The First Thiru Adhyayana Uthsavm at Lord RanganAtha Temple at Pomona , NY : Dec 22-31, 2001---PART II

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SrI:

 

AzhwAr AchAryan Udayavar ThiruvadigaLE saraNam

 

Sri RanganAtha ParabrahmaNE Nama:

 

Dear RasikAs of AzhwAr's dhivya prabhandhams:

 

There are many archival postings in the Bhakthi List

on AzhwArs, their aruLiccheyalkaLs (blessed Prabhandhams).

There are additional resources ( Home pages , Audio Tapes ,

Upanyasam summaries thru Radio Ramanuja ) are also

available regarding the Sri Sookthis of the 12 AzhwArs

and the 108 dhivya desams that they sung about.

 

A search of the Bhakthi archives alone revealed that there are

904 postings on the Life of AzhwArs and their dhivya Prabhanadhams.

The content has been contributed by many devout members of the list

such as Srimathi Kalyani Krishnamachari ( NaachiyAr Thirumozhi),

ThiruppAvai ( Srimans Mani Varadarajan , Sampath Rengarajan ,

V.Sadagopan , Koil Thirumanjanam Sundararajan et al),

Mudhal AzhwAr Thirumozhis & Sri DehaLIsa Sthuthi (V.Sadagopan),

ThiruppallANDu ( Srimans M.G. Vasudevan and T.A.Varahdan),

UpadEsa Rathna Maalai (V.Sadagopan ) , ThiruvAimozhi

NooRRandhAthi ( evolving : V.Sadagopan ), Thiru Adhyayana Uthsavam

series ( 26 postings of Nov-Dec ,1999 by Sri Sampath Rengarajan) ,

the entire translations of Swamy NammAzhwAr ThiruvAimozhi

Paasurams and Kaliyan's periya Thirumozhi Paasurams

by Sri MadhavakkaNNan of Srirangam and many others.

 

Sri Mani Varadarajan's marvellous Sri Vaishnava Home pages

has a special section on Alwars , which has a compendium of

articles on the 12 AzhwArs and their Prabhandhams contributed by

himself and other scholars like Srimans Parthasarathy

Dileepan , Koil Thirumanjanam Sundararajan , Badri Seshadri

(Siriya and Periya Thirmadals) and so many others.

 

Sri Venkatesh Elayavall's Vaishnava Universe has extensve

content on the commnetators of AzhwAr's Sri Sookthis

like Sri Periya VacchAn PiLLai , Sri PiLlai Lokam Jeeyar

(rahasyArthams based on the tatthvams elaborated by

Dhivya prabhandhams) , Sri Azhagiya MaNavALa PerumAL

NaayanAr and many other AchAryAs .

 

The recently released twin audio tapes on the life and

Sri Sookthis of AzhwArs ( Srimans M.A.Alwar , Koil

Thirumanjanam Sundararajan and V.Sadagopan) contain

a musical and narrated version of the Prabhandhams .

The significant efforts of Sri Venkat of Barain

on releasin a CD RM on the recital of the 4000

Prabndhams of the AzhwArs are helping a lot of BhakthAs.

 

Other home pages contianing AzhwAr's vaibhavam are :

 

http://venkateswara.freeservers.com/

 

These pages maintained by Sri B. Haresh of

Singapore and myself have special inputs on

AzhwArs as well as thier 200 plus paasurams on

the Lord of Seven Hills. The AlavandhAr/Nathamuni

home pages referred to in that home pages also

has further information on AzhwArs .

 

A special home page crated for the 1999 Thirunakshathram

of Sri MaNavALa MaamunigaL by Sri B.Haresh and myself

has specific additional information on AzhwAr's

aruLiccheyalkaL.

 

Great AchAryas and Vidvans have been feasting us

in the past two years thru Tele-upanyAsams about

the greatness of individual Prabhandhams ( KaNNI NuNN

SiRutthAmpu and Thirunedum ThANDakam by HH Sriamth

Azhagiya Singar , ThiruppAvai series by HH Srirangam

Andavan , HH VaanamAmalai Jeeyar on Vibhavamum Naamum ).

 

Other AchAryAs ( Srimath PoundarIkapuram Andavan ,

HH Sri RangapriyA Swamy , HH Sri ThridhaNdi Chinna NaarAyaNa

Jeeyar ) are blessing us with UpanyAsams that have links to

the Tatthvams elaborated by AzhwArs . Profound scholars

like Srimans BhUvaraahAcchAr Swamy , M.A.Venta Krishnan ,

VeLukkudi KrishNan , Dr.N.S.AnaantharangAcchAr Swamy and

others are helping us get insights into many of

the fundamentals relating to Ubhya vedAntham.

We are blessed indeed at this time relatin to

the awareness of source literature and enjoying

these Sri Sookthis of AzhwArs and AchAryAs.

 

There is thus no shortage of information on the Life

and works of our AzhwArs for the rasikAs of

Dhivya Prabhandham during this year's Thiru Adhyayana

Uthsavam .The significance of the word "Adhyayanam "

has been explored in a special article by adiyEn

( Dec 5 , 1999 on the Bhakti list ), which would be

useful to understand the links of Tamizh MaRai to adhyayanam ,

a word linked traditionally with with Sanskritic VedAdhyayanam.

December 27, 1999 articles in the Bkti List on Swamy

NammAzhwAr Moksham (Part II and III), the uniqueness of

Srirangam Paasurams of AzhwArs by adiyEn ( Dec 29, 30 , 1999:

postings 8779 and 8785 0n the Bkti list) would also be

of interest in the context of the forthcoming Thiru Adhyayana

Uthsaavm at Sri RanganAthA Temple (www.ranganatha.org).

>From the shade of Sriranga VimAnam on the banks of Hudson River,

adiyen appeals to all BhakthAs and rasikAs of AzhwAr's

AruLiccheyalkaL to help celebrate the forthcoming

Thiruadhyayana Uthsavam at Sri RanganAthA temple ,

Pomona , NY and join the celebrations .

 

Please send your Tax deductible contributions to :

Sri Ranganatha Temple

125 Old Route 202

Pomona , NY 10970

 

Please keep me copied so that adiyEn can keep

track of the raising of needed funds to cover

all the anticipated expenses during these ten

important days of Dhanur Maasam that include

Sri Vaikunta EkAdasi ( Dec 26) and Swamy NammAzhwAr

Moksham (December 29 ).

 

Sri RanganAthO Jayathi,

DhAsan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri satakOpan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sri RanganAyaki SamEtha Sri RanganAtha parabrahmaNE Nama:

Daasan, Oppilaippan Loil VardAchAri SatakOpan