Pomona Sri RanganAthA Temple MahA samprOkshaNam: SrinivAsan Sannidhi( 6 of the 8 Sannidhis): Part I

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Dear BhakthAs:

 

Sofar adiyEn offered homage at the Pomona sannidhis of

(1)Sri Ramachandran (2) Sri VeNu GopAlan (3)Sudarshanar

(4) Garudan and (5)ANDAL.

 

adiyEn has to cover yet the sannidhis of (6) Lord SrinivAsan

(7)Sri RanganAyaki and (8) Sri RanganAthan at His new temple

awaiting consecration .

 

AzhwArs" mangaLAsAsanams

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Today , adiyEn will cover the Vaibhavam of Thiruvenkatam-udaya-

SrinivAsan also known as SapthagirIsan , Thirumalaiappan and

Timmappan , Balaaji and by a host of other names .His glories have

been sung by Eleven AzhwArs with 202 Paasurams. Only the RanganAtha

Pathivrathai, ThoNDaradippodi AzhwAr among the 12 AzhwArs

has not performed MangaLAsAsanam for the Lord of ThiruvEnkatam.

Thondardipodi knew that Lord Venkatesan got tired of

standing on top of the austere Seven hills and came down to

the lush Srirangam to rest in Yoga NidhrA as RanganAthan.

Therefore , Thondaripodi did not offer MangaLAsAsanam

separately for Venkatesan like the other eleven AzhwArs.

 

Additional Information items

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(1)adiyEn is glad that Sriman Rajeev Karamchedu will be

reciting SrinivAsa Gadhyam at Lord SrinivAsan's sannidhi

during the festival days.

 

(2)adiyEn has written 92 pages in tamil about the Vaibhavam of

Lord SrinivAsan of Thriumalai which includes the tributes

from the 11 AzhwArs and NadhOpAsakaas like TaLapAkkam

AnnamAcchArya ( the direct disciple of the Founding Jeeyar of

Ahobila matam , Sri Adhi VaNN SatakOpa MahA Desikan ),

Purandara Daasar, ThyAga Brahmam and others.

 

adiyEn has given away the original of the above manuscript as

a part of the disassembly of my papers and books to

Sri MadhavakkaNNan of Singapore, who wished to translate

that manuscript into English in parts for publication in

the e-lists.He plans to start with Swamy NammAzhwAr's

exquisite anubhavam of Lord VenkatEsan for the forthcoming

Thirunakshathram of Swamy NammAzhwAr.

 

The Home Pages for Lord of ThiruvEnkadam

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The Vaibhavam of Lord Srinivasan has been recorded in

number of home pages and two of the most informative among them are:

 

(1) TT DevasthAnam Home pages:http://wwww.tirumala.org

This is the official wb site of the Temple and has

exquistely beautiful images and excellent content.

 

(2) VenkatEswara Home pages maintained by Sri Haresh Balasubramanyan

of Singapore and adiyEn:

http://www.venkateswara.freeservers.com

 

This home pages constructed with the help and cooperation of

the Web Master of Thiruppathi temple has some rare pictures

of the Lord and has the translations of VenkatEsa Sthuthi,

SuprabhAtham , Prapatthi and Mangalam in addition to special

artciles relating to ThiruvEnkatam dhivya dEsam such as

DayA sathakam .

 

(3)The archA moorthy of Sri Devi-BhU Devi Sametha Srinivaasan

at Pomona Sannidhi is exceptionally beautiful (www.Ranganatha.org).

He is Parama DhAyLu with great Bhaktha Vaathsalyam .

 

The Origin of DayA sathakam

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Out of His dayA for us , ThiruvEnkatamudayAn requested

His hand bell (GhantA) used in nithyAradhanam to incarnate as

Thuppul PiLLai ( Swamy Desikan ) to advance the goals of

the earlier Kaimkaryams of His other Nithya Soori, Adhi

SEshaavatharan,AchArya RaamAnujA .Swamy Desikan out of gratitude

to His Lord composed the one and only sthOthra grantham that

focused on the DayA aspects of the parama DayALu standing on

top of the seven hills.

 

In DayA sathakam , Swamy Desikan singled out the DayA guNam

of the Lord over all His other kalyANa GuNams and eulogized it.

He observed that all other kalyANa GuNams become auspicious

because of the power of the Lord's DayA GuNam .Swamy Desikan

visualized SrinivAsan's Daya as a consort of His and thus

counted five dEvis for the Lord (viz).,Sri Devi , BhUmi Devi,

NeeLA Devi, GodhA Devi and DayA Devi.

 

adiyEn will compile an archanA for Lord SrinivAsan

based on the Thiru Naamas that Swamy Desikan gave for

the Lord of ThiruvEnkatam, VenkatEsa Sahasra Naamam

and the other granthams composed by other AchAryAs

and present that Bhakthi Kusuma MaalA in the subsequent

posting.

 

PrayEr to the Lord of ThiruvEnkatam

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VinA VenkatEsam na NaathO Naatha:

SadhA VenkatEsam SmarAmi SmarAmi

HarE Venkatesa Praseedha Praseedha

Priyam Venkatesa Prayaccha Prayaccha

 

--Sri Venkatesa SthOthram : SlOkam 9

 

Ajn~AninA mayA dhOshAn asEshAn vihithAn HarE

Kshamasva Thvam Kshamasva Thvam Seshasaila-SikhAmaNE

 

--Sri VenkatEsa SthOthram : SlOkam 11

 

(meaning) Oh VenkatEsA! since adiyEn does not consider

any other God as My Lord even in my dreams , adiyEn

meditates on You and You alone always. Therefore, please

confer on me the boons that You think are good for adiyEn.

 

Oh the Crest-Jewel of the SeshAdhri hills! Please forgive

all the trespasses that adiyEn has committed unconsciously.

If You do not do that , Your name as Hari ( PraNathArthi Haran)

will not suit You. Your efforts to leave Paramapadham and take

residence at ThiruvEnkatam would then become futile. Therefore,

adiyEn beseeches you to bear with me and out of Your compassion

overlook all my dhOshams.

 

SrinivAsa ParabrahmaNE Nama:

Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SatakOpan