Swami Velukkudi Krishnan, a renowned Upanyasam and Vaishanava lifestyle orator from Chennai,
India, will be gracing New Zealand shores this month.
Swamiji will be delivering discourses in Auckland on Saturday, October 27 to Monday, October 27 at
venues around Mt Roskill area.
Saturday and Sunday morning sessions (9-10.30am) will be held at the Mt Roskill War Memorial Hall in Dominion Rd, while the Monday morning session will be held 7-8.30am.
Saturday evening (English), Swamiji will be speaking on “Ramayana – Its application in today’s life” at Mt Roskill Intermediate School hall 6.30-8.30pm. Sunday evening (Tamil) will be at same venue 5.30- 7.30pm.
Velukkudi Swami, being the son of Velukkudi Varadachariar, another Vaishanava orator, was trained
in the Vedas, Divya Prabhandam and other scriptures as well as Sanskrit. His first foray into lectures
came at the age of eight when he was asked to speak at one of his father’s lectures for 10 minutes.
He had memorised the speech that his father had written for him.
This continued throughout his schooling and university years. He eventually found a job at the MNC
and never really thought about performing or giving talks individually. It was only after his father’s
demise that he really launched himself into the Upanyasam scene.
Eventually, finding it difficult to run from suit clad board meetings to the stage, he made the decision
to “quit his lucrative job to dedicate [him] self to Upanyasam and related activities”.
Since then, he has still been going strong with a wide range of followers, living up to the standards set by his illustrious father. He pays special importance to eeping with the traditional ways in his talks and making sure that “the scriptures [are] be followed to realise the Brahman”.
We, in New Zealand, have the special pleasure of welcoming Shri Velukkudi Swami to our shores in late October.
For more information, please contact Sundar: 09 626 2893; Kumar: 09 630 0200; Sankaran: 09 579 1556.
