Divinepark

Divine Park was inaugurated on January 14, 1986 by Sri Swami Jagadatmanandaji, a senior monk of Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mysore. (Presently, Swamiji is at Ramakrishna Mission in Ponnampet, Coorg District Karnataka). Blessing Divine Park, Swami Jagadatmanandaji said, "Let Divine Park grow; Divine Spark glow!"link title
The sage behind DIVINE PARK, this spiritual temple, is Dr. A. Chandrashekhara Udupa, B.Sc., M.B.B.S., F.A.G.E., a practicing doctor who is striving to execute Swami Vivekananda's Man-making mission. Right from his childhood, Dr. Udupa was spiritually inclined. His favourite deities were Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Ma Sarada and Swami Vivekananda.
Swami Vireshwaranandaji Maharaj, the then President of Ramakrishna Mission, initiated
and influenced the young Dr. Udupa to undertake sadhana and meditate upon Swami Vivekananda and told him that He would certainly respond to a sincere call. Dr. Udupa decided to take Swami Vivekananda as his supreme master. As days passed Dr. Udupa's desire to have the vision of Swami Vivekananda reached its peak. In the early hours of the 1st day of January 1971 the long awaited miracle happened. In Dr. Udupa's own words: ".....I muttered a line from a devotional song meaning 'when shall I have your vision, my Lord'." All at once, there was a flash of light and I had the vision of the resplendent face of Swami Vivekananda." Since then Dr. Udupa has been in communion with Swami Vivekananda in meditation. (Swami Vivekananda is reverentially addressed as Sri Guruji and Dr. Udupa is lovingly called Doctorji).
Doctorji, an eminent General Practitioner of Saligrama in Karnataka, India, is well-known not only for restoring patients to pink health but even for reinvigorating the low-spirited and the sick at heart. He is the modern-day Krishna whose Christ-Consciousness brings light to the minds of the soul-sick, spreading new hope to the hopeless. His Holy Communion with Sri Guruji - Swami Vivekananda gives direction to all those who seek earnestly. Doctorji emphatically states that every man is potentially divine and free; he can, if he so wishes, partake in the Bliss of the Universal Oneness by gathering and reinforcing his disintegrated parts associated in self-indulgence and ignorance. Unbelievable, as it may sound, Sri Guruji - Swami Vivekananda has been many devotees for the last several years.
Divine Park is a unique organisation which stands for the glorification of Divine Spark or innate divinity in man paving the way for human excellence. It ventures to foster catholicity, communal harmony, unity and integrity fortifying the bond of love and brotherhood among human beings irrespective of caste and creed, cult and colour. It heralds a spiritual rejuvenation by the dissemination of practical Vedantic ideas of Swami Vivekananda. It believes in breaking all walls between religions and hearts. It is the abode of all Gods and Goddesses of all faiths and religions and the entire wide spectrum of divinity is represented here. Swami Vivekananda is manifesting here only with a well cherished hope of consecrating humanity and thereby transforming this earthly planet into Divine planet. Divine Park is verily a temple, church, mosque, an ashram and invariably stands for the unification of them all and greets all irrespective of caste and creed. Divine Park disseminates spiritual knowledge to the society and makes them see reason by removing their gullibility to superstitions. Divine Park teaches that God resides and speaks in every human heart and it is HE who guides them all like pilgrims on their divine journey. The renaissance of universal religion, it is hoped, will create a regenerated society which will work upholding the cherished values of our golden age of the past and succeed in reaping the fruits of spiritual pursuits by transforming the very human psyche, both individually and collectively.
Today temples are ever increasing in number. The number of devotees goes on swelling.
But simultaneously the number of crimes goes on rising too. An increasing number of people grope in darkness in search of peace and happiness. This is because spirituality has not got into the depth of the human mind and heart. It has remained on the surface, being confined to the exhibition of outward pomp. Lest people should resort to such outward forms of worship, there is no display of any list of services to be offered at Divine Park.
There is no value attached here to mere rituals. Here importance is given to the concept of renouncing the sense of ego. Those who come to the Divine Park should be able to surrender to God the nine restraining foes- lust, anger, greed, passion, pride, egoism, jealousy, egotism and doubt which hold them in sway. These forces should be made to fall at the feet of the Lord and be sublimated into divine qualities like love, patience, forgiveness, dutifulness and selflessness. With the absorption of divine qualities, God Himself is installed in man's heart and thus he becomes God himself. This is the objective
of Divine Park. There are innumerable institutions which provide opportunities to worship God. But no other institution has this goal of transforming man into God, teaching him to communicate with God. Hence, Divine Park is a unique institution.
Divine Park was inaugurated on January 14, 1986 by Sri Swami Jagadatmanandaji, a senior monk of Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mysore. (Presently, Swamiji is at Ramakrishna Mission in Ponnampet, Coorg District Karnataka). Blessing Divine Park, Swami Jagadatmanandaji said, "Let Divine Park grow; Divine Spark glow!"
The sage behind DIVINE PARK, this spiritual temple, is Dr. A. Chandrashekhara Udupa, B.Sc., M.B.B.S., F.A.G.E., a practicing doctor who is striving to execute Swami Vivekananda's Man-making mission. Right from his childhood, Dr. Udupa was spiritually inclined. His favourite deities were Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Ma Sarada and Swami Vivekananda.

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