Shri JayathiirTha Aradana by SVBM / VMS (West Coast)

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> Shri JayathiirTha Aradana by SVBM / VMS (West Coast)

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> 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.

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