Shri Gopala Wodeyaru Aradhana (Bidi Sanyasigalu)

Shri Gopala Wodeyaru Aradhana

Parampare: biDi sanyAsigaLu in sOsale vyAsarAja maTa

DAsatva gurugaLu: Diggavi shrInivAsAchArya

SanyAsatva gurugaLu: shri vidyApUrNa tIrtharu (sOsale vyAsarAja maTa)

BrindAvana: bilikerE, huNsUru tAluk, Mysore District

Aradhane: shrAvaNa shuddha pratipada

BrindAvana on: 3-Aug-1864, raktAskshi samvatsara, shrAvaNa shuddha pratipada

Shloka:

AadhU shEshArya vipropyahi giri ramamaNa AnugrahAdAsanAma|

vidyA pUrNArya thIrthadya thivarapapuShaH khyAtha gOpAladAsaH||

He founded the subbarayara dAsara guDi near Maharani High school, near Jagan Mohan palace in Mysore. This also houses rAyara brindAvana.

Gopala Wodeyaru in his pUrvAshrama used to play dice with King MummaDi Krishna rAja BhUpALa. Once when he was playing dice with the King he got up all of a sudden and said - Haa! Appa! srInivAsA! dayAnidhE! bande! khanDita baruttEne! idO horaTe!. He said that Lord srInivAsA was calling and left the place to perform duties indicated by Lord srInivAsA.

He performed intense dyAna. On the 12th day, his guru Diggavi srInivAsAchArya came in his swapna and gave him 3 pieces of angAra, mantrAkshate and kaTihAra haNa. And asked him to accept. He told him to apply that angAra to those who approached him and give mantrAkshate to get rid of Mari kOpa Drava (a terrible epidemic that had spread in Mysore) and to keep the KaTihAra haNa in dEvara peTTige and perform pooja. And thus Subbarayaru became subbarAya dAsaru.

He later took sanyAsatva from shri vidyApUrNa tIrtharu of sOsale vyAsarAja maTa and became shri gOpAla woDeyaru.