Wednesday, September 29, 2010

SLOKA FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2010


Thouthu gaandharvathathvazhnou Moorchanasthanakovidou
Bratharou swarasampanou Gandharvaaviva rupinou
Rupalakshanasampanou Madhuraswarabhashinou
Bimbadivoththithou Bimbou Ramadehath thathaparou
Those texts written by sages are called aarshagranthas. SrimadRamayanam, Srimadbhagavatham,Mahabharatham are all aarshagranthas. Sages accumulate a lot of punyas( merits) during their lifetime.But they choose to gain wisdom and prefer the route towards moksha.Thus they do not enjoy the fruit of their merits.Hence they give all the phala ( fruit) of their punyas to those who read their texts. This is the reason why it is auspicious to read or hear the content of the arshagranthas. Sri Valmiki’s phalasruthi is “ Vishnoho balam pravardhatham”- Let this text give increased strength to the Almighty Vishnu”.Sri Rama too listened to the music of Kusa Lava ( Ramayana was set to music by Valmiki Himself). Thus He accepted Valmiki’s phalasruthi.
When sage Valmiki was composing the Ramayana Lava and Kusa stayed at Valmiki’s ashram, why they were even born at the ashram and being brought by Valmiki Himself. Lava and Kusa were bestowed with great sangeetha gnana. Some are blessed with sangeetha gnanam but their voices are crude. For some it is viceversa. They have beautiful voices but no gnanam. But Lava and Kusa were bestowed with both great sangeetha gnanam and wonderful voices. Their form resembled that of Gandharvas- beautiful and handsome. Jatabharam on their head, broad chest, rounded hands, the bark of a tree on their waists, veena in their hands- their appearance would be ecstatic. They resembled exactly Sri Rama. They were mirror like reflections of Lord Rama. Thus Valmiki chose Lava and Kusa as the apt reservoirs of Srimad Ramayanam.

Bhaktha Vijayam- Delhi









II Bhaktha vijayam- Delhi
FRom Aug 26th to 31st Sri Venkatraman and Pollach Sri Ganesan organized Sri Hari Anna’s Bhaktha Vijaya pravachanam at Kamakshi mandir, Delhi. The pravachanams were emotionally charged and scintillating. Many devotees were benefited by it. Radha kalyanam was conducted on 29th Aug at the temple premises.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

PAST EVENTS






I SRIMAD BHAGAVATHA SAPTHAHAM-GURUVAYUR
This year the sapthaham at Guruvayur was conducted from July 25th to Aug 1st. Srimad Bhagavatha sapthaha samithi headed by Sri Chandran organized the sapthaham ver well at the Rugmini Regency hall. There was a huge crowd f devotees and it was heartening to note that all of them assembled at 7.00 in the morning and stayed with pindrop silence till 7.oo in the night enjoying every bit of the parayanam and pravachanam. The pravachanam was delivered by Sri Hariji and Rangaji very beautifully. The lectures were both educative, spiritually elevating and enjoyable. Smt Vishakha Hari rendered the sangeetha upanyasam on Kunthis sthuthi and Bheeshma sthuthi.

VISHAKHA HARI'S PROGRAMS-OCT 2010

I PROGRAM AT BANGALORE
DATE: 23RD OCT
TOPIC: THE POWER OF THE DIVINE NAME- ENGLISH HARIKATHA
VENUE: GAYANA SAMAJ, CHAMARAJPET
TIME: 6.30 TO 9.00 P.M
CITY: BANGALORE

II PROGRAM AT BANGALORE
DATE: 24TH OCT
TOPIC: THYAGARAJA PANCHARATHNA VAIBHAVAM- TAMIL
VENUE: GAYANA SAMAJ
TIME: 6.30 TO 9.00P.M

III PROGRAM AT BANGALORE
DATE: 26TH, 27TH OCT
CITY: BANGALORE
VENUE: UDAKATHUR MUTT
TOPIC: THAYGARAJA CHARITRAM
TIME: 6.30 TO 8.30P.M

