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Dear Swamin
                    The following is the "SIGNIFICANCE OF UPAKARMA"

                             WORSHIP OF LORD HAYAGREEVA

 Sri Hayagreeva is an incarnation of of Lord Vishnu,who is Gyana and Ananda personified,whose complexion is clear white and who is the root cause of all arts and sciences

Brahma had lost His encyclopaedia , the Vedas, when He was in slumber and though the kalpa had started,He could not commence His assigned duty of creation. So He took to yoga concentrating on Sreeman Narayana, the originator,who, in Hayagreeva form,killed the demons Madhu and Kaitaba, who had stolen the Vedas from Brahma. Assuming the horse-headed form, He recited the entire Vedas for the benefit of Brahma to go on with His function of creation. This incident was narrated by Brahma Himself to sage Narada and is recorded in the BHagavatham.

Lord Hayagreeva is VACHAM NIDHI, lord of all that could originate from the mouth, and the learned ones, like SRi Dakshinamoorthi, Brahma and His consort SAraswathi, VYasa. Parasara, Valmiki and so on owe their greatness to Him. He, who concentrates his mind on the Lord of Learning is bestowed with knowledge and it flows to him without any obstruction like the flow of Mother Ganga

SOURCE OF ALL KNOWLEDGE:  He is ever present with SAnka and CHakra in two of His hands, the third holding the book of knowledge and the fourth is an explanatory posture, ever ready to shower His grace. He is yogeswara as well as Vageeswara

Sri Ramanuja acquired from Goddess Saraswathi at Srinagar, the Hayagreeva manthra alongwith an icon of Sri Hayagreeva and the Brahma sutras with annotations. He developed them in his Sri Bhashya and it spread to posterity through his line of disciples. SRi Desika in this line acquired them

  He performed Upasana of Hayagreeva manthra on a hillock on the banks of Garuda Nadhi,which empties itself into the ocean  near Cuddalore and obtained perfection . This site in Thiruvaheendrapuram  has a temple dedicated to Sri Hayagreeva( Recently , Srikainkarya a public charitable Trust has constructed a Mahamandap at a cost of nearly seventeen lakhs with the financial assistance of Sri Hayagreeva bhakthas, in front of the sannidhi of Sri Hayagreevan)

  The uthsava idol of Lord Hayagreevain his possession  has become the Presiding deity of Sri Parakala Mutt  at Mysore

 The day onwhich Sri Hayagreeva appeared  with the Vedas before Brahma is celebrated throughout the length and breath of Bharata Varsha as UPAKARMA or Raksha Bandan on which day the sacred thread is renewed  and practice of  the  Vedas is commenced

                                             Courtesy---The Hindu dt 22-8-1964 and
                                          Sri U.Ve. V. Veeraraghavacharya Swamy

Dear Asthikas
                     If you need " Aavani Avitta Manthra proyokams, tharppanam and jabam", you may ask Srikainkarya. These will be e-mailed as attachment( This is general. Some of them like tharppanam will differ according to their linage and practice. But this will be useful to perform the rituals without the guidence of Brahaspathi)

Dasan
Uruppattur Soundararajan
Srikainkarya


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