thiru adhyayana uthsavam - at Newyork, A summary

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Srimadh Azhagiya Singar thiruvadikaLE charaNam

Sri RanganAyikA samEtha Sri Rangarajan thiruvadikaLE charaNam

 

Dear bAgawathAs,

 

What a wonderful event it was ! adiyEn returned half hearted from

newyork with memories filled with the Soundaryam of SriRanganatha

and HIS consort thAyAr and the " poliyum pErazhagu " from the very

radiant thiru muga mandalam of Sri nAmmAzhwAr. Many have written

some detail of their account of what all happened. adiyEn will

also write some of what anubavams adiyEn was filled with. On 17th

december while Sri nammAzhwAr and Sri AdivaN satakpan was being

received from airport customs, a few were driving and a few were

flying all towards newyork. adiyEn and Sri kaNNabiran arrived

earlier and were shopping for alankAram materials for mOhini

alankAram in the afternoon. Later Sri Krishna and adiyEn went to

buy many requirements for the next few days. Without Sri Krishna

and Sri Kannabiran the " mOhini alankaram " would not have been

possible. The mOhini alankAram was simply superb. There is no

word to explain the pErAzhagu of this " iLam kaNNi " iranganAthan.

 

A weekly thiru manchanam was performed for all deities on 18th

morning prior to the mOhini alankAram. Sri Krishna kaNNumalla did

the mohini alankaram and adiyEn assisted him with the same. It

was really amazing to see that what ever Sri krishna wants to do,

Sri namperumAL of pomona immediately listens to his request and

adorns the dress in the way Sri Krishna wants. ie., When others

tried to do the special koNdai alankAram the jewels wouldnot stay

in the intended position. However when Sri Krishna kanumalla does

so, the jewels stay in the intended position without slipping.

Many thanks to Sri kaNNabiran for getting the " kiLis " or parrots

and thanks to Sri Lakshmi Narayanan for sadai mudi. We also would

like to thank the " sthapathis " for painting and making the " kiLis "

ready overnight. Sri namperumAL was adorned with kili mAlai or

garland of kiLis and with golden kili on Right hand. HE was also

dressed in the sitting posture and was adorned with a saree in

striking beiege color. The mOhini alankAram was one of a great

darshanam and through out the day may bakthALs were flowing to

have a darshan.

 

The strong gOshti of Sri Poondi Vijayaragavan, Sri TRGovindarajan

Sri Lakshmanan, Sri Manivannan, Sri shreyes Sarangan and the out

station gOshti comprising Sri Dileepan, Sri Parthasarathy (Sri

Dileepan's father), Sri Kannabiran, adiyEn and many local

bAgawathas who visit Sri Ranganatha temple undertook sankalpam

that we will all chant the nAlayira divya prabhandam for the next

10 days continuously as per the agenda. The gOshti continued non

stop for the next several days untill we completed reciting all

4000 and Sri dEsika prabhandam.

 

will continue .....

 

Srimadh Azhagiya Singar thiruvadikaLE charaNam

Sri RanganAyikA samEtha Sri Rangarajan thiruvadikaLE charaNam

thiru kudanthai Rengarajan

 

note: adiyEn had to mention some names of the volunteers who

have helped throughout the event. It is also a reminder to many

who are eager to pariticpate in events such as this but are shy

of volunteering to help. Please note that there are so much work

to be done as similar to this event for the maha samprOkshanam of

the temple in the near future. This event also serves as a trial

run for such an event. Unless many of the participants voulnteer

to help in many ways it is impossible to conduct such a great

event. One should not wait for others to ask them to do this or

that. But instead come forward with your own words " nAn athai

seyyattA ? " . ie., can i do this task or can you you assign me

some other task ? Almost all the people who worked in the kitchen

did come forward to do work on thier own and as well many others

for many other tasks.

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