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| Brahmasree Kuchibhatla Gokarna Chandramouleeswara Hari Vithal –-K G C Hari Vithal has been an erudite scholar, eminent educationalist, outstanding administrator, inspiring spiritual leader and above all a quintessential humanist. He awakened several thousands of people into the glory of Indian Spiritual Culture by his enthralling discourses and enchanting expositions of the distilled essence of Indian Scriptures from 1970’s through 1990s. Bestowed with versatile scholarship, authoritative knowledge, unparalleled linguistic felicity in Sanskrit, English and Telugu, with his insightful imports, exemplifications of the eternal values for the changing society, he has inspired people of all hues and ages. He has extraordinary capacity to transform profundity to simplicity. With his lucid and eclectic interpretations, exceptional exponentiations of the ‘Sanatana Dharma’ befitting the modern idiom, he has indeed demystified the eleusinian scriptures, thus far confined as secret doctrines only to the esoteric. |
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| Encyclopedic Scholarship |
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 Sri Hari Vithal had a radiant mind like a sunbeam with several colors fused into him. He was a man of many charms and his repertoire spanned a plethora of subjects. He could powerfully expound the scriptures, Upanishads, Epics, and Theosophy on one hand, Management, Leadership development etc on the other. While many, in his times, tended to either glorify our past or ignore it completely, Sri. Hari Vithal by his nuanced interpretations advocated a pragmatic mean of beautifully synthesizing tradition and modernity. He always privileged humane above the archetypal orthodoxy and strongly related spiritual practice to personal experience. His unprecedented and larger worldview transcending religions addressed the human kind at large, underscoring the One Truth. He cleansed the windows of misperceptions and worked as a great harmonizer of the universality of brotherhood. His elucidations and integration of the inextricable linkages of themes of all the world religions as essential derivations of the Indian ancient wisdom were truly reveling experiences. |
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| Mesmerizing Presence |
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He carried a rare divine effulgence around him. His energy, mesmerizing presence on one hand, his compelling modesty, affable demeanour and disarming smile on the other, have brought him closer to the hearts of diverse audience. The interspersing of his lectures with pristine poetry of Pothana Bhagavatha, and soulful rendition of compositions of the Trinity of Music in his nectarine voice, used to be a transcendental experience- into the realms of sheer bliss. Sri. Hari Vithal’s inspiring and enlivening discourses and his pioneering prescriptions of specific ‘ Slokas and ‘Mantras’ from ‘ Sree Vishnu Sahasranamam’ and ‘ Sree Lalitha Sahasra Namam’ as potent solutions to mundane problems have evoked a great deal of interest in many to explore the veritable repositories of Indian scriptures. |
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| Spellbinding Oration |
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 Sri. Hari Vithal was incredibly gifted with an inimitable conversational style, and spellbinding oration. He could effortlessly extempore from the Vedas, Upanishads, the Epics, and instantly relate them to the modern times to rekindle tremendous interest in the greatness of Indian Spiritual Culture. His personal charm, vibrancy of the young heart has brought in a whiff of fresh air to his speeches. He rescued large swathes of youth being swayed and alienated by the gales of pseudo rationality. He enthralled even the doubting agnostics by his explanations on how the Limitless and Infinite cannot be perceived and experienced by the very limited and finite realms of Science and sense- bound intellect. His authentic appeal that it was not necessary for one to retire into forests for spiritual practice, and how one can create a corresponding experience while living as normal householder. His appropriate emotionality, piquant humor replete with unapologetic caricaturing of the gnawing contradictions of the modern times, have conjured up sheer magic over the younger audiences. |
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| The Magnum Opus Lecture Series |
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Sri. Hari Vithal’s Magnum Opus and trail blazing lectures on spiritual applications of ‘ Sree Vishnu Sahasra Naamam’ and ‘ Sree Lalitha Sahasra Naamam’ dispelled the myths in many that the Mantra Sastras are only meant for pursuit of the other world. His path breaking works left their indelible footprints throughout the state of Andhra Pradesh, Chennai, and parts of TN, Mumbai, Orissa, West Bengal and a few countries abroad. Despite the fact that his works remained mostly unsung, and irretrievably lost, as unlike today, the glitz and glamour of clamoring media then was totally inconspicuous airing such programs, Sri. Hari Vithal’s influence left an indelible inking in the lives of many. He remains ever beckoning and cherished in thousands of hearts he conquered. |
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| Rebooting the Modus and Medium |
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A passing look those days at the incredible sight of audiences spilling over the fringes of the auditoriums and the police on guard, was often been mistaken for today’s celebrity cricket match or a film star concert. And that was no hyperbole. A keen look at the Rama Koti (Siva Rama Krishna Kshetram) in Vijayawada for several months, or the Rama Koti (Sree Rama Naama Kshetram ) of Eluru for 108 days would instantly reveal, that it was indeed an enthralled audience, mostly the engrossed youth captivated to the loud speakers, immersively listening to a young sprightly safari suited scientist’s speech on spirituality. It used to be a heavenly and soul filling sight to watch His Holiness Trindandi Sreemannarayana Ramanuja Jeer Swamy’s immersive listening to Sri Harivithal’s speeches on Sree Vishnu Sahasranama” as if Lord Krishna listening to Bhishma’s Sree Vishnu Sahasranama”
Sri Hari Vithal changed forever, the stereotypical imagery of the then speakers hosting the somnolent stock audiences. He could contemporarize the tradition and successfully reboot the form, flair and the medium, to one of inspiring and enlightening engagement. Sri Hari Vithal’s strikingly radical and simple approach could make multitudes to just hung upon to his words. Sporting simple civilian attire, energizing the environment with his enlivening discourses, he dispelled the myth that spirituality was not for the spent force. Sri Hari Vithal had hundreds of professionals- like doctors, engineers, lawyers, accountants, civil servants in pleasant reverie and veneration to him, as they could find solace, happiness and personal fulfillment by his guidance.
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| Charming beyond the state across the Country |
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The first discourse of Sri Hari Vithal started in 1974 at Gudur with Master EK’s blessings. This unfurled fragrance soon spread as a phenomenon to the other cities and towns, throughout the state of AP- to Nellore, Vijayawada, Elur, Guntur, Bhimavaram, Rajahmundry, Visakhapatnam, Tenali, Repalle, Tanuku, Kothagudem, Bhimunipatnam ,Tadepalligudem, Sirsilla, Kagaj Nagar, Macherla, Rajole, Ananthapur, Kurnool, Tirupathi, Jaggaihpet, Suryapet, Hyderabad and to Madras, Kodai, Ooty, Nilgiris Mumbai, Pune, Thane, Puri, Bhubaneswar, Mayapur, Singapore. .and so on.
His works imbued fresh curiosity, rekindled and reignited great interest of many in the splendor of the veritable gold mines of Indian scriptures. His acknowledged mastery, resonating conviction, and strikingly simplified approach gave tremendous impetus to thousands to listen, read, explore and adapt the maxims of Indian way of living. His very name conjured up a splendid image of ushering in profound spiritual renaissance through the state of Andhra Pradesh through the 1970s-90s.
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