Vasanthi Guruprasad

Everyone should advance in their lives through guru‑bhakti. There is no doubt that our efforts bring results. It is our efforts that yield fruit. However, we need a guide for our efforts, and for those efforts to materialize and yield good results, we also need blessings. Through the right guidance, gaining clarity in life, acting firmly with staunch conviction in noble thoughts, and cultivating saujanya, the graciousness to interact harmoniously with everyone, with the guidance of the Ācārya svāmī, we should gain the prakāśa (radiance) in our lives, as described in, ज्ञानदीपेन भास्वता (jñānadīpena bhāsvatā— by the shining lamp of wisdom) and தீப மங்கள ஜோதி நமோ நம (dīpa maṅgala jyoti namo namaḥ—Salutations to the auspicious divine light of the lamp). Taking Tirumūlar’s Tirumantiram—தெளிவு குருவின் திருநாமம் செப்பல் (Thelivu guruvin thirunamam seppal -Clarity is to chant the Guru's sacred name) தெளிவு குருவின் திருவார்த்தை கேட்டல் (Thelivu guruvin thiru varthai kettal- Clarity is to listen to the true essence of the Guru's holy words)—as the mūla mantra, to seek the Guru, approach the Guru, to obtain strength and ārogya through the Guru’s blessings, to receive the darśan of the Guru wherever we may be, and attain greater prosperity, we all must undertake prayatnā and offer prārthanā . Hara Hara Śaṅkarā Jaya Jaya Śaṅkarā. Thennadudaya Sivane potr'i ! e'nnaattavarkkum ir'aivaa potr'i ! #kamakoti #JagadguruVacanam

@tankots huge fan of @WisprFlow and closing in on 100k words dictated! Love the product and making literally everyone I know install it

@Sai_swaroopa @Aabhas24 True that 👌👏

Yesterday, we had to attend a family function held in some 4 star hotel with a weird name. As we approached, each of us pronounced the name differently. Daughter: Amma, Daddy, English spellings are always confusing. See the Kannada board for the right pronunciation.

so clear that context window is the new RAM. I was shocked as a kid when my parents told me about coding on 32KB of RAM. 2030s kids are going to be like "wuut your context window was just 200K? 1M was a big deal? lmaoo". giga context windows pls, "compacting..." sucks

Pujyashri Shankaracharya Swamiji blessed and inaugurated the Department of ophthalmology - a CSR initiative of L&T valves, at Sri Sankara Multispeciality hospital at Enathur, #Kanchipuram yesterday (20 Feb. 2026). #kamakoti

Today we commemorate the birth anniversary of Thamizh Thatha, U. Ve. Saminatha Iyer. Had it not been for his relentless, selfless, and often physically exhausting efforts, much of our Sangam corpus,and their traditional commentaries might have remained buried in fragile palm-leaf bundles, lost to time, insects, neglect, and decay. In his autobiographical writing “Nilavil Malarntha Mullai”, he narrates the extraordinary journey of retrieving the manuscripts of Pathuppaattu. After publishing Civaka Cintamani, he learned of the existence of this ancient Sangam anthology. Determined to locate a complete manuscript, he began searching across Tamil Nadu — but found only fragments. Hearing that Tirunelveli housed many vidwans with manuscript collections, he decided to travel there. But the journey itself tested him with his bullock cart overturned on the way to the railway station, resulting in him carrying his luggage by hand. During the train journey, he was woken at midnight and told that the compartment had caught fire. Undeterred, he continued and reached Tirunelveli — only to face disappointment. No complete manuscript could be found. He then proceeded to Alwar Thirunagari and met Lakshmana Kavirayar, who possessed thousands of manuscripts. Yet even there, the needed text was not immediately available. Lakshmana Kavirayar mentioned that some manuscripts might be in his father-in-law’s house — but strained family relations prevented him from visiting. U. Ve. Sa did not give up. He persuaded him: “For the sake of Tamil.” That night, as the procession of Nammalvar moved through the street, Swaminatha Iyer prayed, “You who are known as Vedam Tamizh Seitha Maaran, bless me with the manuscripts of Pathu Paatu and enable me to publish this ancient work.” Moments later, Lakshmana Kavirayar returned with palm-leaf bundles. Under the moonlight, on the very street, Swaminatha Iyer eagerly opened them — and there he saw Mullai Paatu, one of the poems of Pathu Paatu. His joy knew no bounds. He later wrote that anyone who saw him that night might have thought him mad — such was his ecstatic happiness. He had secured seven of the ten poems with full commentary. The remaining three were obtained later, and he eventually published the complete text. Today, when we access Sangam poetry with ease, we must remember — behind those printed lines stands a man walking under moonlight, holding palm-leaf manuscripts like sacred treasure.

