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To live lives fully as Sanatana Dharmis- spiritually and culturally - and uphold the values of our glorious Sanatana Dharma
All-Women Shata Chandi 2019
The 2nd edition of the World Shakti Day for 2019 was celebrated by GRD Iyers GuruCool as "All Women Shata Chandi Day" along with Sri Vidya Temple Society, Rochester, NY on Aug10-11, 2019.
This was a unique and historical "first-in-the-world" type for event for women empowerment as all the rituals including pujas and homams were performed exclusively by women under the leadership of Smt. Sridevi Gayathri Ramesh as Pradhana Acharya or chief priest.
The ladies recited vedic suktams and Devi Mahatmyam (both Markendeya Purana and Beeja Mantratmaka) more than the required 100 times and 10 Chandi Homams.
With the blessings of Devi, Parameshwara and the Guru Mandali, the event was a tremendous success!
The 3rd edition of the World Shakti Day for 2020 will witness a historical "All-Women Maha Rudram".
Atirudram - 2019Om Namah Shivaya!
Ati Rudram maha yagna is taking place in Atlanta at SRIM center from 15-19 May with a Chandi homam and Sri Vidya homam on the last day. Leadership for this event is being provided by GRD Iyers GuruCool team as desired by Amma Sri Karunamayi. Of great note is that Amma has kindly agreed to our proposal of appointing only ladies as Rudra Ghanacharyas and also as Chandi Acharyas for this event. This is keeping firmly in line with our principles of inclusiveness and women empowerment in the learning of our scriptures including Vedas and the performance of pujas and rituals. It will be a rare and grand sight to see women take central stage at such an event like Atirudram- probably the first time in the world. With the blessings of Mahadev and Sree Durga Devi, we hope to do justice to the faith and confidence reposed in us. Har Har Mahadev! Jai Chandi! GRD Iyers Gurucool |
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World Shakti Day 2018
The GRD Iyers GuruCool is celebrating Nov-4, 2018, Sunday, as "World Shakti Day" for the sake of celebrating Universal Womanhood and Feminism. "Shakti" in Sanskrit means "Strength/Power" and Sanatana Dharma (aka Hinduism) has traditionally, always recognised Womanhood as the cosmic strength or divine energy and as a a force of nature behind the cosmic order of the universe. As a celebration of this grand tradition, GRD Iyers GuruCool will be honouring 1000 women (representing Universal Womanhood) as "Shakti" through a "Sahasra Suvasini Puja".
If you are a woman of 21 years or older, then we welcome and invite you to register to be one of the 1000 women to be honoured during World Shakti Day!
We heartily welcome women from all communities to come and participate in this grand event. There are no constraints regarding marital status, caste, ethnic background etc.
This is a free event and all participating women will be given a befitting gift as well as a vegetarian lunch/supper box! Kindly participate in this unique and First-in-Canada event and help us make it a grand success by celebrating inclusivity, womanhood and feminism. WORLD SHAKTI DAY DETAILS
Date: Nov-4, 2018, Sunday
Venue: Hindu Heritage Centre, 6300 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, ON L5N 1A7
Dress Code: Regional formal Indian dress for those from Southeast Asia.
For others, knee length formal dress as per their region or country is recommended. Registration Timeline: before or by 31-Oct, 2018
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Gayathri -Ramesh -Durga
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Welcome to GRD Iyers GuruCool !
My wife's name is Gayathri (G), I am Ramesh (R) and Durga (D) is our daughter and Iyers is our community name. During the Sahasra Chandi 2015 held in Mississauga, my students started referring to me as a “Cool Guru” and we turned that phrase to “Guru Cool” to represent the concept of “Gurukul” or the name given to spiritual schools. And hence our team’s name is GRD Iyers GuruCool. |
We have been teaching Vedas since 2004 and Devi Mahatmyam (aka Durga Saptashati) since 2008. Ours is an inclusive approach and we teach all those wishing to learn. We especially encourage women to chant. All our classes are free and the students also enjoy a simple breakfast, lunch or dinner as the case may be, depending upon the class timing.
We offer classes at our home and we stream our classes live over Ustream and Livestream too. The classes are also recorded and uploaded in YouTube.
