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, 21st 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 21st 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.