घनं च विततं वाद्यं ततं सुषिरमेव च। Music manifests through percussion, strings, wind, and movement.

@aakashgupta @dimplekaul_in Just tried some some speech to text& image to text - it’s too good

Sarvam went from “embarrassing” to “well done” in eight months, and the reversal is coming from the same VC who trashed them. Deedy called Sarvam’s flagship LLM launch embarrassing in May 2025. Said their 24B model got 23 downloads while two Korean college kids got 200K. Now he’s saying they have the best TTS, STT, and OCR models for Indic languages. Same person, same company, completely different verdict. The part nobody’s talking about is what actually earned it. In May 2025, Sarvam was trying to play the LLM race. They fine-tuned Mistral Small, called it Sarvam-M, launched it on Hugging Face, and watched it flatline at 334 downloads while the Indian tech community tore them apart. $53M in funding, government backing, 4,096 H100s from the IndiaAI Mission, and their flagship product landed with a thud. Then they stopped chasing parameter counts and started building the applied stack: Bulbul for text-to-speech, Saaras for speech-to-text, Sarvam Vision for OCR and document intelligence across 22 Indian languages. Products that solve actual problems in a market of 1.4 billion people, 800+ million of whom don’t speak English. Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic allocate 1-3% of their training data to Indian languages. They think in English and translate out. Sarvam is building natively for Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and 16 others. Direct Indic-to-Indic translation without routing through English as an intermediary. A fundamentally different architecture choice that big labs have zero incentive to replicate for a market they view as secondary. Sarvam Vision launched two days ago and already outperforms Gemini 3 Pro on Indic OCR benchmarks with 87.36% word accuracy across 22 languages. Bulbul V3 dropped today with the highest listener preference in independent human studies. Training the 500th LLM gets you 23 downloads. Building the best voice and vision stack for a billion people who can’t use Western AI products in their native language gets you a VC reversal in eight months. Big labs will never go deep on Kannada OCR or Marathi speech synthesis. The ROI math doesn’t work for them. It works for Sarvam because they’re the only ones doing it well, and the Indian government is literally paying them to scale it.

#Mannargudi Sri Rajagopalaswami Devasthanam- Mahakumbabhishekam performed this morning in benign presence of Pujyashri Shankaracharya Swamigal (28th Jan. 2026). ஸ்ரீ காஞ்சி காமகோடி பீடாதிபதி| ஜகத்குரு ஸ்ரீ சங்கர விஜயேந்திர ஸரஸ்வதி சங்கராச்சார்ய ஸ்வாமிகள் அருள்முன்னிலையில் | ஸ்ரீ ராஜகோபால ஸ்வாமி திருக்கோயில், மன்னார்குடி| மகா கும்பாபிஷேக- 28.01.2026. #kamakoti

@ranjanigayatri Congratulations 👏👏👏

We are deeply honoured by the Government of India’s decision to confer the Padma Shri upon us. Our humble pranams to our Gurus Sri TS Krishnaswami, Sri PS Narayanaswamy and our beloved parents. This moment invites reflection of the long journey that brought us here, shaped by discipline and the generosity of so many. It also renews a commitment to serve the art that has given us everything, and to carry its living traditions forward with sincerity and heart. We share this milestone with our rasikas, friends, well-wishers and above all, our family, whose constant support and blessings have sustained our journey in music. Thank you all 🙏🏼

