Sodhe Seer Vishwavallaba Teertha performs Bale Muhurath

Sodhe Seer Vishwavallaba Teertha performs Bale Muhurath

Mangalore Today News Network

Udupi, Nov 25: Preparations for the first Paryaya of Vishwavallaba Teertha Swamiji at Sodhe Mutt commenced on Nov 25, Thursday according to the guidelines set by Swami Vadiraja for the Paryaya of Ashta Mutt five centuries back. Hundreds of devotees participated in the Bale muhurat, which was held under the leadership of Vedamurthi Herga Vedavyasa Rao.

 

The first stage of the muhurat includes the planting of a plantain sapling. Called Bale Muhurat, the planting of sugarcane and tulasi plants in the vacant land of Sodhe Mutt symbolizes abundant supply of groceries and other essentials to prepare free food for the devotees and worship material for the Puja of Lord Krishna. Swami Vishwavallaba Teertha of Sodhe Mutt, the youngest swamiji of Ashta Mutt, planted a plantain sapling for his first Paryaya.

The plantain tree, tulasi plants, and sugarcane shoots, along with titles and flags were placed on Subhadre, the temple elephant, and taken in a procession through Car Street (Ratha Beedi) by temple priests, who later offered puja to deities such as Ananteshwara, Chandreshwara, Krishna Mukhyaprana, and others. The plants were then planted in the vacant land of Sodhe Mutt.

Swami Vishwavallaba Teertha then conducted the muhurat while temple priests chanted mantras and women sang the Laxmi Shobhane. The tulabara of Swami Vishwavallaba Teertha, which included an image of the deity with several kilograms of coins donated by a number of devotees, was held on the occasion. Later, the swami distributed mantrakshate to the devotees and sought the assistance of all for the forthcoming Paryaya that follows the Bale muhurat.

Scholars Haridas Upadhyaya, Sagri Gopalakrishna Samaga, Sodhe Mutt Diwan Srinivas Tantri, Bannanje Gopalakrishna Upadhyaya, and Hospet Rajeshwar Singh, Harikrishna Punaroor, the  former state president of Kannada Sahitya Parishad, Kadiyali Anantaram Upadhyaya, Mangalore Raghunath Shet, Ramesh Rao, Bharati Chandrashekar, Pradeep Kumar Kalkura, the president of Dakshina Kannada District Kannada Sahitya Parishad, U. K. Raghavendra Rao, Ramesh Rao Beedu, Ratna Kumar, Tallur Shivaram Shetty, Shambu Shetty, Dr Ashok Kumar Bangalore, Tumkur Ramesh Achar, Koni Vasudev Shet, entrepreneur Ranjan Kalkura, and Sudhakar Pejavar were present on the occasion.