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GOA, INDIA, March 4, 2005: The temples of Shree Manguesh and Shree Shantadurga, and two of the most revered patron deities of the Hindu Goud Saraswat Brahmin community are located at Mangueshi and Kavalem, respectively, in the Ponda taluka in North Goa. Shree Kaivalya Muth Saunsthan also known as Shree Kavale Muth Saunsthan, is the oldest monastic center of Goud Saraswat Brahmin community (Saivite) and is a religious institution running parallel to Shree Gokarn Partagali Jivottam Muth Saunsthan which has large followers from the Vaishnava sect. The demise on March 3 of Shrimad Satchidananda Saraswati Swamiji, age 69, the 76th pontiff of Shree Kavale Muth Saunsthan has been a sad news and a great loss for the Hindu community in Goa, especially the followers of the Saivite sect. Late Swamiji who was initiated into sannyasa by his Guru Shrimad Poornanand Saraswati Swamiji, at Khanapur, in 1950, had been functioning as the religious head of the monastery for past five-and-a-half decades. The monastery was originally situated at Muthagram (Margao) where Shrimad Goudapadacharya, the first pontiff was staying. Later on when the Goddess, Shree Shantadurga, was brought to Kavalem from Keloshi, the monastery was shifted to Kavalem. During the 8th century, Shrimad Goudapadacharya, a great scholar and protector of sanathana dharma, started his work of comparing the perceptions of Sanatana Dharma and other religions like Buddhism and Jainism. The mortal remains of Shrimad Satchidananda Saraswati Swamiji, the 76th pontiff of Shree Goudapadacharya Muth, Shree Kavale Muth Saunsthan were placed in a Samadhi (burial place for a saint), amongst religious rites and holy chants, in the monastery premises.

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