@TruthAlone2 Beautiful 👌🙏

பட்டினத்தார் சுடுகாட்டில் தன் தாய்க்கு ஈமச்சடங்கு செய்தபோது பாடிய பத்து பாடல்களும் மிகவும் சிறப்பு வாய்ந்தவை. பட்டினத்தடிகள் துறவியாக ஊர் ஊராகத் திரிந்து கொண்டிருந்த காலத்தில் அவருடைய அன்னையார் மரணமடைந்தார். "அவருடைய ஈமச்சடங்கை நான் எங்கிருந்தாலும் வந்து செய்து தருவேன்" என்று வாக்களித்திருந்த படி பட்டினத்தடிகள் சரியான நேரத்தில் சுடுகாட்டிற்கு வந்து சேர்ந்தார். அவருடைய தாயின் சிதைக்காக உறவினர்கள் அடுக்கியிருந்த காய்ந்த விறகுகளை அகற்றிவிட்டு பச்சை வாழைமட்டைகளையும் இலைகளையும் கொண்டு சிதையடுக்கி, "ஐயிரண்டு திங்களாயங்கமெலா நொந்து பெற்று" என்று பாடத் தொடங்கி, தம் தாயாரை தீயுண்ணச் செய்து தம் தாய்க்குரிய கடனைக் கழித்தார். அந்தப் பாடல்கள் மிகப் புகழ்பெற்றவை. தாயாருக்குத் தகனக்கிரியை செய்யும்போது பாடியவை. 1. ஐயிரண்டு திங்களாய் அங்கமெலாம் நொந்து பெற்றுப் பையலென்ற போதே பரிந்தெடுத்துச் - செய்ய இரு கைப்புறத்தில் ஏந்திக் கனகமுலை தந்தாளை எப்பிறப்பில் காண்பேன் இனி ? 2.முந்தித்தவம் கிடந்து முந்நூறு நாள் அளவும் அந்திபகலாச் சிவனை ஆதரித்துத் - தொந்தி சரியச் சுமந்து பெற்ற தாயார் தமக்கோ எரியத் தழல் மூட்டுவேன் ? 3. வட்டிலிலும் தொட்டிலிலும் மார்மேலும், தோள்மேலும் கட்டிலிலும் வைத்தென்னைக் காதலித்து - முட்டச் சிறகிலிட்டுக் காப்பாற்றிச் சீராட்டும் தாய்க்கோ விறகிலிட்டுத் தீமூட்டுவேன் ? 4. நொந்து சுமந்து பெற்று நோவாமல் ஏந்திமுலை தந்து வளர்த்தெடுத்துத் தாழாமே - அந்தி பகல் கையிலே கொண்டென்னைக் காப்பாற்றும் தாய் தனக்கோ மெய்யிலே தீமூட்டுவேன் ? 5. அரிசியோ நான் இடுவேன் ஆத்தாள் தனக்கு வரிசையிட்டுப் பார்த்து மகிழாமல் - உருசியுள்ள தேனே அமிர்தமே செல்வத் திரவியப்பூ மானே என அழைத்த வாய்க்கு ? 6. அள்ளி இடுவது அரிசியோ ? தாய் தலைமேல் கொள்ளிதனை வைப்பேனோ ? கூசாமல் மெள்ள முகம்மேல் முகம்வைத்து முத்தாடி “என்றன் மகனே" என அழைத்த வாய்க்கு ? 7. முன்னை இட்ட தீ முப்புரத்திலே; பின்னை இட்ட தீ தென் இலங்கையில்; அன்னை இட்ட தீ அடிவயிற்றிலே யானும் இட்ட தீ மூள்க! மூள்கவே! 8. வேகுதே தீயதனில் வெந்து பொடி சாம்பல் ஆகுதே பாவியேன் ஐயகோ! - மாகக் குருவிபறவாமல் கோதாட்டி என்னைக் கருதி வளர்த்தெடுத்த கை. 9. வெந்தாளோ சோணகிரி வித்தகா! நின்பதத்தில் வந்தாளோ! என்னை மறந்தாளோ - சந்ததமும் உன்னையே நோக்கி உகந்துவரம் கிடந்துஎன் தன்னையே ஈன்றெடுத்த தாய் ? 10. வீற்றிருந்தாள் அன்னை வீதிதனில் இருந்தாள்! நேற்றிருந்தாள்; இன்று வெந்து நீறானாள்; - பால்தெளிக்க எல்லோரும் வாருங்கள்! ஏதென்று இரங்காமல் எல்லாம் சிவமயமே யாம். மானிடப் பிறப்பு எடுத்த ஒவ்வொருவரும் தம் தாய், தந்தையருக்கு செய்யும் கடமைகளை மறவாது நிறைவேற்றிட வேண்டும். பெற்றவர்களை சிரத்தையாகவும், மிகுந்த அன்போடும், மரியாதையோடும் நடத்துபவர்கள் வாழ்க்கையில் அனைத்து நலன்களையும் பெற்று சிறப்புற வாழ்வார்கள்.

