Mysuru: Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Ashrama on Ooty Road here scored a Guinness World Record hat-trick yesterday.
The three Guinness World Record certificates that the Ashrama bagged were handed over to Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji by the organisation’s Adjudicator Jack Brockbank in the presence of thousands of admirers and devotees at the Nada Mantapa.
The occasion was also witness to the celebration of the 75th birthday of the Swamiji, 18th Brahmotsava of Sri Datta Venkateshwara temple and Nada Mantapa’s 19th anniversary, all of which was combined as Vajrotsava programmes.
The main attraction was the Bhagavad Gita, described as the “Largest Hindu Smriti,” that set the Guinness World Record. The book is 7ft tall, 5 ft in width and one foot thickness (spine) and weighs 800 kgs. It is printed at a cost of Rs. 20 lakh. The Bhagavad Gita is translated into 18 languages including nine Indian languages — Sanskrit, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya, Gujarati, Gurumukhi, Malayalam, Tamil and the nine foreign languages are — English, Greek, Russian – Cryllic, Armenian, Georgian, Japanese – Katakana, Korean – Hangul, Arabic and Hebrew. The printing consumed 636 hours in total; 30,560 sq.ft poster media; it was printed using eco-friendly technology and 14 people worked round-the-clock for this publication.
Earlier, the Swamiji dressed in the garb of Lord Krishna, participated in the ‘Bhagavad Gita Bhakti Utsav.’
The second record is for the Bonsai collection. A two-day ‘International Bonsai Conference and Exhibition,’ was held in December 2016 in which 2,649 Bonsai trees were exhibited. It bagged the “Largest Display of Bonsai Trees,” Guinness World Record. In this exhibition, 500 Bonsai collectors had participated.
The third record is for the aviary in the Shukavana. There are more than 2,000 birds belonging to 469 species. This is an amazing collection of birds in one place and it got the award for “Most Species in one Aviary” Guinness World Record.
Junior Pontiff Sri Datta Vijayananda Teertha Swamiji and others were present.
This post was published on May 27, 2017 6:43 pm