Response to False comments Held against Shakatapuram

I HAVE CREATED THIS BLOG FOR SPECIFIC REASONS. ONCE, SEARCHING THE WEB I CAME ACROSS THE BLOG OF MR.RAJARAM (keyartax), WHERE HES SHARED HIS LESSONS TAKEN FROM SHAKATAPURAM(http://loudthinkingkeyargomes.blogspot.com/2009/04/lessons-of-shakatapuram.html). THERE WERE MANY CONTRADICTIONS IN HIS BLOG, WHICH WOULD MISLEAD PEOPLE. SO I'VE TAKEN THE INNITIATIVE TO CLEAR OUT HIS ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THE MUTT AND THE PEETHADIPATI OF THE MUTT.

Shri Jagadguru Badari Shankaracharya Samasthanam Shakatapuram Shri Vidya Peetam........

Paramapoojya Acharya Jagadguru Shankara Bhagavatpada established Dharma Peetams in holy places in India for the sustenance of Sanatana Dharma and Bharatheeya Samskriti.The Acharya's favourite Disciple Shri Totaka Bhagavatpada adorned the Jyotishpeetam founded at Badrikashram in the Himalayas as its first Acharya.Jagadguru Shri Sathyateerthayativarya, a preceptor in the Totakacharya tradition,troubled by the hinderances to his holy rituals and observances by the political upheavels,journeyed to South India.He re-established the peetam at the Tapobhoomi of Shri Shakatamaharishi on the banks of river Tunga in Karnataka and continued the holy parampara."Emperor Shri Virupaksharaya" of Vijayanagar and other kings patronized the peetam with gifts and endowments.This peetam is the remowned Shri Shri Jagadguru Badari Shankaracharya Samasthanam Shakatapuram Shri vidya Peetam.

Acharyar Sri Thotakacharyar, Acharyar Sri Vigyanagirigal, Name Unknown, Acharyar Sri Vishnu Theerthar, Acharyar Sri Sathya Theerthar (The one who came from badari to a small village near Shakatapuram called 'Muni-oor' in 1378)..................... ................................ [REST OF THE LINEAGE INFORMATION WILL BE PROVIDED ON REQUEST].......................Acharyar Sri Ramachandrananda Theerthar, Acharyar Sri Krishnananda Theertha Maha Swamigal [Present (33RD)Pontiff whos adorned the seat of the Sri Mutt]

JAGADGURU SHRIVIDYAABHINAVA SHRI SHRI KRISHNANANDATEERTHA MAHASWAMIGAL is the present Pontiff of the Holy Mutt. His holiness embraced Sanyasa after being the exemplary disciple of Jagadguru Shri Shri Ramachandranandatheertha Mahaswamigal and ascended the ShriVidya peetam on at the tender age of 13 as 33rd Acharya. After his 12 year diligent study of Vedas and Shastras followed by extensive Dharmayatra covering the length and breadth of India a few times,Jagadguru Shri Shri Acharya Mahaswamigal promoted the welfare of mankind and secured numerous devotees with His austerity and formidable ShriVidyaopasana vigour.

Sir(rajaram, keyartax) u mentioned {{{"Lunch is a kind of limited meal, and all that stuff, would
cause, certainly, stomach problems."}}} I GUESS YOU SHOULD HV BEEN ON VERADAM THROUGH OUT YOUR TRIP TO SHAKATAPURAM, CZ YOU ARE SO PARTICULAR ABOUT THE FOOD HABITS THERE.

MAHASWAMIGAL OF THE MUTT IS NOT A DHARWAD "UNIVERISTY" STUDENT, HES WAS TAUGHT NYAYA VEDANTA SHASTRA PAATHAM IN DHARWAD.

HIS HOLINESS IS NOT THE FIRST NOR "SELF PROCLAIMED" PEETHADIPATI OF THE MUTT. THE MUTT WAS FIRST ESTABLISHED IN BADARI (hence called the BADARI SAMASTHANAM) BY HIS HOLINESS SRI THOTAKACHARYAR, N SINCE THEN BEING FOLLOWED BY OTHER PRECEPTORS TO THE CURRENT MUTTADIPATI "SRI SRI KRISHNANANDA THEERTHAR".

