Sri rayara aradhana at VMS-MI

[Guest guest]

Dear Hari bhaktas

 

Sri-raghavendraswamy aradhana was celebrated here at

VMS-Michigan in a grand scale. Volunteers did a great

job in decoration of Birndavana and a wooden tottilu

for rayaru.

 

Our program started with stotra parayana by chanting

suprabatam, sukta-s, sri-visnusahasranama, vayustuti,

dwadashastotra, dashavatara stuti and krishnashtaka.

To get blessings from sri-rayaru we chanted

sri-raghavendra stotra 10 times in a traditional way

with 108 “om sri-raghavendraya namaha”

 

Sri-Gopinath Galagali started his discourse

explaining the meaning of the stotra composed by his

father on sri-rayaru. Sri-galagali explained the

meaning of “shapanugraha” which appears in

sri-raghavendra stotra. In this world there are lot of

people who can attain the power to curse some one, but

there are very few great satvik souls like sri-rayaru

who can convert shapa in to anugraha. Sri-galagali

quoted the example from Ramayana where dasharatha

gets the curse from shravana kumara’s parents for his

heinous action. This curse according to shravana

kumara’s parents dasharatha has to die in old age

while his sons are away from him. This curse in a way

became anugraha because dasharatha didn’t had any

children at that time so according to the curse he has

to get children and he will live till he gets old age.

Most importantly he will endure (burn the karma)

everything in the same life (janma).

Another example sri-galagali quoted from a very

recent time. During sri-satyadhyana thirtha

period(1910-1945 AD) pontiff of Uttaradi mutt there

lived a Brahmin who is also a great scholar by name

sri-Guru muddu acharya , it so happened that

Sri-Gurumuddu acharya developed a kind of severe

stomach ache during his prime age. Achar consulted

lot of doctors and couldn’t solve his stomach ache

later he was asked to seek the advise of

sri-satyadhyana thirtha, who later asked achar to do

seva at mantralayam and only sri-rayaru can alleviate

his pain. Sri- guru muddu achar later went to

mantralayam and did performed seva for couple of weeks

but achar didn’t find any signs of improvement.

Sri-gurumuddu achar later seek the advise of

mantralaya mutt swamiji (sri-sudhindra thirtha ?? not

sure !!) and achar was advised to do parayana of

SUDHA PARIMALA at the sannidhi of sri-rayaru

brindavanam. Because being a great scholar

(sri-gurumuddu achar) one should do seva in the form

of Jnana-yagna. At the completion of Sudha-parimala

over a period of months sri-gurumuddu achar was free

from his stomach ache and later he lead a healthy life

for 96 yrs. This is just one small instance to explain

the greatness of Sri-rayaru and his shapanugraha

power.

 

After a small break Sri-gopinath galagali continued

his discourse on sri-bhagavatam 5 & 6 skanda.

Sri-galagali narrated the story of Jada-bharatha the

life cycle he went through due to attachments.

Sri-galagali explained the quality of abhimana in

jeevas due to ajnana. This has been explained only by

sri-madwacharya in his gita-tatparya. In 6th skanda

sri-galagali narrated the story of Ajamila where

being a pious Brahmin Ajamila develops contact with a

prostitute and forgets his dialy duties. After some

time Ajamila experiences a feeling where he is on

death bed utters his last son name “narayana”. Due to

that there goes a debate between yama doota-s and

Vishnu doota-s finally Vishnu doota wins the debate

and take ajamila to vikunta. This experience was the

turning point in Ajamila’s life , later Ajamila spends

his rest 20 yrs in doing intense sadhana near the bed

of ganges. The message from this example is one won’t

attain mukti just by uttering lords name on the death

bed, sadhana has to be completed. Every one will have

some turning point in life like a “wake up call”

similar to ajamila’s experience. Nastik can one day

become Astik due to some experince. The next point is

people make mistakes and the solution is “pashchatapa”

which should lead to antharanga shuddi and is the

solution.

 

At 2.00 pm we had a mangalarathi and thitha prasada,

thanx to all volunteers who helped in cooking a great

food.

 

In the afternoon we had a concert from Dr Prasanna

kumar (vocal) , his wife manjula rao (violin) and

Rohan (14 yr old excellent mridangam player). Some of

the devaranama-s are

1. Biduvenyaa hanuma ninna

2. Krishna ni begane baro

3. Roga harane krupa sagara sri guru

4. nambikettavarillavo rangayyana

5. Thunga thira viharam bhajamana

6. Odi barayya vikunta patininna

 

 

At 6.00 pm Sri galagali performed Tottilu seva for

sri-rayara with devaranama “tugireraya tugire

gurugala “ composed by sri-jagannatha dasaru. Over all

it was a great day for all of us and cherished each

and every moment of stotra prayana, bhagavatam and the

excellent concert. Once again thanx to all volunteers

for the help.

 

with regards

VMS Michigan

 

 

 

 

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