About Sri Sankara Mattham
GAANAPATYAM – GANESHA
Lord Ganapathi is the primordial deity for Gaanapatyam. He is worshipped throughout India and by Jains & Buddhists too. He is present in all the temples and there are innumerable temples for worship of Ganapathi.
SAKTAM – DEVI
Saktham is the cult of worshipping Mother Goddess. For our comfort, God is a form of Nature and a mother. Every mother is a living God. “Mathru Devo Bhava” refers to mother as a pratyaksha daivam. Vedas, which are equal to a mother in teaching us good
SAURAM – SURYA
Sauram is worship of Surya Bhagwan- Pratyaksha Deivam – the God who can be seen. “Asavadityo Brahma” – Surya is a visible Brahman proclaims the Vedas. Without Him, we can’t see. Without Him, there will be no day and night.
Temple History
Legends and history have shown us that many miraculous events have been preceded by ‘Divine Calls’ or ‘Divine Dreams’. The birth of Lord Krishna was declared by a ‘Divine Voice’; the birth of Adi Sankaracharya was declared in the ‘Divine Dreams’ of the devout parents Sivaguru and Aryamba. The birth of Sri Sankara Matthan, Matunga, is also one such miracle of a divine dream that became a reality.
In 1939, Sri Subramania Sastrigal, a vedic scholar and an ardent devotee of Adi Sankaracharya, came to Mumbai in search of a livelihood. Even as he was earning his livelihood as a vedic pundit, guiding people in their performance of various religious karmas, he started getting repeated dreams of Adi Sankara urging him to start a centre to help people learn, understand and practice the teachings enshrined in the Vedas, Upanishads and Sastras. Sastrigal became restless.
Architectural beauty
Adi Sankara is a great Guru of Advaita philosophy, an incarnation of Adiguru Lord Dakshinamurthy who imparted Atma Vidya to save us from the forest of Ajnana & forest fire of worldly existence. He resuscitated the pristine glory of the Vedic tradition and the Advaitic philosophy & established the Shanmatha worship laying a path for Advaita jnana Yogyata.
Adi Sankara traversed on foot across Bharatdesa and by His solid reasoning, He established with profound clarity, that there is only one Infinite Reality against many conflicting theories. There were 72 schools of thought when Adi Sankara appeared on the scene.
