Sri Srinivasa Perumal Kulasekara Azhvar samprokshanam in Kerala.

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Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha:

 

Dear devotees: Please accept adiyen's humble pranam:

 

By the grace of the LORD, and our Azhvar Acharyas,

Sri Srinivasa Perumal Kulasekara Azhvar samprokshanam took place

on November 22nd in Kerala.

 

Sri U.Ve Velukkudi Krishnan Swami has been working tirelessly towards

this kainkariyam, and completed this temple samprokshanam on November 22nd.

 

We are blessed to have such great kainkariyam oriented vidwan in our time.

We hope devotees who attended the samprokshanam can send us some pictures

and live details of the event.

 

Temple Samprokshanam: Srinivasa Perumal and Kulasekara Azhvar in Kerala

 

== Old note from Sri U.Ve Velukkudi V. Krishnan Swami ==

 

Kulasekara alwar the 6th of the mystic poets was born on Masi month

punarvasu star in early kali yuga. Kulasekara alwar was a kshatriya king.

He had spiritual intimacy with Rama and was tuned so much that Ramas's

joy and sorrow was his.

 

In fact his life history says that he once set forth with his army to save Rama

from the 14000 demons in Janasthana, forgetting that Rama was in treta yuga

and he was in Kali yuga. He is the only alwar to be called as Kulasekara

Perumal since Rama is known as Perumal in our sampradaya.

 

This alwar sung 105 songs in tamil collectively known as

Perumal tirumozhi. He has narrated the history of rama in brief in 10 songs

and also visited various other shrines like Srirangam, Tirupathi,

Tirukkannapuram,

Ayodhya and so on.

He outpours the lament of devaki and dasaratha who missed

the experiences of krishna and Rama due to separation. It is said that he

had a daughter by name Serakulavalli who was married to Lord Ranganatha.

she is consecrated inside Srirangam temple. In the later period of his life,

alwar relinquished the kingdom and went on kshetraatanam.

 

All the alwars except Kulasekara alwar have got a temple at their

divine birth place. Swamy Nammalwar India foundation went on a tour to Kerala

divyadesams (13 in number). I was there along with 300 devotees. It struck

us that there was no temple for Kulasekara alwar in his birth place. Swamy

Vedanta Desika and Swamy Manavala mamunigal mention his birth place as

Tiruvanji kalam. On a search, this is around 50 kms away from Trichur in

Kerala. This is a part of a bigger town called Kodungallur. We had to go

through lot of records and discuss with local people, archeologists,

Devaswam board and the descendants of the Kulasekara Raja family.

They were all quite cooperative. They revealed that there is a Krishna temple

built by Kulasekara alwar in the same place and we were taken there.

Lord Krishna is so beautiful there with chandana kappu. It is popularly believed

that

Kulasekara alwar sung Mukunda mala in praise of this Krishna. It is still being

recited there.

 

Two years back, the foundation approached the Devaswam board and they were

kind enough to allot a piece of land free of cost near the old temple.

However due to barriers of state, language etc the project

had to face legal problems. All are cleared now and the kainkaryam is

nearing completion.

 

Swamy Nammalwar India Foundation has been allotted 5000 sq.ft land. The

garbha graha would be 12 ft x 12 ft and a maha mandapam of 800 sq.ft.

There would be three sanctum sanctorums, one for Lord Venkatesa and the other

for Kulasekara Azhwar and the third for Nathamuni, Yamanuna Muni, Ramanuja,

Vedanta Desika and Manavala Mamuni. On one side of the Maha mandapam the

105 songs and on the other side Mukunda mala would be inscribed. On the

pillars and top of the mandapam the Ramayana and Bhagavata stories as

explained by alwar would be carved. All the three garbha grahas would have

vimanams. A majestic raja gopuram invites everyone at the maha dvaram.

 

The temple would be built and submitted to a joint committee of the Cochin

Devaswom board and Swamy Nammalwar India foundation. The board has

stipulated that a corpus fund be created to run the temple forever. A

poojari would be sent from Tamil Nadu and would be appointed by devaswam

board who can be trained by us on pancharatra agama to do the pooja. This

temple, which has religious, historical and social significance would

stand as an example of fusion of different cultures.

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