+91 94915 72748 info@brahmangariannadhanam.com Nuzvid, Eluru District, Andhra Pradesh
Emblem of Sri Madvirat Pothuluri Veerabrahmendra Swamy Vari Annadhana Seva Samithi Sri Madvirat Pothuluri Veerabrahmendra
Swamy Vari Annadhana Seva Samithi Nuzvid · Reg. 92/2020

Our Guruji

Brahmasri Yerroju Srinivasa Rao garu

He founded the Samithi. He has been in this work since he was seventeen, and he has not stepped away from it since.

Brahmasri Yerroju Srinivasa Rao garu, seated, hand raised in blessing

The founder

Nearly four decades in the same work

Guruji is fifty-five. He was seventeen when he began — an age at which most people are still deciding what to make of their lives — and what started then as a young man’s devotion to Sri Madvirat Pothuluri Veerabrahmendra Swamy has been his daily occupation ever since.

The Samithi exists because of him. He gathered the people, began the serving, and then had the society formally registered in 2020 so that the annadhanam would not depend on the health, the means or the lifetime of any one man — including his own.

How he serves

01

Jyotisham, used with care

Guruji reads a horoscope to find the cause of a difficulty, not to frighten anyone with it. What he gives back is a remedy a family can actually carry out, and the reassurance that the trouble has an end.

02

Problems that were actually solved

Over these years a great many people have come to him carrying something heavy — a household in trouble, a long illness, a matter that would not settle — and have gone home lighter. They come back, and they bring others.

03

From relief to devotion

His purpose is never to make anyone dependent on him. Those who come with a problem are turned towards God, and a good many of them have stayed on as true devotees of Swamy long after their own trouble had passed.

04

And then, food

The annadhanam is the same conviction in its plainest form. Whoever arrives at the Samithi — devotee, traveller, daily-wage worker — is fed first, and asked nothing.

Photographs

Guruji at the Samithi

Serving days, the free medical and dental camps, and the shrine. The photographs change on their own; the arrows and the pause button are there if you would rather go at your own speed.

  • Guruji standing with a row of volunteers in orange scarves outside the Samithi office

    With the Samithi’s volunteers outside the office at Nuzvid

  • The same group photographed under the painted board carrying the Samithi’s name

    The same morning, under the board that carries the Samithi’s name

  • Guruji handing food from a large basket to a man holding out his plate

    Prasadam handed out from the basket when the serving is done

  • Volunteers and Guruji standing together in the hall in front of the shrine

    In the hall before the shrine, on a function day

  • Guruji seated beside a table of medicines under a banner for the annasamaradhana

    A free medical camp at the Samithi, the medicines laid out on the table

  • Guruji seated with the visiting dentist beneath the dental camp banner

    A dental check-up at the camp, given by a dentist from the town

  • Men sorting boxes of medicine on a table at the camp while Guruji stands beside them

    Medicines sorted and given out at the camp

  • Guruji standing at the shrine with devotees, the lamps lit before the deities

    At the shrine, with the lamps lit

  • Four sadhus in ochre robes seated together on chairs at the Samithi

    Sadhus visiting the Samithi

  • Women in saris seated close together while plates of prasadam are handed round

    Prasadam handed round at a function

Meeting Guruji

He is at the Samithi, most days

There is no fee for meeting him and none is accepted. If you wish to see him, please telephone before you travel to Nuzvid — on serving days and festival days he is with the vessels and the queue, and a call spares you a wasted journey.

Call +91 94915 72748 Write to the Samithi

In brief

In seva since
The age of seventeen
Founded
The Annadhana Seva Samithi, registered 2020
At
Nuzvid, Eluru District, Andhra Pradesh

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