Thiruvanjikalam Kulasekara Azhwar temple samprokshanam

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Sri Srinivasa Perumal Kulasekara Azhwar samprokshanam

took place on the 22nd Nov with traditional fervor.

Srimad Paramahamasetyadi Vanamamalai Jeer ,

Azhagia Manavala jeer, Cholasimhapuram Doddayachariar

Swamy , 50 adhyapakals, 8 veda parayana karas graced

the occassion. About 300 devotees from Chennai and

other parts participated. The best part is that the

local keralite bhaktas turned in huge numbers. A

temple with Tanjore architecture, Pancharatrea agama,

Srivaishnava priest and chanting of 4000 - this would

be first in Kerala.

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My parents and brother were at Thiruvanjikalam for the

samprokshanam. My parents were talking again and again

about the temple, the construction, the organization

of the event, co-ordination with localites etc.. Its

been indeed a great honor to know and be able to

interact with this massive phenomenon called

Sri. U. Ve. Velukkudi Krishnan Swami - who realized

the dreams of our yester year achAryas - i.e., to have

a temple for Kulasekara Azhwar.

 

Hailing from Coimbatore district (which borders a

portion of Kerala) - which is not that

known for Srivaishnava related events/activities,

personally this is an exciting thing for me- as

Thiruvangikalam is within few hours drive from our

place. I cant wait to visit this temple the next time

I go to India.

 

One other thing was that, Sri. Thirukoshtiur Madhavan

swami was at Thiruvanjikalam, hale and healthy, with

the grace of emberuman. It seems that when he was

brought to Apollo Hospitals in a serious condition

couple of months ago (after being hit by someone),

doctors later admitted that instead of smelling blood

they smelled Tulasi. Isnt that great? I am sure

emberuman would take care of people who inflicted

physical pain on his devotee (or has He already done

that?

 

adiyen RAmAnuja DAsan

Murali

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Dear All,

 

Pranams!

 

aDiyEn would like to write on some interesting and well known aspect about our

Kulasekara Azhwar, who lived his life full of vairagyam.

 

'GushyatE yasya nagarE rangayAtrA dhinE dhinE

tamahan shirasA vandE rAjAnam kulasEkaram'

 

Azhwar was always keen to visit Srirangam every day. In the process of singing

on Ranganathan, Azhwar calls all the other people as ghost. Here is the lovely

pasuram from his Perumal Thirumozhi,

 

pEya rEyenak kiyaavarum yaanumOr

pEya NnEyevark kum_ithu pEsiyen

aaya NnEaraNG kaaenRa zhaikkinREn

pEya Nnaayozhin^ thEnempi raanukkE

 

He says others are ghost as they are always madly looking for some wordly thing,

and hence running here and there. Azhwar could not stop with that. He calls

himself a Ghost. How could it be possible? It was true for him too, because he

was so deeply immersed in bhakti for Ranaganathan that he wanted to get the

anubhavam of not just His darshan but the sambandham of His Bhagavata Goshti. He

highlighted the second desire in the first 10 pasurams of his Perumal

Thirumozhi.

 

Now, aDiyEn would go into the link for Ranganthan with ThiruVenkadamudayAn.

aDiyEn takes the liberty of shifting the focus to our Parakalan. In one of the

five sets of 10 pasurams for Ranaganathan, Kaliyan says the following in Periya

Thirumozhi 5.5.1,

 

veruvaathaaL vaayveruvi 'vEnkadamE !

vEngadamE !' enkin RaaLaal,

 

Parakala nayaki is madly in love with ThiruVekadamudayAn, who actually decided

to relax in Thiruvarangam (vaanavargal sandhi seyya nindram

arangatharavinanaiyAn by Thiruppanazhwar).

 

All the above are the anubhavam of Azhwar Goshti. If we look at even the vaanara

koottam, they are mad on getting the opportunity for kaimkaryam to

ThiruVenkadamudayAn,

 

This can be taken from the Bhoothathazhwar's second Thruvandhadhi,

 

pOthaRinthu vaanarangaL pooncunaipukku, aangalarntha

pOtharinthu koNdEtthum pOthu,uLLam - pOthu

maNivENG kadavan malaradikkE sella,

aNivENG kadavanpE raaynthu

 

The vaanara koottam is madly jumping between the trees to do pushpa kaimkaryam

to ThiruVenkatamudayAn. If we look in to us, the people in samsara, we also are

a vaanara koottam. Every time we visit ThiruVenkadamudayAn, we jump from one

request to the other, all for our world living. ThiruppAnazhwar refers to

vaanara koottam in ThiruVenkadam,

 

'mandhi pai vada vEnkatada mAmalai...'

 

He was also in vaanara koottam because he was madly jumping between the

avayavams (parts) of Ranganathan's ThirumEni in his anubhavam.

 

>From all the above references, we could see that the vaanarakkottam in us (the

souls in samsara) are the lowest in the order of greatness when compared to even

the vaanarams in ThiruVenkadam in the aspect of madness to earn the opportunity

to do Nitya Kaimkaryam to Perumal.

 

The unique desire that our Chera king highlighted was not even the kaimkaryam,

atleast some kind of form on ThiruVenkadam to just enjoy ThiruVenkadamudayAn's

darshan all the time. He was ready to leave behind every thing for this darshan.

Shouldn't we all think about getting this madness in us?

 

'umpa rulakaaN torukudaikkeezh uruppasithan

ampoR kalaiyalkul peRRaalu maathariyEn

sempavaLa vaayaan thiruvENG katamennum

emperumaan ponmalaimE lEthEnu maavEnE'

 

aDiyEn apologises for lenghty email, could not stop the flow.

 

aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

ramanan