Tuesday 9th of
October 2012 was a golden letter day for the Sankara Nethralaya family, His
Holiness the Sankaracharya of Sringeri Sharadha Peetam had given his divine
consent to give darshan at the main premises and bless the staff members and
the institution in response to the requests made by the senior management.
The Seer and
his entourage were received reverentially at the entrance of the Kamalnayan Research Building
Dr
S.Meenakshi, Director, Academics got the proceedings started with a soul
stirring invocation song and extended her reverential welcome to the Sage on
behalf of the entire Sankara Nethralaya family after which the entire gathering
stood in respectful obeisance to the chanting of the Veda Goshams. A visibly
moved Dr SS.Badrinath expressed his deep gratitude to the Swamiji for placing
his golden feet at the Sankara Nethralaya premises and blessing its members and
the institution. He explained in an emotion filled voice that it was the grace,
blessings and seed capital received from His Holiness Abhinava Theertha
Swamigal of the Sharadha Peetham that saw the inception of Sankara Nethralaya.
He humbly traced the growth of the institution to a 1,300 strong eye care
centre with a high reputation for service, Medicare, Research and Teaching
&Training and sought the Swami’s blessing for all round progress in every
one of these branches.
Dr.
SS.Badrinath announced the renaming of the Cell biology and Bio-chemistry
department after Shri R.S Mehta in deference to the wishes of Shri Ashok Mehta
a long time friend, well-wisher, donor, board member of the Medical Research
Foundation and the Chairman of Jain Housing, who had made a large contribution
to the department. He presented a set of photographs of the Puri Jagannath
Temple
The Swamiji
delivered a very simple but in depth Anugraha Bhashanam for the benefit of the
gathering, he recalled that Sankara Nethralaya was started with the blessings
of Adi Sankara and he was very touched by Dr SS.Badrinath’s recollection of the
help and grace that he received from the 35th Pontiff of the Sharadha Peetham
Shri Abhinava teertha Swamigal. He exhorted that everyone should do some form
of paropakaram within his capacity during his life time and those who do not
have the capacity to do so on their own could join service oriented
organizations like Sankara Nethralaya to do so. He reminded that such
paropakaram should be done selflessly and without expecting anything in return
and with the firm realization that it is Easwara who has blessed us to do such
paropakara. On the other hand he explained that the simple way of refraining
from doing pavam or sin is by not causing or meaning any harm to fellow human
beings. The Seer observed that becoming a ‘Mahan’ is not the reserve of a
select few and anyone who followed the above tenets could be called a ‘Mahan’
The Pontiff of
the Shringeri Madam closed his speech with the observation that Dr SS.Badrinath
is a true epitome of Seva and Sacrifice and he would pray to God to bless him
to do even more service, he concluded that Sankara Nethralaya is a result of
the labour of many hands and would grow to great heights
The momentous
function came to an end with the distribution of Prasadam to the gathering.
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