Shri JayathiirTha Aradana by SVBM / VMS (West Coast)

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Shri JayathiirTha Aradana by SVBM / VMS (West Coast)

 

The weekend of July 14th and 15th was very auspicious, especially

for Madhva bhandhus in US as the aradhana celebrations of Shri

JayathiirTha was held at four different places of US and this is a

significant milestone in awakening of madhva community in US. I hope

to see many more centers coming up soon with Aradhana functions and

pray Shri Lord to bless the madhva community in US with more

determination and dedication for the strengthening and

propagation of Tatvavada. Here is a brief report from the SVBM / VMS

west Coast Chapter.

 

The members of SVBM \ VMS celebrated aradhana of Shri JayathiirTha

at Shri Sethuram Pandurangi's residence in Fairfield on July 15th.

Though it was a little long drive of 85 miles for most of the members,

the celebration went on, in the usual grand scale. Shri Sethuram

Pandurangi and family had transformed their house as a mini temple

for this occasion and the program started with the prarThana of

Lord Narashimha with Shri Nakha stuthi and continued with Shri Vishnu

Sahasranama, Shri Venkatesha sthothra, Shri Hari Vayu sthuthi and Shri

Sumadhva Vijaya ( first 29 shlokas). Shri Balu continued with the

taratamya sthothras and Shri Sethuram Pandurangi chanted the first 10

mangalacharana shlokas of Shrimannyayasudha. The groups continued with

the Shri Nyaya Sudha sthothra composed by MadanUru Shri VishNu

thiirTha followed by Shri Jayaraja stuthi composed by Shri Sathypriya

thiirTha. ( A handout of these stothras was distributed to all

devotees). Sthothra parayana was concluded with Shri Raghavendra

sthothra and shri Viajayarayara kavacha.

 

Then it was time to know something about Shri JayathiirTha, the

legendary scholar of dvaitha vedantha. We are blessed to have Shri

Madhavarao Padaki, with us on this occassion. A senior citizen( 82

years) blended with deep devotion and knowledge, yet very humble and

simple, Shri Madhava Rao started his talk with the a verse from Shri

Vijayarayara Kavachaa

" suraru ellaru ivara karava pidiyutha, taraLanandadi hinde

thiruguthirparo " .

Shri Padaki explained in very simple words how great our acharyas and

haridasas are and stressed upon the point that it is only by their

blessings we may get higher knowledge and devotion. Shri Padaki then

started narrating life history of Shri JayathiirTha. To make it

more impressive, Smt Subha Sheshagiri sang the song " dhayadi paliso

jayathiirTharaya ... " , composed by Shri Vyasa vittal. In this song,

the full life history of Shri JayathirTha is beautifully explained in

lay man's wordings and Shri Padaki made it very nice and memorable

with many illustrations. In between Shri padaki spoke in English for

few minutes for the benefit of non kannadiga devotees. Shri Padaki

also highlighted that praying Shri Acharya Madhva is befitting to all

occasions and he narrated few incidents in the life history of

Shri Acharya Madhva illustrating his supremacy in Jnana and

'bala'(power).

 

Before concluding Shri Padaki expressed his gratitude to great scholars

in 'Pandurangi' family and recollected his childhood day's visit to

Tirupathi to witness the Vidwath sabha, being organized by the

great saint Shri SathyadhyanathiirTha. Shri Padaki considered himself

blessed to get this opportunity to speak few words about Shri

Jayathirtha on this occasion and he appreciated the deep interest and

enthusiasm of Smt & Shri Sethuram Panduragni to host this program.

 

Afterwards Shri Sethuram Panduragi performed maha Mangalarathi to

Lord Shri Hari, Shri Vedavyasa, Shri MukhyapraNa , Shri Acharya Madhva

and to Shri Jayathirtha while devotees sang the dwadasha sthothra. Then

it was the time for thiirTha Prasad and thanks to Shri

Sheshagiri and team for the delicious items. This time we had a big

nice foam plates to enjoy the grand lunch, thanks to Shri Padmanabha

padaki who finally managed to get the plates after constant pursue

with the suppliers. The lunch seemed to much tastier and enjoyable

with these big plates, supplemented by melodious devara namas by Shri

 

Sheshagiri, Shri Sathish Jamakhandi and others.

 

The afternoon session was much more enlightening and befitting to the

occasion. Late Shri Gururajachar Pandurangi, father of Shri Sethuram

Pandurangi was a great scholar who was favorite student of Shri

Sathyadhyana thiirTha. He had devoted his life for the study and

propagtion of tatvavada and had taught many students over decades. As a

part of his 60th birthday celebration, he had performed

ShriMannyayasudha Mangala and we are fortunate to listen to the

cassette of the concluding speech that function. Shri Gururajachar

pandurangi had explained the rich philosophy and the importance of

Srimannyaya Sudha in a nutshell and it was blessing for all of us to

get an opportunity to listen to his voice through cassette. The

evening session was concluded with mangala and Shri KrishnarpaNa.

 

We convey our heartfelt thanks to Smt & Shri Sethuram Pandurangi for

providing us all the support in making this function a grand success.

 

On this occasion we would like to announce that Shri Madhava Rao Padaki

is conducting a class Shri Sumadhva vijaya, thrice a week and it is

highly entertaining and enlightening. Please make use of this rare

opportunity of learning from scholastic devotee who had seen this

country in 60's, well before many of us had come to this world.

 

We would also express our sincere thanks to Shri Shridhar and Shri

Pramod who have contributed a 'food processor' to SVBM cooking team to

simplify the preprocessing of delicious lunch items.

 

Our next program is Shri Raghavendra Swamy Aradhana at Livermore

temple. Please make it convenient to attend that function and get the

blessing of Shri Rayaru.

 

 

Shri KrishnarpaNamastu.

For SVBM/VMS

 

 

 

 

 

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