Report: Sri Madhwa Navami Celebrations from MYP - 16th FEB @ BrahmanyaPura

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Hari Sarvotthama Vayu Jeevotthama

 

namaskAra to all our Madhwa BandhugaLu,

 

We are pleased to inform you about the Madhwa Navami celebrations at Brahmanyapura

organised by Madhwa Yuva Parishat which was a great success and with the grace of Sri Hari Vayu GurugaLu the event went on so well that it made our conviction towards our seva, sadhana and satsangha stronger than ever before.

 

At the end of the day long event, which started as early as 3am for few and ended as late as 10 pm, all that we were left with was one single request to Sri Mukhya prAna Devaru to bless us with more opportunities to seek, serve and savour Sri Hari through him.

 

As decided earlier, we started from the premises of Poorna Prajna Vidya Peeta with the blessings of Sri Krishna at 7am, with a total count of 55. Our vehicle was a Pushpak Bus from BMTC with its most convenient seats, followed by 'shiMshumAra', picking up few people who could not reach the venue on time and few last minute items necessary for our event.

We reached together at Brahmanyapura at 8.15am.

 

We had few surprises on our arrival with a bad lake and lack of water, which was offset by the most generous villagers and the Archak family who accomodated us at their home for our basic needs. We also had a bore well with a non working hand pump.

We had the Archakaru ready with his samagri and so were the cooks, lead by Sri Jayanna

who came specifically on our request for this event. But all of us had one need, WATER !!!!!

 

We did not worry too much about it as we were sure Srimad Ananda Theertharu will take care of his own program, run by his own desciples. We started off with Vayusthuthi Purascharne with the leadership of Sri Venkateshachar. Also accompanying were -

Sri Gururajachar Kamlapur

Sri Badarayanachar

Sri Gururajachar Mathad &

Sri Itagi Vedavyasachar

all learned Sudha Pandits, who had gracefully accepted our humble invitation to bless us with their esteemed company and guidance.

 

By the time we completed the Purascharane, we were blessed with the running water and the electricity. Tasks of mukhya prAna abhisheka and Cooking got off to a good start.

 

Sri Venkateshachar started his pravachana on the first four sargas of Sri Sumadhwa Vijaya,

and at the same time, there were 4-5 villagers who came forward to repair the bore well, which was dead, for past few months. By the time the first part of pravachana was done,

we also got the water pouring from the bore well, which quickened the whole process.

 

Next to go was Sri Badarayanachar, who took us through the sargas 5 to 8. By the time he finished, we were called for witnessing the Panchamrutha Abhisheka of Avatara Thraya Sri Mukhya prANa, which is installed by yathi thrayaru - Sri Brahmanya Theertharu, Sri Sripadarajaru and Sri Vyasarajaru. As Sri Badarayanachar rightly said, its a triveni sangama, created by triveni sangama. We felicitated him as he had to leave right after the lunch.

 

The abhisheka was accompanied by recitation of suswara sookthas by all the Achars/Pandits and by gathered members of MYP. While the alankAra was in progress, we were glad to get the company of few bhagavadbhkatharu, lead by Smt Jayalakshamamma, who happens to be the Director of the SRS Mutt and also the President of the Bhajana Mandali at Channa Patna.

They also got us a decorated Pallakki with a PrabhavaLi for our utsava (Thanks to Smt Padmaja & Smt Kumuda). The pallakki was duly decorated, on which were placed the Sarva Moola Granthas, with a back ground of beautiful black & white picture of Sri Acharya Madhwa and a cute vigraha of Srimad Ananda Theertharu with all his described lakshaNas, a prized pocession of Sri KM Sheshagiri.

 

After three rounds of pallakki seva, accompanied by keerthanes of Sri Hari Vayu GurugaLu sung by the Bhajana Mandali and the families of Sri Naik, Sri Chincholi & Sri Kuklarni. We finished one important stage of our event and were getting ready to have our naivedya done and parallely making place for the Theertha Prasada.

