AchAryA thirunakshattiram Celebrations - Vote of Thanks

[Guest guest]

srimathE rAmAnujAya namaha

 

With the Divine Mangalasasanams of H.H. Sri Srirangam Srimad Andavan

& Sri Sri Sri Tridandi Srimannarayana Ramanuja Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji,

AchAryA thirunakshattiram Celebrations at venkatEsvara svAmi temple,

Aurora, IL went very well.

 

It was a very good weekend, and it is so good that every one came and received

Acharyas blessings. (One hundred and fourty participants from all

over the US)

 

The dedication & devotion that we saw in Sri RamanujaMission Inc members is

truly inspirational. Their committment to perform Paduka Thiruaradhanam

and Bhagavath Aradhanam is very motivational. (They performed kainkariyam

with about 3 to 4 hours of sleep or less.) We thank Sri RamanujaMission

Inc for allowing us to receive the blessings of Acharya padukas.

 

We thank JetUSA Inc for co-sponsoring the event and for facilitating

Mr. Venkatesh Iyyengar's participation in the funtion. His discourse on

svAmi Sri maNavALa mAmunigaL had most of the participants captivated and

some of us in tears. We appreciate his efforts in coming from India.

 

Many thanks to the Aurora Temple priests and the temple Managament in

making this function a success. They did a excellent job with everything

(Ustavam, Alankaram, parayanam, special opening of the temple at 8:00am,

and management on the Diwali day with 3000 people)

 

The Goshti for sEvA kAlam and thirumanjanam on Saturday had the whole temple

captivated. Aurora temple had never witnessed such large Goshti with a

synchronous recitation  (in the last 4 years that i have been here).

 

The play on Life of Ramanuja, was very good (I am told), TA Varadan &

Mani Varadarajan did good job of fielding open questions during the play.

(This was a healthy discussion) All the talks and discussions were well

organized and reached out to the audience.

 

On the Panel discussion (for Motivation for others to devlop love for

perumal.), Mr. Poondi Vijayaraghavan's point got a good round of

applause.  (His point: Make perumal a member of your family, Together,

with your family, - Bathe, Cloth & feed him like you would  any member of

your family, automatically your whole family will love him as if HE is a

family member.)

 

On Sunday, Perumal Porappadu (Prahara Utsavam) (with Achryas) with Siriya

ThiruMadal (Ahead of Perumal) and Pancha Suktam (Following Perumal)

was extremely beautiful. Perumal had a smile on his face. So many devotees

were in tears while witnessing this.

This porappadu was comparable to the Thiruvalikkeni & Kancheepuram porappadu,

and in some cases even better.

Atmosphere was charged and electric, people were extremely doused in devotion.

You could see tears flowing down the eyes of so many grown ups.

(in my limited exposure, adiyEn has not witnessed this in any divya deshams)

 

My only regret is that we did not get to record this. For those of us who

witnessed it, the whole sequence will stay in our hearts,

and be a part of our fond memories for the rest of our lives.

 

Special Thanks to Saroja Mami and all her volunteers for running the Kitchen

(so many bhaktas were saying thanks to Anna Data.)

 

Thanks to Manjula & Sriram for everything (esp. for the welcome dinner on

friday night, for all out of towners)

Many thanks to Chitra Mami for the Pushpa Kainkariyam and hosting.

Vatsan did a wonderful job as the transportation co-ordinator.

 

Many many thanks to Kalyani Mami, Lakshmi J, Sangeetha R, SriMathi, Kalpana K,

Harini R, Rama P, Padma C, Apurva C, MalatiR, Sudha R, Geetha S, Sheila G

Thanks to Rajagopalan family for the help & the wonderful dance. (Perumal was

smiling extra while Nitya was dancing for HIM)

 

We Look forward to more of these functions.

Please give us feedback on how we can do this better next year, where you

would want to host it, what items on the agenda would you want to see next

year etc. (Multiple tracks one for beginers and one for advanced etc.)

send mail to : tncoordinator

 

AzhwAr EmberumAnAr Jeeyar ThiruvadigalE saranam

 

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan

Mukundan Vankipuram Pattangi

[Guest guest]

Priya Sriman Mukundji!

Jai Srimannarayana!

We felt so joyous to see the report of thanks you

presented. We expected the same from everyone of the

group whoever participated.

We sent 3 pieces ofrecords, each of 3 minutes as a

message and ultimately they got returned to us saying

that we are not a member ofthe group and we must be

enrolled tosend anything. Of course, we sent them at

the eleventh hour only.

Anyway, the report gave us the idea how the whole

thing went on and so forth. Our mangalasasanams to all

the devotee bandhus whoever are responsible for the

success of the Utsavam.

=chinnajeeyar=

 

 

 

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