29th Madhwa Tatwajnana Sammelana Day - 03

The day 03 made a shift of event from Dharwad to Hubli. The event was organized for Day 3 and 4 in a big premise on Kusugal road, Keshwapur in Srinivas Garden. 

Event started with grand procession of Sri Manyayasudha grantha in Keshwapur road. Chakravarty Sulibele also joined the procession which was eye catching. It continued with many swamiji of Madhwa mathas like Sri Raghavendra Matha, Sri Sode Vadiraj Matha, Sri Bhandarkere Matha, & Subrahmanya Matha. Each swamiji addressed the gathering towards unity in madhwa society and working towards welfare of Sudha Pandits. While Sri Raghavendra Math swamiji announced Rs. 1 Lakh/ Month kind of defined salary till retirement of Sudha pandit who study only in their Vidyapeetha for 12 years. While no structural details were provided apart from this announcement, one should wait and see any official communication on the structure of this monetary benefit based admissions to Vidyapeeth in coming days. Also, the Sadhaka-badhaka of such education systems through education experts involvement.

Sevahi Paramodharma: A special talk by Chakravarty Sulibele. A very apt talk on unity. He quoted example of how a film hero used to talk so negative about Hindu some time before Hindus united to show their silent protest to boycott their movies they are not accepting their mistakes. This shows that just to shut bad mouth we did not have to fight, rather we just had to be united and one voice heard. Today we have burning issues of Brindavana, Matha conflicts etc and this is causing lots of social image loss and anyone is poiting out at Madhwas Samaja. This is one of the strongest reason why young people dont want to associate themselves with matha or our samaja closely. We should be united. We need to remember same thought was quoted by Pt. Madhwacharya Mokhashi on Day 02 as well.

  

Mahila Ghosti: This included topics about Dharmik Issue and solutions for it, Family issues and solutions, also Dharmik rituals and thought education. Headed by Dr. Shanta Raghuttamacharya and having panels of Smt. Vanaja Kathote, Smt. Rajalaxmi Parthasarathy, Smt. Alakananda Kulkarni spent some time to throw light on burning issues that put down Madhwa women community. They also discussed on critics on young mindset, following always western culture. It is very important to always have permission from husband and do satkarmas and submit through husband only. If we look at any organization always people submit all their innovations, implementations through a channel if not done so it will usually get stuck with out getting complete benefits. So its very logical and common sense that one should always follow a channel. It is important for women to move forward but its illogical to fall apart from ethics and basics.

Sarvadarshi Thoughts: Instead of we always saying "today women dont apply kumkum", we should start saying "How can i help them to apply Kumkum at least in public holy events". Like keep a Kumkum & Sri Mahalaxmi Vigraha at the entry location where women are prompted to apply kumkum. Keep few ladies who follow Kumkum culture to greet all incoming ladies to the event and apply kumkum and provide Nirmalya Flowers. Even during Lunch time assign lady volunteers a task of going around and applying kumkum to each girl in the teerth prasad row. This would create positive impact, respect towards people who are not following this today. This can be one of the easy to implement solution at every Utsava, Aaradhana. May be because of this reason only even from history there is a culture of applying kumkum to every women even when they visit to home but same we dont do for men!!!

 

Dr.  Shantha Raghuttamacharya provide really elderly insights on how the change they have witnessed from 5 generations and what they could see a problem, non-problem and few solutions. They provided a good definition for Kutumba, Kutumba Sahita, SahaKutumba Saha-Parivara. They appreciated that change is part of the nature and it has to happen. But, kutumba, Dharma, Parivara are different as new understanding is the problem source. Family & Dharma are not different. May be our understanding of dharma deteriorated gradually and took new definitions. To solve any problem in most simple and inexpensive ways one should always need Adhyatma. The family should try to solve problems than looking around problems morning to evening. They also told that "there are so many counseling agencies and if you look at them and you will realize how many women come there to get solutions" but we are not providing such platforms today in our adhyatma programs. Avoid Spardha(competitive) mindset from people, every one is God gifted ability.

Later half of the day was packed with great scholars forum to deliver most impactful thoughts to audience. Where Dr. Satyamoorthi Achar spoke in length about how do we reach out to Young generation. They said, young should be provided inputs that Shastra or understanding our siddhantha is not tough and its not meant only for Panditaru its all for you. They also quoted that unless we have social respect and put that in front of our young they wont come to us. Pt. Sanjeevachar Bhurli provided insights on the way how Dharma Pravrutti was their in house itself as people used to live naturally with dharma. Hence young used to get easily the knowledge of Dharma and how it solves problems that comes to the family. Once these 2 are separated now every one complains that there is no happiness but we have everything. So that means moving Dharma out of the union is the root cause of our unhappiness today. They also put a thought around how Dharma understanding is stuck from our childhood to young or to old age is same while in other aspects we kept growing. 

