Sunday, March 16, 2008
Astika-Nastika saMvAda
Sri Bharati Ramana mukhya prANa vijayathe
Sri Gurusarvabhouma Vijayathe
Sri Suvidyendra Theertho Vijayathe
namaste to Sri Aravinda Madabhavi, Hon. President, Sri Gururaja Seva Samiti,
to all the office bearers of the Samithi, Yelhanka
to Management & Staff of Sri Rayara Mutt, Yelhanka,
to Sri Krishnamurthy and family, Yelhanka
At the outset, MYP would like to thank you all for all the magnanimous gesture shown towards us and giving us a platform to showcase the program designed and delivered by
Sri Sheshagiri KM and Sri Thirumalacharya Kulkarni on - "Astika-Nastika saMvAda"
yesterday at your premises.
It was an overwhelming experience to have the devine presence of
Sri 1008 Sri Suvidyendra Theertharu blessing us through out the 1.5 hours session,
and more than 200 sadbhaktharu who were so engrossed in the convesation makes us think
this event is very well taken by the bhagadvat bhaktaru gathered there.
I am hopeful of getting associated with the samithi on a long term basis with the help of Kum Vedavati, who is not only the initiator and also the the main driving force behind the entire event with her personal involvement, commitment and participation. She sure is role model to all of us in hosting such jnAna karyas to take us all towards our destiny.
We would also like to thank:
Vidwan Sri Nagasampige Achar, Director PoornaPrajna Samshodhana Mandira,
Vidwan Sri Thirumalacharya Kulkarni, Poorna Prajna Vidya Peeta, &
Sri Sheshagiri KM for their participation, guidance and sharing the knowledge with us
MYP Core team joins me in thanking you people, for giving us this noble opportunity
and also for the blessings from Sri Hari Vayu GururagaLu in the form of Theertha Prasada and also the phal mantraxate from SrigaLu.
hari hyage nityanO hAge ee jeevanu nitya
hariyeMbO dhaNige ee jeevanu bhrutya
hari jeevaroLage heege thiLidavane
dhareyoLagendendigoo krutha kruthyanu
bhinna bhinna jeeva bhinna bhinna karma
vennuvudE ghanna tattvaMgaLu
anyathA nudiyalla innu saMshayavilla
ennodeya hayavadana balla
Sri Krishnarpanamastu
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Vyasa Pournime celebrations
Thithi: mAgha-Shukla-Pournime
Where: At the residence of Sri Srinivasa Prasad, Katriguppe, Bangalore
When: 0630 - 1330
Sri Hari Vayu Sthuthi Purascharane was started under the leadership of Sri Venkateshachar, followed by Manyu Suktha and Sundara Kanda Parayane. After this, we had the Pavamana Homa followed by a Pravachana on Sri Madhwa Mahime by Sri Satyadhyanachar Katti. We also prayed both Sri Madhwacharya and his arAdhya daivata and gurugaLu Sri VedyavyAsaru. We were all served with delicious teertha prasAda and offered special gifts of pictures of UM srigaLu, brindavana of Sri Raghotthamaru, samsthAna poojaof UM and also the sticker to exhibit on our main doors about we practicing Madhwa Philosophy. Our sincere thanks to Sri Vekateshachar, for his continued guidance and Sri Sheshagiri Rao & family for hosting the event
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
mAgha Snana @ Kaveri River
Thithi: mAgha-Shukla-Trayodashi
Where: Gosai Ghat, Sri Ranga Patna
When: 0330 - 0930
with the prEraNe of Sri Hari Vayu GurugaLu, some of the MYP members along with two of our esteemed Achars - Sri Vadirajachar Karnam and Sri Venkateshachar had been to the auspicious mAgha snAna at Kaveri River in Sri Ranga Patna.
We left very early in the morning at 3.30 to reach the Ghat by 4.30, and needless to sat we were the first set of people at the Ghat. After getting acclaimatised, we did our rituals of sankalpa under the guidance of Sri Karnam Achar and by the time we finished our Devara Pooja and other rituals, it was almost 7am.
We were also blessed by the Dandha Theertha from Sri Abbur Mutt SrigaLu and his ashirvAda.
Since the Sri Ranganatha temple was still unopened, we did a sAshtAnga namaskAra from the main door and returned back.
On the way back, we had the devine blessings of listening to a short pravachana by Sri Karnam Achar about the moola roopa of Sri mukhya prANa as depicted in Sri BaLitthA sooktha. Per this we need to have the awareness of both "bala" and "jnAna" roopa of vAyu dEvaru. The delivery was so absorbing that, none of us realised we had reached the bustling Bangalore and were already into the morning office traffic by around 9am. We thank both the Achars for their guidance, devine company and their blessings.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Sri Madhwa Navami Celebrations from MYP - 16th FEB @ Brahmanyapura
namaskAra to all our Madhwa BandhugaLu,
Madhwa Navami celebrations at Brahmanyapura organised by Madhwa Yuva Parishat which was a great success and with the grace of Sri Hari Vayu GurugaLu the event went on so well that it made our conviction towards our seva, sadhana and satsangha stronger than ever before.
