Report of visit to Sri Krishna Brindvan at Los Angeles......

[Guest guest]

|| Sri Harihi OM ||

 

With the grace of Sri Hari, Vayu, Gurugalu, members of SVBM/VMS

visited

Sri Krishna Brindavan last Weekend. It was a very divine experience to be in the

august

presence of Sri 108 Sri Sugunendra thirtharu observing Chaturmasya in the Los

Angeles area,

sannidhi of Sri Vittala Devaru and the samsthana deities of Sri Madhwacharya

moola samsthana

Sri Upendra thirthara Sri Puttige Mata, Udupi.

 

We left on Friday evening from SF Bay area and reached in the early hours of

Saturday morning.

We reached the premises of Sri Krishna Brindavan around 9.30AM and after snana,

sandhya we started

the day with Bhajane karyakrama in the morning. Later witnessed the grand

samsthana pooja by

Srigalu assisted by Sri Ramdas Adiga and enjoyed the delicious thirtha prasada

prepared by Sri

Kodancha

(vrathada adige).

 

The evening activities started with a grand Harikatha by Sri Vidwan

Vadishachar on the

topic " Sri Rukmini vivaha " , in the auspicious presence of Sri 108 Sri Sugunendra

thirtharu.

Sri Vadishachar delivered with his unique style of rendering appropriate

devaranamas in perfect

context to the main topic. His narration led to the song " ubba beda ubba beda "

and quoted the

arrogance & ahankara showed by Rukmi the brother of Sri Rukmini towards getting

his sister

married to Lord Krishna. The harikatha kept the audience spell bound with his

melodious singing

with thalas in both hands, expressing emotions with tears occassionly, and with

lagu hasya.

At the conclusion of Harikatha Sri Swamiji blessed Sri Vadishachar with a

garland.

 

The Evening Tottilu pooja started with the melodious singing of Sri

Vadishachar and

the chanting of Sri Sukta, Sri Venkatesha stotra, Sri Krishna stotra. Srigalu

performed the

totiilu pooja to Lord Krihna and in his pravachana narrated the chaturmasya

krayakrama.

Sri Swamiji also announced the pratishtana of the utsava moorthys on August

22nd.

Srigalu annonced that Sri Udupi Krishna will be coming to Los Angeles and also

the mruthika

brindavana of Gurusarvabhoumaru - Shri Raghavendra Swamigalu (similer to NJ

temple).

He also announced 12 main programs during the chaturmasya

period. The evening program concluded with the prasada prepared by Sri Kodancha.

 

We had a unique experience on Sunday of tapta mudradarane - being so far

away from our

Karma bhoomi. The morning activities started with Sri Sudarshana homa by Sri

Vadisha char

in the prescence of Srigalavaru. We did sankalpa and had 'Panchagavya'. Sri

Vadishchar explained

the details of the homa being performed and the homa lasted for about 2.5 hrs.

 

The most significant goal of our yatra was to have mudradarane by Srigalu

in this

auspicious

Adika shravana masa period was fulfilled at the conclusion of the homa. Srigalu

explained the

significance of the pancha mudradarana - a must for all the Vishnubhaktas. The

big gathering

of about 30-40 people were offered Mudradarane by Srigalavaru.

 

After the conclusion of the mudradarana Srigalavaru delivered a short

pravachana. We all

understood the context of the previous day's Harikatha topic. Srigalavaru will

be undertaking the

translation of Sri Bhavisameera Sri 108 Sri Vadiraja Swamigala sanskrit work of

" Sri Rukmeesha

Vijaya' to Kannada. Sri Swamiji delivered a very short discourse on the

significance of this

mahakavya.

Srigalavaru started with the unique style of Sri Kalidasa well known for his

'upamegalu' and the

works of Sri Bhana Bhatta for the meanings. Srigalavaru concluded that the work

of Sri

gurusarvabhouma

Sri 108 Sri Vadirajaru was decalred by all pandits as the one that surpasses the

works of all

these great writers. This short discourse narrated the significance of the kavya

by Sri Swamiji

and

I am not doing jusice in this report to capture his great short pravachana.

 

We witnessed the grandeur samasthana pooja and had thirtha prasada. We

headed back in the

evening after getting the blessings of Srigalavaru. We reached our desitinataion

late in the

night, with a great satisfaction of being in sannidhana & satsanga of Srigalu

and the group at

Sri Krishna Brindavan, Los Angeles, California.

 

Address of Sri Krishna Brindavan in LA:

 

Sri Krishna Brindavan

7807 shooup Ave

West Hills CA—91304

Ph: 818-992-5075

 

PS: Contact Sri Keshavaraj for the details of the activities at Sri Krishna

Brindavan

 

Sri KrishnArpanamasthu.

 

NamaskAragalu,

Sathya