Thiruaradhanam

[Guest guest]

Sri:

Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

 

Dear Baghavatas,

 

My pranams to one and all of you. My name is Sampath Kumar and I live in

Atlanta, USA. I recently joined our Ramanuja Group. I am sincerely amzed

by the depth and wealth of knowledge shared by the baghavatas of this

group. I feel this is an opt forum for me learn more and more baghavath

vishayam and also clarify the doubts that arise due to my ignorance.

 

I come from a Thengalai Iyengar family and have studied and lived in

various parts of India and finally after my higher education settled

down in USA. During my early years, due to my own ignorance and

negligence, I did not show much interest in any of our sampradhayams and

also not involved my self in the proper initiation like samasrayanam and

learning process.

 

However, due to the punyam of my parents and elders, my interests have

improved a lot and I am learning a lot about our sampradhayam. I have

mentally and physically surrended myself to Sri Ramanuja and Sriman

Narayana. To further purify myself I am learning the process of

performing Thiruaradhanam at my house. However, my question is since I

have not surrended to an acharya in a procedural sense and had

samasrayanam, am I allowed to perform thiruaradhanam? In my present

condition I am not sure when I would be able to go to India.

 

I would be much obliged if somebody could clarify on my doubt and with

an open mind I will learn from this.

 

Since this is my first communication, this may not be as per the

standards and traditions of our group and I sincerely apologize for this.

 

 

Srimathe Ramanujaya Saranam Saranam Prapathye

Sarvam Krishnarpanam.

 

 

Adiyen

 

Sampath Kumar

[Guest guest]

srImathE rAmAnujAya namah

 

dear srI sampath kumAr,

 

welcome to the community of rAmAnuja devotees.

 

 

> Narayana. To further purify myself I am learning the process of

> performing Thiruaradhanam at my house. However, my question is

since I

> have not surrended to an acharya in a procedural sense and had

> samasrayanam, am I allowed to perform thiruaradhanam? In my

present

> condition I am not sure when I would be able to go to India.

 

Given that you have surrendered mentally to emperumAn and

emperumAnAr, and you are in the process of learning thiruArAdhanam,

my humble opinion is that there is nothing wrong in you performing

thiruArAdhanam. After all, it is only due to His grace that you are

learning thiruArAdhAnam (just as it is only due to His grace, that

we all are associated with rAmAnuja and our AzhvArs and Himself),

and are interested in it.

 

Technically, thiruArAdhanam is one of samskArAs in the pancha

samskAram (yAga samskAra). Obviously, when it is the right time, He

will make sure that you get samAsrayaNam from an AchArya.

 

A couple of suggestions -

(i) Vedics has released thiruArAdhanam tapes that might help you

in your learning process. Please see vedics.net for details.

(ii) To get samAsrayaNam done, you do not need to go all the way

to India! srI tridaNdi srIman nArAyaNa rAmAnuja chinna jIyar svAmi

comes to the US almost every year to give solace and guidance to all

rAmAnuja sampradAya devotees. Please visit chinnajeeyar.org. When he

comes here next time, that may be an opportunity to get samAsrayaNam.

 

AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam,

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

varadhan