At the end of the day long event, which started as early as 3am for few and ended as late as 10 pm, all that we were left with was one single request to Sri Mukhya prAna Devaru to bless us with more opportunities to seek, serve and savour Sri Hari through him.
As decided earlier, we started from the premises of Poorna Prajna Vidya Peeta with the

We reached together at Brahmanyapura at 8.15am.
We had few surprises on our arrival with a bad lake and lack of water, which was offset by the most generous villagers and the Archak family who accomodated us at their home for our basic needs. We also had a bore well with a non working hand pump.
We had the Archakaru ready with his samagri and so were the cooks, lead by Sri Jayanna
who came specifically on our request for this event. But all of us had one need, WATER !!!!!
We did not worry too much about it as we were sure Srimad Ananda Theertharu will take care of his own program, run by his own desciples. We started off with Vayusthuthi Purascharne with the leadership of Sri Venkateshachar. Also accompanying were -
Sri Gururajachar Kamlapur
Sri Badarayanachar
Sri Gururajachar Mathad &
Sri Itagi Vedavyasachar
all learned Sudha Pandits, who had gracefully accepted our humble invitation to bless us with their esteemed company and guidance.
By the time we completed the Purascharane, we were blessed with the running water and the electricity. Tasks of mukhya prAna abhisheka and Cooking got off to a good start.
Sri Venkateshachar started his pravachana on the first four sargas of Sri Sumadhwa Vijaya,

and at the same time, there were 4-5 villagers who came forward to repair the bore well, which was dead, for past few months. By the time the first part of pravachana was done,
we also got the water pouring from the bore well, which quickened the whole process.
Next to go was Sri Badarayanachar, who took us through the sargas 5 to 8. By the time he finished, we were called for witnessing the Panchamrutha Abhisheka of Avatara Thraya Sri Mukhya prANa, which is installed by yathi thrayaru - Sri Brahmanya Theertharu, Sri Sripadarajaru and Sri Vyasarajaru. As Sri Badarayanachar rightly said, its a triveni sangama, created by triveni sangama. We felicitated him as he had to leave right after the lunch.
The abhisheka was accompanied by recitation of suswara sookthas by all the Achars/Pandits and by gathered members of MYP. While the alankAra was in progress, we were glad to get the company of few bhagavadbhkatharu, lead by Smt Jayalakshamamma, who happens to be the Director of the SRS Mutt and also the President of the Bhajana Mandali at Channa Patna.
They also got us a decorated Pallakki with a PrabhavaLi for our utsava (Thanks to Smt Padmaja & Smt Kumuda). The pallakki was duly decorated, on which were placed the Sarva Moola Granthas, with a back ground of beautiful black & white picture of Sri Acharya Madhwa and a cute vigraha of Srimad Ananda Theertharu with all his described lakshaNas, a prized pocession of Sri KM Sheshagiri.
After three rounds of pallakki seva, accompanied by keerthanes of Sri

Inspite of a delayed start, where the first sparks of cooking fire were lit as late as 10am, we had the steaming food ready by 2pm. After we had the Achars start off, rest of the devotees enjoyed the liberal servings by Sri Jayanna, Sri Navaratna, Sri Venu who made sure all the 70 people were left gasping for some air who had eaten up till their neck.
The food included Badusha, Hayagreeva, Mirchi bajji, Payasa and the regular assortment, with the most liberal servings of ghee by Sri Narasimha Achar, who oversaw the needs and comfort of all the devotees while they ate food. The whole process of Bhojana would not have been so satisfying & fulfilling if not for the melodious recital of keerthanes by Sri Kulkarni's & Sri Chincholi's family, and ofcourse the Bhajana Mandali. We got to hear some rarest of the keerthanes of Sri Hari and avatara thraya mukhya prANa. The most enlightening thing was a quick one the fly Pravachana by Sri Sameerana Chincholi on the importance of Srimad Bhagavatha, which was appreciated by all the Achars and gathered people.

After our heavy food, we just took a break of few minutes and resumed our next part of pravachana rendered by Sri Itagi Vedavyasachara who explained to us about sargas 9 & 10.
His technicalities, examples and grasp over the subject reached people's heart and mind with a long lasting impact.
Next to go was Sri Gururajachar Mathad with the sargas 11, 12 & 13, with so much of sharpness in his delivery that it made all of us to feel proud we are desciples of such a siddhantha, initiated and promoted by such a ~jnAni, with a great contextual examples
We felicitated all the Achars, thanked them for the pravachana and their company with us.
We had a small Coffee break, and per our plan, proceeded to Abbur to the sannidhAna of
Sri Brahmanya Theertharu, where wanted to have the last part of Akhandha Sumadhwa Vijaya Pravachana and its MangaLa too.
