Perumal, AlwAR and AchAryAs have come to a Metro near you...!

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srimatE rAmAnujAya nama:

 

The pratishtApana mahOtsavam of SreeRamaparivaram along with AndAL , NammAlwAr,

EmberumAnAr, Swami ManavAla MamunigaL took place from March 5 to 8 at the JET

USA Washington DC center under the holy guidance of H.H Sri Sri Sri Tridandi

Chinna Jeeyar Swamy. It was a truly divine experience for all devotees who

attended the 4 day celebration and will be a memory to be cherished for the

rest of their lives...For the first time, an archa form of Swami Manavala

Mamunigal has been formally consecrated in this country....our heartfelt thanks

(thaleyallAl kaimmarilene...) to all who made this great thing happen...

 

The yAgams and other rituals were performed in the yagashalai, that was

specially built for this purpose, by Sriman Satyanarayanacharyulugaru of New

Orleans temple along with Sriman Seetharamacharyulugaru , who was performing

kainkaryams to Tiruvengada MudiyAn PerumAl at Pittsburgh temple till now and

who will be the resident priest at the JET cente, . All the resources needed for

the rituals were untiringly arranged by the organizers Sriman Ravi and Srimati

Vasanthi Aharam and their Vikasa Tarangini troup. Not only did Sriman

Satyanarayanacharyulugaru performed all the rituals impeccably, he aso gave

elaborate explanations of some of the salient aspects. One such instance was

when he mentioned about the shlOkam "tvam mE hum mE..." when our Chakravarthi

Tirumagan was giving us darsanam in His white wet piece of clothing soon after

tirumanjanam...that scene backed by the narration by Sriman

Satyanarayanacharyulugaru made even the eyes of the most hard

hearted person moist...

 

When alankaram was being done, Sriman Uppili Gopalan Swamy recited ten pashurams

from PerumAl tirumoli which was all the more fitting with KulashEkahara

PerumAL's tirunakshatram being just around the corner. There was noticeable

smile on Perumal and AchAryAs' mukha mandalams during the sattumurai ...This was

followed by kalyAnOtsavam to PerumAl and Seetha pirAtti. The befitting climax

was when H.H.Tridandi Jeeyar Swamy's voice over the telephone reverberated the

hall with his mangalAsanams to the organizers and other devoteess along with a

few words of guidance for the future as to how the center should perform.

 

On the whole it was a once-in-life-time experience which will remain green in

our memories for years and years to come. This is yet another example that shows

us the "sowlabhyam" of our PerumAl and the AchAryas by coming down to this land

which was once called only a "bhoga bhoomi" as against Bharatha varsham which

has been known as the "karma bhoomi".

 

Last, but not the least, even nature rewarded the oragnizers and other devotees

by the unexpected sunny and warm weather, in contrast to the biting cold and

tons of snow of prior weeks, which greatly helped the success of the events.

 

JET USA Washington Center plans to start celeberating Alwar and Acharya

tirunakshatrams in the coming months and the center organizers heartily invite

each and every one of the our "rAmAnuja kutumbam" in the USA to come and have

darasanam of the Perumal and Parivaram - more so Alwar and AchAryAs - who have

come even to this land just for our benefit...

 

Wishing "pallAndu pallAndu" for all the oraganizers, adiyAL prays to Perumal,

AlwArs and AchAryas to bestow very good health for them enabling them to

continue to do such kainkaryams for years and years to come...

 

AlwAr EmberumAnAr Jeeyar tiruvadigalE saranam

 

 

adiyAL rAmAnuja dAsi