Can we make flowers Bloom ? : Svaadhu Svaadhu Padhe PadhE

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Dear Srimathi Subadra Vasudevan :

 

What a beautiful thought :

" Do we bid buds to Bloom ? "

This is a profound statement evoking

a lot of echoes from our Sri Sookthis

and SampradhAyic granthAs .

 

The reference to the role of AchAryA in

making the budding flowers bloom is also

an evocative statement emphasizing

Acharya Sambhandham and Prapatthi .

 

We are indeed fortunate to benefit from

Sri Rengarajan's postings that is generating

a lot of sympathetic resonances ( Your posts ,

Sri Anand's postings and other fellow BhakthAs ).

 

Thanks very much for your insightful postings .

 

Best Wishes ,

V.Sadagopan

 

 

At 05:27 AM 2/27/99 -0700, you wrote:

With so much of aid the seeds have grown into plants but they are not

bloomed yet. Can we bloom flowers. We can make the soil moist, fertilize

it, give good ventilation but still, do we bid buds bloom.

 

The buds will bloom when the AchAryan performs the act of "prapatti."

The sanctity to the flower comes in it's being offered to the Lord.

Otherwise, it will run into the class of "many a flower is born to blush

unseen." Just as we will not offer PerumAl, flowers which have no

fragrance, flowers "sans" the AchArya sambhandham will not be accepted,

however (knowledge, Bakti) beautiful they are.

 

So, "andha NarAyananE indha aaichiyarkE ippadithAn tharuvAn parai." Now

that the flowers are in bloom, Sri. Sampath Rengarajan will gather them

to string his unique garland.

SriAndAl thiruadigalE charanam,

With highest regards,

Subadra