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Vishwaprasanna Tirtha Swami is the seer of Pejawar Mutt.
Vishwaprasanna Tirtha Swami helps in propagating the need for plants in our lives.
At various temples in Karnataka, the coins, rice, sugar, jaggery and bananas are often used as weights to measure objects. In Kadri City, which is home to the famous Kadri Manjunath Temple in Mangaluru, Karnataka, built a special weighing machine made of seeds, trees and saplings. Pradeep Kumar Kalkura of the Kalkura Foundation organised an eco-friendly tulabhara (weighing machine) for the arrival of Vishwaprasanna Tirtha Swami, the seer of Pejawar Mutt. He succeeds Vishwesha Tirtha Swami. In a recent program, he asked his devotees to plant trees, especially those who own vehicles.
Vishwaprasanna Tirtha Swami helps in propagating the need for plants in our lives. He was welcomed with plants like jackfruit, mango, harive and black-eyed beans. Apart from Pradeep Kumar Kalkura, the devotees of Shree Vishwaprasanna Tirtha Swami also brought saplings for the weighing machine. After it was weighed, the saplings and seeds were distributed to the devotees.
Speaking on this occasion, the seer of Pejawar Mutt said that the first duty of the citizens is to protect the Earth from rising temperatures. The increased pollution increases the risk of degradation of the ozone layer which results in global warming. He said that the smoke emitted from vehicles and ACs is harmful to the environment. The seer of Pejawar mutt requested his followers to plant trees.
“Two-wheeler owners should plant two trees, three-wheeler owners should plant three trees, and four-wheeler owners should plant four trees,” said Vishwaprasanna Tirtha Swami. He even asked the people who have AC to plant saplings in their gardens.
Vishwaprasanna Tirtha Swami is the 35th seer in the lineage of Pejawar Mutt. He was born on March 3, 1964, at Haleyangady-Pakshikere in Dakshina Kannada district to Krishna Bhat and Yamunamma. His pre-sannyasa name was Devidas Bhat.
He did Vedic studies at Admar Gurukula and also studied Vedanta Vidwat at SMSP Sanskrit College. He knows all four Vedas and did his BA at Poorna Prajna Evening College in Udupi. He speaks several languages, including Kannada, Tulu, Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and English. He received sanyasa Deeksha at the age of 24. Nearly 2,000 cows are reportedly being cared for at the Neelavara Goshala and Kodavoor Goshale under his supervision.