantralayam will have the benefit of visiting all punya shetras.

Our Beloved Guru is there to take care of all our sins and guide us to the right way of living to avoid cycles of birth

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Sri Guru Raghavendra Swamy - Guru Parambarai / Guru Parampara

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:32:00 +0000

Sri Guru Raghavendra Swamy - Guru Parambarai / Guru Parampara

There is a big history and lineage on Sri Mutt in Mantralayam, was trying to get the details of Guru Parambarai and I was able to read books and gather few but not all. Luckily got through the below website where it had the entire list even 7 - 8 Guru before Madhavacharya, however not sure about the authenticity of that details, I started to list from Sri Guru Madhavacharya

Thanks to sriraghavendraswami.blogspot.in where I used the details as references. Tried to put this as a chart for easier understanding.

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Sri Baghawan Raghavendra Swamy - Guru Raghavendra swamy , Rayaru birth - life history - series 9

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:45:00 +0000

Sri Baghawan Raghavendra Swamy - Guru Raghavendra swamy , Rayaru birth - life history - series 9

Sri Guru Sudheendrar accepted Venkatanandan as part of Vidya madam and started to teach him and to enhance his skills in sastras and vedas and groomed him to be part of all sastra debates. venkatanandan started to learn and stayed there away from home to learn sastras.

Once during a teaching session, Sri Sudheendrar was stuck for an explanation in Nyaya Sudha. He indicated that he will explain next day. On the same day, Guru Raghavendrar started to write the explaination for the same and slept along with the palm leaves. Sri Sudheendrar was not able to get sleep as he was struggling to find explaination, while walking he found Venkatanandan was not in his regular sleeping place, so he went searching for him outside and found him sleeping with palm leaves near him, Sri Sudheendrar read the explanation and found it exactly to his way of thinking, he took his shawl and placed it on Venkatanandan. This shows the knowledge that Venkatanandan has over his Sastras and skills.

Very next day, Sri Sudheendar shared the explaination and told to all other students that this was written by Venkatanandan.
Days passed where Venkatanandan learned more and more on Sastras. During this time, Venkatanandan's elder brother Gururaja came to kumbakonam and requested Sri Sudheendrar that he will take his brother back to his home as he wanted to get him married as per his father's wish.

Guru Sudhendrar was not happy on this request, however Guru Vijayendar signed to let him know and this will only make him to come back to take control of Sri Matha.

Gururajar took Venkatananthan with him and found him a right partner in the name of Smt Saraswathi and got them married together in 1614.
Venkatanandan started to lead the family life and during this time Smt Saraswathi gave birth to a male child and they named him as Sri Lakshminarayanacharya. However with all these things, still Venkatanandan's mind was focussing only on Sastras.

During this phase, Venkatanandan started to teach Veena and Sastras to all the students in that agraharam, however he did not get any payment for that, however the parents of the students would provide him with rice , dal and others which helped Venkatananthan and Smt Sarawathi to lead the life

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Sri Baghawan Raghavendra Swamy - Guru Raghavendra swamy , Rayaru birth - life history - series 8

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:38:00 +0000

Sri Baghawan Raghavendra Swamy - Guru Raghavendra swamy birth - life history - series 8

Sri Sudheendrar was taking care of Sri madam from kumbakonam, during those days, Sri madam was in Kumbakonam, only after Guru Raghavendrar, this moved into Mantralayam. Thimmana battar was getting good names by his veena capababilities , so Sri Sudheendrar requested him to visit Sri madam, hearing this Thimmana Battar reached Kumbakonam with all his family and Sri madam took care of his needs.

Sri Sudheendrar, requested Thimmana to be part of each of the mutt event and asked him to perform veena, where his name became more popular. During those times, Thimmana battar will bring Venkatananthan with him, Seeing Venkananthan, Sri Sudheendrar eyes will become bigger because of his tejas and knowledge.

One day, when Sri Sudheendrar was telling to his Guru Vijayendrar about Venkatananthan, his Guru slowly smiled and told him that look at him, his tejas itself shows who is he and what he is going to do. He also told the instance of his Guru Vysarajar told to him about his re-birth. Guru Vyasarajar told him that he will be born again in the earth as per his wish in birth during Trithya yuga. Hearing this Sri Sudheendrar joy knew know bound, however Guru Vijayendrar told him to hold this secret as this is not the right time and there will be a right time when he will join as part of Sri Mutt.

