AchArya RaamAnuja Jayanthi 2000 SamarpaNams

[Guest guest]

Dear BhakthAs:

 

Yesterday, we celebrated at Sri Ranganatha temple

the Mahothsavam of our grest AchAryan's 984th birthday.

SampradhAyic Dhivya Prabhandham recitations were complimented by

recitaions of Sri YathirAja sathathi , Sri RaamAnuja

NooRRandhAthi . A traditonal SaaRRumurai was a fititng

finale for this Uthsavam .

 

The RangaghOshti members came together with other BhakthAs

to recite dhivya prabhandham . adiyEn is delighted

to hear that they will come together once a month

to recite dhivya Prabhandham dear to Sri RanganAyaki SamEtha

Sri Ranganaathan at His Sannidhi. AdiyEn requests

every one interested in reciting and/or learning to

come together on the monthly ghOshti days , recite

the dear AzhwAr's dhivya prabhandhams as bhakthAs

of our Lord of limitless compassion and receive

the dhivya dampathis' blessings.

 

During the discussions after the celebrations ,

many expressed interest to learn the recitations of

the Dhivya prabhandhams of AzhwArs in the traditonal

manner of santhai. adiyEn is interested to help

with this project . The plans are to approach

these clases two ways: (1) an hour or two at

Sri RanganAthA sannidhi at Pomona , NY on Ranga

GhOshti days every month. An excellent teacher

trained in the traditional manner has kindly volunteered

to pass on this rich tradition to us (2) A weekly sessions

for an hour or thereabout to teach using the power of

Internet tools and technologies to rach BhakthAs

all over the country. It has been suggested weekday evenings

are better than weekend time slots for this instruction in

an asynchronous manner .

 

A small committee of BhakthAs including adiyEn,

Srimathi Sheela Belur and Sri Gopalan ( Oppili Swamy)

of metroploitan Washington D.C area will work out

the details if there is sufficent interest for

these classes.

 

Please let me know of your interests .Here is a golden

opportunity to learn the recitation of these treasures

of Tamizh Marai (Vedams) from your own homes .It is

a wonderful opportunity for members at all levels of

ages to learn and help build Sri VaishNava communities

that are familiar with these sacred collect of

Four Thousand .

 

After getting your feedbacks , we can work on the details

of delivery over the Internet using chat rooms and

teleconferencing .We have to find an inexpensive way

to get connected.adiyEn invites comments from

internet tools experts to suggest ways.

 

May all sampradhAyams rooted in AchArya RaamAnuja

darsanam come together and raise their unified voice

and celebrate the dhivya Prabhandhams and Vedam

at the sacred feet of Ubhaya VedAntha VibhUthi-nAthan ,

Sri RanganAthan . After all He is "NamperumAL"

and is our eternal Kula Dhanam. May the VaishNava

Sri grow and attain new heights of auspiciousness in

this 984th year of the avathAram of AchArya RaamAnujA .

 

It is in this spirit , it is my pleasre to announce

the completion of "Aarthi Prabhnadham " commentary

in the Home pages created for Sri MaNavALa MaamunigaL,

one of the greatest BhakthAs of AchArya RaamAnujA , who was

given the name of YathIdhra PravaNar by His AchAryAn .

The moving plea by Sri MaNavALa MaamunigaL to AchArya

RaamAnujA echoing the sentiments of AzhwArs, AmudanAr and

Sri VedAntha Desikan in Aarthi prabhandham are covered

well by the contributing author, Kaanchipuram U.Ve.

Sri ThirumalaiaandAn SriinivasaachAr Swamy with the capable

assistance of his son , Professor T.A.Vijayaraghavan

and hi wife, Srimathi Sudha Vijyaraghavan.

 

The URLs are:

http://mamunigal (AT) freeservers (DOT) com/aarthi.html

http://mamunigal (AT) freeservers (DOT) com for the Main pages

for Sri MaNavALa MaamunigaL .

 

 

AdiyEn,

V.Sadagopan

 

P.S : It is adiyEn's pleasure in this context of

AzhwAr's aruLiccheeyalkaL to invite your attention

to the special home pages created by Sri Aravind Krishnan

of Chicago at adiyEn's request for the CD ROM under

design on the Life and works of AzhwArs and the 108

Dhivya dEsams that they performed MangalAsAsanam .

The URL is:

 

http://geocities.com/irscd/108.htm

 

What you will see there is more like an introduction

and a lot more content is being assembled right now.

It appears that there is material for atleast two

or more CD ROMs on this magnificent topic dear to

us all .My sincere thanks to Sri Aravind Krishnan

for his quality kaimkaryam to create these introductory

home pages .

[Guest guest]

Sri Sadagopan writes:

 

to learn the recitations of

the Dhivya prabhandhams of AzhwArs in the traditonal

manner of santhai. adiyEn is interested to help

with this project . The plans are to approach

these clases two ways: (1) an hour or two at

Sri RanganAthA sannidhi at Pomona , NY on Ranga

GhOshti days every month. An excellent teacher

trained in the traditional manner has kindly volunteered

to pass on this rich tradition to us (2) A weekly sessions

for an hour or thereabout to teach using the power of

Internet tools and technologies to rach BhakthAs

all over the country. It has been suggested weekday evenings

are better than weekend time slots for this instruction in

an asynchronous manner .

 

 

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It is my pleasure to see this on the net. Thanks to all of you who are

working on this superb task. First thing we need to do is get education.

Learn the granthams and santhai practice. I would like to live in the world

where all acharyas and granthams and classes come to everyone in this world

to their desktops!! THe Rigvedic Hymn - " Aa no bhadraha kratavo yanthu

vishvataha" which means " Let noble thoughts come to us from all

directions " is true and Internet is going to make it happen very soon. I

know there is no substitute to learn under the feet of a Guru. If one

cannot do it, "distance learning" has to be put into practice.

 

I really want everyone to make this happen. Daily we should have some

classes. I know that internet technology is so powerful and it can inundate

people with things. I would rather have that happen ie. have 20 channels of

religions information come to us simultaneously so that in between our

worldly engagements and entertainments, noble thoughts will have a chance to

enter our thirsty minds.

 

Thanks, sri Sadagopan,

 

adiyen Krishna Kalale