Brahmotsavam in Ranganathar Temple in Tirukkacchi Nambigal Sannidhi!!

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adiyEn!

 

srImath kAnchee munim vandE kamalApathi nandanam |

varadAnghri sadAsanga rasAyana parAyaNam ||

dEvarAja dayApAtram srI kancheepUrNamuthamum |

rAmAnujamunE: mAnyam vandE aham sajjanAshrayam ||

 

Dear Swamins,

 

I had been blessed to get the seva of swAmy Tirukkacchi Nambigal at

Poovirundhavalli(poonamalli / poondhamalli as called in slang)

yesterday. I have been cursing myself for not having seen such a

beautiful temple in the past 30 years of my life despite the proximity

of this temple to my residence. I remember Smt Sumithra Varadarajan

mentioning about this beautiful temple sometime back(I guess it was

the event of samprOkshaNam for which the article had come out).

Yesterday, I had managed to fight out my other priorities against this

trip and went to swAmy's sannidhi. The sannidhi is just awesome with

so many perumALs over there. It seems that, at the declining years of

swAmy, he was not able to go to kAnchipuram from his residence and

hence all the three perumALs (kovil-ranganAthan, tirumalai-srInivAsan,

perumAL kovil-varadan) had come down to swAmy's place in order to give

seva.

 

swAmy's tirumeni, both mUlavar and utsavar seems to melt the minds of

even the lowest of the low ones(like me). He is so handsome that I

thought he is beautiful because he has absorbed all the beauty of

kanchi-varadan during tiruvAlavatta kainkaryam. But then I realised

that I was completely wrong. It must have been varadan who was in lack

of beauty and hence attracted nambigaL for Alavatta kainkaryam thereby

making opportunity to gain some beauty for himself from swAmy's

tirumEni. Yes! It must have been like that only for sure, I convinced

myself:)

 

The temple has close to 120 acres of land in property. The devastanam

has sold out a piece of temple's land for 4 crores for the poondamalli

bus-stand, but nothing is being given to the temple. Temple is in

normal state with few functions happening at different times by the

sincere effort of the koil archakAs, parichArakas and few private

sponsors. The temple staffs are given a salary of Rs 2500 whereas the

EOs just visit the temple once a while for which they book a room in

hotel claiming a bill of Rs 3000 or Rs 4000 all from nambigaL's

property. A time should come soon when these people would perish and

the sri-vaishnavic temples would cherish.('poliga poliga poliga

pOyitru valluyircchAbam, kaliyum kedum kaNdu koNmin kadalvaNNAn

pUthangaL maNmEl')

 

The lord ranganAthar in this temple is very unique. He has

chaturbhujam, but none under his head:) Two of those bear the shankham

and chakram, one rests on his left lap while the fourth one on the

right is a unique abhaya hastham - a rarity for rangan. The perumAL is

over a beautiful Adi-sEshan. But that is not all. The Adi-sEshan

himself is over a huge kUrmam.

 

This sannidhi is a must visit for all of those who consider themselves

as Srivaishnavas and if you haven't visited this temple so far, here

is an opportunity.

 

The brahmotsavam for ranganAtha swamy begins this Saturday and will be

a celebrated in grand manner for 10 days from then. I couldn't resist

myself from requesting nambigaL to take up my humble offering of

chakrapongal thaligai on this Saturday(5th may) - so if you get a

chance to come on this Saturday evening (around 5:30PM)to NambigaL's

sannidhi, you may enjoy both nambigaL as well his chakrapongal sEsham.

 

Sannidhi is just 'on the main road' in the middle of Poondamalli and

one cannot miss it. Ask for Tirukkacchi Nambigal / Varadarajar

sannidhi and you may find the place just like that!

 

I have placed the scanned copies of the brahmOtsava patrigai in the

photos section in this group under a directory named 'Swamy Tirukkachi

Nambigal Sannidhi'. It is unfortunate that the EO has printed the

patrigai with a pilliar suzhi - 'u' alphabet in tamil, on the top

while the last page contains an iyyapa slogan from a sponsor. But,

nevertheless, we must look at only what we want. So plan your trip

soon to visit this most beautiful place on earth and be blessed by

nambigaL, the one, who conveyed the famous aaru-varthaigal(6

statements) of kanchi-dEvaperumAL to swAmy emperumAnAr without which

emperumAnAr could not have established vishitAdvaitam with such a

strong foundation.

 

adiyEn,

dAsan