Shri Sujnanendra Teertharu was the 29th Pontiff of Shri Rayara Math. He attained Hari Pada in 1861. His Moola Brindavan is located in Nanajanagud.
Charama shlOka:
सुधासारार्थतत्वज्ञं सुरद्रुमसमं सताम् ।
सुराधिपगुरुप्रख्यं सुज्ज्ञॆनॆंद्र गुरुं भजॆ ॥
ಸುಧಾಸಾರಾರ್ಥತತ್ವಜ್ಞಂ ಸುರದ್ರುಮಸಮಂ ಸತಾಮ್ |
ಸುರಾಧಿಪಗುರು ಪ್ರಖ್ಯಂ ಸುಜ್ಞಾನೇಂದ್ರ ಗುರುಂ ಭಜೇ ||
Raghavendracharya, the pUrvAshrama son of the great grandson of dhIrEndra tIrtharu and pUrvAdshrama brother-in-law of sujanEndra tIrtha was a great scholar. He was very pious and austere. Raghavendracharya who received sanyAsa from sujanEndra tIrtha as per the orders of his mother was named sujnAnEndra tIrtharu. He spent most of his time at NanjangUD during his reign of twenty five years except for his tour for a brief period. During his tour, he got back Kireetigiri, Moraba, Somanahalli and other villages whose possession the maTa had lost, and lands in the villages of Amarapura, Shettihalli and others.
He was a great tapasvi. One day when he was doing tapas, a sparrow which used to sit in a small hole in his tapas room was making lot of noice. He was disturbed and he could not concentrate on tapas. He opened his eyes and looked at the sparrow (Gubbachi), and immediately the sparrow died. srIgaLu was shocked at the incident and he told one of his shishyas to do prOkshaNe of some mantra argyOdaka on the sparrow. As soon the prOkshane was done, the sparrow got back the life and flew away. This is an example of his tapas shakti.
One more example of his tapas Shakti is as follows. As the British rule had already become entrenched, it was during his time the documents pertaining to all the assets of the maTa were done. The swamiji was a great ascetic. He exuded unusual brilliance whenever he was seen after he had performed praNava japa and ahnIka. In connection with a certain village, the maTa needed the help of the Deputy Commissioner of Mysore. He was a Briton. Thinking that if he could see to it that the official met the swamiji, it would facilitate the maTa to have an easy passage of its requirements, the pUrvAshrama son of swAmIji, Raja Rajagopalacharya, placed his views before the swamiji. The swamiji replied that, “Shastras forbid even seeing a foreigner. I do not wish to give him an interview”. Raja Rajagopalacharya urged the swamiji to clear the way for meeting, keeping the interest of the maTa in view. He brought that official to the maTa. But the official could see only an empty plank but not the swamiji. All the pains Rajagopalacharya took were of no avail. This not only aroused in the official, devotion for the swamiji but even the Rjagopalacharya was astounded by the bewildering ascetic powers of the swamiji. This demonstrated how brilliant the charisma of the swamiji was.
Once Rayaru came in a dream of a dhobi (cloth washer) and told him that the stone on which he was washing the clothes had his sAnidhya and the written sketch of himself. Next day when the cloth washer was washing the clothes in Srirangapatna, he heard a sound which sounded like “Omkara”. He was shocked and when he turned the stone, he was surprised to note that the back side of the stone had the abhayamudrita padmasanasta rAyara sketch. He was told in his dream to take this to nanjangUD and hand over to shri sujnAnEndra tIrtharu. Sri Mummadi Krishnarajaya Wodeyar, the king of Mysore at that time, also had a similar dream saying that he needs to meet shri sujnAnEndra tIrtharu for the pratishTApane of rAyaru. Both travel to NanjangUD and narrated the dreams to swAmIji. shri sujnAnEndra tIrtharu also had a similar dream that he would be presented with a stone pratime of rAyaru. He did the pratishTApane of shri rAyaru at nanjangUdu, which is being worshipped even today.
Being in the pITa for twenty five years, the swamIji wished to spend the last days of his life in Mantralaya and went there. After he had spent some days there worshipping Sri Gururaja, he had a dream where Gururaja ordained him to return to Nanjangud and said that he would be so blessed as to have his Aradhana fall on the day next to the concluding day of Sri Raghavendra swamiji’s Aradhana instead of having his Brindavan at Mantralaya as desired by him. As ordained by Gururaja, the swamiji returned to Nanjangud. After a few days of his arrival at Nanjangud, the swamiji reached the heavenly abode on the fourth day of Shravana Bahula in Durmathi Samvatsara. As the Uttara Aradhana of Sri Gururaja coincides with the Poorva Aradhana of sujnAnEndra tIrtha, the devotees could understand the import of what Sri Gururaja had ordained. Swamiji’s scholarship was extraordinary. Besides rendering discourse on Nyayasudha nine times conclusively, he has become celebrated by writing the book ‘Chandrikamandana’.
| Category | Aradhana |
| month | Sravana |
| paksha | Krishna |
| tithi | Chaturthi |
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