Proceedings of Shri Vaishnava Maanadu held on 4th April

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Details of the Shri Vainava conference held on 4 th April, 1999.

 

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Dear Devotees,

 

We have pleasure in giving a gist of the proceedings of Sri Vaishnava

Conference held at Chennai on Sunday the 4th April 1999 as already

informed before.

 

With the invocation song by Sri Venkata Varadan from Divya Prabhandam, the

conference was inaugurated by Justice Sri N Krishnaswamy Reddiar . He

vividly explained the salient features of Sri Vainavam and also expressed

the desire to unite the various vaina organisations for serving the

community in a coherent way. His Holiness Sri Tirukovilur Jeeyar

presided over the conference and eloquently spoke about the sri vaishnava

sampradaya and stressed the need of the bhagavat bhagavotmars untiring

efforts to propagate the visistadvaita philosophy expounded by Sri

Emberumanar. Subsequently many scholars viz. Sri K A Varadan, IAS, Sri T S

Ramaswamy, Sri L Sadagopan , Sri Parakala Ramanujam Sri Venu Raja Narayanan

Dr J Parthasarathy, President of Vainava Illakia Kazagam, Sri Raghu Veera

Bhattachariar, Sri U.Ve. A V Rangachariar, gave scintillating and thought

provoking lectures on Sri Vaishnavism and expressed many new ideas for

propagating this unique philosophy. Details of each of the speakers will

follow in due course.

 

In the afternoon session, His Holiness Sri Sri Sriman Narayana Jeeyar

released the economy edition of Divya Prabhandam Book and blessed

the devotees with His benedictory address and mangalasasanam urai. A

brief of His speech will follow shortly.

 

The conference was well attended by Sri Vaishnavas coming from

different parts of Tamilnadu and also from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and

also from Northern states. A unique feature is the participation by

many bhagavathas and thirukulothars in large number.

 

The succes of the conference was mainly because of the untiring efforts of

Thirumal Editor Sri U.Ve. Ramanujachariar who has been the master of

ceremonies, introducing the speakers to the audience and expressing views

now and then about the theme of the conference. In the age of 75, his

service for the cause of Vainavam cannot be expressed in mere words. It is

only Lord Sriman Narayana showered His grance and blessings on Sri

U.Ve. Ramanujachariar,known as SE RA, which enable him to make this

Conference a grand grand success. He took sincere efforts in helping

Sri T.Bhashyam of Sri Vainava Peravai to bring out this economy

edition of Divya Prabhandam. The book is a treasure to be kept in

every Sri Vaishnava’s residence. It costs only Rs.50/-.

 

Sri T.Bhashyam, President of Sri Vainava Peravai, Chennai undertook an

herculean task by planning and coordinating for the successful conduct

of this Conference in Chennai. Words fail to express our grateful

thanks to him for his yeoman service for the cause of Sri

Vaishnavism. We will post with some more details about the conference,

its deliberations and resolutions passed today, shortly.

 

On the whole, this conference created an awareness amongst the public

in general and Srivaishnavas in particular for taking some more

efforts for propagation of the philosophy of Sri Ramanuja .

 

On seeing the message through Internet, some of our devotees sent messages

and expressed their overwhelming support to Sri Vaishnava Peravai and

other institutions in any manner. The message of Sri Sudarshan

Parthasarathy from Singapore was very encouraging. Similarly Vijay Anand

Rajagopalan also expressed is happiness over conducting such conference.

All of them needed copies of Divya Prabhandam Book released at this

Conference. More details will be posted about this in course of time.

 

 

Adiyen

Elayavalli Narasimhan

Aravinda Lochana Ramanuja Dasan.