Great Grand ‘Dharma Samtrana Mahayagnam’

We cordially invite all devotees for

Great Grand ‘Dharma Samtrana Mahayagnam’

On Vijaya year Sravana month 15th and 16th (31st of August and 1st of September 2013) Saturday and Sundays on the auspicious dasami-ekadasi and Aarudra-Punarvasu stars

At the holiest and most powerful abode of Sri Ahobilam where Sri Narasimha descended to grace Sri Prahlada, at Harinagaram (12kms from Ahobilam on the way to Allagadda) ‘Sri Ramanuja Ashram’.

Background

All of you are well aware that we balance our social and religious contributions in such an organized & effective way through our public charitable organization “Sri Ramanuja Mission Trust” (SRMT) and our foundation for religious charities, “Sri Bhashyakara Charitable Trust (SBCT), so that both the benefactors & beneficiaries are graced with progress and magnanimity. In religious charities, we sponsor many temple festivals & are also engaged in supporting renovation and construction of temples and offerings like Vahanams, ornaments and other accessories.

As a Divine tool aiming at peace and prosperity of the entire society, we have systematically & faithfully conducted hundreds of Vishwashanti Homams across the nation, since 1993. All of the rituals are adorned with scholarly discourses, recitations, honour to wise and reverent personalities, charities and cultural delights.

Need for Dharma Samthrana

Even though our innumerable temples, rituals, Vedic recitation and other positive deeds collectively sponsor the survival and safety of our culture, it is visible that we need a strong tool to face and conquer our destroyers and promote our preservers, propagators and patrons.  Following alarming issues rising in the society are clear indicators of cultural erosion and prospective disasters.

·         Propagation and practice of Atheism is increasing. Even most of the religious people possess atheistic traces in contexts of pressure, duty and responsibility, which are more harmful than declared atheism.

·         In the pretext of social justice and development, communism develops aversion and negligence towards religion and spirituality. Duly realized and genuinely practiced religion is more effective in promoting social welfare than any form of social activism.

·         Mass conversions are happening throughout the nation through mispropaganda using money, networking and lobbying tactics.

·         Inter religious harmony aimed through preaching absolute identity between different religions has decelerated one’s zeal and will in learning the nuances and subtle features of our religion and also has prevented invigorated practice.

·         Spiritual education is totally lacking both in the existing and expected generations. This will dilute religious commitment and will also host superstitions, selfishness and spiritless ineffective practices

·         This is now resulting in the decline of religious belief, involvement and patronage in a conspicuous level.

·         Moreover our members are divided by political affiliation, caste and linguistic barriers trivializing cultural identity and unity. This has facilitated lack of integrity and coordination among them, making their strength useless for solid, significant and sustainable causes.

·         Due to negligence, most of the temples remain dilapidated or less attended. On the other side, instigated by blind fervour and even for satisfaction, name and fame purposes, huge temples are constructed and grand festivals are organized.

·         Temple properties remain dormant or occupied by enjoyers. Mismanagement of divine wealth leads to miserable conditions of the temples as well as the dependent and responsible society.

·         Prospering and prosperous temples are undertaken by administration authorities who always focus on income increase neglecting or even violating rules for preserving and developing sanctity of the abode. Food, stay and other comforts of the pilgrims and visitors are super enhanced as a smart trade by the management, where the Lord’s maintenance and comforts are ignored.

·         Increasing number of temples intensify the demand for more priests and pandits.  But interest shown in receiving Vedic benefits is not there in learning Vedas and supporting Vedic learning.

·         Vedic education is encouraged by mutts and religious activists but in matrimonial preferences vedic scholars are discarded by their own community and even great Vedic scholars don’t want their children to become priests or pandits.

·         Similarly archakas, paricharakas and Madapalli sevakas (cooks), are also not sufficiently available. To fill up the blanks, untrained, undisciplined and substandard persons are appointed and tolerated. Available members also resort to affluent organizations and clients thereby neglecting their duty imposed by their tradition, erudition and conscience to safeguard and promote abandoned temples.

·         Next to Pooja, ‘Naivedya or Bhoga’ the prasadams offered plays a vital role in pleasing the Lord and making his mercy and grace effective to the beneficiaries. It may not be an exaggeration if we say that the Lord is starving for years in many of the temples. Prasadam cooked by traditional methods, in proper quantity and quality, cooked and offered as per rules with fear, love and loyalty has become an endangered or nearly extinct practice.

·         Paucity of funds, non availability of manpower and commercial race have made most of the routine and special festivals obsolete and perfunctory performances. This status will affect the temple’s spiritual ambience and positivity quotient contributed by the temples for social security and progress.

·         Cow is an essential part of our heritage. Now cows are abandoned, tortured and slaughtered in our own land.

