Join our worldwide sangha for a three-day virtual commemoration leading into the auspicious day of axaya-tritiyā to honour and celebrate Self Enquiry Life Fellowship’s Foundation Day. This annual commemoration is a time for us to reflect on the Nonprofit’s impact and vision for the future, and to honour and share our appreciation for each of us – seekers, servers, and devotees.
His Holiness Swami Vidyadhishananda will present a livestream message, answer a selection of your questions during a rare spiritual Q&A session and offer his choicest blessings to you and your family during a Zoom Video conference.
In addition to these three live sessions, participants will have access to our Hansarūpin Online Commemoration Page, an interactive celebration webpage where we will share spiritual resources, and a form for you to submit your burning spiritual questions for His Holiness.
The Hansarūpin Online Commemoration Page with the Q&A form will be live on Wednesday, 21st April. To have your question considered for a live response during our Q&A session you must submit your question no later than Thursday, 28th April before midnight in California. The login details to view the commemoration page will be shared with you by email.
Program Schedule
Sunday, 1st May | 10am US PDT (recording will be immediately available)
Fellowship as the Foundation of Life – Livestream Presentation by His Holiness
Monday, 2nd May | 5pm US PDT (recording will be immediately available)
Question & Answer Session with His Holiness – Livestream
*Submit your burning spiritual questions on the Commemoration webpage ahead of time. Questions will be selected by our team to be answered by His Holiness.
Tuesday, 3rd May – Axaya-tritiyā (choose one session – recording will not be available)
Axaya-tritiyā Virtual Blessing Line – Zoom Video fellowship
Session A – 5pm US PDT
Session B – 9pm US PDT
*Participants will choose one session to attend based on their time zone. Attendance is allowed at only one session. During the registration process you will have the opportunity to reserve the session you plan to attend.
Axaya-tritiyā Foundation Day
Axaya-tritiyā, which translates as the ‘imperishable third’, falls on the third day of the ascending moon during the soli-lunar month of Vaisakha. The day is celebrated as the birthdays of supreme personality Lord Parashurāma and Sukrāchārya (Lord Venus). This day is even more significant to those who are interested in Jyotisha (science of light) as the day when great sage Bhrigu rishi completed his compendium on Jyotisha known as Bhrigu-samhitā. Every noble act on this day is said to be at least tripled in results and traditionally this day has been revered as one with immortal virtuosity.
A closer look at the divine legacy of axaya-tritiyā reveals to us that all three events ascribed to this day are related to sage Bhrigu. While Venus (the ruling Lord of planet Venus) is hailed to be the son of sage Bhrigu, Lord Parashurāma also descended in the familial lineage of sage Bhrigu. In the spiritual philosophy classic of Bhagavad-Gitā, Lord Krishna declares that among the sages he is Bhrigu, as it were, thus conferring the highest seer status on sage Bhrigu.
Hansavedas curriculum (gurukulum) as per the monastic mission (Maṭha) was founded on this auspicious day of the year to render the wisdom teachings immortalized. This was effected as per the guidance by Lord Parashurāma who is the erstwhile satguru of the spiritual founder of Self Enquiry Life Fellowship, HH Swami Vidyadhishananda. Further, HH Swami Vidyadhishananda was born in the tutelage of sage Bhrigu rishi and thus hails from Bhrigu-gotra (lineage connected to a rishi sage). His Holiness has already received specific directions when he was revealed by the discourse of sage Bhrigu rishi to His son Lord Venus details of the Hansavedas mission.
