Udupi : Pejawar seer Vishwesha Theertha passed away at 88 on Sunday after suffering from pneumonia. He was shifted to the mutt as per his wishes early this morning from KMC Hospital in Udupi. Reports suggest he passed away due to multiple organ failure.

The Pejawar seer’s mortal remains will be kept at Ajjarakadu Ground in Udupi for public darshan at 10 am and later National College grounds in Bengaluru.

CM Yediyurappa announced three days of state mourning and all honours to be paid to the seer. He said that he has had the luck to receive his blessings for many years and has taken his advice regularly. “The country and state has lost a great soul. He consecrated the Ram Mandir and wanted to see the temple being built in Ayodhya, the Supreme Court also decided that the temple is to be built but he unfortunately is now not alive to see the temple being built now,” the Chief Minister said.

MLA Raghupathi Bhat said that the body will be kept for public viewing at Ajjarakadu Ground from 10 am to 1 pm. Chief minister B S Yediyurappa will pay homage to the seer at Ajjarakadu ground. Rituals related to bathing the seer and offering aarathi will be performed at the mutt. After 1 pm, the body will be airlifted to Bengaluru. The body will be kept at National college ground.

The mortal remains of the seer will be interred in Brindavana on the premises of Vidya Peetha in Bengaluru as per seer’s last wish by late evening, said MLA Bhat.

After doctors from KMC, AIIMS tried hard to save the seer but Krishna had different plans and took him away from us. He wished to see the Ram Mandir being built. Crores of devotees are sad about his passing away. He has served society for several decades now, said BJP MP Shobha Karandlaje.