LORD MANJUNATH OF DHARMASTHALA

The opening of schools, colleges, orphanages, hospitals, special institutions, augumenting pilgrim facilities by constructing choultries, conducting humanitarian eye camps etc., patronizing arts and artists, gifting of clothes, granting of scholarships, building of new shrines speak volumes his matchless humanism and peerless theism. And his activities encircled every facet of every tradition built up, maintained and continued with ardour unequalled. As the adage goes that every institution is the lengthened shadow of the individual, and in his case his shadow, to speak the truth has grown to such gigantic stature, which that limitless, timeless. All powerful Manjunathaswamy alone could guage. No wonder that several of his spectacular achievements are richly and fittingly rewarded by the greatest institutions and kingdoms as evidenced by conferring on him the much-coveted titles, like Dharma Bhushan, Vaishnava Marthanda, Paropakara Dhurandhara, Samaja Ratna to mention only a few. Of his highest, greatest and noblest acts, for which he will be remembered for ages to come, the installation of the great statue of Mahabali on the hill merits first mention. Its visual appeal and location have lent charm to the surroundings and heightened the glory of Dharmasthala. The free-meal scheme feeding thousands every day has become a model to several similar ones springing up in the world. Dharma follows nobody, but every body follows it most willingly.

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