Shri Vijayadashami/ Shri Madhva Jayanti Evening Program on Monday Oct 2nd in SF Bay area, Ca......

[Guest guest]

|| Shri Harihi Om ||

Dear Haribhaktas,

 

With the prerane of Shri HariVAyuGuru, SVBM/VMS is celebrating

Vijayadashami/Shri Madhva Jayanti. Jyothi and Vijay are hosting

this

function. Please see below the personal invitation and attend to get

the blessings. Being a weeknight please attend on time.

 

- SVBM/VMS

 

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|| SrI laXmI VenkaTeshAya namah ||

|| SrI madhvAya namah ||

|| SrI gurubhyo namah ||

 

|| Hari sarvoththama || || VAyu jeevoththama ||

 

DhyAna Shlokas:

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Venkatesham laxmIsham aniShTaghnam abheeStadham |

chathurmukherathanayaM SrInivAsam bhaje anishaM ||

 

abhramam bhamgarahitham ajadam vimalam sadhaa |

AnamdhathIrThamathulaM vamdhe thApathrayApahaM ||

 

brahMAnthah guravah sAkShAth iShtaM dhaivaM shriyah pathih |

AchAryAh shrImadhAchAryah samthu Me janmajanmani ||

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Chi. Sarvagnya, Jyothi and I welcome you and your family to

VijayaDashami and Sri Madhva Jayanthi celebration on Monday,

Oct 2, 2006, in our residence.

 

This will be a " potluck " event. Those interested in bringing food

items, please call us to coordinate. Tel: 408-452-7636.

 

PROGRAM Details

Monday, Oct 2nd, 2006

Program commences at 7:30 P.M.

 

samkShiptha thArathamya bhajane

pravachana (TBA)

Sri Madhvavijaya - 1 or 2 chapter(s)

mamgalArati

phalAhAra

 

VENUE

1491 N. First Street, Apt. H

San Jose, CA 95112

408-452-7636

 

DIRECTIONS

Please see map link:

http://maps./py/maps.py?BFCat= & Pyt=Tmap & newFL=U

se+Address+Below & addr=1491+N.+First+Street & csz=San+Jose%2

C+95112 & Country=us & Get%A0Map=Get+Map

 

*General Note*

 

101 > exit N. First Street/Brokaw Road

880 > exit First Street

 

On the map, the first intersection on First Street (going North, past

the red Star on the map) is Sonora. You have to turn west onto

Sonora and park where available. Walk along the only driveway

(first parallel to First St.) at the back of Berkeley Square Apts. to

Bldg 1491 (penultimate bldg). Take the last left turn, take the

staircase on the left. Apt.H is on the second floor.

 

Landmarks: Sonora is in between Homestead Studio Suites Bldg

and EZ-8 motel. Our apt. bldg. faces Denny's across the street.

 

If you got off 101 and hit 880, you have gone too far. Please turn

back.

If you got off 880 and hit 101, you have gone too far. Please turn

back.

 

CONTACT (RSVP PLEASE)

Vijay, Jyothi, Chi Sarvagnya

Tel: 408 452 7636

cdvijay

 

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Posting by Shri G.R.Raghunatha Rao in Dvaita listing

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1) SHREE MADHWA JAYANTHI

 

Special Pooja to Sriman Madhwa Chaaryaru

 

“He is the saint who installed the idol of Sri Krishna at Udipi in

Karnaataka. The philosophy he preached was previously known as

Tatwawaada.

Now known as DWAITA- He lived seven hundred years ago. He

boldly said to a

Muslim King: “ By whatever name you may call, God is one.” The

Acharya’s

knowledge, scholarship and achievements made him a great

savant”- Bannanje

Govindacharya.

 

“The supreme speciality and uniqueness of Sri Madhwachaarya

and

the Dwaitha

vedantha philosophy are so marvellous that it is impossible to say in

few

words. Or even by a book.

