PRABHANDHAM AT ITS PRIME

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Dear Sri Padmanabhan swamy,

 

Thanks a lot for this summary. Your words exactly reflected our

thoughts (thoughts of everyone who was present in thiruvallikeni

including parthasarathi and other emperumans). Adiyen feels really

blessed to have been able to listen to the divine arulicheyal ghosti

(no words to express adiyen's joy).

"Azhvargal vAzhi arulicheyal vAzhi thAzhvAdhumil kuravar thAm vAzhi

EzhpArum vuyya avargal vuraiththavaigal thAm vAzhi seiyya marai

thannudanE sErindhu" -these words of swamy mAmunikal was upholded

totally in thiruvallikeni. May the lord parthasarathi prevent any

kan drushti to the divine ghosti and maintain the same enthusiam,

strength and arulicheyal interest in each and everyone including the

amazing kids who recite the azhvar paasurams without any doubt in a

casual manner without any mistakes. "adiyargal vAzha arulicheyal

vAzha thiruvallikeniyum parthasarathiyum vAzha manavala mAmuniyE

ennum oru nootrAndirum"

 

Alwar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan

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Oppiliappan ; ramanuja ; vanamamalai

Wednesday, May 26, 2004 7:44 AM

PRABHANDHAM AT ITS PRIME

PRABHANDHAM AT ITS PRIMEIt is commonplace in SamprokshaNam-s to find

several casualties insofar as dhivyap-prabhaNdahm recital is

concerned.1. The first is clarity. Since, the aurlich-cheyal has to

be completed in 8 sessions - 8th session being the shortest, the

tendancy is to speed up the whole process in each session.2. This

hastening process results in chaos, confusion and utter disdain to

the great work. In fact, I vividly remeber during thiru-indhalLUr

samprOkshaNam, we were asked to recite the prabhaNdham behing the

Lord instead of in front of Him. Nobody knew what was going on. 3.

The resons are many. The instruments -=the accompanying band which

are unique to the homam - create sound which makes one unable a

trouble-free listening.4. Furtehr, there use to be other itineries..

5. In thriu allik kEANi , the one and only goal was prabhaNdham and

the smooth ghOshti.6.In other dhivya dhESam-s, the process gathers so

much momentum one is unable to catch up what is actually being

recited. pAsuram-s are skipped and to rectify the same brakes are

appleid . In fact, this happened during srirangam samprOkshaNam. 7.

Here it is the reverse. During nAchiyAr thirumozhi ANdAL-s work was

delviered with so much zest that adhyApakAs were requested to

sacrifice the anubhavam for the sake of time and reminded time and

again the mudhal Ayiram sAthumurai has to take place in that

session.8.. The thirumozhi session of 5th ten to 9th ten- five tens

in one session was indeed grand. The words were so clear and anybody

within or out of the ghOshti could easily follow it. It took two

hours and forty five minutes to complete that session.9. Similarly,

the thiru voi mozhi session of 5th to 9th ten- 5 tens took two and a

half hours ensuring rich quality of recital and highest revernce to

both the Lord and the AzhwAr.10. Here, it seemed as though the whole

samprOkshaNam is for the sake of arulich cheyal and not vice

versa.11. There was no mike.12. It is stated in AchArya hrdhayam that

it is not correct to look into the material which go into the making

of the archA Lord. I am not bothered. One thing I am sure.If you

break parthasarathy, the explosion will result in thousands and

thousands of AzhwAr-s pAsuram-s presented to Him at His thruOlakkam

time and again, time and again and time and again.13. Indeed,

thiruvallikkEANi is conspicuous and notorious for its bias towards

prabhaNdham and parthasarathy whcih is nothing but

PRABHANDHAM AT ITS PRIME. ramanuja dhAsanvanamamalai

padmanabhan