1999 Contrbutions to Sri Vaikunta EkAdasi Celebrations / Thiru AdhyayanOthsavam /NammAzhwAr Moksham : Part I

[Guest guest]

Sri Lakshmi Nrusimha ParabrahmaNE Nama:

Srimath NaarAyaNa YathIndhra DesikAya Nama:

 

Dear BhakthAs :

Sri RanganAthA SevA Samithi and the Sri VaishNavA

community of North America is getting ready to

ceelbrate Thiru AdhyayanOthsavam at New Jersey .

 

As this Pramaathi ThiruadhyanOthsavam celebration

is approaching , adiyEn wondered as to what contribution

adiyEn can make for this year's celebration of Pahal Patthu,

Iraa Patthu ,Sri Vaikunta EkAdasi and NammAzhwAr Moksham

celebrations .With the blessings of asmath AachAryan

and the grace of the dhivya dampathis of Srirangam ,

adiyEn has put together a special audio tape on

the Sri Sookthis of AchAryAls about Sri RanganAthan .

 

It has been my bhAgyam in previous years to post

a few articles on Sri Ranganatha Vaibhavam . These postings

on Lord RanganAthan of Srirangam and PomonA temple are archived

in the Bhakthi Archives of December 3,98 ( ThiruppANAzhwAr's

anubhavam of Sri RanganAthA ), Dec 15, 98 ( Iraa Patthu ) ,

Sri Vaikunta EkAdasi MahAthmyam ( Dec 17, 23, 26, 1998) ,

Arayar Sevai ( Dec 29,30, 31, 1998) .

 

During March , April and May of 1998 , more than 24 articles

on Sri Ranganaatha Tattvam were posted by adiyEn in anticipation of

the SamprOkshaNai during that summerof 1998. BhagavAn willed

that this SamprOkshaNam ne postponed to July 2000 . The above

artices refer to the anubhavams of AzhwArs , AchAryALs and

NaadhOpAsakAs ( March 29,30, April 1-29 , 1998 and May 1-2, 98).

 

The 1999 adhyayanOthsavam is a prelude to the much anticipated

SamprOkshaNai in the year 2000 . Sri Thirukkudanthai Sampath

Rengarajan is pouring his heart out and writing bhakthi laden

krithis on Sri RanganAthan and is getting started to

share with us his deep anubhavam of the uthsavams

at Srirangam . AdiyEn will join with him and share with

you all a special tribute to the Lord of Srirangam that has

taken the shape in the form of an audio casette dealing with

the Sri Sookthis of Swamy Desikan , KonEri Appan Iyengar

and PiLLai PerumAL Iyengar ( Azhagiya MaNavALa Daasar ).

This will be complimentary to the AchArya RaamAnujA Interactive

Multimedia CD ROM that will be distributed to BhakthAs

during the festivities.The production of the copies

should be completed by the middle of December to facilitate

distribution of copies to Sri Ranganaatha BhakthAs ,

who have supported this project .

 

This 90 minute special audio tape owes its origin

to a special invited presentation at the Madras Music

Academy some ten years ago . The invitation was for

my sister kaimkarya Sri VidvAmsini Srimathi Veeraraghavan

to give lecture demos on Tamizh paasurams of AchAryALs

on Sri RanganaathA with special emphasis on Swamy Desikan's

Prabhandhams and sthOthrams as well as 108 divya desa anthAdhi of

PiLLai PerumAL Iyengar , the direct disciple of Parasara

Bhattar . I added some English commentaries to these

paasurams sung in many beautiful RaagAs by my sister

and her sishyais on the stages of Music Academy

and Tennisai Sangam at Madras .

 

AdiyEn will share with you next the contents of this special

tape assembled for this year's Thiru AdhyayanOthsavam

celebrations . AdiyEn will soon entrust this tape with

Sri Rengarajan for any appropriate use to help with

the ongoing efforts to raise funds to complete

the construction of Sri RanganAthA temple at Pomona , NY

and for us all to assemble together to receive the blessings

of the dhivya Dampathis during their ThirukkOil

SamprOkshaNam in the first year of the next millenium .

 

DaasOham , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan