Swami desikan thirunakshatram celebrations in Bahrain

[Guest guest]

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

 

 

 

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