shrI maDhva navami celebrations (2nd Feb., 2001)

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Dear Haribhakthas,

Namaskaragalu.

 

With the anugraha of shrI hari-vAyu-gurugaLu, the SVBM & VMS West

Coast Chapter have decided to celebrate maDhva navami on 2nd

February,

2001. We are thankful to Smt. Shubha and shrI Seshagiri Rao for

hosting the function.

 

The venue is given hereunder:

Club House of Family Tree Apts

1000, kiely blvd,

Santa Clara CA 95051.

 

Schedule is as follows:

2nd Febraury, 2001 (Friday)

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7.30 p.m. - 8.15 p.m. - thArathaMyOktha Bhajana

8.15 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. - pArAyaNa of shvAsha samDhi

(shrImadhDharikaThAmRuthasAra)

8.30 p.m. - 9.30 p.m. - 'gAyathrI vaibhava' - A pravachana by

shrI Balu

9.30 p.m. - 9.45 p.m. - mahAmamgaLArathi and sarva samarpaNa

9.45 p.m. onwards - thIrTha prasAdha

 

 

Please attend the celebrations and invoke the blessings of

shrI hari-vAyu-gurugaLu.

 

Please RSVP by Thursday (tomorrow) Evening.

 

With Best Regards

SVBM & VMS West Coast Chapter, California.

 

For enquires, Pl. contact:

 

Raghavendra: (408)-249-4798

Sathya: (408) 252-9170

Balu: (510) 792-8742

Seshagiri: (408) 739-3884

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Dear Haribhakthas,

 

2nd Feb 2001, Friday is the Aradhana day of our great guru Shri

Acharya. i.e Shri Madhva Navami. This is a very auspicious day for all

of us and grand celebrations is planned in many places in US as well as

in India. Here are my thoughts just to share with you all.

 

Due to recent devastating earthquake in Gujarat, India, thousands of

people have lost their family members and properties. Every one of you

might felt very sad after reading/hearing about the extent of the

damage done to people and properties. My interest is to know

 

1) What is explanation for this kind of suffering due to nature's fury

as per our " sasthra " ? What about those thousands of young and old who

got crushed and died? Can we compare these mass deaths to that of great

wars of Mahabharatha/Ramayana?

 

2) Also is there any mention about earthquakes in any of our any of

sanskrit/other literatures. I think there is some mention about some

abnormal signs in nature whenever there was incident like birth of

Ravana or Duryodhana but is there any specific mention about earthquake

anywhere in olden literatures?

 

3) Don't we have any collective " do " s at this moment, apart from our

individual sympathy/ contribution towards the victims? Do we have

" shanthi mantra” that can be included in our sthothra parayana, for

those suffering souls? (if it is permitted as per our sastra !!)

 

These are just my thoughts and please suggest.

 

Shri Hari Priyatham.

B.Gopalakrishna

 

 

 

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Dear friends,

 

" GOPALAKRISHNA.B VARNA " wrote:

 

> 2nd Feb 2001, Friday is the Aradhana day of our great guru Shri

> Acharya. i.e Shri Madhva Navami. This is a very auspicious day for all

> of us and grand celebrations is planned in many places in US as well as

> in India. Here are my thoughts just to share with you all.

>

> Due to recent devastating earthquake in Gujarat, India, thousands of

> people have lost their family members and properties. Every one of you

> might felt very sad after reading/hearing about the extent of the

> damage done to people and properties. My interest is to know

>

> 1) What is explanation for this kind of suffering due to nature's fury

> as per our " sasthra " ? What about those thousands of young and old who

> got crushed and died? Can we compare these mass deaths to that of great

> wars of Mahabharatha/Ramayana?

Natural calamities of various kinds like floods, draught,

Quakes, fires, have always been with humanity since time

immemorial and are usually carried forward in historical stories

in the form of myths. For instance, the stories of Indra

" cutting " the wings of great mountains to ground them

permanently on earth, and to prevent them from flying hither and

thither destroying creatures beneath them (remember the Mainaka

Parvatha incident from Ramayana) could well be one such - based

on a bombardment of asteroids to the earth, a long while back.

Mention of quakes is usually associated with calamitous events

in human history. Stories of Hiranyaksha, Madhu and other

daithyas taking the earth itself " away " etc could well be based

on racial memories of large calamitous events. It is obvious

that our rational thinking gets strained to incredulous limits

when we see that Nature's events like these seem to destroy

" mindlessly' the good and the bad, young and old and do not

leave behind any thing, which permits some rationalisation in

the form of a Law for Karma, sins, merit etc. There is beautiful

story written by Arthur Clarke about the Biblical mention of a

bright star over Bethlehem, when Jesus was born, being actually

an event which was calamitous to the the living beings on a

planet orbiting a Star like this. The one unmistakeable lesson

that we get from al these is that the Universe (Read God) is

unimaginably vast and great compared to the humans, and what we

think is the power of the intellect triumphing over nature is a

minor event in the cosmic scheme, presided over by the creator,

just like a cross current of water flowing backwards locally in

a devastating flood. Who can guage the cosmic purpose?

 

> 2) Also is there any mention about earthquakes in any of our any of

> sanskrit/other literatures. I think there is some mention about some

> abnormal signs in nature whenever there was incident like birth of

> Ravana or Duryodhana but is there any specific mention about earthquake

> anywhere in olden literatures?

I do not think that Seetha disappearing in Mother earth, was a

purely local earth quake which conveniently included her and

left behind all onlookers. When we talk about beings with

spiritual powers, there is no need to look for such extreme

implausible rationalisations. We may possibly find some

allegorical explanations or take it as it is. An event like the

baby Bhima, who destroyed the Shathashringa mountain into a

hundred pieces, when he fell on it accidentally should have

really caused a major tremor - but one should not attempt to

rationalise it into a miraculous survival of Bhima in a natural

earthquake! All these events speak about souls with

extraordinary powers demonstrating them in an indubitable

manner.

>

> 3) Don't we have any collective " do " s at this moment, apart from our

> individual sympathy/ contribution towards the victims? Do we have

> " shanthi mantra” that can be included in our sthothra parayana, for

> those suffering souls? (if it is permitted as per our sastra !!)

Our duties enjoined on us by the Shasthras are clear. We should

all do our best to help minimise the suffering. Our prayers

would be far more meaningful, if we really got down to some

concrete action. Our adage " Sarve janah sukhino bhavanthu "

exemplifies this basic tenet of our Shasthras.

NAPSRao

>

> Shri Hari Priyatham.

> B.Gopalakrishna