Colors of Life - RGB!

The base colors in this world are Red, Green and Blue!

Red: Symbolizes Purity, danger, powerful etc
Green: Symbolizes prosperity, jealousness (!)
Blue: Peace, Gloomy, temperament

You mix different proportions of these colors to get the vibrant colors of life!

It means that you play with these colors in life to show different emotions! Too much of anything is bad!

You are right! Life is about balancing! Anything too much, is too bad! Nature is the perfect example of using the color combinations to the perfection! Learn from nature and try to be balanced.

Mantralaya - Raghavendra Swami

After a long pending plan, we decided to make it to Mantralaya! Though we knew that it's going to be extremely hot in that area, we continued with our plan.

Mantralaya, is the place where Sri Raghavendra swami entered into the Brindavan, alive - Sajeeva Samadhi, after getting the instructions from the Lord.

Sri Raghavendra Swami, is one of the saints who spread the Dvaita philosophy to many. He did penance on the banks of Tunga Bhadra river in a temple called as Pancha mukhi Anjaneya (five headed Hanuman), which falls in Karnataka. Here, after 12 years of penance Lord appeared to him and instructed him to take Samadhi at Manchale, current Mantralaya(in AP). Following the instructions, Sri Rayaru, as he is lovingly called by his devotees, decided to take samadhi. When multitude of his followers begged him, he is believed to have said that he will be alive in this samadhi state for 700 years. Till then, he will continue to help his devotees.

Sri Rayaru, is known to be a very good player of Veena. He has composed many literary works which are revered today. His prime deity was Sri Rama.

How did we go
By Car
Route
Bangalore to Gutty -> NH 7. Gutti/Gooty -> Mantralaya state road. MSN Maps helped a lot. (maps.msn.com)
Distance
Roughly around 400km
Road condition
Good. The NH7 is a single road with demarcation. State roads were not all that bad.
Climate
Summers - extremely hot(above 42 degrees)
Places to visit
1. Panchamukhi Anjaneya(half an hour drive from Mantralaya)
2. Mantralaya (Sri Rayara Brundavana, Manchallamma (local diety))
Pooja timings
8.00am to 10.00am in the morning.
7.30pm to 9.00pm in the evening
Restrictions
For darshana, men are supposed not to wear shirts and for the pooja, they are supposed to be in dhoti instead of pants.
Tunga bhadra
This river will flow full during rainy season and will be dry during summer
Food
Not many good hotels are around. Lunch is served in the temple itself.
Accommodation
Many hotels are available matching different budgets. Even the Matha has a lot of rooms available.
Time required
1 day is sufficient to have darshana and complete pooja/offerings.

We started by 4.30am in the morning and reached Mantralaya by 12.30pm. We took rest for a while. We went to Panchamukhi Anjaneya temple which took around 1.30 to complete the visit. Came back to Mantralaya by 7.00pm and headed for darshana and went to bed. Next morning we had darshana and left to Bangalore by 12.30pm.

Happy visiting! :)