Speech of HH Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji – Ramanuja shatamana celebration – August 19, 2018 – Sharada vilas college, Mysore
Compiled by Chandra Sekhar Chaganti
Excuse any typos or omissions
it’s a remembrance of the great Ramanujacharya. We must remember him everyday. He is neither born nor left us. Great souls have taken birth from time to time and have left the body. God has come in that form and has propagated dharma. That’s the meaning of their life. God is the same as great souls and vice versa.
It’s not enough even if I say much about Ramanuja acharya.
In Google information is available about him in all languages. You can search and get the information
They have propagated dharma according to the age they were in. Ramanuja has propagated what was proposed by Shankara even live way. We can find the examples in his life history. All vedic sampradayas would reach one God. We might think they are different philosophies. In kaliyuga people are forgetting good qualities tapas, guna, meeting. We pray like it is duty. We pray because of fear. Just want to finish it. So many people do it like a ritual.
Why are we praying? Just because of swadharma or duty?
Some of us might feel proud of our multitasking and say “I just have finished Vishnu Sahasranama while cooker has finished.” We do multi tasking. Without concentration.
We have to dedicate time to learn. We are born to ensure we find the root cause of our existence.
Even today in Maharashtra, several people sing “Vithala vithala” before going to bed as a family everyday.
But we are doing everything in a hurry,. Some people bring a priest to do the pooja. They will do saligrama pooja take their dakshina and leave. If we don’t do it with concentration then we won’t get proper results.
Ramanuja has went up to the temple gopura and has given the mantra to everyone even though his Guru has banned it.
He didn’t care for his life.
He said my head can explode but I don’t care.
If you take each aspect of his life. Even in his childhood he has proposed Shastras which weren’t known to anyone. There are thousands of books published on Ramanuja. There are so many prayers about ramanuja. Whenever you find time, know more about acharya by reading one page each day instead of tv Serials. Our mind will go into that and we can’t come out of it.
Kaadambari saahitya is good but it’s not useful. Our mind goes bad. If you read the life history of great souls taken birth and struggled so much to do individual saadhana and also help others in their spiritual journey.
Today this Sabha. I’m happy about this sabha. We must teach our youngsters. If you get them enthused, one day they would want to use the information. Start one more committee to give youngsters some more work to involve more people. The only penance is to go to America or Europe. Some haven’t forgotten their roots. So much knowledge has been given about our spiritual education. You can follow any path. Without our education we are equivalent to animals. We gloat about our kids that they have done PhD and they are not interested in our religion. Since you didn’t have interest, they are not interested. Since you didn’t, they aren’t.
– [ ] Talk about Ramayana for 10 minutes In Your life.
– [ ] 10 minutes before and 10 minutes after food while everyone Is there
Women are more interested in spirituality than men. 80% women only 20% men.
Dharmic tendencies are growing in women. It’s not enough however much you do. If you give small example then they would be interested in reading more about it.
Recycled scripture thoughts are going into pictures and movies.
In our Karnataka Kodagu people are suffering let’s pray to ramanujacharya to give them strength.