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Dear Swamin The following is the "SIGNIFICANCE OF UPAKARMA" WORSHIP OF LORD HAYAGREEVA Sri Hayagreeva is an incarnation of of Lord Vishnu,who is Gyana and Ananda personified,whose complexion is clear white and who is the root cause of all arts and sciences Brahma had lost His encyclopaedia , the Vedas, when He was in slumber and though the kalpa had started,He could not commence His assigned duty of creation. So He took to yoga concentrating on Sreeman Narayana, the originator,who, in Hayagreeva form,killed the demons Madhu and Kaitaba, who had stolen the Vedas from Brahma. Assuming the horse-headed form,

He recited the entire Vedas for the benefit of Brahma to go on with His function of creation. This incident was narrated by Brahma Himself to sage Narada and is recorded in the BHagavatham. Lord Hayagreeva is VACHAM NIDHI, lord of all that could originate from the mouth, and the learned ones, like SRi Dakshinamoorthi, Brahma and His consort SAraswathi, VYasa. Parasara, Valmiki and so on owe their greatness to Him. He, who concentrates his mind on the Lord of Learning is bestowed with knowledge and it flows to him without any obstruction like the flow of Mother Ganga SOURCE OF ALL KNOWLEDGE: He is ever present with SAnka and CHakra in two of His hands, the third holding the book of knowledge and the fourth is an explanatory posture, ever ready to shower His grace. He is yogeswara as well as Vageeswara Sri Ramanuja acquired from Goddess Saraswathi at Srinagar, the Hayagreeva manthra alongwith an icon of Sri Hayagreeva and the

Brahma sutras with annotations. He developed them in his Sri Bhashya and it spread to posterity through his line of disciples. SRi Desika in this line acquired them He performed Upasana of Hayagreeva manthra on a hillock on the banks of Garuda Nadhi,which empties itself into the ocean near Cuddalore and obtained perfection . This site in Thiruvaheendrapuram has a temple dedicated to Sri Hayagreeva( Recently , Srikainkarya a public charitable Trust has constructed a Mahamandap at a cost of nearly seventeen lakhs with the financial assistance of Sri Hayagreeva bhakthas, in front of the sannidhi of Sri Hayagreevan) The uthsava idol of Lord Hayagreevain his possession has become the Presiding deity of Sri Parakala Mutt at Mysore The day onwhich Sri Hayagreeva appeared with the Vedas before Brahma is celebrated throughout the length and breath of

Bharata Varsha as UPAKARMA or Raksha Bandan on which day the sacred thread is renewed and practice of the Vedas is commenced Courtesy---The Hindu dt 22-8-1964 and Sri U.Ve. V. Veeraraghavacharya Swamy Dear Asthikas If you need " Aavani Avitta Manthra proyokams, tharppanam and jabam", you may ask Srikainkarya. These will be e-mailed as attachment( This is general. Some of them like tharppanam will

differ according to their linage and practice. But this will be useful to perform the rituals without the guidence of Brahaspathi) Dasan Uruppattur Soundararajan Srikainkarya

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