PM Narendra Modi to visit Udupi mutt & Goa's Jeevottam mutt on Friday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Karnataka and Goa on November 28, Friday. At around 11:30 AM, The PM will visit Sri Krishna Mutt in Udupi at 11.30 am, and later he will travel to Goa, where he will visit Shri Samsthan Gokarn Partagali Jeevottam Mutt at 3.15 pm on the occasion of ‘Sardha Panchashatamanotsava’, the 550th-year celebration of the Mutt.

At Udupi temple, the PM will participate in the Laksha Kantha Gita Parayana programme—a devotional gathering of 100,000 participants, including students, monks, scholars, and citizens from various walks of life, who will recite the Srimad Bhagavad Gita in unison.

Prime Minister will also inaugurate the Suvarna Teertha Mantapa, located in front of the Krishna sanctum, and dedicate the Kanaka Kavacha (golden cover) for the sacred Kanakana Kindi, a sacred window through which the saint Kanakadasa is believed to have had the divine darshan of Bhagwan Krishna. Sri Krishna Mutt, Udupi, was established over 800 years ago by Madhvacharya, the founder of the Dvaita philosophy of Vedanta.


In Goa, Modi will unveil a 77 feet statue of Lord Shri Ram, made of bronze at Shree Samsthan Gokarn Partagali Jeevottam Mutt and will also inaugurate ‘Ramayana Theme Park Garden’ developed by the Mutt. The PM will also release the special postal stamp and a commemorative coin, and address the gathering on the occasion. The mutt is the first Gowd Saraswat Brahmin Vaishnava Mutt. It follows the Dvaita order, a system established by Jagadguru Madhvacharya in the 13th century AD. The Mutt is headquartered in Partagali, a small town in South Goa, on the banks of the river Kushavati, an official press release said.