Yoga Sangeeta is part of Avadhoota Datta Peetham, Mysuru organized a successful attempt of a Guinness World Record, a largest video album containing birthday wishes to Sri Ganapathy Sacchidananda Swamiji of Mysuru, India on His 80th birthday has entered Guinness World Records.
MYSURU, India, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- This year, 2022, which is called Shubhakrt as per the lunar calendar, is extremely special for all Datta devotees as we are celebrating the 80th birthday of our Pujya Sadguru Sri Ganapati Sachchidananda Swamiji.
On this auspicious occasion of Swamiji's 80th year birthday, all His followers are expressing their joy not just by hosting and participating in opulent birthday celebrations but also by undertaking creative and constructive initiatives.
They are not leaving any stone unturned to show their immense love and affection for their dear Sadguru and to prove that they are walking, nay, marching forward on the path that He has laid.
Many dignitaries, spiritual leaders, political leaders including our honorable Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi ji himself, conveyed their heartfelt birthday wishes in Kannada fondly by saying "ellarigu jai guru datta - appaji avarige embattane vardhantai sandarbhadalli pranam, aagu shubha kamne galu," applauding Avadhoota Datta Peetham's contribution and seeking Swamiji's blessings to continue His work and inspire them. Spiritual leaders from all religions participated in the birthday celebrations in Mysore ashrama. Wishes from across the world poured in. Wishes from various lands, various languages, and various cultures flooded ashram communication channels. All those who benefitted from Sri Swamiji's magnanimous spirit, such as those living in the economically backward communities, the differently abled individuals, the sick and terminally ill patients joined the overcrowded Nada Mantapa in wishing Sri Swamiji "Happy Birthday"! The staff, patients, and attendants from the 21 hospitals that ashram supplied food to, during the pandemic, the traffic police that were supplied with PPE kits and food by ashrama and the hundreds of needy musicians in Mysore who were provided groceries and clothing - all thanked and wished Sri Swamiji a very happy birthday!
The joy was not limited just to humans. The saptaswara devata sculptures too reverberated with the joyous birthday wishes. Even the thousands of birds in Shukavana chirped, shrieked, and sang the birthday song. While Lord Rama turned a stone to woman and blessed the wounded Jatayu with heavenly abode, the Swara devata stone sculptures and the birds of Shukavana reciprocated that love by singing Happy Birthday for Sri Swamiji!
Let us take a step back and think why we are even celebrating the birthday of a Guru. The spiritual energy of Guru, especially of an avatara purusha such as Sri Swamiji, is eternal. There is no beginning or end. When the beginning cannot be defined, what is it that we are celebrating? If we, do it blindly, without knowing its actual purpose, the celebrations will be reduced to pointless revelry. So, it is important to know the purpose of this extravaganza.
A Guru comes, solely to uplift the spiritually seeking souls. Being a spiritual power and not just a fully realized soul, Guru has no need or purpose to walk on this earth. His presence, His becoming, His Avatara or birth is in fact, our birth, our spiritual birth, our awakening as a spiritual being. After lakhs and lakhs of mundane births during which we are either completely unaware of or are unable to comprehend the divine power and its workings, the birth we take that shall be touched by a Guru will be the greatest of all our births! It is His presence in it and not merely our birth that brings joy and therefore we must celebrate HIS birthday. This is probably why Sri Swamiji says that His birthday is the birthday of His followers. Evidently, Guru's birthday marks the birth of a soul as His follower, His devotee, His disciple…
Unlike many others, Sri Swamiji is not a 'Bodha Guru'. That is, He does not preach. He does not teach through extensive discourses. On the contrary, He is a silent teacher. He communicates silently. His lessons are not on paper or into the mike. They come to you as personal experiences. They strike you as unexpected thoughts. He is a compassionate spiritual teacher who cares to comfort His devotees and draw them towards spirituality. We must acknowledge and be grateful for decades of such spiritual responsibility. Many more happy returns of the day such a saintly and spiritually compassionate Guru was born.
