The Badaganadu Balaga, Mysore, is an organization that is dedicated to serve the social, cultural and religious needs of both the general public and the Badaganadu community in the Mysore, Mandya and Chamarajanagar districts in Karnataka, India. We have been functioning since 1989 and are an offshoot of the more famous Badaganadu Sangha in Bangalore.

Our founding fathers, consisting of a group of 5-6 selfless benevolent people, decided to form this association on 12^th April 1989 and gave us this distinct name. It was registered at the Mysore District Registrar of Societies with No. 169/90-91 on 13th March 1991. The Committee formed by these founding fathers, consisted of:

Their aim was to cater to the cultural, social and religious aspirations of the group of Badaganadu people living in and around Mysore, Mandya and Chamarajanagar districts.

In the following years, Sri N.Shivaram, Sri T.H.Shankaranarayana Rao and Sri G.S.Subramanyam have been chosen as Presidents. Sri G.V.Rao has been the Hon. Secretary for many years and has been succeeded by Sri C.S.Krishna Murthy and Sri N.R.Shankara Rao in recent years.Each of them has striven to further the cause of the Balaga in their own way. A brief outline of their  activities and achievements will be made available in our Newsletters.

It may perhaps be relevant to be reminded that the Badaganadu Community is one of the three main streams of adherents to the Advaita Vedanta propounded by Sri Shankaracharya. Our religious and cultural traditions are thus in line with the mainstream of Brahmins of South India, however, with marginal variations in detail depending on regional locations. This in fact provides for the diversity in the unity that one aims at.