Sri Madhwa Navami today !!!! What did we do?

February 4, 2009

|| Sri hoLekere mukhya prANAnthargatha Sri Lakshmi NarasimhO vijayathe ||

Namaskara All,

I am aware of most of the events that our Madhwa Bandhus participated to do their bit to observe Sri Madhwa Navami today.

Few of our MYP bretheren went to Sri Kshethra Hanasoge with Sri Vishwa Nandana Theertharu

few people did it at the Mutts, closest to their homes,

few were busy with their Aradhane, Pooja, patana and pArayane at their respective homes.....

while we are still getting lot of reports about the same, wanted to share about this specific aacharaNe we did at Sri Arjuna Puri Kshethra..

Yes, Holekere, which is well within half kilometer of Maddur, houses the famous Ashta Bahu Sri Ugra Narasimha Devaru, with

20 ft high Kanchi Sri Kan Varada Swamy and Saparivara samEtha Sri Ramachandra on either side. The place gets its name from the days of Mahabharatha, when Arjuna requests Sri Krishna to show his Ugra Roopa with which he killed Hiranya Kashipu and Sri Krishna smilingly declines saying Arjuna might not be able to take the roudrate of his roopa and instead orders Vishwa Karma to make an idol with that theme. Arjuna sees that and installs the idol at this place and this place gets the name.

During historical period, the same place was known to be an armoury and was busy manufacturing explosives (maddhu - in kannada)

hence the new name Maddur. The location in context, the temple of Sri Holekere Anjaneya Swami is just about half a kilomenter from the group of above temples.

This temple is located in a very serene and tranquil environment with lush green paddy fields on one side, and the flowing Kanva River on the other. Though the temple is under the Dept of Endowments, there is a Madhwa Priest who takes good care of yatis and devotees and also there is Trust - Sri Holekere Anjaneya Swami Temple Trust, headed by Smt Usha & Sri Muralidhar and their family members.

They belong to this place and have been taking care of the building, renovation and all other aspects of the temple, which has witnessed

visits, stay, samsthana pooje and bhikshe of many of our MAdhwa yathigaLu. While the entire family members stay at BLR, they observe atleast six celebrations here at this place - Sri Madhwa Navami, Sri Hanumajjayanthi, Dhatri Havana, Sri Narasimha Jayanthi etc.

The plan for this event started 2 weeks back when MYP learnt of this event which takes place every year and we appoched

the elderly couple Smt & Sri Muralidhar, who at first instance made us feel so comfortable and they willingly agreed to the idea of we joinig hands with them.

While Smt & Sri Muralidhar's family had been at the site on the previous day to take care of the arrangements, we left BLR at 7am, with following people

Sri Raghuveer Naik & family

Sri Sheshagiri & Family

Sri Phaniraj

Sri Srinivasa Jagannath

and myself.

Our immense thanks to Sri Praveenacharya Hungund, from the Jayatheertha Vidya Peeta, for accompanying us to this devine event.

Several sevas were offered to the lotus feet of Sri Avathara Thraya mukhya Prana Devaru, the presiding deity.

0900 - Sri Hari Vayu Sthuthi Purascharane under the leadership of Sri Praveenacharya Hungund

1000 - Sri Sumadhwa Vijaya Parayane by Sri Acharya

- parallely panchAmritha abhishekha to Sri Prana devaru.

1100 - Pravachana by Sri Acharya on the life & works Sriman Madhwacharyaru and importance of him being "the guide", in evey step of every walk of our lifetime. There was big gathering of more than 250 people by now.

1230 - sAlankritha Pallakki Utsava sEve to Idols of Sri Hanuma and Sri Madhwa, along with Sarva Moola Grantha.

- gAna sEve by Sri Ananda Naik

1300 - Naivedya and mahA mangaLArathi and continued gAna sEva by Kum Sahana & kum Surabhi, grand daughters of Sri Muralidhar.

1400 - Theertha Prasada was served to the gathered people who are almost 300 in number.

On behalf of MYP, we thank all the family members and extended family of Smt & Sri Muralidhar, the archakaru of Temple, Sri Praveeacharya Hungund for having made our day most memorable and filled with lot of jnAna and bhakthi during the event.

Some pictures of the event are attached with this mail with self explainatory file names. Few more can be seen at below url:

http://picasaweb.google.co.in/srinivasjag/MadhwanavamiHolekere

Anandatheertha bhagavad vadanEndu biMbaM

vidyAsudhAvithathakAnthi sukAnthikAnthaM |

yaih praikshyathAthra bhavathApashamAya bhakthai-

saddhAsadAsyaM api kiM na dadAthi puMsah ||

- Sumdhwa Vijaya Sarga#16/Shloka#141

Sri Madhwa Deepa

Anandatheerthara sujnAna deepa

paramAthma pAramya sAruva deepa

dvaitha bhAvava sphurisi uddharipa deepa

hanuma bheemarigella nalivu needuva deepa