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murali krishna <muralihs

Thursday, June 08, 2000 1:42 P.M.

Mulbagal

 

 

Please forward this invitation to all your madhwa friends, so that they can

pray him if not they are able to come to MBL for darshan on aradana day

(15th).

 

Murali hebbani

 

|| Sri Gopinatho Vijayathe ||

 

Jagadguru Sriman Madwacharya Prathama Shisya Parampara

Sri Padmanabhatheerthara Moola Maha Samsthana

 

SRI SRIPADARAJA MUTT

(Mulbagal Mutt)

 

Annual Aradana & Car Festival

 

Of Great guru Sri Sripadaraja will be held on

14, 15 & 16 June 2000, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

Trayodasi, Chaturdasi & Pournima at

Sri Narasimhatheertha, Mulbagal

 

ARADANA & CAR FESTIVAL

On 14-Jun-2000 Thursday, Chaturdasi

 

Devotees are requested to attend the function and be blessed by Sri

Hayavadana Rangavittalathmaka Sri Gopinatha Devaru, the great guru Sri

Sripadarajaru.

 

 

Yours

 

Agent

Sri Sripadaraja Mutt

 

On all the three days Swarnavarnatheertha Vidvatsabha and Cultural

programmes from Thirumala Thirupathi Dasasahitya Project are arranged.

 

Sri Sripadaraja the saint of saints as he is known - is no other person than

the very incarnation of Sri Dhruvaraja, the son of King Uttanapada.

 

Prince Dhruva at the age of five, aspired to sit on the lap of his father,

king Uttanapada. But was denied of this privilege by his step mother Suruchi

- who exercised a great influence upon his king Uttanapada and told to

Dhruva the prince that he could only enjoy the privilege aspired for, only

on being born as her son. Being vexed at this, he was advised by his own

mother Suneethi to pray god to accomplish his desire. Accordingly, Dhruva

went to the dense forest to offer prayer to Lord Srimannarayana. On the way

to the forests, Narada Maharishi blessed him with dwadasaksara mantra for

his prayers. Prince Dhruva faithfully and strictly followed the advice and

started his penance, standing on the toe of his right leg with holded hands

and prayed the lord. During his prayers he preferred to pray with mere

eating fallen green lawns and water for some time and continued the penance

with mere water for some time. Further his prayers were continued by mere

breathing air for some time. When he could not see the lord even at the cost

of deep devotional prayers, he stopped breathing and prayed for the lord

with holded breath. This was the height of the penance of anybody at the age

of five, which is beyond the stretch of any imagination. This resulted in

the blocking of the breath of all the divine beings of the other world and

having suffered suffocation, the devas prayed the supreme to relieve their

suffocation when the lord supreme could not test any further about the boys

sincere prayers and immediately came down to the Dhruvaraja's place without

even informing his concert Srilakshmi and stood before the boy. However,

Dhruvaraja did not open his eye inspite of the Lord standing before him.

Thus the lord who was being seen by Sri Dhruva in his inside vision

disappeared from his inside vision when Sri Dhruva opened his eyes to see

the same form of the lord as was seen in his inner vision. At the sight of

the lord, Dhruva was dumb founded and could not speak anything because of

over joy. By the grace of mahalakshmi he was able to praise the lord who

bestowed him with the kingship of the kingdom for 36000 years after which he

was made the emperor of Dhruvamandala for a period of one brammakalpa which

is 100 years of Brahma

 

Dhruvaraja now being the kingship of Dhruvamandala placed in-charge of

controlling the navagrahas, the kalachakra, etc, and his loka Dhruvaloka is

situated 13 lakhs yojana above rishi mandala from where he controls the

movement of sun, moon & other planers. Dhruvaraja holds his office of the

emperorship of the Dhruvakoka for that period. Since this is an official

post - Dhruvaraja thought that he would not be entitled to attain moksha the

desired goal of every man. (to know about attributes of God in a

disciplined manner during his lifetime in a place designated for the purpose

in the universe i.e. Bharata. Accordingly, Dhruvaraja came down to the earth

in an amsha and assumed sanyasa to complete his sadana and goes by the name

Sri Sripadaraja.

 

Sri Sripadaraja believed in the theory of " Service to mankind is service to

God itself " and therefore he did not want the good souls to be deprived of

the real truth through which one can attain moksha. To accomplish this he

composed song (devaranamas) in the spoken regional language bringing out the

entire philosophy leading to knowledge as required to attain moksha and

hence he is a great social reformer as he believed that language is no bar

for getting knowledge. Before Sri Sripadaraja's times many of the secrets

leading to real knowledge were found only in Sanskrit language and some of

the good souls who had no knowledge of Sanskrit were deprived of this

valuable philosophy. But, for Sri Sripadaraja this bhakthi could not have

assumed the present status Sri Vyasaraja, Sri Vadiraja, Sri purandaradasa,

Sri Kanadaka, Sri Vijayadasa, Sri Jagannatha dasa, etc, continued his path

to uplift the deserving souls.

 

For fear of lengthy write-up about the achievement of Sri Sripadaraja, Sri

Sripadarja has distinguished himself by blessing those who take a mere

darshan as against the accomposments of their desires with the prayers to

kalpavrisksha, kamadenu & chintamani.

 

It is to be noted that Sri Sripadaraja though a sanyasi, is privileged to

have a princely dress i.e. he wears a crown, precious stone studded kavacha

- kasturi tialka, sreegandalepana (sandal paste applied to his body) and

palanquin used the kings, etc. which is not to be had to an ordinary

sanyasi. (The ear ornaments studded with precious stones, etc.)

Above all he had a knowledge of all the 64 arts and every day 64 special

dishes are prepared and offered to his Lord Gopinatha. He is the first saint

to enter the brindavan alive at the age of 100 and is still blessing the

devotees who come for his darshan.

 

It is therefore proposed to put-up a monument building around the moola

brindavanam of Sri Sripadarja at Narasimha theertha, replica of

Dhruvamandala.

 

Also to mark the 6th centenary of Sri Sripadaraja, which is to be observed

during 2001. The proposed building and allied works are estimated to cost

Rs. 10 lakhs at the current estimated market.

 

It is therefore we are putting this appeal before you all haribhakthas to

participate in this mega event.

 

You can have more information regarding this in the following addresses.

 

Agent

Sri Sripadarja mutt

Sri Narasimha Theertha

Mulbagal - 56 3131

Kolar Dist.

Karnataka

India

 

Phone 08159-42111

08159-42686

 

You can also get more information at our Bangalore branch

 

Sri Sripadaraja Mutt

Raghavendra Colony

Chamrajpet

Bangalore - 560 018

 

Phone 080-6529299

080-6602977

 

 

Yours

 

Agent

Sri Sripdaraja Mutt