After reading the two works of Sri Madhwacharya on Gita, one can

be happy

and healthy in this world, in thought, culture and peace of mind. The

happiness, which is promised in Heaven, can be enjoyed here, if

these two

unique works are read and understood as per one’s capacity. Sri

Madhwacharya

is a great healer and helper of mankind. This aspect can be

appreciated and

enjoyed by these commentaries under each and every verse- The

uniqueness of

Sri Madhwacharys as Guru, Acharya, Preacher, Writer, Follower

and Thinker,

is UNPARALLEL.”- Vidwan Mr T.S. Raghavendran

 

“Sri Madhwacharya by being a staunch, theist opposed atheism,

worship of

plural Gods, and merging of Gods into one another very

vehemently. He

expounded, based on the Vedas, the GOD is one. Since He is the

father of the

universe and Chathurmukha Bramha. He is called " Jagatjanaka " ”

He rules,

controls and destroys at the end. The very essence of Vedaantha is

that He

is the cause for everything. As the greatest power He controls all

Jeevas’

desire to live by being within them. By being in the inanimate He

regulates

them as their Antharyaami. He pervades in Aprakritha form in every

object

and propels it to perform its assigned activities. Without His order

even a

blade of grass cannot move. So he is the sovereign of all He

surveys.

 

According to Sri Madhwa, God is not a mass of Sath, Chit and

Ananda, but

made up of qualities such as Janma, Itcha, Kriya. As potter He

made this

world by making use of certain thing and so He is called Nimitha

Kaarana.

Just as Jeeva is different from the body , God by being in this world

is

different from the world. He is not the world nor the world is God. In

other words He is not Upadana KaaraNa. Mandukopanishad says,

“

He is the

Ruler of all. He is omniscient. He is the inner controller of all. He is

the

origin of all s he is the cause of the birth and destruction of all

beings.”

Sri Bhagavad Geetha says (13-28: 18-61) that He is present in the

soul of

every being and in everything that He has created in this Universe.

He

pervades and makes them what they are, by being in every body.

He hears,

sees, listens, thinks, speaks and by being in the heart of hearts,

guides

and leads. He has no birth or death. His body is divine, imperishable

and

not made up of the usual five elements such a body is Aprakritha.

He is

light and bliss. He is MahaVishNu in this world. He is Sarvoththama.

He is

personalized with countless auspicious qualities and a vault of

Supreme

virtues. He is kind and derelict of defects. Human weakness like

incapacity,

sorrow and attachment are not found in Him. He is capable of

doing, undoing

and accomplishing even the most impossible,(Karthum, Akarthum

and Anyadha

Kartham).

 

Sri Madhwa extolled Sri Vishnu’s Sarvothvamathwa and preached

that He alone

sanctions Mukthi and its relation is through Jnana and Bhakthi. In

the line

of Devathaas He is on the top of all. His qualities are infinite times

greater than those of the human and the Devathas. He is not bound

by Karma.

He is the LORD of all our Karmas. Everything moves according to

His will

though he is not the cause for HIM, He is the cause for all of us. He

is the

creator, controller and destroyer of this creation. So Paramaathma

is the

paramount power, regulating the Jeevas and Gods, transcending

the power of

Prakrithi pervading the entire space, abiding in all things in Supernal

forms.

 

May this message of Sri Madhwacharya whose Jayanthi falls to-

day, ,

permeate the entire humanity and drive them forward towards

Divinity”.

- Sri Madhwacharys Seva Sangha (Regd) KK Nagar, Chennai-78.

 

Sloka:

 

AbrahmaraM BhangarahithaM

AjadaM VimalaM Sadaa|

Ananada TheeRthaM

AthulaM Bhaje TaapatrayaapahaM||

 

Bramhaanthah GuruvaH Saakshaat

IshtaM DaivaM ShreeyaH pathi|

Achaarya Shreemadaachaarya

Samthu Me Janma Janmani ||

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