Sri Vishvaprasanna Tirtharu

Sri Vishwaprasanna Teertha is the 34th seer in the lineage, or guruparampara, of Pejawar Muth. He was born in the year 1964 at Haleyangady-Pakshikere in Dakshina Kannada district to Krishna Bhat and Yamunamma. His purvashrama or pre-sannyasa name was Devidas Bhat, and he received sanyasa Deeksha from his guru Sri Sri Vishwesha Tirtha Swamiji in 1988, when he was 24.He did Vedic studies at Admar Gurukula and also studied Vedanta Vidwat at SMSP Sanskrit College. He knows all four Vedas and did his B.A. at Poorna Prajna Evening College in Udupi. Sri Sri Vishwaprasanna Teertha Swamiji is the present President of Janata Shikshana Samiti. He speaks a number of languages, including Kannada, Tulu, Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and English. He is a good swimmer and a yoga practitioner. He also publishes a monthly magazine ‘Achara Vichara’. He has taught shastas to Kaniyooru Seer Vidyavallabha.His holiness Vishwaprasanna Teertha continues to do dharma prachara by setting up the “Prahlada Gurukula” at Udupi, had established a huge Goshala near Neelavara, Udupi where about 2000+ Cows are protected till date, and many more.