Postings to be cherished & Significant events of the year past

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Dear BhakthAs of Sriman NaarAyaNA :

 

Of late , we have some some profound and

mArga Darsi type of postings . There are a few .

By my singling out these two , I do not mean to underplay

the importance of other postings belonging to this

category , which needs to be cherished as guide posts.

 

The two recent postings are that of Sri Anand on

SamAsrayaNam and the posting of Sri Kalale on

Response to Srimathi KrishnamachAri"s question

on prayer to Sani BhagavAn . They need to be read again

and again and kept as a ready reference by Sri VaishNavAs

and particularly by younger members of this group .

 

The courteous dialog between various members again

on cotroversial subjects is so heartening to note , when

one recalls earlier occasions of similar sort .

 

Recent auspicious happenings like the highly successful

Denver meeting , Release of Desika Prabhandham tapes

by Sri Nadathur Madhavan and Srimans Jagan and Dileepan

are most satisfying to recall as the dedicated contributions

of many from this group . The Observance of Prapatthi by

few of our members influenced to some degree by the

celebration of AchAryAs in these columns of Bhakthi group

is a very significant one. I am sure that more BaranyAsams will

take place in the next few months . The initiation of the

SaraNAgathi Journal , the trireless work of Sri Anbil Ramaswmay

and Sri RengarAjan are additional blessings .

The Buffalo SDDS meeting organized by Sri Vijayaraghavan

and his dear friends of the Buffalo metropolitan area ,,

the Pomona SDDS Meeting at Sri RanganathA temple

with the support of Dr. Venkat kanumala and the Most recent Nama/SDDS

meetingwith the enormous effort of Srimathi Nagu satyan ,

Sri Mohan Sagar and friends at Denver are heartening happenings .

I hope that Sri VenkatAchalapathy will bless us to complete the kaimkaryam

at Pittsburgh planned for the Memorial day week end .

 

The support of many members for the Centennial of Abhinava Desika

UttamUr Swamy ( Thai Svathi , Jan 31, 1997 ) , the RathnAngi-

Mutthangi Kaimkaryam for Sri Oppiliappan in 1996 ,

the release of the third volume of Desika Prabhandham

with the initiative of Sri Murali Rangaswami are mile stones of

acccomplishments with the blessings of the Divya Dampathis .

 

BTW , today is Thai SvAthi and is the birthday of Sri UttamUr

Swamy. It is nice to have his grandson Sri Anand here with us

on this continent .

 

Finally , I wish to let you know that the MaaNiccka Kondai

Kaimkaryam for Sri Bhumi Devi of Oppilaippan Koil is

complete now. Feb 18 is the day of SamarpaNam of

the Kondai set in Padma RaagA stones celebrated by

Swami Desikan in Padma Raaga Paddhathi of

Sri PaadhukhA SthOthram :

 

PrapdhyE RanganAthasya PaadhukhAM Padma rAgineem I

padhaika niyatham tasys PadmavAsAm ivAparAm II

 

Our Bhumi dEvi ThAyar will also be presented with

an Emerald parrot ( Maragatha stones encrusted Parrot ) for her

right hand ) and a Jata Kothsu ( woven golden Jadai ) .

Those of you or your relatives , who can participate in

this once -in -a - life time sevai on Feb 18 at

Oppiliappan Koil are the lucky ones ! I wish I

could be there . Many thanks to all of You ,

who contributed to this kaimkaryam and made

the dream come true.

 

May the Dibvya Dampathi's blessings be with you all

on this Thai SvAthi day and every day of the year .

 

Daasan

V.Sadagopan