Introduction of our bhajans group

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Pranams

 

We are devotees of Sathguru Sri Gnanananda Giri

Swamiji who was sankaracharya to Jyothi Mutt, one of

the four maths found by Sri Adi Sankara Bhagavadpada.

Sathguru Gnanananda was a gnani of par excellence. He

lived> a very simple yogic life. He never

discriminated between the forms of God, whether it is

Siva or Vishnu which are only different forms of the

same Brahman. He welcomed all sorts of people and

presented his way of spirituality which is purely

based on love and humanity. He respected even a small

boy. He had equal vision to all his devotees whether

they are rich or poor, illeterate or learned, brahmin

or non-brahmin. He fed to all who come to his

Thapovanam. He had travelled far and wide and finally

rested at Sri Gnanananda Thapovanam which is in

between Tirukovilur and Thiruvannamalai, Tamilnadu.

He left his mortal body on 7th January 1974. He was

and being worshipped by many great saints, spiritual

aspirants and other devotees.

 

Even today his shrine and ashram gives solace to those

who come there.

 

It is not possible to write about him fully in this

email. You can read "Sathguru Gnanananda" an english

book released by Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan during 1975

which is available even now. "Sri Gnanananda

Dharisanam" is a tamil book released by one of his

disciples Swami Nithyananda Giri which

accounts Swami's various ways of compassion poured on

his devotees on various occasions. It also gives

details about his life sketch. "Gnana Inba Veli" is a

book released by the Ashram contains Swami's writings

and lectures. You can go through these books if you

want to know about him to some extent.

 

We should surrender our ego to the Ultimate and with

the grace of Guru and Sathsang our aim should be to

find the spark of God within ourselves which is called

the Athman.

 

Regarding singing on Sathguru Gnanananda. We believe

that Guru is not limited with his mortal body and he

always lives as in sukshma roopa (formless form or

spirit) in the minds of his devotees. So Swami

Gnanananda is our Sathguru and Brahma Guru (the guru

ultimate) and it is correct to remember him always and

sing in praise of him.

 

 

The theory of bhajan can be had from

www.naamasankeerthanam.com , our friends' website. If

you want we can also arrange to send you our bhajan

audio tapes. Alternatively if you can arrange bhajan

programmes at your place, we can also come over there

to perform the same.

 

As you know bhajan is a big ocean of nectar and and it

has got so many aspects to be studied.

 

We are basically a non-commercial bhajan group. So we

do not intend to charge anything as fees but would

like to be charged by the namasankeerthan. Any

expenses incurred in sending you the bhajan tapes or

to come to your place with our bhajan group has to be

met by you. Otherwise, we would like to offer our

renderings only as a service to the Lord, ofcourse,

the instrumentalists (Mrudangist, Dolkist and

Harmonist) should be paid according to the nature of

the programme, i.e., whether it is a two hour bhajan

or two days programme like Sri Radha Kalyanam.

 

We also render spiritual discourses.

 

We have a bhajan shrine at Ullagaram, Chennai and

whatever gifts we get in terms of money or kind is

being utilised to meet the maintenance and pooja

expenses of the bhajan shrine of Sathguru Sri

Gnanananda giri swamiji and Lord Panduranga.

 

Regards

Ever in the service of Sathguru & Vittal

T.Balaji

Sathguru Sri Gnanananda Bhajan Mandali

New no.16, Old no.38, Perumal Nagar Main Road

Ullagaram, Nanganallur P.O., Chennai 600 061

INDIA

Phone:091-44- 224 1556

 

 

 

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