Our activities

Ten streams of seva

Everything the foundation does falls into one of ten streams. Each runs year-round, and each is sustained entirely by devotees.

What we do

Choose a stream to read about

Each has a page of its own — what the work involves, and where it stands today.

Every student of the gurukulam standing together in white dhotis before the Garuda stambha and the carved gopuram behind it, under a peach sunset sky

Vedic Education

A residential gurukulam where students study the Vedas, Agama, Jyothishya and Sanskrit.

The full altar of the Gurupeeta pooja mandira — a gilded prabhavali above, a silver naga hood below it, and lit brass lamps standing at each corner, everything wound about with peach blossom and jasmine

Gurupeeta — the Pooja Mandira

The Gurupeeta's own shrine, where the Sri Varadaraja Swami that Sri Ramanuja worshipped in person receives his daily aradhana.

The annadana hall at the meal — families and children seated in long rows down both sides of the floor with steel plates of rice in front of them, the servers working the aisle between

Annadana — Daily Free Meals

A hot, freshly cooked meal served every single day to pilgrims, students and villagers, with no questions asked.

Guruji seated in the mandira with his hand resting on the head of a calf, its mother standing beside it

Goshala — Care of the Cows

Twenty and more desi cows — Malenadu Gidda, Punganur and Hallikar — kept at the kshetra, cared for through old age, their milk offered in the temple's own worship.

The village standing before a small stone shrine hung head to foot in marigold garlands on the morning of its consecration, Guruji at the centre in a red shawl with a child beside him

Temple Pratishtha — Vastu and Consecration

Vastu guidance for a temple being built, and the pratishtha that puts it into worship — both to the Agama.

Students seated in a circle around baskets of coconuts, flowers and offerings while a priest conducts a homa before a decorated altar

Workshop — Training Priests

A residential apprenticeship where priests learn to conduct poojas by standing at real ones, in the tradition kept here.

The acharya in saffron leaning across the fire to draw the urdhva pundra on the forehead of a disciple seated bare-shouldered in a yellow dhoti, the homa burning on the brick kunda between them

Samashrayanam — Dasappa Deekshe

The formal initiation in which the acharya transmits grace, transcendental knowledge and the energy behind them to a disciple.

A vaidika standing at the shrine explaining a reading to the family who have come for it, the lamp lit before the deity and flowers held in their joined hands

Jyothishya — Astrology

Jyothishya as this family has read it across generations, and a sitting any devotee can ask for.

Young Bharatanatyam dancers in full costume standing with palms joined in the temple street at dusk, the adults of the programme behind them

Cultural Preservation

Festivals, poojas, classical dance and music, and guided heritage tours that keep Melukote's traditions in daily practice.

A row of tall wooden cartwheels standing along a bank of red earth at Srisha Farms, thick green ground cover in front of them and coconut palms and a compound wall behind, under a grey monsoon sky

Environmental Care

Tree planting, upkeep of the groves and water bodies, and agri-tourism that brings visitors onto the land itself.

Would you like to help?

The gurukulam teaches free of cost and the kitchen serves whoever arrives — both carried entirely by what devotees give.

Give now by UPI or bank transfer, with an 80G certificate if you need one. Or write to the office to sponsor a particular day of annadana, offer time during a festival, or ask what is needed most — those take a date and a person rather than a payment.

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