Sri Vanamamalai Divya Desam..

[Guest guest]

SriMathe Ramanujaya Namaha:

 

Dear SriVaishnavas:

 

Pranams!Adiyen hails from Vanamamalai Divya Desam. Adiyen would

like to share few facts about the Divya Desam.If you get this

mail second time,please pardon me.

 

This is a Swayamvyakta shetram

You can note that Nammalwar is in Sadari(Vanamamalaiye Adiyen

Thozha Vandharule!)

 

In that kovil,Thaila kappu is done daily for perumal.

Thailam is taken from Ennai Kinaru in Temple.Moolavar is in

sitting posture as in Badri.

Perumal purappadu is always with his Consort.

 

Ennaikappu utsavam is conducted on every thai ammavasai.Thaila

kappu goes on till 12:00 noon with Veda parayanam,followed by

satrummurai. Chirannam is the prasadam for Vinyogam. Large

queue stands for that. This prasadam is unique for this

temple.It takes hours to prepare this.This is prepared by

boiling annam,with soices in rice. Goshti is very big.

 

It will be 4:30 to 5:00 pm in the evening when the Prasadam

with Laddu and vadai is served in mutt.

 

Moolavar sevai is with Sandhana kappu in the evening.

The Perumal purappadu can be enjoyed

when Perumal(Deivanayagan),along with his Divine Consort

(SriVaramangai Nachiar), and Andal Blesses all the devotees.

Perumal comes out on Garudan,with Thayar on Hamsa vahanam,and

Andal on Kili Vahanam. Purappadu stars at 2:00 am in the

morning after the Day of Ennaikappu. Adiyen is pretty sure that

Bhaktas would really enjoy the most serene atmosphere that time.

Alangaram for Garudan takes long time.Pushpam comes from

Madurai.Perumal is carried around Mada veedhi,and comes back to

temple at 7:30 am next morning,after passing through sannadhi

street.Veda Parayan Goshti is the highlight of this part.

 

Before this Purappadu,there is another purappadu in the

late night of UTSAVAM dAY, Pathra Deepa purappadu.WITH the

divine music,VEDA Parayana Goshti led by Sri.Vanamamalai

Jeeyar,the whole place will be like Lord's abode.The festival

is conducted on every Thai Ammavasai,and is conducted by few

dedicated SriVaishnavas settled for living outside this place

for past 21 years.

 

Adiyen is very Delighted and Excited to write about Adiye's

native place.

 

One important thing is Thayar's birth place (porantha am)is

Tirupathi.

 

 

Enamay nilageenda en appane kanna,endrum

ennai aludai Vananayagane mani manikka chudare

Thenamam pozhil than SiriVaramangalathavar Kai Thozha vurai,

Vanamamalaiye Adiyen Thozha Vandharule!

 

Please pardon me for taking Liberty in translating the Pasuram.

 

Thanks for your precious time,

 

Adiyen,

Sri Ramanuja Dasan,

Ramanan Rajagopalan

 

 

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[Guest guest]

dear shri ramanan,

Thanks for the most wonderful description of the divya desam. I have

a question for you. A couple of years ago i had the bhagyam of meeting a

bhattar of the divyadesam. he was telling me that there is a utsavam where

in the thayar goes to her porantha aam & perumal comes to pick her up in the

evening.(sorry about my wordings) He told me that thayar's porantha aam is

the jeeyar madam of vanamamalai. but your mail says its tirupati.

can you explain this.

kindly pardon me if this is absolutely silly.

 

adiyen,

anand.

[Guest guest]

Dear Sri Anand/Ramanan,

 

Actually both of you are right. AdiyEn belong to this kshEthram. Thanks

to my

parents who associate themself with this kshEthram closely, adiyEn will

attempt to give the full picture, as my mother had put it to me.

 

As per the VAnamAmalai sthala purAnam, once srivaishnavAs in TirumalA

decided to create a thAyAr sannithi for Lord Venkateswara. But Lord came

in their dreams once and said that there is a thAyAr already, in the

form of Lakshmi and that he does not need one more. So the ThAyAr

thirumeni

was left as is in a corner in TirumalA temple itself. Once Sri onnAna

swami

(the first Jeeyar of VAnamAmalai mutt) visited the temple, he took pity

on this thAyAr. He adopted this lady and took her to VAnamAmalai and

gave her to Sri DeivanAyaga perumAl there.

 

This is the reason why thAyAr goes to her porantha aam to Jeeyar mutt

(even

though it is the residence of a Jeeyar). This is also the reason why

whenever (even now) Sri Jeeyar visits Tirupathi, he is given all the

respects and priviliges of a Sambandhi.

 

dAsan

Balaji

 

"Vasudevan, Anand (CORP, Consultant)" wrote:

>

> dear shri ramanan,

> Thanks for the most wonderful description of the divya desam. I have

> a question for you. A couple of years ago i had the bhagyam of meeting a

> bhattar of the divyadesam. he was telling me that there is a utsavam where

> in the thayar goes to her porantha aam & perumal comes to pick her up in the

> evening.(sorry about my wordings) He told me that thayar's porantha aam is

> the jeeyar madam of vanamamalai. but your mail says its tirupati.

> can you explain this.

> kindly pardon me if this is absolutely silly.

>

> adiyen,

> anand.

>

>

>

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