Thursday, January 13, 2022

MahaPeriyava Shankarapuram: Shri Vakil Anna - man on a mission

 


Vakil Shri VenkataSubramanyam is a man on a mission. This devotee of MahaPeriyava is trying to bring the Brahmin population spread across the world, onto a common platform. The advantages of this, as one can readily imagine, are several and will work on multiple levels

As part of his other ongoing programmes (which are too many to go into in detail here), he has indirectly been doing this for the past several years and has already onboarded 28000+ Brahmin families onto his platform. Technology has been an enabler here and he has been leveraging WhatsApp extensively.

Vakil Anna has a team of dedicated volunteers working for him and through them, operates dozens of WhatsApp groups and corresponds with them via voice messages on a daily basis, often more than once a day.

Many of you may already be familiar with Vakil Anna and his work. His Shankarapuram project (https://www.srisankarapuram.com/) is now world famous and the scale and speed at which activities are going on in this village for the greater common good, is phenomenal.

 

The Brahmin of today has forsaken the three fundamental things required of him - Agni SamrakshaNam (Yagnas, Homams etc), Go SamrakshaNam (rearing cow/calf in his house), Veda SamrakshaNam (chanting of the Vedas). Sandhyavandanam, which is the core aspect of the Brahmin has also been sacrificed; money making has become the prime motive. The situation has been exacerbated in the last 75-80 years. This has led to the delicate equilibrium of the world go out of sync; this has also upset the symbiotic relationship between humans and the Devas. The disastrous results are there for all to see around us. The rot that has set in the society has a direct connection with the Brahmin giving up his prescribed duties

 

Due to the almost superhuman effort by Vakil Anna for the past few years, a transformation can been seen at least in a few Brahmin families fortunate enough to be in Vakil Anna's groups. They are realizing that maybe they have gone astray and that corrective measures need to be put in place at least now, to slow down the degeneration of the community. They are realizing that if they don't act now, their children will have no religious moorings at all and will drift further and further away from our traditions, culture and values.

But this revolution has to catch on. We all need to do our bit. Putting aside our petty differences, we need to show our support to Vakil Anna.

 

How can you do that?

  • ·       Fill out the google form at https://tinyurl.com/SSMAGGNewmemberForm This will take less than 2 minutes
  • ·       Please share this blog with your Brahmin friends and relatives and encourage them to join the family

 

Vakil Anna already has an infrastructure in place to take this information forward and onboard you into his groups.

 

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