Pujyashri Shankaracharya Swamiji will bless various initiatives at Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Viswa Mahavidyalaya, Enathur, Kanchipuram at 9am on 23rd Jan. 2026 #kamakoti

As an example of the saying பழையன கழிதல் புதியன புகுதல் (Pazhaiyana kazhidal, pudhiyana pugudhal—letting go of the old and welcoming the new), the festival of Bhogi, associated with Lord Indra, and Pongal, associated with Lord Sūrya, are celebrated. To ensure agricultural prosperity, for the world to live in subhikṣam (abundance), and for all people to enjoy a long ayus (life span) and ārogya, free from illness or diseases, we perform Sauram, worship Sūrya Bhagavān. In many towns, Sūrya pūjā is performed. On specific days, the rays of the sun fall directly into the garbhagṛha, and on those very days, special pūjās are conducted. In many districts of South India, this worship of Sūrya continues even today properly, owing to the constancy of nature. At a place called Navapashanam, people perform pūjā excellently to Sūrya Bhagavān, pradhāna among the Navagrahas. Suryanar Kovil is also a kṣetra of prasiddhi with a magnificent temple. People have been observing this national tradition of Sūrya worship with great reverence. In inscriptions and various caritra purāṇa notes, we find references to this Pongal worship, marking the end of Mārghazhi month and the beginning of the auspicious Uttarāyaṇa puṇyakāla on the first day of Thai, with abhishekams, utsavams, and tīrthavāri. Hara Hara Śaṅkarā Jaya Jaya Śaṅkarā #kamakoti #JagadguruVacanam

Chennai folks, on 16 Jan, at Narada Gana Sabha, "Maalyada:Andal's Sacred Garland" by Smt. Rama Vaidyanathan, the dance adaptation of my book,"Maalyada", bringing out the elements of Navadha Bhakti in Tiruppavai. Please come. Entry free.

@Gopalee67 Namaskarams and Congratulations 🙏

Those that were honoured yesterday for their contribution to vaidika sanatana Dharma through their services to the system includes yours truly also. This recognition in my view was not for what I did but what I'm expected to do to the society by the AcharyaSwami through SriMatham

@CestMoiz Haha 😂😂

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@GunduHuDuGa Wow very nice 👌

#Angaraka #SankashtaHaraChaturthi Today’s special alankara at our temple. He blessed me with an opportunity to perform his Alankara as well as for Ayyappa swamy and padinettam padi 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

@AnuSatheesh5 @davidfrawleyved Wow 🙏🙏

Maragatha ( Emarald ) Natarajar at Thiru Uthirakosamangai Temple, one of the oldest Shiva temple in the world.

@CestMoiz Wow this is so beautifully done. Touching & haunting 🙏👌

Via WA: 'Rum in a Plastic Cup' An ode to an Indian Army veteran now adjusting to life on the civvie street. One word review : INTENSE! Not to be missed!