Recitation of entire Nalayira divya prabandham in Bahrain

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Sri Lakshmi nrusimha parabrahamane namaha

Srimathe Ramanujaaya namaha

Srimathe nigamaantha maha desikaaya namaha

Sri lakshmi nrusimha divya paduka sevaka sri vaN satakopa

sri Narayana yatheendra maha desikaya namaha.

 

Dear devotees,

 

namo narayana. adiyen's pranamams.

 

adiyen is delighted to inform all of you that our Bahrain prabandha ghOshti

has successfully recited the entire lot of naalayira divya prabandham during

March and April and the concluding session went on extremely well on

May 5th Friday. What follows is a brief report on the grand finale.

 

Bahrain is a small island in the Arabian Gulf. Although Bahrain is an

islamic country Hindu religious activities are plenty here. There is

nice srikrishna mandhir (without any anya devathas) in Manama.Srivaishnavas

(around 25 to 30 families)here are having very good satsangh with weekly

recital of divya prabandham and monthly recitation (sravanam)of desikar

stotrams and desika prabandhams. Recitation of divya prabandhams every

week is in practice for the past 10 years or so WITHOUT A BREAK.

During anadhyayana period we recite prabandhams of Swami desikan and

Sri Manavala maamuni.

 

We usually recite the nityanusandhana pasurams and little bit of

Thiruvaymozhiand Peria thirumozhi and the weeky sitting is for about

90 minutes followed by sarrumurai and prasadam.

 

Here adiyen have to introduce the wonderful couple Sri and Smt Azhagappan.

Like Thirumangai azhvar who fed 1000 devotees every day these couple are

feeding more than 100 devotees every week.There are three satsanghs in

their house every week and every one is kindly served sumptous maha prasadam.

Sri Anand karalapakkam has seen this personally last year and we are

really fortunate to be in company of such devoted, kind couple.

They are made for each other and we pray Sriman Narayana to shower HIS

limitless grace on them to continue such kaimkaryams.They always remind

me of periazhvar's pasuram "kasinvaay karam virkilum karavaadhu mArili

sorittu thEsa vArththaikal padaikkum vaN kaiyinArgaL vAzh thirukkOshtiyur".

 

Our grand finale started at half past four.With festoons,colour paper

decoration, maavilai thoraNam,Sri. Azhagappan's residence (we call it

as thiruppathi dhaam) was looking like a "kalyaana veedu".Every devotee

is thrilled about this unique experience.Only very few of us have learnt

recitation of divya prabandham in a traditional way and for the rest of

us Sri.Sevelimedu swamy's audio cassttees are the guide.

 

The recitation has started with paLLANdu, amalanaadhipiran,kaNNi nuN

siruththaambu,Thiruvaymozhi 10.9(sUzh visumbu) and 10.10,

(muniyE!naan muganE) peria thirumadal and iraamaanusa nURRandhaadhi.

Then we had a break for 20 minutes for sandhyavandhanam. After the break

we have recited thiruvaymozhi nURRandhadhi, adaikkallappathu and

prabandha saram.It was a thrilling experience to conclude the recitaiton

of 4000 with prabandha saram because as you all know this desika

prabandham nicely summerises the entire lot of 4000. (reconcilation!)

 

Smt Radha vijaykumar and her students sang "kurai onRum illai and other few

songs.The pick of the evening was a tamil song composed on Bhagavath

Ramanuja by her guru (Smt Indira Krishnamachari). adiyen has typed this

melodious song at the bottom of the email for your pleasure of reading and

singing on the coming Ramanuja jayanthi.

 

The recitation of 4000 was concluded with vedha and prabandha saRRumuRai.

Sri.Ananth has recited the upanishad passages (samhitha,ashtakam,

thaiththirIyAraNyakam, thaiththarIyOpanishad, samavedham and kadagam)

very well.We were however missing the company of Sri.Chary swami who left

bahrain last year.

 

The prabandha saRRu muRai was a long one with pasurams from amalanadhipiran,

peria thirumozhi( nallai nenche,nandha naragaththu)Thirunedum thandakam,

Thiruvaymozhi( akalakillen, sUzhndha kanRu),kanni nun siruththambu,iramanusa

noorandhadhi,thiruvaymozhi noorandhadhi,adaikkalappathu,adikara sangraham,

prabandha saram,pillai andhadhi,pallandu and sarva dhesa dhasa kale.(both

sampradayams)

 

We then have sambavana and the collection of the evening will be sent to

navalpakkam srinivasa perumaL koil thvajasthambam renovation kaimkaryam.

The recitation has concluded with manavalamaamuni and desika mangalam.

 

Then a grand feast was served. Incidently adiyen was told that 108 prasadams

were offered to perumaL to signify the 108 divya desams sung by our dear

azhvars.

 

The recitation of the entire divya prabandham has given a chance for another

kaimkaryam. Since most of us are not familiar with recitation of 4000 and

there were not enough user friendly books.So five of us (srimans Ananth,

Krishnakumar,Ramanujam,Sundarrajan and adiyen) have parsed the entire divya

prabandham listening to the audio recitaion of Sri.Sevelimedu swamy.

This exercise included fixing of the typos, introducing * for the places

where to be pause and breaking the compound tamil words.We have downloaded

the prabandham from web and improved it as above and finally converted the

text file to a MS Word document using Adhawin. We were encouraged by

sri.Dileepan to take up this kaimkaryam and hopefully these files will be

uploaded in the web. If any one of you is interested in receiving an

advance copy please let me know. Of course there is still room to improve

and we will be working on it right away.We might have taken more than

7000 printouts/ photo copies in the last two months. Believe me,with

the parsed text we could easily recite even peria thirumozhi.

 

We pray to the divya dhampathis to give us opportunity for more and

more kaimkaryams in the years to come. Let HIM keep us amidst of

bhagavathas all the time.

 

Thanks for your patient reading.

 

Azhagiya singer thiruvadigaLE saranam.

 

adiyen dasan,

 

venkataraghava dasan.

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A krithi on Bhagavath Ramanuja:

 

raamaanujaa! raamaanujaa!

raamaanujaa raamaanujaa enRu sollip paadaNum..

nam nAvinil varAdhu pOnAl nallavarOdu sEraNum.(raamaanujaa..)

 

ANdAL thiruppaavaiyai AsaiyudanE paadaNum.

adiyaar kuzhaangaLudan gOshtiyaakavE sEraNum. (raamaanujaa..

 

keNYchik keNYchi kEdkaNum. thaNYcham enrE paNiyaNum.

aNYcana vaNNan paadhaththil adimaiyaakavE pukuraNum. (raamaanujaa..

 

AzhvaargaL avathariththa nAtkaLaik koNdaadaNum

avar aruLichcheytha prabandhaththai AsaiyudanE paadaNum.(raamanujaa..

 

poygaiyaar bUthaththaar pEyaar padhinmar pugazhai paadaNum

paasuram varaadhu pOnaal baktharOdu sEraNum.. (raamaanujaa..

 

kOyil thirumalaiyil kudiyaagavE irukkaNum

gOvindhan naamangaLai gOshtiyaagavE paadaNum.(raamaanujaa

 

thiruvarangam thirumalaiyil iruppu illaamal pOnaalum

raamaanujaa raamaanujaa enru sollip paadaNum..(raamaanujaa..