Sat Sanga in Iowa

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Dear Bhakti members,

 

Jai Sri Radhe Krishna. Jai Sri Sita Ram. My name is Rama Krishnan and

am working as a software engineer here in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I hail

from a Palghat Iyer family but came under the influence of Vaishnavism

due to my taste for Hari bhakti. Myself and my wife are pursuing under

the guidance of Sri Krishna Premi Swamigal who comes in the Sri

Vaishnava Guru parampara. We would like to have Sat Sanga in your house

with fellow bhaktas for reciting Vishnu Sahasra nama, reciting Tamil

pasurams, and for doing Hari keertana or bhajana. Please reply to me by

e-mail or please call at

(319)373-2988

 

I also take this opportunity inform interested members that I have a

collection of about 300 Tamil discourse cassettes of Sri Krishna Premi

who is popularly called as Anna. I have his Ramayana, Bhagavata, Azhwar

Vaibhavam, Venkatachala mahatmiam, Sri Ranga Mahatamyam, and very many

BHAKTA charitrams of devotees all over India such as Tulasidas,

Ekanathar etc. Sri Ranga mahatmyam is very nice with elaborate

quotations from Brahmanda purana, Agni purana etc. where it is

elaborately told. Anna also quotes the Tamil pasurams and the recent

leelas of the Lord at SriRangam with his bhaktas.

 

Yours in the service of Hari Dasas

 

Rama S. Krishnan

 

 

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Anand wrote:

> Subra RAMAKRISHNAN wrote:

> > due to my taste for Hari bhakti. Myself and my wife are pursuing under

> > the guidance of Sri Krishna Premi Swamigal who comes in the Sri

> > Vaishnava Guru parampara.

> adiyEn didn't understand this part. Sri Krishna Premi is not a Sri

> Vaishnava AchAryA ie. doesn't come under Sri Vaishnava guruparamparA /

> rAmAnuja

> siddhAntam, though he has given lot of lectures on Sri Vaishnavam.

 

According to my Divya Prabandham teacher, who hails from

Srirangam and who knows Sri Krishna Premi personally, Sri Krishna Premi

is a descendant of Periyavaaccaan Pillai. But I have heard

conflicting reports about his affiliation, so I cannot be sure.

At any rate, he is highly respected among Sri Vaishnavas, even

the orthodox, and he is admired for spreading the message of

Sri Ramanuja among the masses. It is true, however, that he

is not regarded as a traditional acharya in the same vein as

our maThadhIpatis and acharya purushas who administer the

Sri Vaishnava sacraments. Perhaps Sri Subra Ramakrishnan is

studying in an informal manner under him?

 

Mani

[Guest guest]

SrI:

SrImatE SrI Lakshminrusimha ParabrahmanE namaha

 

Dear Sri RAmakrishnan,

namO nArAyaNA. pranAmams.

 

thanks for your kind invitation to have sat sangam and involve

ourselves in bhagavad kalyANa anubhavams.

 

Subra RAMAKRISHNAN wrote:

> due to my taste for Hari bhakti. Myself and my wife are pursuing under

> the guidance of Sri Krishna Premi Swamigal who comes in the Sri

> Vaishnava Guru parampara.

 

adiyEn didn't understand this part. Sri Krishna Premi is not a Sri

Vaishnava AchAryA ie. doesn't come under Sri Vaishnava guruparamparA /

rAmAnuja

siddhAntam, though he has given lot of lectures on Sri Vaishnavam.

If he is a Sri Vaishnava AchAryA, can you please inform us the AchAryA

under whom he underwent samAsrayanam (initiation into the paramparA) ?

 

As far as adiyEn's knowledge goes, he is a vadamA advaitin following

bhajana sampradAyam laid down by advaita AchAryAs of 16th-18th

centuries like BOdhEndrAL, Sad guru swAmi and others. This fact is very

much verified with Sri Vaishnava AchAryAs like Sri U.Ve. V.S. KarunAkaran

 

SwAmy. Infact, this is evident from the books of Sri Krishna Premi

wherein

he discusses these things.

 

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan

ananthapadmanAbha dAsan

krishNArpaNam