The Greatness of this day : BahudhAnya Aadi UtthirAdam

[Guest guest]

Dear Bhagavadh RaamAnuja SiddhAnthins :

 

This day's greatness can be understood in terms of the

three significant events converging together .

 

These events are :

 

(1) AlavandhAr's Thirunakshthram

(2) 14th Pattam Azhagiya Singhar"s Thirunakshthram

(3 ) Bahudhaa anya ( BahudhAnya ) Samvathsara UpAkarmaa Day

 

As a group dedicated to Sri Bhagavadh RaamAnuja SiddhAntham ,

we have come a long way during the past few months .We have

members from every AchArya ParamparA , who trace their roots

to Sri Bhagavadh RaamAnujA . For all that blessing , we have to

remember with gratitude AlavanthAr , who in his final year of

life on this earth gave " Nayana Dheekshai " as it were in

Kaanchi PeraruLALan Sannidhi to young RaamAnujA

and begged the Lord to transform student RaamAnujA

into a great Sri VaishNava AchAryan with

the following prayer :

 

yasya prasAdha kalayA bhadhira: sruNOthi

pangu: pradhAvathi javanEchavakthi mooka :

andha: prapasyathi sutham labhathE cha

tamm DevamEva VARADHAM SaraNam gathOsmi

 

(Meaning ) : By which Lord's grace , the deaf hears well,

the lame runs with speed , the dumb speaks fluently ,

the blind one sees very well, the infertile one gives

birth to a progeny , that Merciful boon-giving Lord Varadhan

is my refuge . I surrender unto His sacred feet( wiht

this prayer ).

 

Lord VaradharAjA rescued RaamAnujA from the grip

of Yadhava PrakAsA and responded to AlavandhAr's prayer

that RaamAnujA become a SiddhAntha NirvAhakar ( Leader

of the SampradhAyam ) . Lord VaradharAjA blessed RaamAnujA

many times later in times of trouble in observance of

His promise to AlavandhAr . One such occasion was when He

and His dear Consort PerundEvi ThAyAr assumed the vEsham

of Hunter Couple and brought RaamAnujA back safely from

the middle of the far away jungle to Kanchipuram , when

the deceitful and ill-meaning Yadhava PrakAsA was plotting to kill

RaamAnujA . Another occasion was when the compassionate Lord

gave His famous six instructions through Thirukkacchi Nampi to

RaamAnujA , when latter was troubled by doubts . Our Lord

of Kaanchi made the final sacrifice by giving away

RaamAnujA to Sri RanganathA .

 

On this blessed day sacred for the SmaraNam of AlavandhAr ,

I refer our fellow members to the postings on this great

AchAryA in the Bhakthi postings related to (1) ChathuslOki

(2) SthOthra Rathnam (3) GeethArtha Sangraham and (4) Aagama

PraamAnyam indirectly thru the recent postings on PaancharAthram

in SaraNAgathi Journal .

 

(2) 14th pattam Azhagiya Singhar

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He is known as PullambhUthankudi Azhagiya Singar .

His aasrama name is : Sriman NaarAyaNa Yatheendhra

MahA Desikan just as for the current HH the 45th Jeeyar,

the Second , ninth , twelfth, fourteenth , eighteenth ,

twenty second and the thirty first Ahobila Mutt Jeeyars.

He ascended the sacred peetam on October 1676 and reigned

for nine years and ten months . He blessed us with the grantham

known as "AchArya GuNAdarsanam " to celebrate our AchAryA

Paramparai including AlavandhAr and RaamAnujA . May the memory

of this great AchArya cleanse our thouhts and prepare us

for the Yaju UpAkarmA today .

 

(3) Yajur UpAkarmA

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Number of postings are available at the Bhakthi archives

from last year Both Sriman VijayarAghavan and I have

written extensively on the significance and procedures

there ( Aug-Sep 97 archives). Hence I wont comment more on

this subject other than referring those postings to you .

 

Finally , here is a report form AnanthA Research foundation

on the status of the AchArya RaamAnujA CD ROM Project.

The project is moving briskly. I have mahA VisvAsam in

the DayA of the Divya Dampathis and AchAryAs to enter your minds

and to help with this Kaimkaryam and bring this Ratha Yathrai

for ANDAL that we started on Her Aadi Pooram day to Nilai.Pleae help

with whatever samarpaNam you can make to this first of its

kind Kaimkaryam to make Sri Bhagavadh RaamAnuja SiddhAntham

available to all generations of Sri VaishNavAs thru the rich

tapestry of Mulrimedia-based CD ROM and an accompanying text

respecting both the SampradhAyams .Please send your checks to

Sri Dileepan C/O Sri Ahobila Mutt or to Sri M.A, Narasimhan

at Mysore AnanthA Research Foundation . Their addresses

are available in earlier postings .

 

The ongoing developmental work at Mysore and Bangalore on

this project needs your generous support . Please write to me

about any questions that you may have on this project .

Many thanks in advance for your most neede dand welcome help .Daasan ,

V.Sadagopan

>>>Sadagopan <sgopan

>>>Re:

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>>>Respected Swamin,

>>>Thank you for everything. I will take all the required images from the

>>>url-s you have suggested. I went through the ahobila mutt and

>>>srivaisnava home pages yesterday and got a good idea about the whole

>>>thing. The graphic designers have begun the work on the Aradhana

>>>section. the photo greaphs have been scanned are being edited. We have

>>>given an elaborate account of the aradhana according to the Nitya Grantha

>>>of Bhagavan Ramanuja and also acording to Sri U.Ve Rajagopalachariar's

>>>Tiru-Aradhana Kramam, authnticated by none other than than the previous

>>>and present Azhagiya-Singar-s. This is the update of the work.

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