·         In the place of Satvik food and practices, beef eating and alcoholism have become inseparable part of common and high societies.

·         We had more connectivity with beneficial spiritual engagements and social schemes in earlier eras and had very less diversions. Now advent of technology and evolution of fashions have created many modes of entertainment like cinema, de nova sports, fun, useless tourism, beauty contests and other excitement sources. Amidst this turbulence, public attention, retention and transformation possibilities by spiritual approaches are very remote and marginal.

Reflections

These religious degradations have infected our way and standards of living by

·         Impact of religious disorders in the society and social disorders in religious systems and practice, heavily damages both.

·         Environmental pollution and erosions making us to struggle for good water, safe food and secure living

·         Increasing numbers and vigour of diseases of all forms throughout the world

·         Disasters both natural, man made and their fusion

·         Total debilitation of family structures, relations and values

·         Impact of family collapse in the morale, capacity and contribution grades of succeeding generations.

·         Impact of family disorders in the wider society driving away understanding, amity and synergistic action.

·         Lack of ethics and efficiency in education, carried out to professions and high level administrations, making the entire system fragile and fiendish.

·         Clusters of social disorders and evil contributing kleptocracy, foolocracy and unstable ruling.

Dharma Samtrana Maha Yagna

Most of our religious ventures are mainly self empowerment or development based and even in global welfare rituals, systematic performance, complete structure, continuous combat, dedication and spiritual velocity are lacking. Then we felt the need of a ‘mega ritual’ comprising all divisions of our religious heritage like Yagna, parayanam, Archana, Poojana and Daana, exclusively for restoration and establishment of the universal order, ‘Dharma’.

Our long felt desire was to organize this mega event, comprising 108 kundams, representing 108 moorthis of 108 Divya Desams at Ahobilam, by the grace of Shree Prahlada Varada. Tool selected, deity preferred, chosen place and decided time (Sadhana, Devata, Kshetra and Muhurta bala) are the four main parameters to gauge the potential of rituals.  

Even though there are innumerable deities mentioned in Vedas to grace the aspirants, Sriman Narayana is glorified as Para Brahman, Veda Swarupi and Yagna Moorthy (Supreme, personification and purport of Vedas and God of all rituals). Hence His worship automatically will benefit all other systems and practitioners, resulting in over all welfare.

Especially His Narasimha form is more gracious because of His promptitude and potential exposure. Even all other descended forms of Him like Rama and Krishna are said to have succeeded in their protection and destruction projects only due to fragments of Sri Narasimha’s force. All other demigods execute their grace only with the grace of Sri Narasimha.

That is why we have selected Ahobilam, where Sri Narasimha Swamy appeared for Prahlada. The immense energy charge of this abode will energize us also to be eligible to pray and bring order and peace. Any time is suitable to organize this noble venture (Sanmuhurta) because of the immeasurable auspiciousness of its objectives.

In earlier Yugas and threshold of Kaliyuga, similar rituals have been carried out by great rishis for universal welfare. They were realized and dedicated personalities and their plans and performances had immediate and immense effect. Now we can hardly find scholarly people with genuine concern and dedication for social reconstruction. 

Even though Dakshina (honorarium or submission) is a vital part of any ritual for deriving at the benefit of the ritual, it is an object of concern of the beneficiary and the performer should focus more on deity, procedures, benefits and beneficiaries.  Great impact can be achieved only by the synergy of dedicated learned priests and pious and generous beneficiaries. We are trying our level best to establish this order.

Main Mantras

The event is initiated with a Mahasamkalpam enlisting all of our demands for restoration of Dharma, followed by recitation and ritualization of powerful mantras and Vedic hymns.

·         Srimad Ashtakshari

·         Dwadasakshari

·         Shadakshari

·         Purusha-Sree-Narayana-Vishnu-Neela-Bhu-Vagampruni-Medha-Jayadi Suktas

·         Sudarshana-Narasimha-Varaha and Koorma mantras

Salient Features

•                    108 Kundams & 3 prominent ones

•                    Every Kundam will be administered by four ritual experts with assistants

•                    108 scholars are engaged for Vedic recitation& 108 for prabandham & many are engaged for Stotra recitations.

•                    Materials like ghee, ritual wood, kumkum & turmeric are prepared exclusively for the event with utmost purity & sanctity.

•                    108 Go Pooja is organized along with horse, elephants & camel parade

•                    Thirumanjanam (Abhishekam) with 1000 pots of holy water brought from all sacred shrines

•                    Grand Kalyana Utsavam

•                    Special Laksharchana

•                    1008 times avritti of ‘Sashta Jitante’ Stotram

•                    1116 times avrithi of Sri Vishnu Sahasranamam

•                    Total 1 Crore Japam of Srimad Ashtakshari for the whole 40 days (one mandala)

•                    1 Lakh Japam of Sri Narasimha Moola Mantram

•                    1008 Deepa Pooja (lamp worship)

•                    Thiruppavadai Mahotsava (an event where mountainous heap of delicious edibles are offered)

•                    Special rituals for rain, soil, crop, water& food resources development.

