Sri Sri Jagadguru Shankaracharya Mahasamsthanam, Dakshinamanaya Sri Sharada Peetham, Sringeri



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Dakshinamnaya Sri Sharada Peetham, Sringeri

Kumbhabhisheka at Goddess Sharada temple, Sringeri Math, Girinagar

 

April 13, 2007

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Jagadguru worshipping Goddess Sharada at Girinagar

The Jagadguru performed the Kumbhabhisheka at the Sringeri Shankara Math in Girinagar on 12th April 2007. The Girinagar branch of the Peetham was founded about a decade ago with the installation of Goddess Sharada temple on 24th February 1995. After the Brahma Kalasa abhisheka, the Jagadguru blessed the gathering with an Anugraha Bhashana stressing the importance of Jnana. The Lord has said in the Bhagavad Gita “nahi jnaanena sadrusham pavitram iha vidyate” – There exists nothing as pure and exalted as knowledge.

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Jagadguru performs Kumbhabhisheka at Girinagar Shankara Math temple

If we pose the question “What must be achieved in one’s life?”, the answer could be many – wealth, authority, fame etc. However there could be no better answer to this question than “It is knowledge that must be achieved”. Accumulation of wealth, attainment of power and fame only lead to sorrow, because even after accumulation, one has to strive to safeguard the wealth or position. Only knowledge will result in the fulfilment of one’s life.

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  • The Self (Atma) is never born nor does It ever die; neither does It cease to exist after having once existed nor does the Self come into existence, like the body, having not existed before. Unborn, eternal, It undergoes no change whatsoever and is primeval; It is not destroyed when the body is destroyed. Bhagavan Sri Krishna on Significance of God
  • A person who hears about the condemnation of another incurs sin. What need be said about the sin incurred by a man who actually engages in nit picking? Jagadguru Sri Adi Shankara Bhagavatpada on Prabodha Sudhakara
  • If you pray with faith and devotion, the Lord will certainly listen to your earnest prayers. Jagadguru Sri Chandrashekhara Bharati Mahaswamigal on Significance of God
  • Our nation and its culture have a hoary past and we should all be proud of it. Mere aping of the West is not beneficial for us. For example, care of aged parents is something that has come down to us traditionally and we must never neglect this duty by imbibing concepts of some free societies, wherein concern for one’s own parents is at low ebb. Jagadguru Sri Abhinava Vidyatirtha Mahaswamigal on Significance of God
  • It is a great blunder not to make proper use of the body and mind that has been given to us by God. Jagadguru Sri Bharati Tirtha Mahaswamigal on Significance of God's Names