[ HH Shree ChandraShekharendra Saraswati Mahaa Swaamiji
(20-05-1894 thru 08-01-1994), the 68th Jagadguru of Shree KanchiKaamaKoTi Peetham established and presided by none other than HH Shree AadiShankaraachaarya as its very first jagadguru ]
128th jayanthi / aaraadhana utsawam
(on June-13-2022) Shubhaabhinandanalu......🙏🍦🎂😊🍧🍕
As explained by sathguru Shree ChaaganTi gaaru in his multiple discourses, the modern India has been blessed with yet another Shree Aadi Shankaraachaarya in the form of
HH Shree ChandraShekharendra Saraswati Mahaa Swaami vaaru, who reminds India of its rich magnanimous spiritual greatness and power in getting worshiped as
" Nadichay Daiwam " by one and all....
Shree AadiShankaraachaarya, who belongs to several centuries ago, has established and sustained an extremely strong and organized Jagadguruparampara via his 4 main disciples by assigning them as the very first Jagadgurus to the respective
4 cardinal chaturaamnaaya Peethams.
Shrungeri : ( Dakshinaamnaaya Shree Shaaradaa Peetham or Shaaradaa Mutt)
Dwaaraka : ( Paschimaamnaaya Shree Shaardaa Peetham or Shaaradaa Mutt)
Badari : ( Uttaraamnaaya Shree Jyotir Peetham or Jyotir MuTT)
Puri : ( Purvaamnaya Sri Govardhana Peetham or Govardhan Math )
and the
Kanchi : Kaamaakshi / KaamakoTi Peetham was established and presided by himself as its very first Jagadguru to serve the Supreme Shakti tattwam of Kanchi Kaamaakshi Paradevata that is the supreme form of the AadiParaaShakti on the planet earth and the guiding beacon to the magnanimous Shaakteya Sampradaayam, ( one among the 5 cardinal Panchaayatana Aaraadhana Vidhaanam established by Shree AadiShankaraachaarya to sustain the glorious Sanaatana Bhaarateeya DharmaVaibhawam and deavataa praabhavam....)
The ancient city of "Kanchi" ( the combined segment of Shiva Kanchi & Vishnu Kanchi ) is regarded as the global navel region for the planet earth.....
As explained by sathguru Shree ChaaganTi gaaru "BhoomanDalaaniki Naabhi Sthaanamu Kanchi...." and thus it becomes the place from where the cosmic Naada Shakti surrounding the planet earth gets exuded from....similar to how a human being exudes his or her NaadaShakti from their navel region.
A VedaGhanaapaaTi or a VedaPundit knows how important is it to exude the right amount of NaadaShakti to match the strength required to properly utter / attain the Udaatta, Anudaatta, Swarita vocal levels in order to fetch the requisite amount of divine power from the worship / recital of a particular prayer / stotram....
For example, the amount of simple NaadaShakti required to pronounce a normal prayer say,
" Shuklaambaradharam Vishnum Shashivarnam Chaturbhujam....
Prasanna vadanam dhyaayeat sarva vighnopaShaantayea......."
to make the witty Ganapati happy....
is not the same as the amount of specific NaadaShakti required to pronounce an extremely powerful prayer say, Shree RudraNamakaChamakam to properly utter.....
"
nama̠-ssōmā̍ya cha ru̠drāya̍ cha̠
nama̍stā̠mrāya̍ chāru̠ṇāya̍ cha̠
nama̍-śśa̠ṅgāya̍ cha paśu̠pata̍yē cha̠
nama̍ u̠grāya̍ cha bhī̠māya̍ cha̠
namō̍ agrēva̠dhāya̍ cha dūrēva̠dhāya̍ cha̠
namō̍ ha̠ntrē cha̠ hanī̍yasē cha̠
namō̍ vṛ̠kṣēbhyō̠ hari̍kēśēbhyō̠
nama̍stā̠rāya̠
nama̍śśa̠mbhavē̍ cha mayō̠bhavē̍ cha̠
nama̍-śśaṅka̠rāya̍ cha mayaska̠rāya̍ cha̠
nama̍-śśi̠vāya̍ cha śi̠vata̍rāya cha̠
nama̠stīrthyā̍ya cha̠ kūlyā̍ya cha̠
nama̍ḥ pā̠ryā̍ya chāvā̠ryā̍ya cha̠
nama̍ḥ pra̠tara̍ṇāya chō̠ttara̍ṇāya cha̠
nama̍ ātā̠ryā̍ya chālā̠dyā̍ya cha̠
nama̠-śśaṣpyā̍ya cha̠ phēnyā̍ya cha̠
nama̍-ssika̠tyā̍ya cha pravā̠hyā̍ya cha ॥ 8 ॥ "
to ask Lord Rudra on whatever may be our respective wishes.....
