Sri Velukkudi Krishnan

Sri Velukkudi Krishnan Swamigal is a well-known upansayaka in Tamil. His father was also a very knowledgeable upansayaka and Sri Krishnan learnt the art from his father. He was a Chartered accountant in a MNC in Chennai. After his father passed away suddenly, he took up the Upanyasam as a full-time job, leaving the highly remunerative CA job.

He started discoursing on Bhagavad Gita on Doordarshan (Pothikai) channel daily from 0630 AM to 0645 AM and it became an instant hit with the public. Vijaya and I listen to his discouse daily since Jan 18th, 2007.

Yesterday (1st Jan 2008) he gave a discourse on SRINIVASA KALYANAM at Mylapore. It was to start at 1000 AM and we two reached the venue by 0930. I was thinking that we would get seating by 10th row at least since we were 30 minutes earlier. But when we entered the actual spot I was stunned with shock and disbelief to see a sea of humanity.

The hall was already jampacked and by the grace of Lord Srinivasa we could sit somehow. Within seconds the entry gate was closed since the crowd that wanted to enter was very large. Later they too were accomodated outside with extra loud speakers.

The discourse Sri SRINIVASA KALYANAM was excellent. He went on for over three hours but no one felt it. At the end of it, everyone was given a Laddu, Prasadam from Tirupati.

We returned home at 2-30PM - our New Year 2008 was thus enriched.

Rajappa
12:45 on 02 Jan

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