So as days goes by, Venkatananthan has also learned Veena along with his brother Guru Raja, he also got his elder son Guru Raja married during this time, as Thimana was getting older and realized that he days are nearing, he called Guru Raja one day and told him that he will not live much longer and asked him to take care of Venkatananthan. In few days Thimmana battar left the world and reached GOD's feet.

Guru Raja was thinking of his father's last words on venkatananthan and finally came to a conclusion to send him to his sister's house where her husband Narashimachar who is famous and expert in all sastras in Madurai.

Venkatananthan started and reached Madurai where he spend time to learn Sastras from his uncle and he became expert in very quick time, this made
Narashimachar very happy and he thought of taking him to Sri Mutt in Kubakonam to show Venkatananthan's skills to Sri Sudheendrar and also have him join there to learn more Sastras and become expert

So Venkatananthan started with his uncle from Madurai and reached Kumbakonam where Sri Mutt was around. Seeing him again Sri Sudheendrar joy knew know bound and looked at his Guru Vijayendrar.

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My Painting of Lord Siva in cosmic dance

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:59:00 +0000

Again another picture i was drawing in paper while doing some craft work for my son... so took picture of it, again no expert, but always explore myself in drawing... so this is still a beginner...

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My Painting of our Guru Rayar

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:57:00 +0000

This is something which i did in a paper and I then took picture, again i am not an expert, but i used to explore myself in drawing...

so again, this is an beginner drawing, but wanted to post it over here

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Power of Guru's Mrithika

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 17:52:00 +0000

The power of Guru Raghavendra Swamy mrithika

Once a sishya of Guru Raghavendra swamy was keen to get married, so he directly went to Guru , without him opening his mouth, Guru understood his intentions, he right away took the mrithika from the ground and gave that to his Sishya and requested him to carry it with him and informed him that his wishes will be fulfilled that he will get a good wife.

With Mrithika, sishya went to his native , during the walk, it become night and he stayed on the outside of a hut where he heard the sound and cry of a female, he slowly enquired the background, a girl from the house came out and informed that his sister is going to give a birth, however a brahma rakshasha would come right after birth to take the kid.

Sishya was surprised and inquired further, the daughter's father informed that due to curse from his elders they are going through this and do not know what to do, by the time, his daughter gave birth to a kid and sishya also saw brahma rakshasha standing outside.

The girls father was begging towards the rakshasha, however with no mercy, rakshasha wanted to take the kid, knowing all this, sishya requested rakshasha to stop and showed the mrithika in front of him, it was so powerful that rakshasha was not able to get into the house.

Now sishya realized the power of mrithika, and cautioned the rakshasha again, however without knowing rakshasha moved forward, sishya prayed to guru and throwed the mrithika over rakshasha, soon after this, rakshasha was changed into a beautiful man and thanked sishya for saving him from the curse and dis-appeared.

The girl's father was so happy and thanked him and enquired about the mrithika and thanked guru standing in his house, when he came to know about sisya's intention and travel, he happily requested him to marry his second daughter.

Sishya happiness knew know bounds as he was worried that he do not have anyone to help him getting married, however Guru knew everything and guided him to get the right wife

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Posts

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 17:09:00 +0000

It has been several months since i posted in this blog, to be precise, almost 2 years, while i am going through one of the toughest phases of my life, my belief towards beloved Guru Raryaru has been increasing multiple folds.

complete surrender towards Guru will only help us to get rid of all sorrows...

Will start writing my devotions towards our Guru from now on... atleast one post every thursday

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2015 - Aradhana to my beloved Guru started

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 06:38:00 +0000

I was unable to keep my promise of posting updates every Thursday. It has been one tsunami phase of my life me where all are going upside down. My only source of strength is my Guru.

Today being Poorva Aradhana wanted to remind all devotees to chant and get the blessings of Guru. While lucky devotees are in Mantralayam, there are more of devotees like me who are unable to go there for various reasons, pls. think of Guru during this time to get rid of all our sins and help to elevate our current level to next level to take our Jeevathama nearing Paramathma

30-Aug-15(Sun) : Poorva Aradhana

31-Aug-15(Mon) : Madhya Aradhana

01-Sep-15(Tue) : Uttara Aradhana

Sarvam Krishnarpa Namasthu

Chant Guru Stotram - Guru Pushya Arka Yoga - Apr 26th 2015

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 07:02:00 +0000

It has been more than a year since I posted a blog. I had been into multiple stuff and unable to post in both of my blogs. I will try to do this every thursday from now on.