We arrived at Abbur around 6.45 pm, after a brief break, Sri Gururajachar Kamlapur started off with Sargas 14 to 16 with his usual fire brand style. Inspite of a long and strainous day for all of us, starting at as early as 3am, it was nice to see, people enjoying the last part of the pravachana afte almost 16th hour. Sri Kamlapur Achar filled us all with such a pride and conviction of being a Madhwa while taking us through the last three sargas, we never knew when he recited the last few shlokas and made us all recite the same.....
namastE prANEsha praNatha vibhavA yAvanimagA
nama: swAmin rAma priyathama hanooman guruguNa
namasthubhyaM bheema prabalatama krishnEshta bhagavannama:
sri madhwa pradisha sudrushaM nO jaya jaya
After mangaLArati to Sarva Moola GranthagaLu along with Sumadhwa Vijaya books,
Sri Venkateshachar did the final wrap up and Sri Gururaj Upendra presented the vote of thanks, which included some of the MYP members and sponsors who could not make it to the event. We thank all those sadbhaktaru who helped this event both directly and indirectly,
and pray to sri mukhya prANa about them getting similar opportunities in the future.
The Abbur Mutt archakaru did the tottilu pooje and final mangaLarati and offered us the phala mantrAkshate.
mangaLaM mukhya prANEshage
jaya mangaLaM vAyu kumAranige
anjanAdEviya sutage mangaLam
seetha dEviya bAlage mangaLam
sanjeevana tandAtage mangaLam
sri rAmana bhantage mangaLam
athi balavanta bheemage mangaLam
prathi mallara geddavage mangaLam
sathiya seere seLeda daityarige
prithiviyoLage chandAdidavage mangaLam
ippatthonda taridavage mangaLam
dwaitha mathava sthApisidavage mangaLam
olida Shiri Krishnana poojeya mAdida
guru madhwa munirAyage mangaLam
- Sri Vyasarajaru
Sunday, February 10, 2008
MYP Events Update - FEB 9th & 10th...
Here is an update from MYP on the events we had during the weekend.
mAgha-Shukla-Dwitiya/Tritiya, FEB 9th, SAT:
Event #1
What: Sri Hari Vayu Sthuthi Purascharane & Madhu/Panchamrutha Abhisheka
Where: Sri Uttaradi Mutt, Chikpet, Bangalore
When: 0630 - 0800
Sri Hari Vayu Sthuthi Purascharane in the devine presence of Sri mukhya prANa, followed by Manyu Suktha and Sundara Kanda Parayane. Our sincere thanks to Sri Vekateshachar, for his continued guidance and Sri Bindu Madhava Kerur for hosting the event
Event #2
What: Music concert on the occassion of Sri Purandara Dasara Aradhana mahOtsava
Where: At the home of Smt Sripriya & Sridhar Srinivasan, RT Nagar, Bangalore
When: 1630 - 2130
A Music Concert by Dr. Priyasri and her students - Kum Sriya, Kum Kavya, Kum Kruthi,
Kum Rajeshwari, Kum Keerthana & Smt Namagiri, accompanied by Sri Sampath Kumar on Mridangam and Smt Bhargavi on violin. The event was attended by sadbhaktaru and sangeetha priyaru, who had come from all over BLR. The hosts had also arranged for evening snacks and night Dinner at their home. This would remain one of the most memorable events for the hosts, musicians and attendees for a long time for its ambience, seva, sangeetha, satsangha and ofcourse the food.
mAgha-Shukla-Chaturti, FEB 10th, SUN:
Event #1
What: Pravachana on the occassion of Sri Purandara Dasara Aradhana mahOtsava
Where: Chincholi Pravachana Mandira, Sri Chincholi's Home, Sri Nagar, Bangalore
When: 1100 - 1400
The program started at 11am with the Bhajane from Sri Murgod Dasaru, who had just arrived from his succesful trip to Hyderabad (ITMS) & Cheekalaparvi. He made us all get immersed in his unique style of music, anecdotes with each of the keerthanes sung and some mahime of those keerthanes.
Sri Vidwan Chaturvedi Vedavyasachar started his pravachana giving an introduction to Sri Narada munigaLu and his good natured deeds and also various humorous upa kathegaLu.
He walked us through the life history of Sri Purandara Dasaru, who is none other than an aMsha of Sri Naradaru with the help of various keerthanegaLu composed by him as well as
the mahime of Sri Purandara Dasaru as seen by other yathigaLu and Hari Dasaru.
The icing on the cake was a unique Mangala vachana, composed by Sri Dasaru, which made all of us dumbfounded. It goes something like this ......
..jaya mangaLam nitya shubha mangaLam
asura saMrakshage jaya mangaLam
kalaha priyage nitya shubha mangalam
Aa shishu pAlage jaya mangaLam
vidhavAgamanage nitya shubha mangalam
oddavagolidavage jaya mangalam
kaddavagolidavage nitya shubha mangalam
.......namma puraMdara viTalage mangaLam mangaLam
(incomplete.. lines)
The event was ended with Naivedya, Hastodaka and a fantastic Theerta Prasada session for all gathered.
Regards
Harish