The services Sri Swamiji extends to the society through many of His initiatives are multifarious. The projects and initiatives are well-planned and well-sustained. Amma Vodi, a home for destitute women and SGS Vagdevi, a school for the communication impaired are two institutions that are being run since decades and are successfully serving the society. But sometimes, when Sri Swamiji's compassion goes into over drive, He gives generously, be it wealth, love, time or attention. It is the nature of giving, than the act of giving that is of great value. Merry celebrations of the day the epitome of charity was born.
For an individual born in forest area, raised in small towns and preaching spirituality, Sri Swamiji is unbelievably techno friendly. Sri Swamiji uses technology to its fullest to spread good and be available when His devotees need Him. Sri Swamiji's social media presence is mighty. Avadhoota Datta Peetham has launched several smart phone Apps that are useful to both, His followers as well as general public. The very popular SGSPOSTS app has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times as it posts simple good sayings (SGS) every day. Another app Bhajanmala has nearly 2000 bhajans that have been written, composed and rendered by Sri swamiji Himself. There are apps for yoga, meditation, various hymns and communication with Datta Peetham. Happy happy birthday to the perennial student in Sri Swamiji that is curious to learn, steadfast in grasping and expert in implementing.
Since over a decade, there has been live streaming of each and every program of Datta Peetham. And with the advent of superb technical features such as Facebook live, a devotee can be virtually present with Swamiji almost everywhere He goes. In fact, Sri Swamiji appeared live each and every day during the Covid lockdown for three long hours to keep His devotees glued to their seats and prevent them from stepping out of their houses. Avadhoota Datta Peetham Facebook page stream live videos everyday even today. Happy online and in person celebrations of Pujya Sri Swamiji's 80th year birthday.
Sri Swamiji's birth was mystical. Neither her parents at home, nor the tribal women who found His holy mother Sri Jayalakshmi Mata seated in meditation in the waters of Kaveri with the infant Swamiji in her lap, were sure as to who delivered the baby. Mystically, miraculously, and mysteriously, Sri Swamiji's childhood, youth, adulthood and now, again, His youthful present have and are being spent only and only towards the benefit of the society. We celebrate not just a person or His principles or His initiatives, but we celebrate the happiness that He has given humankind in countless ways.
A heart that never gets tired of melting, a hand that never gets tired of giving, a mind that never gets tired of planning and a face that never gets tired of smiling - that is Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji in a nutshell. Birthday wishes from lakhs of us to Him who teaches us how to live life, how to make good use of the best gift from God.
In honour of such a great personality and in a loving and creative attempt to express their affection, devotees from across the world have sent lakhs of videos with a Happy birthday wish. Files poured in as soon as the devotees knew they could send video bytes wishing Sri Swamiji. However, since not all videos have been appropriately shot, only a few thousands have been accepted.
The videos were filtered based on several factors such as size, clarity, resolution, dimensions, audio quality, and uniqueness (no repetition). This multi-step filtering process was performed with Python programming codes.
Happy birthday videos received in English, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, American Sign Language, Gujarati, Malayalam, Japanese, Swiss, Marathi, Arabic, Italian, Malay, Spanish, Surnami, Turkish and Musical instrument! The language experts have scrutinized each and every video manually to detect the language and identify the word "birthday" in the respective language. The final video, a long video concatenating all these video bytes is being proposed for a Guinness World record as the largest online video album of Birthday wishes.
A largest video album containing birthday wishes to Avadhoota Datta Peetham Seer Sri Ganapathy Sacchidananda Swamiji of Mysuru, India on His 80th birthday has entered Guinness World Records. On 10th June Guinness World Records representative Rushi Nath handed over the certificate as 'largest online video album of birthday wishes/ greetings was achieved by Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji in Mysuru, Karnataka, India on 10 June 2022'. Sri Ganapathy Sacchidananda Swamiji received the GWR certificate at Nada Mantapa at Ganapathy Sachchidananda Ashram, Mysuru.
Media Contact
Ram, Yoga Sangeeta, 1 6099032681, [email protected]
SOURCE Yoga Sangeeta
Share this article