Date/Time
Date(s) - Sunday, July 27, 2014
11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Location
SV Temple and Cultural Center of Michigan

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Sri Srinivasa Kalyanam is performed at the Temple on every 4th Sunday of the month at 11 AM, unless there is a special event scheduled for that day. For any special events, please refer to our Event Calendar.

Srinivasa Kalyanam

During Sri Krishna avataram, YashodhA was not blessed to witness the marriage of Sri Krishna with Rukmini and she felt very sad.  Hence Sri Krishna promised to fulfil her desire in her next birth as Vakuladevi  in his next avataram as Srinivasa.

Lakshmi, in the form of Vedavati, was staying in an ashram in the forests. At that time, Ravana, tried to abduct her. In anger, Vedavati cursed him saying that she would bring about his death and walked into the fire, but Agni, the Fire God rescued her and took her to his house and entrusted her to his Wife SwAhA Devi’s care.

When Ravana was about to abduct Sita from Panchavati, Agni appeared and offered Vedavati to Ravana as the real Sita to evade Ravana, who was tricked into thinking that Vedavati was the real Sita.

Ravana took Vedavati to Lanka thinking she was the real Sita, while Agni took Sita to his house and asked his wife SwAhA Devi to look after her.

After the destruction of Ravana, Vedavati entered the fire when rejected by Rama. Then, Agni, offered the real Sita to Rama.   Sita requested Rama to accept Vedavati also as his spouse. But Rama declined her request due to his Eka Pathini VrathA and promised to wed her in her next birth as Padmavati, born as the daughter of Akasa Raja, when Rama himself would take the form of Srinivasa.

Thus to fullfil the above promisises Lord Srinivasa Weds PadmAvathi ThAyAr. It is very auspicious to take part in the Divine Kalayanam and get the blessings of Perumal and thAyAr.