🚩At Age of 92,SriT.Srinivasachariar Swami diligently sits on the computer everyday, typing in both Sanskrit & Tamil for his next book. An expert in Agama Shastras(Ancient temple rituals/practices),He learnt Adobe Pagemaker at age of 86 on his own &been working on it since 🚩1/6
🚩 “I studied the Vedas to become a priest. Though I became one, I never abandoned the habit of reading the old Sanskrit scripts. Based on my research, I wrote the first prose book on the day-to-day temple ritual called Sri Padmatantra Prayogam🚩2/6
🚩 Through the years, He has been writing & printing his own books -he has written 16 books on various subjects based on Ancient Sanskrit texts.
ShriSrinivasan is also proficient in reading &composing in Grantham.
“I was hand-composing till 2000, after which I bought computer3/6
🚩 For an old man like me it was a drastic change. But, I had to learn to use the applications to be able to write. I even cut and bind my own books,” says Shri Srinivasan, who has served as a priest at the SriVedantadesikar Temple in Mylapore🚩4/6
🚩 He started his own press Sri Raghavasimham Press in the 80s. He also delivers religious discourses and kathakalakshepams.
His books have also been prescribed by the HR & CE Board for those studying to become priests🚩5/6
🚩#AdiShankaracharyaJayanti celebrated on the Panchami tithi during Shukla Paksha of Vaishakha month. Born in Kerala, in his short life span of 32 years, his accomplishments seem a marvel even today, with our modern conveyances & other facilities🚩1/17
🚩 At the tender age of 8, burning with the desire for Liberation, he left home in search of his Guru. 🚩From the southern state of Kerala, young Shankara walked about 2000 kms— to River Narmada banks, in central plains of India, to his Guru— Govindapada🚩2/17
🚩 He stayed there serving his Guru for 4 years. Under his teacher’s compassionate guidance, the young Shankaracharya mastered all the Vedic scriptures🚩3/17
🚩Today is divine #Narayaneeyam Day!
Tales of divine Guruvayur Temple!
It was on 28th of Malayalam month Vrishchikam, Bhagwan’s ardent devotee Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri-had completed Sreemad Narayaneeyam with 1036 shlokas & offered to Guruvayur’s Bhagwan Guruvayurappan🚩1/6
🚩 2. Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri was the student of Achyuta Pisharadi. While his Guru was afflicted with rheumatism, Bhattathiri transferred the ailment to his own body through his yogic powers & cured his Guru.
This was his Guru Dakshina🚩
🚩3. Afterwards Melpathur suffered a lot due to this disease & Ezhuthachan, author of Killipattu Ramayanam, advised Melpathur to go to Guruvayur Temple & then – 'Meen Thottu Kootuga' – the translation means ‘start with tasting fish’ in Malayalam 🚩
🚩#GuruvayurEkadashi
Guruvayur Keshavan Bhagwan Krishna’s Own Elephant !
Today 11th day Shukla Paksha of Malayāḷam month Vṛścikam & also death anniversary of Gajarājan Guruvāyūṛ Keśavan , the Famed Elephant of Holy Sri Guruvayurappan Temple, Kerala 🚩1/8
🚩 Today in 1976, Gajarājan Guruvāyūṛ Keśavan, the alpha elephant of legendary Guruvāyūṛ temple, who stood well over 3.2 meters tall, complete with all lakṣaṇa-s & widely admired for his deep devotion to Guruvāyūrappan (Guruvāyūṛ Kṛṣṇa), passed away aged 72 🚩2/8
🚩He came to Guruvāyūṛ when Valiya Rāja of Nilambur offered him as one of the 12 elephants to Lord Guruvāyūrappan in January 1922. He soon developed a Formidable reputation & became the leading elephant in the temple herd carrying the Lord Himself (tiḍambu/utsava mūrtī) 🚩3/8
🚩 #Navaratri #MahalayaAmavasya is the auspicious occasion that marks beginning of “Devipaksha”&ending of " Pitrapaksha"
#Mahalaya is the harbinger of the arrival of Goddess Durga. It is celebrated to invoke the Goddess possessing supreme power 🚩1/7
🚩 Ma Durga is invited to descend on earth & welcomed with devotional songs & holy mantras. On Devipaksha,the Gods & Goddesses begin their preparations to celebrate “Mahamaya”-Ma Durga,who was brought upon by trinity- Gods Brahma, Vishnu,Shiva to kill demon King Mahishasura🚩 2/7
🚩 On this day, the eye is drawn in the Murthies of Goddess by the artisans marking the initiation of “Devipaksha”. Mahalaya arrives & countdown to Durga Puja begins.
Mahalaya remains incomplete without the magical chanting of the scriptural verses from the ‘Chandi Kavya’ 🚩3/7
🚩 #GaneshChaturthi
Do you know why the ritual of getting Bhagawan GaneshJi home started?
Maharishi VedVyasJi wrote Mahabharat in poetry form.
He was unable to write it in prose form.
So he requested Bhagwan GaneshJi to do the task for him 🚩1/4
🚩 The process of writing was going to take days and nights.
This would have tired Bhagwan GaneshJi & he was not to take even water during this writing.
This would have raised temperature of Lord's body.
So Maharishi VyasJi applied paste of mud on GaneshJi’s body🚩2/4
🚩 On Bhadrapad Shukla Chaturthi the writing started & ended on Anant Chaturthi. At the end of the writing on Anant Chaturdashi, Maharishi VyasJi saw that Bhagwan Ganesh's body temperature had risen a lot,
So he immersed the Lord in water to cool him down & wash off the mud🚩3/4
🚩#AdiShankaracharyaJayanti celebrated on the Panchami tithi during Shukla Paksha of Vaishakha month. Born in Kerala, in his short life span of 32 years, his accomplishments seem a marvel even today, with our modern conveyances & other facilities🚩1
🚩 At the tender age of 8, burning with the desire for Liberation, he left home in search of his Guru. 🚩From the southern state of Kerala, young Shankara walked about 2000 kms— to River Narmada banks, in central plains of India, to his Guru— Govindapada🚩2
🚩 He stayed there serving his Guru for 4 years. Under his teacher’s compassionate guidance, the young Shankaracharya mastered all the Vedic scriptures🚩3