ThiruvarAdhanam

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Dear Sampath Kumar Swami:

 

Based on my interactions with Sri. Velukkudi Krishnan

Swami and Sri Gunaseelan Swami, it is my understanding

that Thiruvaradhanam has to be done with the

whole-hearted bhava of being done by one's achAryan.

 

("achAryan thiruk kaigalal, <thiru mandiram>

Snanasanam samarpayami etc..")

 

The person who is performing the thiruvaradhanam

doesnt have the right to do it directly to Perumal and

hence his achAryan kindly performs it at his request;

hence the whole exercise from our side just becomes a

kainkaryam to the achAryan only, in my opinion.

 

If you ask the achAryan, he would say that he doesnt

do anything and it is all his achAryan who is doing

the thiruvaradhanam. The ripple effect goes like this

and finally it ends like Perumal doing thiruvaradhanam

to Himself.

 

Hence achArya sambandham becomes essential for someone

to do thiruvArAdhanam. Best person to get approval on

what you are doing is to explain your situation to

your family achAryan or someone from whom you would

get your samAshrayanam done soon. Do as they suggest

you to do. They are highly accessible, rational and

are always willing to provide us the right advice to

put us in the right path.

 

Good Luck,

 

adiyen RamAnuja DAsan

 

 

 

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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.