THE DEVELOPMENTS AND THE VARIOUS SCULPTURES ARE PURELY, GENUINELY THE EFFORTS OF HIS HOLINESS, TOWARDS RENOVATING THE EXISTING TEMPLE IN SHAKATAPURAM, TO WHICH THE DEVOTEES HAVE CONTRIBUTED SELFLESSLY, OR IN OTHER WORDS,THE DEVOTEES RENDER THEIR THANKS BY FLOURISHING THE MUTT WITH WEALTH. SO ITS NONE OF YOUR( keyartax) BUSINESS TO POKE UR NOSE INTO THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS UNLESS YOU ARE JEALOUS OF IT. """ALSO IT IS SAID IN THE SHRUTI (VEDA) THAT PUJA OF THE GODS IS NOT COMPLETE, UNLESS A GOLDEN COIN WAS OFFERED. IF A COIN IS NECCESSARY IN THE PUJA OF THE GODS, WHY SHOULD IT BE NOT SO IN THE PUJA OF THE SAINTS ALSO? ULTIMATELY, THE SHASTRAS LAID IT DOWN THAT , WHEN ONE GOES TO SEE GOD, KING, SAINT OR A GURU, HE SHOULD NOT GO EMPTY-HANDED. HE SHOULD OFFER SOMETHING PREFERABLY MONEY. IN THIS CONNECTION WE MAY NOTICE THE PRECEPTS, RECOMMENDED BY THE UPANISHADS. THE BRIHADARANYAK UPANISHAD SAYS THAT THE LORD PRAJAPATI ADVICES THE GODS, MEN AND DEMONS BY ONE LETTER 'DA'. THE GODS UNDERSTOOD BY THIS LETTER THAT, THEY SHOULD PRACTISE 'DAMA', I.E. SELF-CONTROL; THE MEN THOUGHT OR UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY SHOULD PRACTISE 'DANA', I.E. CHARITY; THE DEMONS UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY SHOULD PRACTISE 'DAYA', I.E. COMPASSION. TO MEN, CHARITY OR GIVING WAS RECOMMENDED. THE TEACHER, IN THE TAITTRIYA UPANISHAD, EXHORTS HIS PUPILS, TO PRACTISE CHARITY AND OTHER VIRTUES. REGARDING CHARITY, HE SAYS, "GIVE WITH 'FAITH', OR EVEN WITHOUT IT GIVE WITH MAGNANIMITY, I.E. 'LIBERALLY', GIVE WITH 'MODESTY', AWE AND SYMPATHY.""" THIS PIECE OF ADVICE IS TAKEN FROM "SAI-SATCHARITRA", PAGE NO.80, CHAPTER NO.14, SO I THINK PEOPLE WHO GIVE CHARITY TO ANY MUTT ARE NO FOOLS NEITHER ARE THEY BLINDLY FALLING PREY.

SAMSARIS LIKE YOU N ME WHO R NOVICE IN BHAKTI AND R IMMERSED IN THE SAMSARA SAGARAM, SEEK END TO ALL THEIR ENDLESS PROBLEMS, AND HENCE THEY COME TO THE PEACE ABODE GURU, AND EXPECT HIM TO SOLVE ALL THEIR PROBLEMS AND KEEP OUR MINDS IN PEACE N TURN THEM TOWARDS THE MAIN MOTIVE OF LIFE DAT IS THE PARAMATMA. SO IT MAY BE A "LOVE SUCCESS ISSUE", OR ANYTHING FOR THAT MATTER, IT SHUDN'T BE A PROBLEM FOR MERE ONLOOKER LIKE YOU(keyartax).

RAMANA MAHARISHI, MAHAPERIYAVAL AND OTHER SADGURUS HAVE CERTAINLY NO COMPARISON, SIMILARLY, HIS HOLINESS SRI SRI VIDYABHINAVA SRI KRISHNANANDA TEERTHA MAHAPERIVA ALSO HAS NO COMPARISON, WHO IS AN EXEMPLARY SCHOLAR IN VEDAS AND SHASTRAS, LOVE INCARNATE WHO'S ONE KARUNAI KATAKSHAM IS ENOUGH TO SET PEACE IN ALL OUR MINDS, AND HIS BHAGAVAT-SAKSHATKARA TARUNAM WHICH VIBRATES PURELY POSITIVE AND DIVINE VIBES TO EVEN MERE ONLOOKER, IS UNIQUE AND RARE IN HIS OWN WAY.

