swami desikan thirunakshatram celebrations in Bahrain

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Dear bhagavathas,

 

namo narayana. adiyen's pranamams.

 

adiyen dasan venkat from Bahrain.

 

Yesterday(15th Oct), Our Bahrain goshti has celebrated Swami desikan

thirunakshatram in a grand manner.For the past 6 years we have been

gathering on every sravanam to recite swami desikan stotras and

desika prabandham and celebrating purattasi sravanamn every year in a

grand manner. Last year we had the company of Kuwait devotees and Sri

Velukkudi Krishnan on this occasion.Sri Velukkudi swami's upanyasam

on Nyasa dasakam is still fresh in our memory.

 

This year function was indeed a special one.The highlights are:

 

1.For the first time in Bahrain entire desika prabandham was recited

in one sitting as part of our two day celebration.

 

2. Competitions were conducted for children and prizes and

certificates were distributed to the winners.23 children aged from 4

to 13,were actively participated in the Stotra recitation

competition,A Quiz on the life history of swami desika and drawing

and colouring competitions. Special mention has to be made about the

cryptic quiz where in questions were asked exclusively from the 128

works of swami desika( Which of the rahasya granthas are

luptham,Which rahasya grantha titles have tamil prabandhams in the

same name etc.,) and the children were sharp in shooting the correct

answer. It was amazing to note that the young children have memorised

the entire lot of 128 titles.Sri T G Vijaykumar of Singapore has sent

the certificate of "ORonRu thaane amaiyaadhO" scheme and we are

thankful for this help.

 

3.We have released a MP3 CD of Sri desika prabandham on this

auspicious day.This CD has audio clips of entire desika prabandham

and texts of desika prabandham and sri desika stotras in

tamil,sanskrit and english scripts.Sri Ananth and Narayanan of our

goshti has recited the pasurams in a traditional manner.We have

committed to donate the entire proceeds from the sale of this CD for

various divya desa kaimkaryams.Please visit our site

http://srivaishnavam.com for more details.

 

Yesterday we have recited divya prabandham,Sri desika stotras and sri

desika prabandham for about two hours.Ladies goshti have presented

selected verses of desika prabandham in a melodious voice which was

indeed a treat to ears.In the end,maha prasadam was served.The

sambhavana collection of this satsangh will be donated to Sri

Kainkarya for various kaimkaryams at Thiruvaheendrapuram, where swami

desikan has lived for long years, admiring the charming beauty of

sri Hemambuja valli sametha Sri Devanayaka.

 

adiyen has uploaded few images taken during the occasion in the

following URL

 

http://www27.brinkster.com/srivaishnavam/sravanam2002/images.html

 

Thanks for your patient reading and we seek the blessings of all

bhagavathas to continue our humble kaimkaryams in this tiny island in

Gulf.

 

regards

 

adiyen ramanuja dasan,

 

R.Venkat