Dvaita studies Gurukula school in Hubli.

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Here is a forwarded message from my friend in India:-

Interested persons can contact the below mentioned

address for any further details.

 

 

A unique institution has been imparting education in

Dvaita Dharma and tradition to a few students through

the Gurukula system in Hunli, Karnataka.

 

Started by the Mahacharya Trust, the Mahacharya

Vidyalaya selects students over nine years of age to

undergo the 12-year course in ``Sahitya, Vyakarana,

Tarka and Vedanta''. The vidyalaya, headed by Pandit

Pradyumnacharya Joshi, has just completed about three

year of its existence. Twenty students are being given

education there now.

 

Two students, who were under the tutelage of Pandit

Joshi even before the vidyalaya started, are now in

the last phase of their training, studying Vedanta.

The institution was opened last year when the pontiff

of Uttaradimath, Satyatma Teertha Swamiji, declared

open the new building and consecrated the

Venkateshwara Temple there.

 

The vidyalaya is the brain child of Pandit Joshi, who

has received education from ``Satyadhyana Gurukula''

founded by late Mahuli Gopalacharya. Pandit

Vidyasimhacharya now heads that institution, which is

said to be the ``cradle'' for training in Dwaita

philosophy.

 

Pandit Joshi wanted to develop an institution on

similar lines. It took nearly eight years for him

after returning from the ``gurukula'' to start the

vidyalaya. He started training two students in his

house. This effort later blossomed into the vidyalaya.

The Uttaradi Math Swamiji gave an initial donation of

Rs. 5,000 to start it. After that, help started

pouring in. This enabled Pandit Joshi to acquire a

site, construct a building and the temple. These have

developed into centres of spiritual activities.

 

Pandit Joshi said that such institutions were needed

now considering the trials and tribulations people

were undergoing due to the modern way of life. They

wanted spiritual solace, and the students trained in

the vidyalaya could provide that.

 

He said that education was given to them free of cost.

Their parents left them to the charge of the vidyalaya

for 12 years. Discipline and self-reliance were

inculcated in them.

 

Pandit Joshi is adept in giving discourses. He has

created a record by giving discourses on the Bhagavata

continuously for one year. Every evening, students in

the vidyalaya are given discourses on the Mahabharata.

On an ``ekadasi'' during the chaturmasya, Pandit Joshi

lectured on the Bhagavata for 11 hours. He gives four

to five discourses on some days at various places

without affecting the rituals in the temple and the

teaching schedules.

 

Pandit Joshi plans to start a ``goshala'', a home for

the aged, a ``dhyana mandira'' and a project for

performing ``upanayanam'' and marriage free of cost

for the poor.

 

Please contact at the following address:-

 

Pandit Pradyumnacharya Joshi

Mahacharya Vidyalaya,

Mayuri Extension

Vijayanagar,

Hubli, Karnataka-580 020

 

 

Regards

R. Kulkarni

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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