IF YOU(keyartax) WERE EDUCATED ENOUGH IN SANSKRIT YOU CANNOT WRITE BADRI AS BAD'A'RI (IN SANSKRIT), INSTEAD IN ENGLISH TO PRONOUNCE IT RIGHT, IT IS WRITTEN AS "BADARI". SO IT HARDLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE THOUGH BOTH CARRY THE SAME MEANING.

ACHARYAR SRI SATHYA TEERTHAR ESTABLISHED A SMALL TEMPLE AND STARTED THE MUTT IN SHAKATAPURAM WITH THE IDOL OF "SRI LAKSHMINARAYANAN". AS YOU'VE MENTIONED IT RITE, GOVERNMENT TOOK AWAY LOT OF LAND THAT BELONGED TO THE MUTT WHICH WAS GIFTED BY RAJA MAHARAJAS OF EARLIER ERAS. AS A MATTER OF FACT, LACK OF REVENUE AROUSE, AND IT BECAME DIFFICULT TO MANAGE THE MUTT FURTHER. HENCE HIS HOLINESS SRI SRI KRISHNANANDA TEERTHAR TOOK THE PRIVILEDGE AND THE "RESPONSIBILTY" TO "RENOVATE" THE MUTT AND HENCE STARTED HIS DIGVIJAYAM THROUGH OUT INDIA, TO PROMOTE THE RIGHT PATHWAY OF LIFE AND ALSO TO RAISE FUND FOR THE MUTT. SO INVARIABLY, WHAT YOU SAID, HIS HOLINESS HAS TAKEN PART IN RENOVATING ONE OF THE MOST ANCIENT TEMPLE ESTABLISHED BY THE PRECEPTOR OF SRI SHANKARA BHAGAVATPADA. I BET YOU(keyartax) MUST NOT HAVE CONTRIBUTED EVEN A PENNY TOWARDS RENOVATION OF ANY SUCH ANCIENT TEMPLE FOR THAT MATTER, BUT U BOLDLY TAKE INNITIATIVE ON COMMENTING THE PEETHAM AND HIS HOLINESS BASELESSLY WITH OUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE CONSEQUENCES. I SHOULD INFACT APPRECIATE YOUR BOLDNESS.

YOUR( keyartax) STATEMENT "If one were (like you and me) to sit somewhere and make hundred people come in queue, and every one were granted the boon they need by you in words and gestures, you will definitely get” ten disciples”, who in turn would procreate the tribe. I am not NASTHIKA but pure ASTHIKA, yet I feel that GURU is a rare personality and cannot one find him so easily, and tough as PAUL BRENTON DID FIND PARAMACHARYA AND RAMANA."
HIS HOLINESS IS NOT LIKE ME AND YOU, COZ UNLESS ONE HAS EXTRAORDINARY QUALITIES IN HIM, THY CANNOT ADORNE THE SEAT AS A SANYASI OF A MUTT FOR YEARS NW. INFACT I CHALLENGE YOU, TO FLOCK ATLEAST TEN PEOPLE BEHIND YOU THROUGH OUT YOUR LIFE, BY DOING GOOD DEEDS, SHEDDING NECTAR LIKE WORDS, FORGIVING PEOPLE FOR THEIR BAD DEEDS AND SHOWING THEM THE RIGHT PATH PATIENTLY AND MANY MORE. I SHALL GIVE IT TO YOU IN WRITTEN, YOU WILL NOT SUCCEED IN IT HONESTLY!

ACCORDING TO ME ASKING QUESTIONS IS NOT WRONG, BUT AT THE SAME TIME "ASSUMING" YOURSELF TO BE RIGHT N ACCUSSING THE OTHER IS "CRIME".

YES THERE MAY BE 236 SHANKARACHARYARS THROUGH OUT INDIA, BUT I BELIEVE ATLEAST A HANDFUL OF THEM MAY BE GENUINELY SHOWING THE RIGHT PATH AND MOTIVE IN A VERY RIGHT WAY TO PEOPLE. SO THAT SHUDN'T BOTHER YOU EITHER.

