Kayoo Kaveri Ranga-An Article on Sri ShyamaSundara Vittaladasaru

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Kayoo Kaveri Ranga

 

An Article on Sri ShyamaSundara Vittaladasaru

 

Period: 1903-1956

 

-Chippagiri Mohan

 

Karodi Gundachar could not speak

till the age of Five years . The parents of Gundachar were worried about the

status of the child . The child was taken

to Sri Guru Jagananathadasaru

by Shyamachar father of Gundachar. The father

requested the Sri GuruJagananathadasaru to solve the plight of the his son in weeping state.

 

Sri GuruJagananathadasaru seeing

the child Dasaru put his hand on the child’s

head and said to Shyamachar do not worry about the child’s problem He is very intelligent. This child

will become Haridasa one day. He will be one of the shining star of Sri

Madhwacharya’s Galaxy . After few days Gundachar

was able to speak fluently .

 

Gundachar got his basic education

under the guidance of Venkatappa and Sanskrit

education from Gururajachar. After that

Gundachar was practicing Puroith job at Manavi .

 

After few years he took up the

job as a school teacher and worked for

one year after wards he resigned to that post and returned to Manvi and he took

up the Puroith job once again.

 

He used to compose poetry on the spot he used to

compose marriage related songs he used to say in the style of Janapadha style

he is used write many Ogatagalu besides

he used to enact street plays on

Mahabharatha and Ramayana and other Mythological Plays.

 

Villages like

Lingasur,Chikkalaparvi, Askihala,Manavi Irkur had become famous due to

influence of piligrim places like of Kopparada Narasimha Devaru, Sri Rayara

Mahime, SriVijayadsaru’s Kruthis and other Haridasara Kruthis of that region influenced Gundachar deeply . The air breathed

by Haridasaru and the land where Haridasaru walked touched his heart. He took holy dips of Rivers and wells where Haridasaru

took their dips .He started slowly slowly to move towards the devotion of the Sri Hari

There is a tremendous change in the personality. He used to write poetries from the child hood

itself.

 

Askhpal Govinda dasaru was famous

Dasaru of those times. Gundachar wanted to have Darshan of Askihpala

Govindadasaru before visiting the dasaru

Gundhachar wanted to take bath in the well and to do daily rituals while taking

bath Askihala Govindasaru came to know that Gundachar had o came have his darshan and he

only came to the well where he was taking the bath. At that time

Gundachar was taking bath by facing to

the East. Govindasaru thrown a small stone on Gundachar it diretly went

and hit the head of the Gundachar immediately blood is oozing from the head.. By

Seeing this Govindasaru went near to Gundachar

and pressed his hands on the wound and swiped wound with the cloth. In

the meantime he started giving ankhita in Gundachar’s ear from that day on

wards he became Sri “Shyamasundara Vittala Dasaru†this is one version of

Ankitha and another version is Sri

Jagannatha dasaru himself came in the dreams of Gundachar and gave the ankitha

as “Shyamasundara Vittala.â€

 

From that day he used to write kruthis , Ugabhogalu and Mundegegalu

... He has reformed the society through his writings. Dasaru used to write beautiful letters to

seniors one letter what he wrote

to Kupparayaruige the meaning goes like this. On this holy mother land

the Brahmin birth is great, To attain Knowledge, devotion , disinterestedness

Dasarapadas are easily available resources. He has written Sri Sathyanarayana

story in the form of poetry it consists of five chapters. He is very fond of

Manchala prabhugalu he has written many kruthis on Rayaru. Dasaru has visited

Tirumala Pandarapura , SriRangam and other places.

 

He had a excellent command over the Sri

Jagannathadasara Sri Harikathamurutasara

his guru Sri Hkurucharya has given “Harikathamrutasara Padhakosha†award

given to him.

 

Shyamasundara Vittala Dasaru

visited Sri Rangam to have a darshan of Lord Ranganatha he eagerly entered the temple and he has

forgotten the tiredness of the journey and he was happy to have darshan of

Supreme Lord and eyes became wet his body became light as if he was flying in

the air there is no bounds for his happiness and his mind is full of filled with the actions of

the Lord but unfortunately the sanctum sanctum closed and he is not able to see the Lord

he requested the temple authorities to open the temple to see his lord .The

authorities were very strict and they never cared his request and they said

carelessly the time was over . We could not open for you. Come in the evening

but dasaru’s mind is fixed he wanted to see the lord and wants to have a

darshan then he made his mind clear and started singing .The singing is like a

water coming from the fountain. And started praising the Lord Sri Kaveri Sri

Ranga.

 

Kayoo Kaveri

Ranga | Karnuya Panga|

Devaadideva Ninu| Pranatha Janarige|

Devathru Manidhenu| Eandarithu

Nistalli|

Dhavisi Bhandananu| Raghuvamsa Bhanu|

Kavnayaa Neenuolidhu Karunadi|

Pavamaniya Shatravarithu| Bhava

Bhakthili Ninna Paduva|

Kovidhare Sevana Madi||

 

In

this devarnama the dasaru mentions oh Lord Iam a small person you don’t open

for me I am coming from the birth place of Sri Jagannathadasaru he is my guru

and well wisher for my guru sake give

your darshan to me and I beg for you

when these words uttered by the Dasaru at that movement there is suddenly visit of

the Maharaja came to the temple to have a darshan of Lord Sri Ranganatha they

have to open the door for the Majharaja sake they opened the doors of the

temple by seeing the Lord

Ranganatha he felt happy and have the

darshan withmost respect this shows the dasaru has a enormous power and he is

able to see his lord through his heart and he has showed great respect towards

his Sri Jagannathadasaru.

 

At the age of 64 Dasaru left this world and reached the Haripada but his

writings are with us and we are reciting them in the daily life .

 

Before

closing this article I will quote Dasaru pada “Hadidhare Ennavadayange Haduve

Bedidare Ennavadyana Beduve. With the blessings of HariVayu Gurugalu Iam

bringing this article before you.

 

||SriKrishnarapanamasthu||

 

 

 

!!! Prathamo Hanuman Nama, Dvitiyo Bhimayevacha, Purnapragnya Tritiyasto Bhagavatkaryasadhaka !!! Mohan Chippagiri MCA Lecturer in Computer Science Bangalore

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