INVITATION FOR TIRUVACAKAM MUTTRODAL 2014

After completion of the Satsang Mandap at Sri Gnanananda Niketan in December 2011, during the past three years, “Tiruvacakam Muttrodal’, the group chanting of Tiruvacakam, has been a regular annual feature welcomed by all devotees. It has been a joyful event, a Gnana Yajna which charges the atmosphere with finest and exalted spiritual vibrations by the content of the devotional hymns.

It has been taking place in the Tamil month of Kartikai every year. This year, it will be the first week of sacred month of Margazhi month on Sunday, 21^st December 2014. In this particular month, Saivite and Vaishnavaite devotional hymns are sung early morning throughout Tamilnadu. This year the “Muttrodal” will take place just a few days before the commencement of the Aradhana Mahotsava of Sadguru Gnanananda at Tapovanam. The great Sage encouraged the singing of Tamil Saivite and Vaishnavaite devotional hymns at Thapovanam.

Eagerly looking forward to the celebration of the forth coming events, expressing our reverence to the sacred Arunachala and to Sadguru Gnanananda, and invoking their Presence and blessings in our lives, Tiruvacakam Muttrodal will take place this year on Sunday, the 21^st December 2014 (6th of Margazhi month). The single day function will be conducted under the graceful guidance of Pujya Sri Swami Omkarananda Saraswati of Swami Chidbhavananda ashram at Theni, Pujya Sri Swami Samananda of Tattvananda ashram at Madurai, Pujya Sri Swami Sadasiva Giri of Thapovanam.

The chanting will be performed from 9 AM to 5 AM by more than a hundred Sivan-adiyars (devotees of Lord Siva) from and around Tiruchirapalli, East Tambaram, Chennai and Arcot.

The program will be same as in the previous years. It will include Sandana kappu alankara of Sri Somaskanda (Lord Siva, Sri Parvati Devi and Sri Subrahmanya) seated on a Rishabha. In front, will be the four Saivite saints, Appar, Sambandar, Sundarar and Manickavacakar also in Sandana kappu alankara. It is a remarkable work of the sthapathi from Tirunelveli who makes the inner frames of the images in Banana stem and covers them with sandal wood paste shaping them into different murthis.

All are welcome to attend Tiruvacakam Muttrodal.

ARTICLE IN TAMIL ON SENKOTTAI AVUDAI AKKAL IN DINAMANI NEWSPAPER ( தமிழக ஞானப் பரம்பரையில் வந்த பெண் கவி: செங்கோட்டை ஆவுடையக்காள் )

An article is published in Dinamani Newspaper about Senkottai Avudai Akkal.

Shenkottai Avudai Akkal, a remarkable eighteeth-century woman saint from Tamil Nadu, was a self-realised advaitin who sang passionately about the ecstasy of spiritual union with the Absolute.

Reference has also been made to the publication of Sri Gnanananda Niketan ("Songs of Avudai Akkal")

You can read the entire article here

ANNADANA ON SKANDA SHASHTI DAY 29th OCTOBER

Annadana was performed to the children and their staff from the elementary schools at Kuchipalayam and Kudamurutti villages, near Thapovanam on the sacred day of Skanda Shashti day. Prayers were offered to Lord Muruga.

The annadana was sponsored by Sri Chandramouli from Toronto, Canada.