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మంత్రాలయం శ్రీ గురు రాఘవేంద్ర స్వామిశ్రీ గురు రాఘవేంద్ర స్వామి (1595-1671), హిందూ మతంలో ఓ ప్రముఖమైన గురువు. 16వ శతాబ్దంలో జీవించాడు. ఇతను వైష్ణవాన్ని అనుసరించాడు. మధ్వాచార్యులు బోధించిన ద్వైతాన్ని అవలంబించాడు. ఇతని శిష్యగణం ఇతడిని ప్రహ్లాదుడి అవతారంగా భావిస్తారు.తమిళనాడు-భువనగిరి వాసులైన తిమ్మనభట్టు-గోపికాంబ దంపతులకు వెంకటనాథుడు (రాఘవేంద్రస్వామికి తల్లిదండ్రులు పెట్టిన పేరు ఇదే!) 1595లో జన్మించారు. ఐదేళ్లప్రాయంలో అక్షరాభ్యాసం చేసి.. ఆపై నాలుగు వేదాల అధ్యయనం చేశారు. యుక్తవయసు వచ్చేసరికే విద్యల సారాన్ని గ్రహించిన వెంకటనాథుడు సాధారణ కుటుంబ జీవితాన్ని వద్దనుకుని.. సన్..

IntroductionLet us generously donate silk dhoti to Guru Raghavendra Swamy Mutt in Mantralayam and also to the various branches of the Mutt. Devotees can also reduce some of their entertainment related activities, and instead of that, they could utilise that money towards doing some kind of spiritual oriented activities, like donating of dhoti to Guru Raghavendra Swamy Mutts, in order to get it adorned to our holy Guru Sri Raghavendra Swamy’s Brindavana. Comforts and luxuries are also necessary in order to increase our standard of living, but at the same time, we must also allocate som..

IntroductionGopannacharya was a direct disciple of Guru Raghavendra Swamigal, similar to Sri Appanacharya, and he was born in a village in Adoni District of Andhra Pradesh. Adoni is situated some kilometres far away from Mantralayam. Gopanna has studied Vedas and other devotional scriptures at his younger age itself, and he had got the golden opportunity of serving the Great Madhwa Saint Sree Raghavendra Swamigal. He has also helped his guru towards performing Moola Rama puja and also helped in other daily routine devotional activities like fetching water from the water, bri..

Similar to adorning the precious gold ornaments to Lord Ayyappa from the ornament Box, also called as Thiruvabarana Petti, the Mantralayam priests can also adorn the ornaments from the ornament Box to the idol of Sri Prahalada, the utsava idol of Guru Raghavendra, during the annual Aradhana festival days in order to show our love, honour and respect to the great Guru. There are various ways to please our beloved Guru Raghavendra, and one such way is to decorate him with beautiful garments on the auspicious festival days.Rich devotees while donating ornaments to the Mantralayam Temple ..

INTRODUCTIONRaghavendra Swamy is a great Guru, and he can also be treated as a Demi-god, since he is the incarnation of Lord Shankukarna, the Divine Attendant of Lord Brahma. But some of the devotees would call him as “KADAVULE”, “BHAGAVANE”, god, due to their staunch bhakti on him. As per the Madhwa Philosophy, Raghavendra Swamy must be considered only as a Guru, but, based on the significance of his previous avatars we can also consider him to be the Chief most demi-god, similar to the Prajapatis, Lord Daksha Bhagavan and Lord Manu. Most of his devotees believe him to be an incar..