KRISHNA YAJUR VEDA PARAYANA AT SRI GNANANANDA NIKETAN

The Sankara Jayanthi Mahotsav at Sri Gnanananda Niketan commenced on Akshaya Tritiya day which was celebrated on 18th April 2018 with Annadana.  

Annadana was organized for the people of the nearby villages on the auspicious day and is done as Narayana seva or service to God to help increase our wealth of spiritual values.

Sri Sankara Jayanti was celebrated on Friday, the 20th April 2018. It was He who revived the Vedic culture laying the foundation for Hindu religion as we see it today. 

On the morning of 20th April 2018, Krishna Yajur Veda (Taittriya Sakha) Parayana (Samhita and Sakha) was commenced with the Ghata Sthapana on 20th April morning. It was concluded on 24th April. Six Vedic pundits participated in the parayana as in the previous years.

Some pictures from Veda Parayana is attached below:

SCHOOL UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION AT SRI GNANANANDA NIKETAN

School children from the nearby government schools visited Sri Gnanananda Niketan and collected their school uniforms. As part of this function the children and teachers interacted with Swamiji. Every year around 250 students are given free uniforms.

Pictures from the function is attached below:

AKSHAYA TRITIYA ANNADANA AT SRI GNANANANDA NIKETAN 2018

The Sankara Jayanthi Mahotsav commences at Sri Gnanananda Niketan on Akshaya Tritiya day. Akshaya Tritiya was celebrated with Annadana.  Annadana was organized for the school children and people of the nearby villages on the auspicious day and is done as Narayana seva or service to God to help increase our wealth of spiritual values.

Some pictures from the function is attached below:

“Akshaya” means never diminishing. Many things happened on this sacred day. 

Lord Krishna blessed Draupati with Akshaya Patra (bowl which supplied unlimited food to the Pandavas and to all the guests during their vanavasa). Kubera who is treasurer of god prayed to Sri Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth to fill his treasury. Lord Vishnu took his sixth avatar as Parasurama. After the end of Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga commenced on this day. Ganga descended from heaven in response to the tapas of Bhagiratha. Veda Vysasa began dictating the epic Mahabharata to his scribe Ganesa. Sudhama came to Dwaraka to see Lord Krishna. He could bring only a handful of beaten rice which the Lord received with great happiness and blessed him with immense wealth on this day. Gates of the temple of Badri Narayana open on this day after winter. 

Construction of the chariots for Jagannath Rath Yatra at Puri commences on this day. This is also important day for Jains for fasting and prayer marking the breaking of one year long fast by king-turned-muni Rishabadeva.