Wanted to re-start requesting devotees to chant Guru Stotram on Guru Pushya Arka Yoga which occurs on Apr 26th Sunday.

Basically Pushya Arka Yoga is a combination of Pushya natchathiram that falls on Sunday. Singing Guru stotram and chanting Guru's name on this day will get rid of all evils in life and bring prosperity and happiness.

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Sri Guru Raghavendra Swamy - Mrithika Sangrahanam ( Collection )

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 16:35:00 +0000

On every year during Ashada Shudha Poornima, Mrithika Sangrahanam will be performed in Mantralayam Sri Guru Raghavendra Mutt.

For this year, Mrithika Sangrahanam was performed today 7/12 by Shri H.H Swamiji in Mantralayam.

Holy Mrithika was collected from Tulasi Garden between Mantralayam temple and Tungabatra river. Swamiji collected the Mrithika and it was brought in Swarna Pallak to Shri Guru Raghavendra Swamy brindavanam and will be placed on top of our Guru's Brindavana.

For Details about Mrithika, kindly visit this post About Guru's Mrithika

Sri Raghavendra Swamy Guru Pujai - ஸ்ரீ ராகவேந்திர சுவாமி - குரு பூஜை

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:12:00 +0000

The full moon day during the month of Jul - Aug is known as Guru Purnima or Guru Poojai day. This is a sacred day where we need to Thank our Guru.

This was the day when the Guru Vyasa was born who authored four vedas and 18 puranas. It is also called as Vyasa Pooja.

Gu - meaning is darkness or ignorance , Ru - means clearing / removing. Hence Guru means a person who removes darkness in disciples life.

The easiest way to reach GOD is through GURU...

Image Courtesy : Facebook Guru Raghavendra Swamy page

We have several Guru's in the last few centuries starting from Lord Buddha, Guru Vyasarajar, Guru Raghavendra Swamy, Shridi Sai, Kanchi Maha Periyava, Sri Ramana Maharishi etc

Being a staunch devotee of Guru Raghavendra Swamy, I would urge all our devotees to spend few mins to pray and Thank our Guru's who are here to guide and direct us in right path.

As our Guru Raghavendra Swamy said, "Without right living, right thinking will never come"

Let's all pray to our Guru to guide us through right living and right thinking

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343rd Aradhana to our Beloved Guru Raghavendra Swamy

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 15:52:00 +0000

This year our beloved Guru's 343rd Aradhana falls on 11th, 12th and 13th of August 2014.

11.08.14 Poorva Aradhana, Simha Vahanotsava
12.08.14 Madhya Aradhana, Suvarna Rathotsava
13.08.14 Uttara Aradhana, Maha Rathotsava

At Mantralaya brindavana , Aradhana is commensing from 9th Aug to 15th Aug 2014 with a 7 day celebration and below are the schedule

09.08.14 Dhwajarohana, Go, Gaja & Lakshmi Pooja, Dhanya Pooja, Prabha Utsava
10.08.14 Rigveda & Yajurveda Nitya Upakarma & Shakotsava, Rajata Mantapotsava
11.08.14 Poorva Aradhana, Simha Vahanotsava
12.08.14 Madhya Aradhana, Suvarna Rathotsava
13.08.14 Uttara Aradhana, Maha Rathotsava
14.08.14 Sri Sujnanendra Teerthara Aradhana
15.08.14 Sarva Samarpanotsava, Rathotsava at Anu Mantralaya (Tungabhadra)

Dear devotees, pls try to perform seva during this time for our Guru who has been protecting us all along our life.

Invitation has been shared in the below two links

Aradhana Invitation - Full page
Aradhana Invitation - Two page

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A Long Gap

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 10:03:00 +0000

Dear Visitors,

It has been a very long gap for me to post articles. I am really sorry, multiple reasons and infact I did not even had chance to go to my blogger home page.

I will definitely start adding new articles from now on...

During this period of gap, I had multiple temple visits, read multiple different books, lot of experiences etc which I will start sharing with my visitors.

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