Overview
- Modi, who inaugurated the Sri Guru Bhairavaikya Mandira on Wednesday, opened the memorial to late seer Balagangadharanatha at Adichunchanagiri in Mandya.
- He offered prayers at the Kalabhairaveshwara temple and, alongside former PM H. D. Deve Gowda, released the Math’s edition of Saundarya Lahari and Shiva Mahimna Stotram.
- In his address, he urged nine public pledges that covered saving water, planting trees, clean public spaces, buying local goods, traveling within India, natural farming, eating more millets with less oil, doing yoga, and a life of service.
- The trip ran through Bengaluru’s HAL Airport, where CM Siddaramaiah received him, with an Army helicopter ferrying him to the venue under a security deployment of over 2,000 police.
- The Math’s leaders and state figures joined the event, underscoring the institution’s pull in the Vokkaliga belt and its long record in schools, hospitals, and environmental work.