 

Inspite of a delayed start, where the first sparks of cooking fire were lit as late as 10am, we had the steaming food ready by 2pm. After we had the Achars start off, rest of the devotees enjoyed the liberal servings by Sri Jayanna, Sri Navaratna, Sri Venu who made sure all the 70 people were left gasping for some air who had eaten up till their neck.

 

The food included Badusha, Hayagreeva, Mirchi bajji, Payasa and the regular assortment, with the most liberal servings of ghee by Sri Narasimha Achar, who oversaw the needs and comfort of all the devotees while they ate food. The whole process of Bhojana would not have been so satisfying & fulfilling if not for the melodious recital of keerthanes by Sri Kulkarni's & Sri Chincholi's family, and ofcourse the Bhajana Mandali. We got to hear some rarest of the keerthanes of Sri Hari and avatara thraya mukhya prANa. The most enlightening thing was a quick one the fly Pravachana by Sri Sameerana Chincholi on the importance of Srimad Bhagavatha, which was appreciated by all the Achars and gathered people.

 

After our heavy food, we just took a break of few minutes and resumed our next part of pravachana rendered by Sri Itagi Vedavyasachara who explained to us about sargas 9 & 10.

His technicalities, examples and grasp over the subject reached people's heart and mind with a long lasting impact.

 

Next to go was Sri Gururajachar Mathad with the sargas 11, 12 & 13, with so much of sharpness in his delivery that it made all of us to feel proud we are desciples of such a siddhantha, initiated and promoted by such a ~jnAni, with a great contextual examples

We felicitated all the Achars, thanked them for the pravachana and their company with us.

 

We had a small Coffee break, and per our plan, proceeded to Abbur to the sannidhAna of

Sri Brahmanya Theertharu, where wanted to have the last part of Akhandha Sumadhwa Vijaya Pravachana and its MangaLa too.

 

We arrived at Abbur around 6.45 pm, after a brief break, Sri Gururajachar Kamlapur started off with Sargas 14 to 16 with his usual fire brand style. Inspite of a long and strainous day for all of us, starting at as early as 3am, it was nice to see, people enjoying the last part of the pravachana afte almost 16th hour. Sri Kamlapur Achar filled us all with such a pride and conviction of being a Madhwa while taking us through the last three sargas, we never knew when he recited the last few shlokas and made us all recite the same.....

 

namastE prANEsha praNatha vibhavA yAvanimagA

nama: swAmin rAma priyathama hanooman guruguNa

namasthubhyaM bheema prabalatama krishnEshta bhagavannama:

sri madhwa pradisha sudrushaM nO jaya jaya ||

 

After mangaLArati to Sarva Moola GranthagaLu along with Sumadhwa Vijaya books,

Sri Venkateshachar did the final wrap up and Sri Gururaj Upendra presented the vote of thanks, which included some of the MYP members and sponsors who could not make it to the event. We thank all those sadbhaktaru who helped this event both directly and indirectly,

and pray to sri mukhya prANa about them getting similar opportunities in the future.

The Abbur Mutt archakaru did the tottilu pooje and final mangaLarati and offered us the phala mantrAkshate.

 

We would like to share some of the pictures, taken and uploaded by Sri KM Sheshagiri,

who had accompanied us. Please check them out at:

http://myparishath.myjalbum.net/Madhva%20Navami%202008/

 

 

mangaLaM mukhya prANEshage

jaya mangaLaM vAyu kumAranige

 

anjanAdEviya sutage mangaLam

seetha dEviya bAlage mangaLam

sanjeevana tandAtage mangaLam

sri rAmana bhantage mangaLam

 

athi balavanta bheemage mangaLam

prathi mallara geddavage mangaLam

sathiya seere seLeda daityarige

prithiviyoLage chandAdidavage mangaLam

 

ippatthonda taridavage mangaLam

dwaitha mathava sthApisidavage mangaLam

olida Shiri Krishnana poojeya mAdida

guru madhwa munirAyage mangaLam

- Sri Vyasarajaru

 

dhanyavAdagaLu

Harish Rao

|| na ham kartha, hari kartha ... ||

 

 

 

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