Our Veda classes include Rudram, Chamakam, Rudra Krama Patham, Suktams, Mahanyasam, Acchidram, Ashwamedham, Katakam, Udakashanti etc. Our classes also include Devi Mahatmyam, Saundarya Lahiri, Sundarakandam etc.Our classes have been extremely successful as our students have taken part and provided the lead in 3 Sahasra Chandi homams thus far in Canada and USA between 2015 till date and countless Rudra Ekadashi and several Maha Rudrams. In 2017 alone, we conducted more than 50 religious events like Chandi Homam and Rudra Ekadashi, Satyanarayana Puja etc including one Shata Chandi in Aug 2017 and Sahasra Chandi in Navaratri in Sept 2017. Our events are very low cost and planned for participation by everyone, especially women.
We have a strong mentorship program for Devi Mahatmyam, where senior students provide their support to new students by checking and providing feedback on the audio homework of the students. This is a unique free offering that has produced many sterling students.Our student strength is close to a thousand with more than 600 registered formally in our Telegram communication forum.We have a strong documentation team who are committed to producing quality scriptural texts that make reading easy for beginners in Sanskrit, English, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam.
We have created this website to share with you some of our thoughts, activities, interests and resources. You will find audio links to YouTube for our renditions of Mahanyasam, Devi Mahatmyam, Vedic-Suktas, Upanishads etc. A full recording of Chandi Homam done by us is also available on YouTube. Updates are being made on a regular basis. We have made our utmost sincere effort to do our best with the religious/scriptural content. However, we offer our unconditional apologies at the very outset for any errors in chanting or religious / scriptural text content.
We offer classes at our home and we stream our classes live over Ustream and Livestream too. The classes are also recorded and uploaded in YouTube.
Our Veda classes include Rudram, Chamakam, Rudra Krama Patham, Suktams, Mahanyasam, Acchidram, Ashwamedham, Katakam, Udakashanti etc. Our classes also include Devi Mahatmyam, Saundarya Lahiri, Sundarakandam etc.Our classes have been extremely successful as our students have taken part and provided the lead in 3 Sahasra Chandi homams thus far in Canada and USA between 2015 till date and countless Rudra Ekadashi and several Maha Rudrams. In 2017 alone, we conducted more than 50 religious events like Chandi Homam and Rudra Ekadashi, Satyanarayana Puja etc including one Shata Chandi in Aug 2017 and Sahasra Chandi in Navaratri in Sept 2017. Our events are very low cost and planned for participation by everyone, especially women.
We have a strong mentorship program for Devi Mahatmyam, where senior students provide their support to new students by checking and providing feedback on the audio homework of the students. This is a unique free offering that has produced many sterling students.Our student strength is close to a thousand with more than 600 registered formally in our Telegram communication forum.We have a strong documentation team who are committed to producing quality scriptural texts that make reading easy for beginners in Sanskrit, English, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam.
We have created this website to share with you some of our thoughts, activities, interests and resources. You will find audio links to YouTube for our renditions of Mahanyasam, Devi Mahatmyam, Vedic-Suktas, Upanishads etc. A full recording of Chandi Homam done by us is also available on YouTube. Updates are being made on a regular basis. We have made our utmost sincere effort to do our best with the religious/scriptural content. However, we offer our unconditional apologies at the very outset for any errors in chanting or religious / scriptural text content.
Purpose of this website
Audio recordings for practice During my quest for continued learning, I faced difficulties in coming across audio for the scriptures I was learning. Either they were not available or were chanted very fast by experts that made it difficult to practice along. Therefore, this is our humble effort to make amateur audio recordings available in our website, with the specific purpose of helping amateurs like myself to chant along.
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Free Classes We are providing free classes in-house as well as online and there is no discrimination on any basis - gender, class, caste, age, race etc. For more details on the class schedule, kindly click here . There is rigor in the 2 hour class sessions and at the end of each season, competent and confident chanters are produced,
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Gayathri's Musings Gayathri frequently writes down her thoughts in chaste Tamil which have been well received. She will be sharing these. I shall endeavor to provide my best translation of those musings in English
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Kailash-Manasarovar Yatra
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For details about Kailash Yatra please read the following documents.
Also Join us in the telegram app - Kailash yatra 2018
To learn about our previous yatras and more visit our Yatra page
To learn about our previous yatras and more visit our Yatra page
Joining US
It is easy! You must have an inclusive mindset and believe in empowerment of everyone, especially women, wanting to learn the scriptures of Santana Dharma including the Vedas.If you feel you resonate with our principles, then download Telegram app on your Smartphone and click BOTH links below to join our team.
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