Guest guest Posted September 24, 1998 Report Share Posted September 24, 1998 Tirumalai 3 : ************* Dear Brothers and Sisters As mentioned in the earlier note on Tirumalai traditions, the Brahmotsavam of Malayappa should have commenced yesterday. Even as I write, thousands of blessed people in Tirumalai must be enjoying the grace of Malyappa with a Veena in hand, sitting gracefully and with a bit of nonchalance on Hamsa vahana, wearing a glittering nose jewel (He wears nose jewel today as well as on the 5th day of the utsavam for the Mohini avatharam).... Well, sitting far away from where He is, we have to be contented by thinking about him. We are after all not comparable to the great Swamy Doddachar (who being unable to travel to Kanchipuram for Varadarajar’s Garudotsava beckoned Him to grace him and the Lord complied with ... A tribute is paid to Doddachar even today in Kanchipuram during the Garudotsavam, when for a few moments, at the main temple entrance the Lord is symbolically blocked from view .. .). Also, in the earlier note a brief mention was made about the great Ananthalvan chasing the Lord and Piratti (who were loitering in disguise one evening in the garden that Ananthalavan had developed in order to bring flowers to the temple everyday). I am told that this incident is remembered in the Brhamotsavams on the ninth day when the Lord’s palanquin (pallaku) is taken in a procession in anti-clockwise direction(‘aprathakshana’) - popularly this is known as ‘Back savari’ (journey in the opposite direction). (Smt. Ramesh, a former IAS officer turned scholar of visishtadvaita mentioned several other such details during Ramanuja Jayanthi celebrations in Chennai in 1998). Adiyen, srivaishnava dasan P.B. Anand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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