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Establishment
of Shree Ramachandrapura
Math: During one of his piligrimages ,Adi
Shankara reached the shores of Gokarna ,The holy town
on the west coast of India.After worshipping the presiding
deity Shree Mahabaleshwara,tradition records that Shankaracharya
along with his disciples reached the hills of Sathashringa
to offer his prayers to Shree Varadesha.The place was an
abode of peace and hormony,where wild animals like tiger
and snake lived in amity with gentle creatures like cows
and deer.Shankaracharya was wonderstruck by the seen of
a tigrees showering motherly love on an orphaned deer at
Ahoka,A grove where the great saint Varadamuni was performing
penance.Varada muni welcomed Shankaracharya and handed over
the sacred idols of Rama,Lakshmana
,Sita and Chanrdamouleshwara
Lingas to Shankara so that they could be worshipped
permanently by mahathmas.Varadamuni had received these Idols
from his Guru Agasthyamuni.Shankaracharya established a
math in his holy place,name with Raghuothama math which
was to work for the spiritual wellbeing of the entire society
and to under take the worship of the sacred
idols.The Shree Math has stunningly beautiful ivory
throne which is feast to one's eyes which was carved
during the period of Shree Ramachandra Bharathi Swamiji.(the
34th pontiff)
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Adi
Shankara appointed his disciple Shree Vidyananda ,(who
had taken deeksha from shree Sureshacharya) as the first
pontiff.Thus commenced the glorious unbroken line of Peetadishas
of Raghuthama math which is known as Shree Ramachandrapura
math.The present pontiff Shree Ragaveshwra Bharathi Swamiji
who was enthroned on 28th April,1999,is the 36th Guru
in this Avichinna parampara.(The
unbroken lineage). And the Shreemath has reached new
heights of glory under the Golden reign of the present Shree
Samstana.
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