LEkanaa Ninnu juddukkOnnaru ? /AsaavEri Raaga Kruthi of Saint ThyagarAja SwamigaL:Priest living Quarters at the Pomona Temple

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Sri :

 

Dear Sri Ramaa BhakthAs :

 

In Sri RanganAtha Temple at Pomona , NY , there is one of the most

beautiful Raamar Sannidhis with SithA PirAtti , LakshmaNa Swamy

and AnjanEyar . Our priests are offering daily aaarAdhanam to

this Sri Raamachandra ParivAram . The Temple priests are waiting for

the successful fund raising to have living quarters of their own outside

the Temple abasement , where they are living . The fund raising efforts are

going slow .adiyEn seeks your particpation in this effort to make the priests

lives a little better far away from home .

 

adiyEn thought that it will be appropriate to focus on the individual

(EIGHT) sannidhis of Sri RanganAtha Temple and the Krithis

or AruL Vaakku of AazhwArs during this season of NavarAthri

stretching into Kaarthigai Dheepam followed by the ThiruppAvai

season .

 

AdiyEn has chosen Saint ThyagarAja's krithi in the beautiful

AsAvEri Raagam as a starter among the 8 Sanidhis at the Temple :

 

Pallavi : LEkanaa ninnu juddukOnnAru ? yEka

hrudhayulai nithyAnandhamu

 

anupallavi: Srikara ! KaruNA sAgara ! nirupama

chinmayA ! Sritha chinthAmaNi ! neeyeDa

 

( The FOUR sabdha prayOgams used by Sri ThyAgarAja SwamigaL

in anupallavi are mesmerizing and one can visualize many RaamayaNams

that can be written about them: Aasritha Vathsalyam , SaraNAgatha

rakshaNa vratham , Vara Pradhathvam , Jn~Anadha Svaroopam).

 

Pallavi : SoundharyamulalO sukhamu Seethammaku

Soumithriki ganulu jADala sukhamu

 

Sundara mukhamuna sukhamu Bharthuniki

Suj~nAna roopamuna sukhamu Ripugnuniki

 

CharaNa yugamunandhu sukhamAnjanEyuniki

VaraguNa ThyagarAja varadhAnandhamu ( LEkanaa)

 

Oh Raamachandra! Will all Your dear ones hovering around

You in a state of everlasting bliss with their hearts united with

their minds ? What is it that makes them enter into this state of

bliss ? Oh bestower of Sarva MangaLams ! Oh the limitless ocean

of DayA ! Oh matchless Jn~Ana Moorthy ! Oh wish-granting Kalpaka

Vruksham to Your devotees ! Let me guess as to what draws Your

family members (Raama Parivaaram) to You in this bewitched

state .

 

Let me start with Your dear consort SithA PirAtti , the most

beautiful among all women . Your dhivya mangaLa vigraham

(Divine and most auspicious form) defining the 32 marks of

beauty for a male ( soundharya LakshaNam) draws Her to You

and She derives Her happiness from that beauty of Yours .

That is SithA BhAgyam !

 

Your brother LakshmaNan ( LakshmaNO Lakshmi Sampanna: ) ,

the epitome of Kaimkarya Sri , derives his pleasure through

Your commands and through the movements of Your

eyes indicating Your wishes .This is Soumithri"s BhAgyam !

 

Bharata 's good fortune is to dwell on Your charming face

(Sundara Mukham) . He finds His apAra aanandham there.

That is His BhAgyam !

 

Satrugnan , the undefeated conqueror of his Indhriyams

( SatrugnO nithya Satrughna: ) derives his joy from Your

personality radiant with Sujn~Anam ( auspicious knowledge)

about lOka neethi , Raaja dharmam and adhyAthma Saasthrams

culminating in SaraNAgatha RakshaNam for anyone , who seeks

the unfailing refuge of His sacred feet .

 

Your devoted servant , AanjanEyan found His bliss by holding on

firmly to Your dhivya CharaNAravaindham ( Divine pair of lotus

soft feet ) as His Jeevana SaamrAjyam .

 

As for myself , another member of your intimate family , I derive

my joy from looking at this happy Coronation ( PattAbhishEkam)

scene/tabeleau , where the team of SithA- LakshmaNa -Bharatha -

Satrughna-AnjanEyA are immersed in the ocean of Joy experiencing

one or the other of Your many divine and bewitching attributes !

 

Raama Daasan , V.Sadagopan

Danishta Nakshathram , TaaraNa Vijaya Dasami Day

 

P.S : Next time we will have the sevai at Sri Venugopalan

Sannidhi at the temple and listen to the Susvarams

arising from His magic flute .

 

P.P.S : Please take part in this fund raising effort to help realize

the permanent quarters outside the temple for the priests

in the year 2005 .There is a raffle scheduled on midnight

Decemeber 31 , 2004 , where three winners have the chance

to win either a 2005 Model BMW car or a Time shared

beach apartment for two weeks /year in Virginia Beach or two

round trip tickets to India from here (http://www.ranganatha.org).

The raffle ticket cost is just $100 .

 

PLEASE PARTICiPATE IN THIS KAIMKARYAM TO THE LORD

AND HIS PRIESTS ENGAGED IN SERVING HIM DAY & NIGHT !