While Narada's mother took Narada to place where Dharma was platform. This is how swaroopoddhara of Narada happened. So Dharma platforms should not be restricted for only old age people

In busy life every young quotes unavailability of the time for Dharma but the question is

In our busiest life are we not spending 2 hours screen time? Are we not watching cricket, movies, serials? Then, why only for sandhyavandana does not have time?

Kumari Vasudha (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djY8HIXqHBo) quoted an example of a news item where a mother poised another topper kid just in the race of making her kid better than anyone else. This is the worst part of cultural change. While our expectations are endless growing today and causing the most damage to the life style, marriage. Lord Shiva & Parvathi had diverse living styles but they were always united. Till today they are praying for living the best married life! because both Shiva-Parvathi had one common big aim of doing Sadhana and doing prayers to the Lord. So if we both husband and wife do all karma to please Lord then it unites both wife and husband. 

She nicely quoted that "Udyoga - Ut + Yoga", Ut = growing upwards, Yoga = towards life's best. This means one should succeed in life with the job and grow to be happy at the end of the day. But we get into the illusion of comparing with colleagues and start craving for other requirements and fall down in life. But everyone is given the freedom to choose with whom to compare but we always try to choose the wrong people.

The struggle is due to our wrong AIM. We AIM to impress husband or wife which is tough always (as both are human), rather AIM should be to impress/please Lord.

Vidwan Ranganathacharya katti provided basic background of who is Brahmana and why others used to respect others by quoting Kalidasa authored kruti's 2nd sloka. Dharma is born out of Vedas as Vedas are Apourusheya and hence only people who read Veda knows really what is Dharma. Hence its important we need to understand why its important that Brahmins should do brahmanya first. Today why brahmins have lost importance is because we left our study of Vedas and did not acquire Mantra Siddhi.

Madhwas should start gurukula specific to teach and learn Vedas only as we are not so focused today on Vedas. This is the need of the hour.

At the end they also quoted that Manassu(Mind) is one amount 10 - M that are most fickle in the world and top one is Manassu. Hence young need to hold their manassu in control and that is possible only through Dharma karma.

Upanyasa: Had panel of Dr N Vadirajacharya, Dr. Prabhanjanachar, Pt. Brahmanyacharya. All of them covered about Shastra and trust in GOD and which can be understood and achieved only through Madhwa tatwa. Hence madhwa matha is the final for supreme achievement in this world. If some one want to reach Apavarga Loka ( A-Pa Varga ) where Pa = no papa karma, no phala, no papa, no fear. No one need to really get confused about Lord Vishnu's supremacy because you can use common sense by looking at his vehicle itself. ( today we see vehicle in which a person comes and feels their position) while lord vishnu is Garuda-Vahana always and can appear at any time and at any place with out even his vehicle as well instantly...

Pt. Brahmanyacharya quoted very nice example why Madhwa Tatwa is supreme? Today to know anything we need Guru ( even Google is guru today ) but every Guru tries to represent truth or Lord in their own beneficial ways or corrupted format. So you need a Guru who is supreme and does not expect anything out of you and provides truth as is. Hence, there is one more addition to Vishnu Sarvottama and that is Vayu Jeevottama. We need VayuDevaru to reach GOD else we reach Naraka rapdily.

Dr. Prabhanjanachar quoted while doing good Dharma one should not look at cast, religion and age, sex etc. For this they quoted example of pilot or crew who comes to help passangers with out looking at who are they. This is called as Samabuddhi. Sri Madhwacharyaru gave Poorna Pramana by using 3 key measures - pratyaksha, Anumana, aagama & of course Anubhava, hence Madhwacharyaru is Poornabodha. Madhwa tatwa says avoid subjective approach when you look at any jeevi. For this they said "Sarvabootha dayapushpa". They told not to look anyone from your small angle, dont treat others as inferior. But, when there is sadhana and Moksha one cannot be equal to others. This is also called as Samabuddi. Making everyone equal is not the Samabuddi, it poises the sadhana marga and also the way people achieve. Finding Lord in everyone and that Lord is equal in everyone is the Samabuddi and supreme thought. Thus we find today Hanumana mathave Hari matha and Harimatha is hanuma matha.

One should stick to their dharma at different age, place & time so that they are successful. Without dharma its like having all great stuffs of the world but happiness is smallest of it.