YOU(keyartax) SAY ; "Even here, it is stated that the present incumbent is the descendant of Adi sankara and Thodakacharya, who left the Idol Krishna (which is the one inside temple?) and at the same time the magnitude of the parampara, is not to be seen anywhere, inside the Shakatapuram and the present incumbent holds the fort."
I ASK YA HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO SHAKATAPURAM PRIOR TO THIS TRIP? IF NOT, THEN HOLD UR ALLEGATIONS TO YOURSELF, AS I, MYSELF, WITH BOTH MAH EYES HAVE SEEN THE OLD TEMPLE ALONE. I JS FAIL TO UNDERSTAND, WHAT MAJOR PROBLEM DO YOU HAVE, IN HIS HOLINESS BUILDING THE TEMPLE?

YOU(keyartax) SAY ; "People aspire for success without knowing that their destiny is already written and Prayers to lord would show them the way, rather than from running pillar to post."
YES DESTINY IS WRITTEN, BUT 'MIRACLES DO HAPPEN'. IF YOU ARE NOT BLESSED WITH PUNYA KARMAS IN YOUR PAST BIRTH YOU CANNOT UTTER EVEN GOD'S PRAYERS. BUT IF YOU'RE UNDER THE SECURED VISION OF GURU, YOU NEED NOT EVEN PUT THE EFFORTS OF SAYING PRAYERS, THE GURU WILL FORGIVE YOU OF EVERYTHNG AND SHOW THE RIGHT AND CLEAN PATH.

YOU(keyartax) SAY ; "Finally, in Shakatapuram, I gave couple of hundreds for which no receipts were issued. It was canvassed for a SUVASINI POOJA wishing to take my wife and 4 others in our team, which was agreed. Money was not spelt at the beginning, and was told that a Ram Nama book shall be filled and given (1100times in columns) and after that Friday Poojas, 5 suvasinis will be given inside the poojas room prasadams and they can participate in poojas. Later I was asked to give Rs 1100, for this Poojas which I gave."
WELL, WHO ASKED YOU OR YOUR WIFE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE "SUVASINI POOJA" OR GIVE MONEY? NOBODYS THERE DYING OUT'F MONEY! OK! TELL ME HOW MANY HUNDREDS DID U SPEND IN THE NAME OF THE MUTT, I'LL LEND YOU TWICE OF IT RIGHT AWAY THINKING, I'D HELPED A BEEGAR.