•                    Special worships for health harmony, matrimony, progeny, prosperity & protection

•                    Shanti Yatra, Shanti Jyothi Prajwalana & Shanti Prarthana

•                    Divine Prasad & Lakshmi dollar for all participants

•                    3 dampathis (3 couples) can do Samkalpa in every kunda & in sarva Samkalpa - all participants can be included.

•                    Saamoohika archana for all participants. 

Due to the greatness of its executives, methodology and goals, this event is more auspicious and beneficial than hundreds of Aswamedhas and Rajasuya rituals.

Program Chart

31st August

4.00 am-Mahasamkalpam

5.00 am-Sudarshana Narasimha Japam

8.00 am-Maharadhanam-Parayanam

8.50 am-Homaarambham

1 pm-Poornahuti

1.15 to 2.15-Anugraha Bhashanam

Mahaprasadam

3.30 pm Thirumanjanam-Parayanam

5.30 pm-Upanyasams

8.00 pm-cultural programs

1st September

4.00 am-Sri Lakshmi Aradhanam-Sri Sukta Japam

8.00 am-Maharadhanam-Parayanam

8.50 am-Homaarambham

1 pm-Poornahuti

1.15 to 2.15-Anugraha Bhashanam

Mahaprasadam

3.30 pm Thirumanjanam-Parayanam

5.30 pm-Upanyasams

8.00 pm-cultural programs

General Administrative Body

G. Anantha Kumar                                           E. Damodharan                                 Varadan Chandar

Manchala Simhachalam                                 L.S.Gangadhara Rao                        M.V. Sambasiva Rao

C.H. Lakshmi Nathachariar                           Ravi Tirumalai                                    G.V. Raja Reddy

M. Ram Gopal                                                   K. Subba Rao                                      N. Panneer Selvam

Paruchuri Ravindranath                                 T.Ranga Prasad Rao                         R. Ravi Shankar

G. Ramakrishna                                                N. Sasikala                                           N.S.Sudhakar

P. Venugopal                                                     K. Kiran Babu                                     N. Rajamannar

Advisory Body

Sri Parasara Lakshmi Narasimha Bhattar Swamy               Sri Veda Vyasa Sudarsana Bhattar Swamy

Sri T. T. Srinivasan – Delhi                                                         Vasantha Anantha Rao Gadgil

Dr. D. Swaminathan                                                                    Smt Bhagyalatha Pataskar

S. Seshadri -Vedavyasa Foundation                                      A. C Narasimha Purohitar

P.G. Vaidyanathan                                                                       P. C. Bharadwaj Shimoga

T. D. Muralidharan                                                                        Dr. T. M. Srinivasan

Executive Committee

P. V. Manohar Rao                                                                     G. Thimmayya Chowdary

Konijeti Ashok Kumar                                                               M. Pera Reddy

Toopran Prabhakar                                                                         P. Sundararami Reddy

V. S. Krishna Ramanujam                                                              D. R. Vilancholai Pillai

D. Damodharaswamy                                                                     P. K. Janardanan

V. K. Angaraj                                                                                      T. Rangaraj

K. Srikanth Nambiyar                                                                      Narayanan Raghavachari

Hemant Surryavanshi                                                                     Devaraj Doomanna Shetty

C. Prabhu                                                                                            J. Braj Gopal Jaju

Coordination Committee

Dr. R. Bhaktavatsalam                                    D.O.S. Rajan                                                     G. Soorya Kumar               

R. N Chinnaswamy                                          Dr. V. T. Sundaramurthy                                               Dr. R. Kodandam

Latha Ponramaswamy                                   K. R. Manjunath                                                               J. Sacchidanandam

V. Bhaktavatsalam                                           S. Ramachandran Ramanujam                  R. Gopinath

N. Venkatesh                                                   R. Kulasekara Ramanujam                            K. Kannan

N. Shyam Kumar                                              V. Aravindan                                                      R. Vijaya Kumar

V. Rajesh                                                             M. Raghu                                                             N. Suresh Babu

Mallika Jayaraman                                           B. Vaikuntavasan                                             B. Somalingam

Pushpendar Kumar Garg                              K. Palanikumar                                                  T. N. Swaminathan

Vaidehi Sundarrajan                                       Pushpa Krishnakumar                                    D. Diwakar Mishra

For details contact

Sri Varadan Chandar- +91 98409 26164

Sri G.Anantha Kumar- +91 99406 88798

Manchala Simhachalam- +91 96400 35486

All are welcome