SRI HARI ANNA'S PROGRAMS-OCT 2010

SRIMAD BHAGAVATHA SAPTHAHAM- MUMBAI
DATE: 22ND OCT TO 28TH OCT
TOPIC: SRIMAD BHAGAVATHAM
CITY: MUMBAI
VENUE: MURUGAN TEMPLE, CHEDDANAGAR, CHEMBUR
TIME: 7.00A.M TO 6.30 P.M

EVENTS OF THIS MONTH - OCTOBER 2010

UTHSAVAM OF THIS MONTH
UTHSAVAM: NAVARATHRI UTHSAVAM
DATE: 8TH OCT- 16TH OCT
VILLAGE: PARANOOR

QUIZ ON SRIMAD BHAGAVATHAM- OCT 2010


QUESTIONS FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2010
1) Which God should one yearning for longevity (long life) worship?
2) Which God should one wanting beauty worship?
3) Which God should one yearning for moksha worship?
4) Those ears which do not hear Bhagavathgunas are equivalent to something which Suka refers to. What is that something.
5) Those eyes which do not see the Divine forms of the Lord are equivalent to----------------------. Fill up.

ANSWERS FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 2010
1) The earth
2) Hands
3) Mooladaram, Swadhistanam, manipoorakam, Anahatham, Vishudhi, Aagzha
4) Eyes-2, ears-2, Nostrils-2, Mouth1
5) Sadyo mukthi, Krama Mukthi.
SEPTEMBER WINNERS
1) Radhakrishnan Ramamurthy---------I--------20+10 points
2)Padma Narayanan---------------------I--------28+10 points
3) Karthik Venkatraman-----------------I--------28+10 points
4) Radhika Venkatraman-----------------I--------32+10
5) Srinivasan Sujatha S-------------------I--------44+10 points
6)Gopika Sampath------------------------II-------44+8
7) Girija Seetharaman---------------------II-------50+8
8) Sudarshana Narayanaswamy-----------III------28+6

KSHETRA FOR THE MONTH OCTOBER 2010


KSHETRA- THIRUVALLIKENI- KAIRAVINI KSHETRAM
There once lived a king by name Sumathi who was a dharmic ruler. He was a truthful and victorious king. He ruled the Thondaimandalam. Under his reign there was prosperity and peace all over. He once went to Thirumala for a darshan of Lord Venkateswara. The Lord pleased with his devotion said “ May you ask of me anything you want. I shall grant you.” The King said “ Iam unworthy of your compassion. But I would like to see that divine sport when you were the charioteer of that Arjuna.” The Lord at once agreed. “ I will show it to you when the time comes”. The king too returned to his palace.
Yet another time certain brahamanas came to the king and requested him to kill the rakshasas wandering in the forests of Narayanavana near Seshachalam. The King immediately left to narayanavana in search of the rakshasas. Hearing his shankanada the whole place was filled suddenly by a battalion of man eating rakshasas. The rakshasas started causing great havoc and ate up even the charioteer of king Sumathi. The king now in a fix, terribly fearing the proceedings meditated on the Lord. The Lord, the saviour of one and all appeared as the King’s charioteer. A turban in His head, with the lagan in His hands, sporting a moustache and with beautiful lotus like eyes.” Oh King, Do not worry. I shall drive your chariot. May you fight the rakshasas without any panic. It is definite that victory is yours.” That chariteer very well versed in charioteering captivated the king’s heart by his wonderful glances and adept driving. The King easily won the battle by the support of his charioteer. He wanted to honour the charioteer who atonce vanished. Only then the king came to know that his sarathy was none other than the Parthasarathy. He immediately began crying “ Why have you disappeared. Please come before Me. How unfortunate that I did not realize that it was none other than You who supported me in the battle.” The Lord said “ May you go back to your place and build a temple for me there. I shall show my form there”. Thus the king built a temple and it is Lord Venkatewshwara who manifested there as Parthasarathy. This is the Brundaranya kshetram.( near Allikeni). Hence known by the name Thiruvallikeni.