( I specifically took this 8th Anuvaakam for the example because this is where the PanchaakShari MahaaMantram of "OmNamahShivaaya" is embedded in the entire ShreeRudram as explained by sathguru Shree ChaaganTi gaaru....)
and in certain places it is even more important to prolong the required Shruti for the appropriate recital.....
say while reciting the below mentioned RudraChamakam's 4th stanza's last lines ( in the places with a mark that resembles a double quot above them )
ūrkcha̍ mē sū̠nṛtā̍ cha mē̠ paya̍ścha mē̠ rasa̍ścha mē ghṛ̠ta-ñcha̍ mē̠ madhu̍ cha mē̠ sagdhi̍ścha mē̠ sapī̍tiścha mē kṛ̠ṣiścha̍ mē̠ vṛṣṭi̍ścha mē̠ jaitra̍-ñcha ma̠ audbhi̍dya-ñcha mē ra̠yiścha̍ mē̠ rāya̍ścha mē pu̠ṣṭa-ñcha mē̠ puṣṭi̍ścha mē vi̠bhu cha̍ mē pra̠bhu cha̍ mē ba̠hu cha̍ mē̠ bhūya̍ścha mē pū̠rṇa-ñcha̍ mē pū̠rṇata̍ra-ñcha̠ mē-'kṣi̍tiścha mē̠ kūya̍vāścha̠ mē-'nna̍-ñcha̠ mē-'kṣu̍chcha mē vrī̠haya̍ścha mē̠ yavā̎ścha mē̠ māṣā̎ścha mē̠ tilā̎ścha mē mu̠dgāścha̍ mē kha̠lvā̎ścha mē gō̠dhūmā̎ścha mē ma̠surā̎ścha mē pri̠yaṅga̍vaścha̠ mē-'ṇa̍vaścha mē śyā̠mākā̎ścha mē nī̠vārā̎ścha mē ॥ 4 ॥
To talk in generic terms, the amount of digestive power required to digest a kg of cooked simple plain white rice is not the same as the digestive power required to digest a kg of cooked heavy maida made aaloo gobi paraathaas...
Though the quantity is same, the content of the edible stuff being considered here is different and thus the need for a different / higher amounts of digestive power quotients required in the above 2 different examples arises.....
Quite similarly, each and every human being lives almost similarly praying for good food / shelter / clothes / money / riches etc etc, to lead a typical happy worldly life with his / her folks around....
However, a few ardent devotees go beyond the all obvious normal wishes / asks / wants as explained above and would start focusing on the amazing unfathomable spiritualistic aspect embedded in everyone's respective typical human body to connect to and communicate with the vast cosmos out there of which planet earth and its environs are just a drop in an ocean.....
And thus arises a need for the earth bound various divine realms to cater to the needs of such noble human beings who pray / wish to going beyond the all obvious normal mortal plane to a higher / supreme plane of consciousness that responds to their mutually understandable language of silence and spirituality in order to reciprocate / communicate / generate / orchestrate the various requirements to establish and sustain the consciousness in those various supreme cosmic planes.....
A typical, not so literate TV viewer, may not understand that there are different Base Stations / Broadcasting frequencies / transmitting equipment / and so on and so forth behind each and every single TV channel being aired....
He/She might think that,
for just an antenna and a remote to a TV unit in their house, there could be a similar antenna / remote elsewhere in a distant cable office / location that is pumping all these hundreds of channels in to their TV unit.
Where as a SatComm engineer knows the entire complex system of interconnected / interoperable paraphernalia behind the transmission of such hundreds of channels being made available to the TV unit as per the viewers' varied subscriptions.
Similarly, the universe that we think we are a part of is essentially a multiverse which has no boundaries or bounds as such and thus the same is applicable to the immeasurable spiritual power surrounding the planet earth and their creators / controllers....
There are hundreds and hundreds of umpteen worlds (or planes as the modern human being calls them to identify them distinctively as explained in the mighty ShreemadBhaagawatam and LalitaSahasranaamaavali) out there of which we may or may not be "connected to" with most of them in order to know / talk about them.....
( If some A person has seldom watched some X channel, it doesn't mean that no one else watches some X channel in order to have a proper cognizance of the content being aired.
When that A person too finds some time to tune in to and watch the X channel,
he would naturally be on par with every other typical human being watching the X channel, say some ZeeTV or some other channel, in order to sing / talk about some songs being aired via the programs like Zee SaRiGaMaPa etc.....
It's all about what channel is being tuned in to in a given point in time, in order to know it / do it / talk it / live it and so on and so forth.....
If a person has subscribed to only SVBC, channel since several years he might sing
" Bhaavayaami GopaalaBaalam...." Annamaachaarya Sankeertana with a great command on it...
When he finds some time to tune in to say Zee TV as well, after several years, he will for sure sing some generic movie song too, for sure with the same command..... )
So would be the case, with divine or spiritual powers surrounding the planet earth to which Kanchi serves as the most effective geographical antenna to radiate them all across the world for various needs based on a devotee's prayer and Upaasanaa balam...
