TirumaN Kaappu & Lord's Beautiful Eyes

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Dear Smt. Viji Raghunathan:

 

Thank you so much for sharing HH Sri Jeear Swamy's answer to the

question of why Srinivasan's Eyes are covered by thiruman. Your

observations of HH and the Lakshmi Pooja gathering were very

inspiring. I hope you do not mind, but I am taking the liberty

of sharing your posting with Sri Jeear Swamy and his sishyans

through the two e-mail groups shown above.

 

Ramanuja Dasan

Mohan

 

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Monday, July 10, 2000 6:02 PM

TirumaN Kaappu & Lord's Beautiful Eyes

 

 

>

> Dear Bhaagavathas,

>

> A few postings back, there had been a question as to why the

Lord of

> Tirumala has his eyes covered with TirumaN kaappu. Sri Sri

Tridandi Chinna

> Jeeyar Swami gave a very kind explanation this weekend at the

Shiva VishNu

> temple in Livermore, CA. (It occured to me that perhaps a

Bhakti groupmember

> had asked him this question during his tour...but since no one

else has

> mentioned this answer I venture to parrot his explanation.) He

said that

> when Sri Ramanujacharya went to Tirumala, he was saddened to

see the red

> eyes of the Lord. The Lord had come down to help the "maNNor"

(people on

> earth) along with the "viNNor" (the Nithya sooris), but like a

mother

> watching the road for her child's return, He had been awaiting

the return of

> all us sinners for a long, long time. His eyes had grown red.

Sri Ramanuja

> then covered those sad and reddened eyes by extending the

TirumaN...

> (Of course I'm tempted to note here that Lord Ranganatha looks

at the same

> situation and seems to say, "Nee varappo vaappa. Adhuvaraikkum,

naan inga

> pooncholaigaLukku naduvule chettha neram thoongindu irukken..".

He's so

> cool, literally and figuratively)

>

> It was an exhilarating experience to perform Lakshmi puja along

with about

> 500 others with the guidance and moving explanations of Sri Sri

Chinna

> Jeeyar swamigaL. Sometimes we hear that

> - People have lost 'Ruchi' for the Lord

> - People have not organized charitable giving

> - People give but some city governments are corrupt, etc, and

we may feel

> powerless.

> It was energizing to spend a few minutes in the presence of

this son of our

> soil who's blissfully carrying out all kinds of activities to

keep the flag

> flying high. He was supposed to talk until 9pm. No one moved

until he ended

> his talk at about 10:30pm. He even used silicon valley jargon

to make his

> points: "He is easily downloadable into your heart", "He is the

server, and

> has all the energy needed, you just have to login to Him..". He

spoke of the

> kind of palace one could build for the Divya Dampathis in one's

heart, how

> expandable the heart is etc, and suddenly, ruchi multiplied in

the room

> without dollars and cents....

>

> Om Namo NarayaNaya!

> Viji Raghunathan

>

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