Ramanuja Darshanam Magazine - Special Andal Issue

[Guest guest]

Through the kindness of the AchAryas, and on this auspicious ocassion of

thiruvAdipooram (AndAl's Holy Appearance Day), I am blessed to announce the

release of Volume I, Issue III of Ramanuja Darshanam, the official magazine of

Vedics, Inc. This special issue focuses on AndAl, the only woman among the "10

+ 2" AzhvArs, who is recognized to be an incarnation of Bhu dEvi, the Goddess of

the Earth.

 

AndAl's unique mystical experience as the bride of the Lord is discussed in

great detail in this issue, through a study of the inner meaning of her famous

thiru-p-pAvai (sacred vow), as well as in the lesser known but all the more

mystical nAcciyAr thirumOzhi (the sacred works of the Lady). The magazine also

looks at Sri Ramanuja's experience of AndAl as his own younger sister (although

she lived many centuries before him), and how through this mystical connection

he came to be known as Thiru-p-pAvai Jeeyar. In addition, the magazine looks at

the life of the renowned foster father of AndAl, who is regarded to be an AzhvAr

in his own right, PeriyAzhvAr, and his own mystical love for the Lord in which

he saw himself as His Mother and Father.

 

Ramanuja Darshanam is available online now at www.vedics.net, and will soon be

made available in paper form at temples and religious gatherings throughout

India and the USA.

 

On behalf of the volunteers of Ramanuja Darshanam magazine,

 

adiyEn Ramanuja dAsan

Mohan