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Gods & Gurus

Enter Our Puja Hall

A wall of devotion, the way it would look in a home shrine — a few figures large and close, most smaller and gathered around them. Five have a full page of their own; the rest are introduced here, with more added over time.

A GROWING CIRCLE

Start here, then go deeper

The Thiruppadattirattu itself opens this way — its very first section is a salutation to Vinayagar, before anything else is said. Tap any framed photo below to read more, where a page exists.

Lord Murugan (Skanda)

Sri Valli Deivasena Sametha Subramanya Swami

Lord Kubera
Shirdi Sai Baba
Sri Raghavendra Swamy
Lord Narayana
Lord Lakshmi Narasimha
Lord Venkatachalapathy
Goddess Lakshmi
Goddess Padmavati
Radha
Lord Krishna
Sri Rama Panchayatan: Rama, Sita, Lakshmana and Hanuman
Sri Rama Panchayatan: Rama, Sita, Lakshmana and Hanuman
Sri Rama Panchayatan: Rama, Sita, Lakshmana and Hanuman
Goddess Saraswati
Lord Brahma

Most of these are starting introductions, drawn from general and published sources. Corrections and additions from the community are always welcome — write in via the Contact page.

LIVING & REMEMBERED

The teachers behind this work

Sri Guruprakash Swamigal

Sri Guruprakash Swamigal

B Manihatty, The Nilgiris

Holds the lineage of Sri Sarguru Nadha Mahamuni in its Nilgiri home, and reviewed and verified the Tamil source-text behind the Foundation’s publications.

Sri Sachidananda Naveen Sai

Sri Sachidananda Guru Naveen Sai

Sai Nivas Seva Trust, Coimbatore

Brought pastoral guidance and comparative scholarly insight that shaped both the doctrinal and devotional voice of the Foundation’s commentary work.

Temple gopuram

GO DEEPER

Continue exploring

Read the Epic

Kanda Puranam — the full telling of Muruga’s birth and His war with Surapadman.

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Read the Hymns

Thiruppugazh, sung in Muruga’s praise across His six abodes for six centuries.

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See the Mahayatra

The Foundation’s own yearly observance of Soorasamharam at Pranavagiri.

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FOLLOW THE JOURNEY

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