Sri Yallapragada Venkata Subbaiah garu and his wife smt.Yallapragada
Rama lakshmamma garu are the devotees of lord Sri Rama and dedicated their
whole life in the worship of lord Rama. They were blessed with a son, Sri
Yallapragada Venkata Punnaiah garu on 03-03-1915. Sri Punnaiah garu was a great
poet, scholar, musician, artist and good orator besides he is an expert in village
revenue accounts & administration, building plans, survey and traditional Indian
Architectural Science (Vasthu Sasthram). When he was at 11, his father Sri venkata
subbarao garu left for heavenly abode by chanting rama namam.
He Was working in an educational intuition affiliated to Sri Rama nama
kshetram, Guntur on a 06-02-1974 he got a dream, in that Lord Hanuma gave
darshan and blessed Sri Y V Punnaiah garu With tharaka mantram “ Sri Rama
Raksha-Sarva Jagadhraksha” The heart melted with joy.
Sri Y V Punnaiah garuwas enthralled by Swamy's vission and speech. he awakeened his Mother and
obtained UPADESAM from his mother the same Mantharam Given by Lord Hanuma.
During 1949 , Sri YV Punnaiah garu shifted from Guntur to Gudur,
Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh, And settled as Building surveyor. Technical
advancement was not more in those days. So the drawing plans were converted into
blue prints. So Sri Punnaiah garu prepared blue prints for this tharaka mantram
“Sri Rama Raksha-Sarva Jagadhraksha” and distributed the same to all the
acuuaintances and advised them to Keep the blue print framed at the thresholds of
the maindoor.
Sri Sri Sri Avadhuthendra Saraswathi swamiji garu, who was familiar as
”Raghuvara Das”. He was propatagating Hare Rama Hare Krishna sothram
widely during 1967. On his way hi met Sri Y V Punnaiah garu and appreciated his
devine work of “nama prachara yagnam”. Sri Swamiji was very much pleased to
now the progress of the programme. He appreciated and felicitated Sri Y V Punnaiah
garu with the title “Sri Rama Raksha PunnaRao” and there after The couple have
became popular as "Sri Rama Raksha Dampathulu" and their residence as Sri rama
Raksha Kuteeram.
In 1975 Sri Y V Punna Rao garu Went pilgrimage to kasi Yathra. While
he was at Kasi Sri rama mandiram, an elderly saint approached and asked “Kya
thum hanuman bhaktha hi” and to his astronishment, the elderly saint presented
the idol of lord hanuman saying “ye lev (take this), when Sri Y V Punnaiah garu
Asked the saint about his perticulars he said Iam ”Ram Jog” Agra and
disappeared at once. Sri Y V Punnaiah heart filled with joy and he thought that the
old man was no other than Lord Hanuman. Even now the Hanuman idol occupied
prominent place in “Pooja Mandir” and being worshinpped daily.
Sri Avadhoothendra Saraswathi swamiji with is deviend blessings
presented One laksh copies of “Sri Rama Raksha-Sarva Jagadhraksha”
to Punnaiah Garu got printed at "BNK Press" Chennai, for propagating the
efficiency and greatness of the Tharaka Mantram. Later Sri Y V Punnaiah garu
published the lables in multiple languages such as Telugu, Sanskrit, Malayalam,
Kannada,Hindi,Tamil,Oria, and Urdu. The same copies were sent to some foreign
countries like America, Australia, and Japan etc. By spreading the diven nama he
proved worthy to his awearded litle Sri Rama Raksha Punna Rao. In 1967 Sri
Avadhoothendra Saraswathi Swamiji started “Hanummad Bhajana Satssangam at
Sri Rama Raksha Kuteeram and the same was conducted till the demise of Smt.
Y.Durga Lakshmi narasambalu garu, wife or Sri Y V punna rao garu in 1980 .But
the same was resumed and is being conducted even now.
The “Hanuman Jayanthi” Ustavam started during the month of
visakha masam by the holy couple Smt.&Sri Y V Punna rao in the year 1967, have
began to grow gradually year by year. It was conducted from Vishakha Bahula
Navami to Ekadasi with special devotional programmes.
Programmes particulars
I. 1 st Day (Navami): Govu Pooja
Mata-Pitrula Pooja
Ankuraropanamu,Homam
Guru Pooja,Sri Vishnu Sahasra nama sthotra Parayanam
and Sri Rama sita kalyanam, etc,.
II. 2 nd Day (Dasami): Ashstotra satha sahasra Nagavali Dala samuhika archana
Sri Rama Pattabhishekam
Pusha yagam and etc,.
III. 3 rd Day (Ekadasi): Sri Suvarchala Anjaneya Kalyanam with moola mantram
Homam, Hanuman chalisa parayanam, rending of devotional songs etc,.
Sri Rama Raksha Punna Rao garu attained moksham on 07-07-1987. On the lines of the sloka of Ramayana
“NAHYATHO DHARMACHARANAM KINCHIDASTHI MAHATTHARAM |
YADHA PITHIRI SUSRUSHA THASYAVA VACHANA KRIYA” ||
Sri Y.Chitti Babu garu has been following the idiologies of his late
father Sri Y V Punna rao garu and taken up all the responsibilities with great
devine dedication. He is also conducting all the above programmes every year.
Sri Y.Hema Durga Pavan Kumar,who is an Adharva veda pandit, Grand son of
Sri YV Punna rao garu is assistiong is father in keeping up the legacy and
tradition of the family.
On Every “Ugadi” (Telugu new year day) Sri rama
Raksha kuteeram conducting special programmes such as “Panchanga
Sravanam” and felicitating to eminent personalities of the society for
promoting the traditional values.
Further a programme “Narayana Seva” is being
conducted to feed 70-80 poor people on every Tuesday, Sriramaraksha
kuteeram is coundecting all this programmes by the devine bleessings of
“Lord Hanuman” those programmes are being counducted by this Family
with an inspiration of their great.
“SRI RAMA RAKSHA-SARVA JAGADHRAKSHA”