Update on SAMARAJYA PATTABHISHEKAM.

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srimathe malola narasimhAya namaha

Dear Bhaktas,

 

About two weeks back, adiyen posted an article in the bhakti list about

U.Ve.Sri Sreenivasa Desikachar's upanyasam on SAMARAJYA PATTABHISHEKAM

which was conducted at Sri Venugopala Krishnaswamy Temple,

Malleswaram,Bangalore.

 

Let adiyen give you all a brief description of the Temple.

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Sri Venugopala Krishnaswamy Temple is one of the oldest Sri Vaishnava

Temple in Bangalore.The temple was established during the year 1902 by

Sri Vaishnavas living in Malleswaram. The temple is located in the town

of Malleswaram ( which is one of the oldest towns in Bangalore ). It

stretches the full length of East Park Road and West Park Road, 11th

Cross,Malleswaram. The area of the temple is about 140 X 25 Sq. Ft.

 

Sri Venugopala Krishnaswamy is the Moolavar. His consort his Sri Rukmini

thAyar. The other sannidhis are :

Sri Nambi Narayana Swami, Sri Kondanda Ramar, Sri Anjaneyar, Sri

Sudarshanalwar, Sri Ramanuja Charyar,Sri Nammalwar, Sri Poykai Alwar,

Sri Bhutam Alwar,Sri Thirumangai Alwar, Sri Thirupan Alwar,Sri Periy

Alwar, Sri Andal ( seperate Sannidhi exclusively for Andal ), Sri Kula

Shekara Alwar, Sri Tondaradipodi Alwar, Sri Pey Alwar, Sri Madhura Kavi

Alwar.

 

Sri Manavala Mamunigal, Sri Pillai Lokacharyar, Sri Vedantha Desikar are

also present.

 

The Brahmotsavam is conducted during the month of March - April. Apart

from Brahmotsavam, kalyanotsavam, dolotsavam, Nammalwar Thirunakshatram,

Thiruaadipuuram, Prathisthapanotsavam, Sri Jayanthi, Navarathri Utsavam,

Unjal Utsavam, Vedantha Desikar Thirunakshatram, Manavala Mamunigal

Thirunakshatram, Thirunakshtram for all the alwars, Pavithortsavam,

Deepavali Utsavam, Vishnu Deepam, Quotarotsavam ( Is conducted both for

Sri Venugopala Krishnaswamy as well as Sri Kodanda Ramar), Sri Ramar

Prathisth-apana-mahot-savam, VAIRAMUDI, etc.

 

Apart from the above mentioned Utsavams, Discourses ( Upanyasams) by

Ubhaya Vedantins takes place frequently in this temple. Lots of Acharyas

have had dasrhan of Sri Venugopala Krishnaswamy here.

 

The arhcakar of this great temple Sri B.R.Madhava Narasimha Bhattar (

Babu Bhattar) has visited the temple at Bridgewater, Cinncinnati,USA.

Some of the bhaktas in this list may have met him.

 

adiyen, since his birth 18 years back, has been associated with this

great temple.adiyen is a Sree Padthangi at this great temple. adiyen is

most thankful to the all pervasive SRIMAN NAARAYANA for giving adiyen a

chance to perform a kainkaryam.adiyen hopes sriman naarayana will give

adiyen more chances in the future to perform more kainkaryams.

 

adiyen along with other bhaktas are in the process of creating a website

for the temple. It will be launched on Janmashthami ( August 23rd) this

year. We will be putting in all details ( history, location, utsavams,

etc.,) soon. ( http://www.geocities.com/srivenugopala )

 

adiyen also moderates the official newsletter for the temple. Please

to this newsletter. It will inform you about all the activites

of the temples, festivals coming up and other activites ( viz,

upanyasam., etc)

For more details on how to subscire please visit

srivenugopala or simply send a email to

srivenugopala- or simply reply to this email.

 

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U.Ve.Sri Sreenivasa Desikachar completed his upanyasam on Samarajya

Pattabhishekam on August 13th 2000. On the same day, Pattabhishekam was

conducted for Lord Sri Kodandaramar under the divine grace of HH Sri

Sampathkumara Jeeyar of Yadugiri Yathiraja Matham who was present at the

divine ocassion.

 

We expected a turn out of about 100 - 200 bhaktas since it was a sunday

morning. We did purchase about 600 plantain leaves for the sake of

prasadam distribution for the event in the morning and Garudotsavam (

which was a Kainkaryam by Sri B.Ramdasappa and Family) in the evening.

But to our surprise a large congregation of about 750 - 800 bhaktas were

present throughout the ocassion. We had to rush to the city market to

purchse extra 250 plantain leaves.

 

The event started at around 10:00 AM IST. We expected the event to end

by 12:00 PM. Not surprisingly the event ended at 3:30 PM. Prasadam

distribution alone took about 2 hours! For the Brahotsavam which was

held during March - April 2000, atleest 1500 - 2000 bhaktas were present

throughout.

 

Evening at around 7 PM, Garudotsavam ( Mantapadi Seva at the residence

of Sri.B.Ramdasappa & Famiy) was held. The event ended at around 10 PM.

Sri Nathamunigal Thirunakshatram was also held parallelly.

 

adiyen sri malola narasimha dasan,

 

Malolan Cadambi.