Fwd: My email to TTD

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Dear Sri Vishnu and Sri Mohan :

 

TTD has some absurd ideas , which are not backed up by

GaaNapathyam , one of the six Mathams founded /supported by

Adhi Sankara .

 

The 16 (Shodasa ) Ganapathis are at the court yard of

ThiruvArUr Thyagaraja Temple . Sri Mutthuswamy Dikshithar

has composed many krithis on Ganapathy but none on

" Lakshmi Ganapathy " . The Siddhaas and Taantrics have

" Lakshmi Ganapathi " . The SiddhAs even have a tithi to

worship this form of Ganapathi ( DhwAdasi) .

 

Other Tantric forms of Ganapthi worshipped by GanEsa UpAsakars

are Neela , Ucchishta, Raktha , Sakthi Ganapahti . There might be a mix up

between Sakthi and Lakshmi . Some one cleverly combined Lakshmi

for wealth and Ganaapthi for obstacle removal .

 

Mudgala PurANam and Skandha PurANam list 32 and 56 forms of

GaNapathy and Lakshmi GaNapathi is mentioned there . It should be

" Lakshmi Daasa GaNapathi " Like " Guru Guha vanditha "

Raamachandran . SrI MahA Ganapathy will be comfortable with

this salutation for His aunt ( according to PurANams) .

 

VaishNavAsa who have done Prapatthi at the sacred feet of

Sriman NaarAyaNan and MahA Lakshmi will not engage

in writing PiLLayAr Suzhi, ThOppukkaraNam , which are

acts of reverence by GaNapathy BhakthAs and have no

sanction in Aagamam or SaasthrAs . They recognize GaNapathi

and respect Him as the writer of MahA BhAratham

( yEka Dantha GaNapathy) and recognize Him as

the First son of Paarvathi ( ShyAma KrishNa Sodhari in Sri ShyAmA

SaasthrigaL Tradition ) and Lord Sivan , who has performed

SaraNAgathy to Sri Lakshmi Narasimhan as per Ahirbudhnya Samhaitha

is trhe Father of GaNapathy . Things get complicated , Do n't they ?

 

Let us not get into the complex motives of TTD and its administration as

they reach out to produce revenue producing schemes for their

own purposes , which will dismay Lord VenkatEsa . One thing fro sure ,

the TTD administration tries to meet the needs of all SEvArThis ,

many of whom are not necessarily Sri VaishNavAs or ParamaikAnthis .

 

The Shodasa GaNapathy Krithis are lovely and some of them in rare raagAs :

SvEtha Ganapathy: Raagam : Raaga ChooDAmaNi

Ucchishta gaNapahty " RAAGAM : KAASI RAAMAKRIYa

RAKTHA GANAPATHY: MOHANAM

Sakthy GaNapathy : SankarAbharaNam

 

Dear Members: Pursuing this topic any furhter

would be counter productive .

 

V.Sadagopan

 

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" Vishnu " <vsmvishnu

<oppiliappan >

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 12:30 PM

Fwd: Re: My email to TTD

 

 

> , " Vishnu " <vsmvishnu

> wrote:

>

> Dear Sriman Mohan,

>

> Only vested interests are trying to make it popular.

>

> Even according to non-Vaishnava schools of thought, Lakshmi is a

> form of the universal mother Parvati. Hence identifying lakshmi with

> Ganapati is unethical and abusive by any yardstick.

>

> The way TTD have printed it is rather ridiculous and humiliating.

> They have written in sequence " Sriyai namah, Sri mahalakshmi

> ganapataye namah, Sri lakshmi Venkateswarabhyam namah " , thus

> questioning the supremacy of sarvEsvara Lord Srivenkateswara and

> anayArha Seshtavam or exclusive belonging of Mother Lakshmi to

> Srimannarayana.

>

> This is how the official Thirumala temple panchangam which enlists

> various festivals and thirunakshatrams is published, pooh-poohin at

> the very fundamental traditions that are followed in the temple.

>

> adiyen ramanuja dasan

> Vishnu

> , Mohan <mohan0128@> wrote:

>>

>> The concept of " Lakshmi Ganapathy " has become popular of late, with

>> virtually no justification at all within Vedic thought. Lakshmi

> is said to

>> be the embodiment Compassion of the Supreme Being, whose Love is

>> Unconditional just as the love a mother has for a child. Such a

> quality of

>> Unconditional Love rests only with Supreme Being, Sriman Narayana,

> and is

>> not used to describe any other form of the Divine Mystery. I can

> only

>> compliment Sri Mahavishnu in taking a firm stand on this.

>>

>> adiyen

>> Mohan

>>

>>

>

> --- End forwarded message ---