It is because of being such a magnificent place, it was considered for establishing the highly revered KanchiKaamakoTi MaTham by Shree AadiShakaraachaarya, though he has established the 4 cardinal mutts in the 4 directions of the Indian subcontinent, to sustain and flourish them as the harbingers of the Bhaarateeya Sanaatana DharmaVaibhawam......
And to the same Kanchi Mutt, it is widely believed that Shree AadiShankaraachaarya himself has reincarnated as Shree Kanchi MahaaSwaami who took the magnanimity and reverence of the term Yateeshwara to those unreachable heights by any / every known spiritual stalwart of India.....
Right from Gandhiji to Smt. Indira Gandhi who were the then iconic figures of India,
many a modern man of India have had his blessings which has steered the India's journey on to the successful path in order to progress further to where we stand today in this 21st century where globalization has literally made the entire world a small village.....
( A village that is big enough to accommodate all the netizens of the world ).
A typical school boy who knows only ShreeRaama taarakam, and who hardly knows what does it mean to be an Aachaarya, goes on a causal holiday trip in a bullock cart to visit his cousin in the Kanchi Mutt, only to know that he is being made the Kanchi Jagadguru with immediate effect because of the demise of both the then presiding Jagadgurus due to some unfortunate epidemic situations...
and thus has to renounce the world then and there itself wearing saffron robes and the satyaDandam....
Imagine the plight of a school boy who would have probably dreamt of being back home with lots of prasaadam, snacks and other eateries after his holiday trip in the Kanchi Mutt, to be back to school to study and play with his friends as usual, all of a sudden has to become something new known as
" Jagadguru of Kanchi KaamakoTi Peetham... " with no senior person available in the Mutt to assist / mentor him in his all new journey in such a small age...
From such a chaotic unforeseen situation, he continued his lone journey with a firm determination and resolution, and went through a mighty metamorphosis in becoming the world renowned Kanchi MahaaSwaami / Periyava / Paramaachaarya, upon the arrival of whom, people got down from the buses even on the main roads, to prostrate to him and get his blessings and who taught the then prime minister Smt Indira Gandhiji, on how a true Guruji gets identified and considered by a Shishya / disciple, using a simple Mango basket as an example....
to which a rather enlightened prime minister humbly prostates to him to seek his blessings....
Such a person of profound impact and inspiration was HH Kanchi Paramaachaaraya to one and all irrespective of their social strata or any other differences that are usually considered by people of such supreme divine order while being the pontiff of a world renowned monastery established by Shree AadiShankaraachaarya.....
Coming to his universal equality, exhibited towards every person who came for his darshanam, he has treated a novice villager, who came for his darshanam with a great faith and devotion in him treating him as Kanchi Kaamaakshi, and the big shots of the nation alike......
He preached the Tiruvembaai and Tiruppaavai with equal fervour to all the devotees gathered around.....
When he was asked upon by a large devotee gathering as to what could they offer him in remembrance of their love and respect towards him and his unconditional mercy and blessings towards all the devotees, he had firmly asked for just 5 minutes of their everyday's time and asked them to chant ShreeRaama Taarakam in that 5 minutes of time for sure....
Such an unparalleled personality of grace is HH Shree Kanchi Mahaaswaami....
Various incidents that I recall from
sathguru Shree ChaaganTi gaari multiple discourses, like
1. Panchaagnihotra Tappassu in a scorching summer....
2. Worshipping the Cow sitting in the path towards the temple as Kaamaakshi paradevata.....
3. Kaasulaperu / haaram and blessing the marriage of a devotee's daughter.....
4. Blessing a nice new silk saaree worn by Kamaakshi paradevata to a small girl who was making noise for the same while her mother was angry on her and was asking to keep quiet amidst a big gathering......
5. Helping out an archeologist on a rare search to find an exquisite antique idol by remembering it from the temples he has visited decades ago......
and so on and so forth.....hundreds and hundreds of incidents from his life are an absolute bliss to hear / learn on how much of a revered pontiff and above all a noble human being he was towards all the devotees who sought his blessings....
If there is a magnanimous saint / pontiff / jagadguru / who has lived a glorious golden history of a 100 years in the recent modern times of India, for a 100 centuries to remember him and his unconditional grace showered on the devotees irrespective of their caste, creed, religion, nationality and so on and so forth....
then it is HH Shree Kanchi Mahaaswaami.....!
(And all the devotees of Hyderabad are indeed blessed by him profusely with his
special care and devotion exhibited towards the establishment of Secunderabad Skandagiri Subhramanya Swamy Temple that holds a great amount of prominence amongst many other magnanimous temples in and around Hyderabad.....)
JayaJayaShankara HaraHaraShankara...🙏
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My earlier posts written on Shree Kanchi MahaaSwaami vaari vaibhawam are available @ the below URLs....
https://shreeguravenamah-aithavk.blogspot.com/2021/05/shree-kanchi-kaamakoti-peetha-67-th.html?m=1
https://shreeguravenamah-aithavk.blogspot.com/2020/05/2020.html?m=1
https://shreeguravenamah-aithavk.blogspot.com/2020/05/2020.html?m=1
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