Chicago adhyayana utsavam

[Guest guest]

namaskAram! We would like to take this opportunity to thank our SrI

varadan mAmA (orginally from kAnchipuram and resident of Delhi), who

has been a constant guide for us in chanting the prabandhams and in

conducting the utsavam. Our perumAL was so kind to us that he directed

SrI varadan mAma and his family to the first practice session at our house

soon after the last year's adhyayana utsavam. They came to our practice

session on that day even though they did not have the slightest idea that

they were going to end up in our place when they left their house, and

none of the prabandham group members knew them till that day.

Smt. citra mAdhavan accidentally met varadan mAmA and his family for the

first time time on that day at the temple just before they were leaving

for India the next day, and through casual conversation, informed them of

the practice session. This was a divine coincidence for us; Sri varadan

mAmA taught us some basic principles that day and we were all very excited

to have this learned scholar among us (to me, it was kAnchi varadharAjap

perumAL Himself who had come to guide us in the right path). SrI varadan

mAmA joined us again two months back and has been guiding us during our

practice sessions towards the 2nd adhyayana utsavam at our temple that

just concluded.

 

varadan mAmA! Our heart-felt thanks to you for being our scholarly guide

and also for your wonderful write-up of our adhyayana utsavam!

 

It was a great pleasure putting faces and names together during this

utsavam; maNi, varadan (T.A. varadan of Denver), mOhan sAgar& mAdhuri,

ramEsh SArangapANi, sampath rengarAjan & vasanthi (with their child)

honored us by their presence. SrIrAm and manjuLA have already become part

of our families for quite sometime now (they are part of our prabandham

session group and visit our perumAL every month during the first sunday

tirumanjanam). And varadan (tirunalai ANDAn piLLai varadan) has made up

his mind to visit our perumAL every month if possible. We would like to

thank all the bhakti members who visited the temple during the utsavam for

taking the extra efforts to come and participate in the utsavam with us.

We feel like we have a closer relationship with them now than what the

bhakti list correspondences had already created.

 

Our SrI rAghavan (whom we call UDaiyavar of aurOrA bAlAji temple) is the

most blessed devotee of all; perumAL chose him to conduct the first

adhyayana utsavam for Him last year and has been constantly motivating him

to keep working at it. The smile on utsavar's countenance that everyone has

been talking about now is due to the diligent efforts that SrI rAghavan

undertook to bring us all together at perumAL's bidding.

 

As mOhan sAgar rightly requested, we would like to have a larger

participation of our bhakti list members during our next adhyayana

utsavam to be held in December, 1999.

 

adiyen,

Kalyani Krishnamachari

[Guest guest]

Dear Friends -

 

I would like to join Mohan Sagar in thanking

Srimans Varadhan, Raghavan, Krishnamachari, Ranganathan,

Smt Chitra Madhavan a host of others in organizing the

AdhyayanOtsavam at the SV temple in Chicago.

 

It was adiyEn first trip to this temple and the first

association with the chicago based bhagavathas. Even so,

from day one adiyEn felt as if adiyEn was in the company of

family members. Such was the hospitality extended to

adiyEn by these bhagavathas. Unfortunately, adiyEn could

not spend all the eight days with them.

 

It was a priviledge to be part of the divya prabandham

goshti that was headed by Varadhan mama, Raghavan mama

and Krishnamachari mama. AdiyEn is a nEchan and do

deserve to have been a part of this goshti, but Srinavasa

perumal in His infinite mercy had blessed me with this

opportunity. AdiyEn hopes to have this opportunity

every year and wish the organizers of this utsavam ever

greater success in the coming years.

 

Here I should would also like to mention and thank

Smt. Raghavan, Krishnamachari, Manjula Sriram,

and few other people (i apologize for not

remembering their names) who did madapalli-kainkaryam

and ensured all the bhagavathas received prasadam in time.

 

Namo Narayana

 

adiyEn raamanuja daasan

Ramesh