Fwd: Who is a "kula-deivam"? > Searching for Mine - awaiting HIS direction

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Bhagavatha Priyas,

 

I had all along been under the impression that Lord Srinivasa of

Tirupati is our Kula Deivam until my brother was 'told' by an

Upasaka that our Kula Deivam was in difficulty for even Vastram

and that we would come across someone who would tell us how to

get to our Kula Deivam and we had to do our duty.

 

All was fine until we heard that - now I am looking for

our Kula Deivam.

 

I am sure the Lord will show the way as usual.

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Please Read on only if you are interested as these are details of my

recent search.

 

We hail from Budur village (near Isur and Arasarkoil villages

on the banks of Palar - accessible from Chingleput and Madhurantakam).

Budur Arunapuram Bhashyam Iyengar our grandfather was at one time

Asstt Head Master in RKM Main School TNagar Chennai. He passed away

in 1970 (and we do not know the name of our 'Kula Deivam' - I am

ashamed of course).

 

I recently visited Budur in the hope of finding a temple. Apparently,

there was a temple but that is lost and two vigrahas (both 'sthree'

form - Thayar and Andal according to the village folk) were recovered

and have been placed in other smaller Pillaiyar temples.

 

I also visited Arasar Koil (Varadaraja Perumal and Perundevi Thayar).

He is the Lord for the five villages including Budur.

 

I dont know what to do next but I am confident the Lord will show the

way as usual.

 

I will continue my search but I am also reminded about:

 

Ulan Enil Ulan Avan Uruvam Ivvuruvugal

Ulan Alan Enil Avan Aruvam Ivvaruvugal

Ulan Ena Ilan Ena Ivai Gunam Udaimaiyil

Ulan Iru Thagaimaiyodu Ozhivilan Parandhe.

 

Sarvam Krishnaarpanam

Rangaramanujam

 

, Venkatesh Elayavalli

<elayavalli> wrote:

>

> Dear Sri Sudarshan

>

> I am not sure if Sri Srinivasar is the Kula Deivam for

> all Srivaishnavas. For example, for our family Sri

> Yoga Narasimhar of Thirukkadikai is the kuladeivam.

> For my mother's side it is Sri Varadharaja Perumal of

> Karpangadu (which is interesting given that the

> village they live in is 1 mile from Raja Mannargudi

> the home of Sri Rajagopala swami and Karpangadu is

> atleast 10-15 miles away).

>

> This could be because, in olden days people used to

> stay at one location and seldom move place to place.

> For them the local divya desam or abhmana sthalam

> becomes the Kuladeivam, as they surrender to the

> Perumal at that temple.

>

> Adiyen

>

> Venkatesh Elayavilli

> http://www.srivaishnava.org

>

> > AdiyEn heard when I was young, that for all Sri

> > Vaishnavas "Sri Srinivasar"(or ThiruvEnkatamudaiyan)

> > is indeed the Kuladeivam. As for Ishta Deivam, it

> > can be Kannan, Raman or Nrusimhan based on

> > individual's Anubhavam with the Lord and his

> > Kalyaana GunAs. Whatever be the case, we switch

> > our allegiances to Ishta Deivam easily, whenever we

> > hear the Divya Anubhavam/SwapadEsam from a Sri

> > Vaishnava Acharya/visit a Divya DEsam.

> >

>

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