Thirukukdanthai Kannan Swamigal

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Very nice!   Though I am a hebbar Iyengar born and raised in Bangalore, my passion grew more and more as I grew up, to listen to Swamigal's fascinating discourses filled with great analogies and pun-laiden jokes.   I did not want to miss any of his lectures.  On the side I picked up good tamil, and was motivated to learn to read Tamil, so that I could read articles in Sri Ranganatha Paduka!I would like to share one of things that I heard during the Ramayanam discourses by Sri Swamigal in Malleshwaram, Bangalore, either in the late 60's or early 70's.    In one of the discourses, Swamigal started explaining the recipe of rasam, and at the end, he said if you do all this with "neriya taan (vegetables)" it won't be rasam any more!  With this as the prelude, he brought out the point he wanted to make:  There is a dispute about whether bhakti can be considered as one of the "rasa"s.  There is no need for that dispute!  In whatever I would do for Bhagavan thinking that "I" am doing the kainkaryam with bhakti, that rasam will not be there,  since there is "taan" (ego).   anda rasalabdhi, "taan" illaame irundaal taan mudiyum!Adiyen,VijayaOn Mar 26, 2007, at 10:21 AM, N S Sampath wrote:Dear Bhakthas,Adiyen Nochalur Seshadri Sampath would like to share few interesting moments with Thirukukdanthai Kannan Swamigal. It was in the fag end of 1970 adiyen was working in New Delhi. The construction of Vaikundanathar temple near Ramakrishnapuram was going on. Swamigal was on his way to Badrikashramam and also looking after the installation of Chakrathazwar. Swamigal used to give Upanyasam on Thirupavai daily morning and distribute Theertham and Sadari. It iused to be a great pleasure to get blessings thru Swamigal and also Prasadam from Him. Eventhough adiyen is a Vadagalai Iyengar, I never used to follow strict procedure except wearing Srichurnam only and pray the Lord Naryana with whatever I knew and recite Vishnusahasranamam along with Bhaktas of Vishnusahasranama Mandali each Saturdays. With this background, adiyen raised 2 questions to Swamigal. 1. Whether it is right to blurb the slokas withour knowing the meanings. 2. Whether it is necessary to go to temple only after taking bath. During the discourse, he not only praised me for the above questions, and also told the audiance that many may have the same questions in their mind and this boy has vent his feellings and started answering. You do your duty. Even you have recited some slokas which is in unknown language to you and need not bother. HE knows what it is that you want to convey and HE is the creator of that language. For second, you place yourself in a situation that you visit a small village on a paticular day and you are sleeping in a cot. In the midnight the Procession reach your house and immediately you pack up and keep the cot near the window and ready yourself for a dharshan of Lord. You never go and take bath. It is similar to your pranams to your parents in the morning as soon as you get up. HE never expecrs anything from you. Do your duty and HE is happy if you remember HIM. Adiyen visited the temple one day at about 14 hours and Swamigal was talking to someone in TVS Madurai. That day was Ekadesi and Swamigal was aksing him to send one bag full of agathikeerai for the Bhaktas on the next day Dwadesi. Adiyen was completely taken by surprise as to how Swamigal was concerned to the Bhakthas. An ordinary person cannot do such thing. (It is diffcult to get agathikeerai in New Delhi)  Swamigal used to ask each and every person whether he/she had everything in the pandhi. adiyen,nochalur seshadri sampath."M.N.Ramanuja" <mnr (AT) physics (DOT) iisc.ernet.in> wrote:Sri:Adiyen would like to read the vyakhyanam also written by the sri venkatadhvari. Is it kindly possible to upload or send the scans with sanskrit vyakhyanam.I would be grateful for the same to Dr.Saroja Ramanujam.DasanRamanuja-- This message has been scanned for viruses anddangerous content by MailScanner, and isbelieved to be clean.TV dinner still cooling?Check out "Tonight's Picks" on TV.