Invitation for shrIpAdarAja ArAdhana from shrI shrIpAdarAja swAmIji

June 7, 2002

Dear krishna-bhaktAs,

Please find attached the invitation for the 500th ArAdhana celebrations of shrI

shrIpAdaraja at muLabagilu.

yiTTAnge yiruvEnO harIye..

Regards,

Girish Aswathanarayana

June 7, 2002

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Regards,

Girish Aswathanarayana

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" Girish Aswathanarayana " <girish

<girish

Thu, 6 Jun 2002 23:58:24 -0500

>Dear krishna-bhaktAs,

>

>Please find attached the invitation for the 500th ArAdhana celebrations of shrI

shrIpAdaraja at muLabagilu.

>

>yiTTAnge yiruvEnO harIye..

>

>Regards,

>Girish Aswathanarayana

>

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|| Sri Gopinatho Vijayathe ||

Srimath paramahamsa

parivrajacharya Srimath Vaishnava siddantha prathistapanacharya Sriman

Madwacharya moola maha samsthanadeeshwaradha Sri Padmanabhatheerthara

paramparadeesharadha Sri Hayavadana Rangavittalathmaka Sri Gopinatha devara

divya pada padma aradakaradhha Sri Sripadaraja Varavidya simhasanadeeshvaradha

Sri Sripadaraja matadheesharada Sri Sri Sathyanidhi theerthara karakamala

sanjatharada Sri Vijayanidhi theertha Sripadangalavara varakumararada Sri Sri

Vignananidhi theertha Sripadangalavu

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</DIR>Dear

Devotees,

With the blessings of our gurugalu and by the grace of our

aradya murthi

Sri Gopinatha devaru, till date we are keeping good health

and continuing our age-old practice of Annadana and Vidyadana.

Sri Sripadaraja entered brindavan alive in 1502 AD and hence

500 years have passed away since then. On the this June 2002, 5 centuries will

be completed and it will be the commencing of 6th century,

Sri Sripadaraja's birth completes 6 centuries. Observing 6th

century leads us to over come six prime enemies. Hence we have decided

celebrate the concluding function in a very big scale 15 days function

commencing form 11th June to 24th June 2002.<P

ALIGN= " center " >Poorvaradana on 22nd June 2002

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ALIGN= " center " >Madyaradhana & amp; car festival on 23rd June 2002

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ALIGN= " center " >Uttaradana on24th June 2002.

We are inviting all hari bhakthas to come to Mulbagal, the

seat of Sri

Sripadaraja, participate in the annual aradana, be blessed by

the great saint so that you can be relieved from the birth and death cycle, the

ultimate aim of all Mankind.

With Narayana smaranas,

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Sri Sri Vignananidhigalu<DIR>

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Camp: Mulbagal

01-May-2002<DIR>

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For further information, Pl. contact

Agent

Sri Sripadaraja Mutt

Narasimha theertha

Mulbagal - 563131

Contact person: H B Jayraj

Phone (0815) 542111, 542686</TD>

Agent

Sri Sripadaraja Mutt

Raghavendra Colony

Chamrajpet

Bangalore – 560 018

Contact person: Sri H B Lakshminarayana

Phone (080) 6587207</TD>

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Important programs of Sri Sripadaraja Aradhana – June 2002

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ALIGN= " center " >22-Jun-2002 (Dwadashi – Poorvaradana)<DIR>

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Morning – Aradana

functions

Cultural programmes starts from 10.00 am onwards

Evening – 5.30 PM

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Kalyanotsava of Sri Srinivasa

devaru – Around 4000 people (2000 dampathis) will sit, do Kalyanotsava

sankalapa and perform Sri Srinivasa & amp; Goddess Padmavathi devara

Pooja.</DIR>

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COLOR= " #800000 " >23-June-2002 (Chaturdasi – Main Aradana)<DIR>

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Morning – 9.30 am<DIR>

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1008 silver kalasha Milk abisheka followed by panchamrutha to Sri Sripadaraja

moola brindavana </DIR>

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10.30 AM - Car festival and

aradana functions

Evening – 6.30 PM<DIR>

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During Sri Sripadaraja’s days, Chandragiri King Sri Chaluva Narasimha

performed Ratnabhisheka to Sri Sripadaraja to show his guru bhakthi. On the same

model the present Swamiji has planned to perform Ratnabhisheka to Sri

Sripadaraja, in a decorated Raja Simhasana.</DIR>

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24-Jun-2002 (Poornima –

Uttaradana)<DIR>

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Morning – Aradana

functions

Evening – 6.30 PM<DIR>

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At the sacred tank, Sri Narasimha theertha, Teppotsava to Sri Sripadaraja

along with Hanuma and Narasimha devaru.</DIR>

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MAIN SEVA

DETAILS

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<LI>Kalyaotsava seva on

22-June-2002 – Rs. 500/-

<LI>Silver kalasha seva on 23-June-2002 – Rs. 2000/- each

kalasha

<LI>Ratnabhiseka seva on 23-Jun-2002 – Rs. 600/- each gold

coin

<LI>Annadana seva on 23-Jun-2002 - Rs. 25,000/-

<LI>Annadana seva on 22nd / 24th- Rs. 15,000/-</LI></OL>

-: Brief write-up on Sri

Sripadaraja:-

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Sri Sripadaraja the king 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 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, he was blessed by Narada Maharishi with dwadashakshara 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 folded 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 eyes 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 brammaklpa 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 & amp; 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 life time in a place designated for the purpose in

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

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

Sripadaraja.

Sri Sripadarja believed in the theory of " Service to mankind

is service to God himself " 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 of his

brindavan.

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 planquine used by the kings, etc. which is not to be had to an

ordinary saint. 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 and is still blessing the devotees who come

for his darshan.

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