YOU(keyartax) SAY ; "No receipt was given for cash payment. Except some flowers thrown at the ladies from gold plates thro Swamiji, nothing else was given. In Durga Temple Tirunelveli, or lesser cost, cotton sarees are given with other flowers etc. Let it be."
I'M CURIOUS TO KNOW, WHAT WOULD HAVE YOU DONE WITH THE RECEIPT? MAY BE TEAR IT AFTER A COUPLE OF DAYS? OR I GUESS YOU MUST HAVE GOT IT RE-EMBURSED FROM YOUR "GOVT FINANCE DEPARTMENT". AM I RIGHT? "AND WHAT GUTS YOU HAVE TO SAY SWAMIJI THREW FLOWERS AT LADIES FROM GOLDEN PLATES?" DID U PERSONALLY GO AND SEE WHAT HAD HAPPENED?
SUVASINI POOJA IN THE MUTT HAS ITS OWN SANCTITY. ON FRIDAYS PARTICULARLY, SHRI CHAKRA POOJA IS DONE BY PERIVA EARLY IN THE MORNING, AND IT IS ASSUMED DAT, BY GIVING TAAMBOOLAM TO FIVE OR, MAY BE ANY NUMBER OF SUVASINIS ON THAT DAY IS CONSIDERED AS AUSPICIOUS AS GIVING TAAMBOOLAM TO THE GODDESSS RAJA RAJESHWARI. AS YOU SAID FLOWERS ARE NOT THROWN, LADIES RECIEVE TAMBOOLAM PERSONALLY FROM PERIVA AND ALSO
THE ABHISHEKA TEERTHAM. "I CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT CORRUPT MIND YOU MUST BE HAVING, THAT YOU COULD RUN YOUR THOUGHTS SO WILD AND DIRTY." AND YES IF YOU GET CHEAP RATED COTTON SAREES WITH FLOWERS AT SUM DURGA TEMPLE IN TIRUNEVELI......WHY THE HELL DID YA COME TO SHAKATAPURAM? SHOULD HAVE GONE TO THE DURGA TEMPLE ITSELF, IT WOULD HAVE SATISFIED YOUR
NEEDS......RIGHT? PEOPLE WHO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND GENUIENLY WANT TO DONATE, DO NOT BOTHER ABOUT RECIEPTS. THERE'S A SAYING IN TAMIL "DAANA DHARMAMAM PANNINA, VALLADU KAIYAL PANNINADU YEDADU KAYIKKU TERIYAKOODADU". BUT YOUR POMPING YOURSELF FOR JUST A FEW HUNDREDS, SHAME ON YA!
LE'ME TELL YA SOMETHING, ONCE WHEN YOU COME TO DELHI WHERE I STAY, JUST GO TO ANY TEMPLE AND ASK ABOUT MR.S.K.RAMACHANDRAN THE CATERER, MY GRANDFATHER. THE ONLY THING YOU WOULD HEAR OF HIM IS "MAHA DAANA PRABHU", COZ HES DONATED SO MUCH TO ALL SOUTH INDIAN AS WELL AS NORTH INDIAN TEMPLPES OUT HERE "SELFLESSLY". ALSO IN RETURN HE DIDNT EXPECT ANY RECEIPT.......ANOTHER KNOWN FACT IS HE DONATED HIS HOUSE HE WAS RESIDING IN, TO HIS HOLINESS "SELFLESSLY", AS HE SURRENDERED HIMSELF COMPLETELY TO SWAMIJI, SO MERE MATERIALISTIC HOUSE OR MONEY DIDNT MATTER TO HIM. PERIVA HAD COME TO DELHI FOR THE FIRST TIME, MY GRANDFATHER HAD LENDED THE HOUSE FOR THE STAY OF HIS HOLINESS. PERIVA STAYED THERE FOR NEARLY TWO-THREE MONTHS. AFTER THAT MAH GRANDFATHER DID NOT FELT LIKE STAYING IN THAT HOUSE AS IT VIBRATED DIVINE VIBES, SO HE DECIDED, THAT HE SHOULD NOT LET GO OF THE SANCTITY OF THAT PLACE AND HENCE LIBERALLY DONATED IT TO PERIVA. HIS HOLINESS TOO DIDNT ACCEPT IT VERY SOON, AFTER A LONG PERIOD OF 7 YEARS HE MADE HIS MIND TO NAME THE HOUSE AS "SHRI MUTT BRANCH SHAKATAPURAM, IN DELHI",THOUGH MY GRANDFATHER HAD RESIDED THE HEAVENLY ABODE BY THEN.

I HAVE NOT MENTIONED THIS INCIDENT TO ACQUIRE FAME, BUT TO MAKE IT CLEAR, THAT DOING DAANA DHARMAM TO A SANYASI OR ANY TEMPLE, REQUIRES ONLY SELFLESS LOVE, FAITH AND COMPLETE SURRENDER.....NOT RECEIPTS OR DOUBTS!

YOU'VE MENTIONED "SHAKATAPURAM" AS SHA'N'KATAPURAM, I WONDER WHAT SANKATAM DID YOU FACE AFTER VISITING THE HOLY PLACE? I GUESS YOU MUST BE WEEPING, FOR YOU SPENT MONEY FOR THE TRIP UNECESSARILY, RIGHT? THAT'S WHAT YOUR SANKATAM MAY BE! YOU NEED NOT WORRY, TE'ME HOW MUCH YOU SPENT FOR THE TRIP I'LL PAY YOU BACK!

I AGREE THERE'S NO DIETY BIGGER THAN PARENTS, BUT FOR ME AND EVERYONE "GURU" IS THE ONE WHO WILL SHOW YOU THE RIGHT PATH AND WILL BE THR WTH YOU TILL THE LAST BREATH.

I SHALL CONCLUDE SAYING, NE'ER GIVE BASELESS COMMENTS ON ANYBODY FOR THAT MATTER. IF YOU POINT ONE FINGER TOWARDS THE OTHER, REST THREE FINGER POINT YOU. "KAADAAL KEKARADUM, KANNAL PAPADUM POI, TEERA VIJARIPADE MAI". YOU MAY SAY YOU LIVE IN A DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY AND HAVE RIGHTS TO SPEAK YOUR FEELINGS OUT, BUT I SAY SPEAK ONLY IF YOU ARE RIGHT.