Villur Karunakarachariar Swami Saptati Invitation

Sri Villur Nadadoor Shastra-sahiti-vallabha Karunakaran Swami’s 71th Thirunakshatram  is on 8th September 2017.

The traditional Saptati celebrations, as announced before, will be held in “Sri Satari Bhavanam”  (Ahobila Mutt complex, Selaiyur),   8, Arthi Nagar, East Tambaram, Chennai 600059 on  7^th and 8^th of September 2017. The location can be seen in Google maps https://tinyurl.com/y7bmq5rt .  Preceding this will be paarayanam of Vedas, Divya Prabhandam, Srimad Bhagavatham, Srimad Ramayanam etc. on 4^th, 5^th and 6^th of September in another location within the same premises. There will be a Thadiyaradhanam on all days and all Bhagavathas are requested to kindly participate.

Our Swami has been rendering upanyasams for the past five decades and has enthralled live audiences all over India. It is a credit to his extreme erudition that he could connect with the audience from a wide spectrum of listeners.  In the evenings on 4^th, 5^th and 6^th of September 2017 we have planned a series of programmes including  Bhakti recital, upanyasams by prominent and upcoming scholars and felicitation of our swami in Narada Gana Sabha.

Swami has authored various path-breaking literary works of which Udakashanthiyin utporul and Vedam Pottrum Divya Desangal are very highly acclaimed works. Some portions of these works have been published and the balance is planned for release now. These treasure-troves help to interpret some of the esoteric meanings of the Vedas and the pleasurable way of understanding them. Contemporary Vedic scholars have hailed this exemplary work by our Acharya as no scholar has ever attempted such a task. His Upanyasams on Goddess Mahalakshmi – Lakshmi Sahasranamam and Lakshmi Ashtotram –  have been serialised in Vijay TV and feature his Nirukthi Shlokas for each of the Thirunamams. It is highly unimaginable that one can compose more than 1000 captivating Shlokas in these modern times.

It is to express our gratitude and devotion to this great scholar that we have worked to bring out his various new literary works during his Saptati celebrations. Most of the books are in advance stages of proof reading. These publications which run into thousands of pages of content are invaluable treasures for the present as well as for posterity. They are a rich content for research scholars and   enrich the understanding our glorious Vedic heritage.

These publications need generous funds as despite the digital age, many scholars and readers prefer to read the printed book  and also to easily refer to them.  Hence,  we request all Bhagavathas to contribute generously to help in our endeavor. To facilitate creation of a corpus and sustain these activities , we have opened a bank account , details of which are as below.

Cheques / DD can be drawn on Villur Karunakarachariar Swami Saptati Celebrations Committee or VKSSCC and sent to our address above.  Remittances can also be sent   by PAYPAL to villur_karunakaran@yahoo.com .  Kindly send details of remittances  to vksscc2017@gmail.com  for acknowledgement and accounting.

Sri V.S Karunakaran, popularly known as U.Ve Karunakarachariar Swamy is a scholar well-versed in Sanskrit, Tamil, English and also the literature in these languages. This makes him a rare personality. That, he completed his Vedic learning, earned an Engineering Degree and served the Government of India as a very high ranking official all the while living a traditional way of life makes him a much rarer personality.

Shri VS Karunakaran did his Vedic learning under his father and at the same time completed his schooling and BE in Mechanical Mngineering in Madurai. As a result, he completed Samhita Moolam at the age of 21. Because of his strong vocabulary and knowledge of literature – having parallely learnt the Shastras- , he was able to continue his Vedic studies in padapaatam even while working. He constantly practised the reciting of the Vedas, saying at least one prashnam everyday, even when working in a private firm. He wrote the exam for Engineering Service India and was posted in Hyderabad, in Calcutta and then in Chennai. In steps, he completed the Sakha paatam also by 1979.

Having been born in the glorious lineage of Sri Nadadoor Azhwan, a nephew of the Great Vishistadvaita Acharya Sri Bhagavad Ramanuna, Sri VS Karunakaran had also to adhere to the various Shastraic practices ordained in their traditional family. Sporting a tuft, preparing and eating food as per traditional norms was a challenge in his illustrious Professional career but he managed them with ingenuity.

Another hall mark of his revered way of life is that he has been rendering discourses on various aspects of the Ramayana, Mahabharatha, The Vedas etc. His discourses are extremely popular and have shaped many a young Indian. He has rendered discourses in Tamil, English and Sanskrit all of which have been possible due to the tutelage under his illustrious father and the consequent mastery over literature. He is equally adept in Dwaita, Advaita and Vishistaadvaita philosophies which gives him a very broad canvas of different schools of thought.

Sri Karunakaran has been an acclaimed poet and has composed numerous poems and Stotras in both Sanskrit and Tamil. Some of the Stotras composed by him are used as daily prayers in temples too.

He has been a prolific writer even from a very young age and his writings have been celebrated by various leading scholars as being novel and path-breaking without diluting the traditional and true essence of our Vedas and Shastras. He has been a regular contributor to various religious magazines like Sri Nrisimhapriya, Sri Ranganatha Paduka, Geethacharyan to name a few.

Villur Karunakarachariar Swami Saptati Celebration Invitation