Miscellanous !

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Dear Bhakthi Group members :

 

How very nice to get up in the morning in the East Coast

of United States and see the postings of Sri Madhavakkannan

on the AruLiccheyalgaL of our Azhwars before going about on our

activities associated with " Udhara nimittham bahu krutha

vEsham "

 

Regarding his current posting on ThiruppANa nathan , I must

honestly admit that I do not remember writing about those wonderful and

inspiring paasurams almost two years ago . One of these days ,

I will print out the topic headings and dates so that I will not repeat

myself . The literature on Sri VaishNavism and the great

Kuladhanam that our Azhwaars and AchAryALs have blessed us

with so vast that , we will discover new meanings and enhance

our svAnubhaavams . Thanks to Sri Madhavan KaNNan on bringing

back memories as the AzhwAr's birth day approaches ! I am so

glad that Sri KrishNa KalAlE shared with us the paaramparyam of

Sri Madhava KaNNan . The great village of Navalpaakkam is

indeed a puNya Bhumi tha thas blessed us with great AchAryAs and

followers of that Paramparai . Our Sri Vijaya Raghavan has

connections to that paramparai as well .

 

On November 4 , we celebrated the birthday of the great AchArya ,

Sri MaNavALa Maamuni ; Utthama Nambhi and Periya Jeeyar share

this Iypaasi Kettai thriunakshthram . Sri Anbil Swami in

his excellent posts entitled " AchArya Vruksham " , discusses

the lives of Utthama Nambi and Periya Jeeyar along with other

illustrious AchAryAs in SaraNAgathi jiournal issues .

 

On November 5 , Sri VishvaksEnar , Thirukkuruhai pirAn

piLLAn had their birthdays .

 

Today , Novemebr 6 happens to be the day , when there is

a rathOthsavam for the great AchAryA ,

Sri PiLLai LOkAchAr at Sri PerumbUthUr .

 

Tomorrow , NOvember 7 is Iypassi SravaNam , the ThirukkalyANa

uthsava dinam of Sri Bhumi Devi Sametha Sri Oppiliappan .

We were hoping to complete the MaaNickka Konddai ,

Maragatha KiLI and MaaNiccka Jadakkocchu for our

most compassionate Mother , Bhumi Devi . That date has been

postponed to Sri VaikunTa Ekaadasi dinam due to the need

for collecting some more funds from here and India .

We are planning to advertise in Hindu Newspaper

to raise the remaining 2.5 lakhs of rupees in India and

raise another 50K rupees from here to complete the

kaimkaryam by Sri Vaikunta EkAdasi day .

 

November 7 , 8 and 9 happen to be the birthdays of

the Mudal AzhwArs ( Poygai , BhUtham and pEy ) .

Inview of my own tardiness in completing the DehaLIsa

Sthuthi related to them , I have taken a vow to complete

atleast the translation of the remaining slOkAs before their

birthday celebrations are over by November 9 and place

them at the feet of ThirukkOviUr PerumAL .

 

November 11 is UttAna EkAdasi . Next day ,

KaLLazhagar of ThirumAlirumchOlai travels up

to Thottil thru which Noopura Gangai ( SilambAru )

flows and enjoys yeNNaikkAppu uthsavam there .

Please refer to the excellent sthala purANam series

on SundararAjar ( KaLLazhagar ) posted earlier by

Sri Sampath Rengarajan .

 

November 14 is PaancharAthra Deepam .

 

KoTi kannikAdhAnam ThAtha Desikan's birthday

falls on Sunday , Nov 30 .

 

December 8 , Kaarthigai purattathi is the birthday

of Sri NaarAyaNa Yatheendhra MahA Desikan ,

the current Jeeyar of AhObila Matam .

 

Thirumangai Mannan's birthday is on December 12 ,

the prelude for which was celebrated most movingly by

Sri MadhavakkaNNan recently with so many facts

about his life that are not well known .

 

When one thinks of the blessed aruLiccheyalgaLs of

this giant of an AchArya , one needs many lives to understand

the paasurams and the bhagavathAnubhavam of His and

the depth of his j~nAnam as revealed in ThiruuvEzhu-

kUrrirukkai on Thirukkudanthai ArAvamudhan .

 

Next day ( December 13 ) is our ThiruppANAzhwAr's birthday .

Swami Desikan's Munivaahana Bhogam and

Sri Bhagavadh DhyAna SopAnam are great tributes

to Amalan Adhi Piraan decad of the AzhwAr. Sri Sampath

Rengarajan gave a memorable lecture on the first verse

alone for 45 minutes at Buffalo int he first SDDS meeting

last December .

 

The greatest of the enjoyment can be had from the writings

of Srimadh Azhagiya Singar in Nrusimha PriyA (NP) journal

on AmalanAdhipirAn of ThiruppANAzhwAr ..

His extraordinary insights and the aruL mozhigaLs on

each of these paasurams are appearing as a series

on the recent issues of NP . These postings are suffused

with the blessings of a great AchArya , who has

the anugraham of Sri MaalOlan thru his devoted daily

service to the divya dampathis as the peetAdhipathi of

the SimhAsanam of AhObila Matam going back to

more than 600 Years , when the Lord of AhObilam

jumped into the hands of AdhivaNN SatakOpa Jeeyar .

 

Thirukkarthigai festival is on December 14.

 

On December 16 , The month of ThiruppAvai starts and

we will be blessed with the anusmaraNam of

Soodikkoduttha NaacchiyAr 's aruLiccheyalgaLs .

 

What a splendid season awaits us all !

 

NaarAyaNa , NaarAyaNa !

 

Oppiliappan Koil VaradachAri Sadagopan