thiru adhyayana sevai - at newyork - A summary (part 2)

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Srimadh Azhagiya Singar thiruvadikaLE charaNam

Sri RanganAyikA samEtha Sri Rangarajan thiruvadikaLE charaNam

 

Dear bAgawathAs,

 

On day 1, the bahttar's vyAkyAnam on seeing the mohini alankAram

was rendered. (this will be covered in the thiru adhyayana series

when it is restarted). At the end of recitation of " chenniyOngu "

the chanting was paused and the sadAri was adorned to all the

gOshti reminding AzhwArs' words.

 

On day 1, we have completed chanting more pasurams in the morning

(pagal patthu) and ofcourse we completed chating the remaining

pasurams of the day in the evening. On Sri vaikunda ekAdasi day,

it was a grand ceremony again. Parama padha vAsal was made open

and all jivAs are made to enter through that and look at the

perumAl first through a mirror. Since Sri namperumAl wanted

to appear in " pAndiyan koNdai " , we tried our best to do a kreedam

for HIM using " pattu " and flowers. The moment the sankalpam was

done on the previous day, Sri namperumAl was filled with joy and

it was very evident for anyone to see HIS smiling face. There

were many bAgawathAs who arrived in the temple all through out

the day and had the Srivaikunda nAthan darisanam. The chanting

of the pasurams continued in the morning as scheduled.

 

In the evening chanting of Sri periya thiru mozhi started, and we

rendered 300 pasurams for the evening session. Many devotees sang

devotional songs for perumal.

 

will continue .....

 

Srimadh Azhagiya Singar thiruvadikaLE charaNam

Sri RanganAyikA samEtha Sri Rangarajan thiruvadikaLE charaNam

thiru kudanthai Rengarajan

 

note: There were tremendous efforts made to bring this event as

scheduled. It was all planned from september 1999. When the very

1st pallAndu was sung on 18th it was a dream come true for many

organisers. adiyEn is writing this with many reflections &

hesitations.

 

We the devotees of Sri Rangantaha, want everyone to know as to

how much efforts are involved in this so that next time around

more volunteers will appreciate this and join. One of the

task that was early in the game was calling as many people as we

can and do arrangements through phone. While Sri Dileepan had to

make more than 20 calls in 2 months to india, in addition to more

than atleast 100 US long distance calls, adiyEn also made than

800 long distance calls to invite many bAgawathAs from the boston,

ny, washington, ct, nj area. Most of these phone calls are made

for inviting many bagawathas who are outside of the net groups

and are as well nearby to NY area, and as well for making the

arrangements for this " first time " celebrations.

 

We are certainly very very happy to have made those calls to

areas such as boston from where many sevArtthis turned up. But

we also called some of our own good old champions who write

very very often in the net and to invite them to join.

 

It is good that those of us who write somewaht often and are

here in US, also want to volunteer their efforts for kainkaryam

here in US. Those who are writing very very often, all good about

perumAl in the net may want to atleast " volunteer " to join

the celebrations next time around instead of waiting for a formal

invitation to them from some of the lead organisers. ie., One can

book their flight ticket in advance and need not wait for

adiyEn or the other lead organisers to call and invite a few times.

It would give us such time to call few more bAgawathAs (out

of the net groups) or those who are in the area nearby NY atleast.

We only had the evenings everyday and the week ends to make calls.

adiyEn and Sri Dileepan took the interest early and all the flier

were first made available in September during the Swami desikan

thiru nakshatthiram day celebrations organised by Sri Sadagopan

and attended by adiyEn and Sri Anbil at Sri Ranganatha temple.

 

We donot prevent anyone from involving from the early

stages after the fliers are made, and it is upto evereyone to

volunteer from this stage for onething or the other. This is a

reminder to a few of us who are regularly and very often writing

about perumAL to make the future celebrations successful by

devoting their time and resources " voluntarily " instead of

waiting for some of us to invite them to join the success story.

 

adiyEn will continue the postings on " thirup pAvai " pasuram 2

and " thiru adhyayana sevai series " afer completing this write up.

As *requested* by a bagawatha from Sri villi putthur, adiyEn also

intend to write on Sri villip putthur temple as its maha

samprokshanam by Srimadh Azhagiya singar is coming up soon.

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