thiru adhyayana uthsavam - At new York - A Summary (part5)

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Srimadh Azhagiya Singar thiruvadikaLE charaNam

Sri RanganAyikA samEtha Sri Rangarajan thiruvadikaLE charaNam

 

Dear bAgawathAs,

 

After the sri vaikuNda ekAdasi day celebrations, the next 4 days

adiyEn spent a lot of time thinking about our ubayam in Srirangam

on irAppathu ainthAm thirunAL and my mind was constantly thinking

about where Sri namperumaL will be now and what they will be doing

now and so on. On 24th afternoon, the NAMA conference went on very

well. It was attended by approximately about 175 bAgawathAs all

across from USA. The number of bAgawathAs were as expected for the

day 1. The speakers may provide a write up of their speeches as

similar to Sri V. Sadagopan (he had already provideed a brilliant

heart pouring write up) so that those who could not make it can

benefit as well. After Sri Venkat completed his speech, there were

some questions raised by some bAgawathAs on Srivaishnavam & thiru

adhyayana sevai. As requested by Smt Nagu the speaker Sri Venkat,

Sri Dileepan and adiyEn addressed a few of them. On the evening of

24th, it was already irAppatthu ArAm thiru nAL.

 

It is said that Sri AdivanSatakOpan was present once during the

" irAp patthu " ainthAm (ie the night patthu 5th night ursavam)

thiru nAL. When Araiyars did abinava sEva of " poliga poliga " it is

said that due to Sri namperumAL's grace it occured divinely to him

that many Srivaishnava AchAryAs are going to be born in the future

in the lineage. Sri Adi van satakOpan was immensely pleased to

hear about the avathArams of great AchAryA purushAs. The next day

on ArAm thirunAL he sent a whole lot of " seer " from Sri Ahobila

mutt to felicitate Sri Ranagnatha for HIS divine command for the

future arrival of great Acharyas of Sri Sannithi. Ever since it is

a tradition that Sri Ahobila muth sends mariyAdhai and " seer " to

Sri Rangnatha on this day and Sri Ranganathar sends " bathil seer "

or " ethir seer " in return to Sri Ahobila muth on top of temple

elephant. A few of us sought permission of our AchARyA and did

bring Sri Adi vaN satakOpan from India. On 24th evening it was

irAppatthu arAm thiru nAL, we paused just after the pathigam of

" poliga poliga " .

 

Sri ADivansatakopan puRappadu was performed in a pallakku. The

puRappaadu started with loud classical nAdaswaram and went

around the divya dampathis with gOshtis leading in the front. 6

different sweets, kArams made by a few shishyAs of muth, new silk

sarees for thAyar ubaya nAchhiyArs and silk vasthram for perumAL,

fruits etc were all carried as " seer " by muth shishyALs led by Sri

Rajaji and Smt Vimala Rajaji. Then the procession toward perumal

was led by the gOshti. The gOshti ROARED the entire hall singing

" adivansatakopan adaikkala patthu " delivered by our 31st jeer of

Sri Ahobila mutt.

 

will continue......

 

Srimadh Azhagiya Singar thiruvadikaLE charaNam

Sri RanganAyikA samEtha Sri Rangarajan thiruvadikaLE charaNam

thiruk kudanthai Rengarajan

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