Guest guest Posted September 22, 2001 Report Share Posted September 22, 2001 Dear BhakthAs: Sriman Sampath rengarajan is well known to the e-mail list groups through his many outstanding postings about Tamil Sri Sookthis of AzhwArs and his leadership in organizing the Adhyayana Sevai at Sri RanganAthA temple , Pomona , NY. His devotion to Lord RanganAthan , Lord Aaravamudhan of Thirukkudanathia and Lord Oppiliappan is well known. It is my pleasure to forward you a posting by his 9 year old son, Chi.Sravan RengarAjan on his visit to the numerous sannidhis of Srirangam temple complex. I am sure that many of us have not visited all the 88 plus sannidhis at this ancient temple complex. Chi.Sravan's writing has a sparkle and spontaneity. I think children like Sravan exposed to our ancient darsanam at the very early age offer great promise to the practise and growth of Sri VaishNavam. V.Sadagopan >My trip to srirangam temple > >I am the son of Sampath Rengarajan and Vasanthi Rengarajan >and I am 9 years old. I live in Ann Arbor Michigan, USA. I >went to Thiruchi and Kumbakonam for my vacation. I always >wanted to go to all the sannithis in srirangam temple. >Each time I go to srirangam temple with my Ammamma, we >were straight taken to the perumal sannithi without any >waiting in the queue and brought back to thayar sannithi >and back to home at Thiruchy. Sometime I had gone to >Danvanthri sannithi. One day my dad and I planned and took >an auto to go to Srirangam. When we crossed the Kaveri we >both worshiped the huge gopuram. it was majestic and very >tall. Then we went to a street full of garlands (my dad >tells me the name of the street is some sattar street). We >bought 2 huge garlands and went straight to acharya >sannithi in dasavatharam sannithi. We garlanded the >acharya 44th. We worshipped dasavatharam perumals. I had >a closer look at Nrusimha, Balarama, Krishna and Kalki. My >dad told me that all the 10 moolavar perumals were created >by Ranga when Thirumangai prayed to Him. We also >worshipped Thirumangai. Then we walked to thayar sannithi >from there. It was very hot and sunny. > >We entered the temple through the north gate near thayar >sannithi and started going through each ciruit. I took a >note book with me that my grandpa gave me. I made a >diagram of circuits. I started giving numbers and marking >them in the circuit in the clockwise direction. In another >page we wrote down the names of the perumals in each >sannithi and lots of other details. We worshipped each >perumal in each sannithi. We covered the circuit and then >went to the inner circuit through a place. We had to put >our 5 fingers and look at 3 entrances. My dad showed me a >place where a lone panai maram knew more 4000 than anyone >else. Then my dad showed me the place where viraja river >flows under. I asked him why is it called sorgam vasal >when inside is vaikundam and not sorgam. My dad told me >that people those days knows sorgam as a common word and >in vaikundam one is so happy like sorgam and so everyone >called it sorgam vasal. I have entered through this vasal >during vaikunda ekathasi. > >Then we had to run from one madapam to another as the >floor was so hot and we were walking bare footted. We went >to all the sannithis and my dad explained about each of >them. then We went to acharya Ramanuja sannithi and the >ommAcchi thAthA there explained about ramanuja and showed >us his nails and eyes. My dad wanted to write about some >108 songs on ramanuja in lots of detail and the ommAcchi >thatha blessed. We went to chakram azwar sannithi (not >thirumazhisai) and also saw all the azwars around. We went >to andal , nammazawar, thirumangai and kulasekara and thirup >-pan sannithis also. Then we saw 2 of the 8 thayars of >ranga. Then we were shown the huge chappals (my dad said >paduga) and we kept it on our head and my dad told some >secret code when we kept it on our head for some minutes. >Then we went around and saw the first 3 azhwars and thiru >mazhisai and garland azhwar. > >Then we went inside through to the next circuit. We saw >the two people who wanted to lie down in the stone and >wanted ranga's servants to stamp on them all the time. >Then we saw the flag post. Then we crossed the steps that >are covered with golden like plates. My dad told me that >sankara crawled over these steps as some holy ommacchi >thaththas are staying in it and no one should step on it. >Then we went around and saw the king and his family >waiting for one year in one place to see Ranga. Then we >went around and saw viswaksena and went into the temple >through the special entrance. > >One of the ommacchi thathaa came and took us straight to >Ranga without waiting. We did archana. We were asked to >stay in the sannithi for 25 minutes watching Ranga's feet. >Lot of other people came and went and we stood there for a >long time. I have seen Ranga with rathnangi and mutthangi >and he used to be very beautiful but then we see him only >for a little time. now when i see him for such a long time, >he looked more beautiful and my dad never wanted to come >from there. We both were chanting secret codes as we stood >there for such a long time and saw his feet. My dad told >me about the butter smell that keep coming always inside >the Ranga sannithi. (Ranga as Krishna keeps eating butter >all the time and even now it seems). > >Then we came out walking backwards from the sannithi. My >dad showed me two pillars inside covered with golden plate >and told me those pillars are in vaikundam also. Then my >dad showed me 24 pillars and told about gayathri. Then we >had theerttham , sadari and came out. We did sevikkarathu >near dwarabalakas. Then we saw the sandals of Ranga again. >Then we saw Ranga's dad in golden gopuram above the Ranga >sannithi. Then we came out. I have all the names of those >88 sannithis in the temple and the diagrams with their >location. My dad told me there are 20 more sannithis in >and around. The temple also had a similar diagram that had >only 65 sannithis in it. My dad told me that nobody in our >family could have gone to all the sannithis so far >including him. I was happy we did it. I want to gather >more and all the informatoins about srirangam temple and >store it in some place. I also read in the guinnes book of >world records for year 2001 about srirangm. The book wrote >"The srirangam temple complex in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil >Nadu, India is the largest Hindu temple in the world. >It covers an area of 156 acres with a perimeter of 693.5 >miles". My dad told me that the entire french army stayed >inside the temple compound a long time ago when they were >fighting. It is indeed very very big temple and I want to >go there again and spend a lot of time and stay and live >there. > >Sriranganathaya namaha >Sravan Rengarajan > > > >_______________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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