thiru adhyayana uthsavam - At newyork - A Summary (part8)

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Srimadh Azhagiya Singar thiruvadikaLE charaNam

Sri RanganAyikA samEtha Sri Rangarajan thiruvadikaLE charaNam

 

Dear bAgawathAs,

 

kaRpanai kavithaiyil kaNdu vanthEn

kArvizhiyai kaNgaLAl kANa vanthEn

kuthitthu nirainthana neer veezhcchigaL

kOlatthin niRamE koodum arangamE !

 

Simple Meaning:

adiyEn was seeing this immeasurable beauty of Sri Arangan so far

through my imagination, poems, and my own Athma anubavams. It was

now time for adiyEn to see HIS eyes or vizhi that is filled with

kAruNyam. The eyes are such (full of kAruNyam) as they always are

influenced by the mediatrix thAyar who is the kAruNya swaroopi.

Such eyes of Sri namperumAL is similar to those " mEgams " or

" kAr " or clouds. ( " kAr vizhi " has two meanings; " kA " r as clouds

and " kAr " for " karuNai " or " kAruNyam " or " all merciful " ). adiyEn

came to see those kAr vizhigaL in person on this auspicious day

of Sri nammAzwAr's ascendance to mOksham. On seeing this blissful

event there were many eyes that were acting a like rock earlier

now started to ooze water. Such water falls were jumping out of

the eyes as if it was coming between the piLavu or cracks of a

rock situated on top of the mountain. Those water falls were so

powerful that they were profusely pouring for very long and were

conveying the Athma sambandham with Sri namperumAL and sri

nammAzwAr. The " sillippu " or the chillness of that water falls

spread through the entire mEni and the " silirppu " or " mild tremor

that runs all around one's body due to this chillness " . Due to

such anubavam even " Athman " was shaken. The kOlam of SrinammAzwAr

with Sri namperumAL was one of the best every seen. Earlier it

was Sri namperumAL who carried the influence of thAyAr in HIS kAr

vizhi. Now it is Sri nammAzwAr whose entire thiru uruvam was

glittering gold as he happens to be at the holy of feet of Srinam

perumAL and doing vishEsha ArAdhanam. The " polivu " in the face of

Sri nammAzwAr was so wonderful when he joined with Sri Arangan.

meanings end....

 

Event Continued...

When we were all ready Sri bAlAji bhattar gave us a scintillating

speech that touched even those who cannot follow tamil very well.

He simply narrated the ascendance of Sri nammAzwAr to mOksham and

the significance, speciality of this event. It will take several

posts if that speech is to be written here. Even if adiyEn

attempts it may not match the original ex-tempore and flavor

at the time of delivery. Sri balaji bhattar didnot prepare for

two months or so. Neither he had the " cards " in his hands to

deliver this speech. He didnot fake his original knowledge or

anubavam merely. His expressions were simply outstanding. The air

was very thin. There was a suspence as if something big is going

to happen.

 

It is a tradition to carry Sri nammAzwAr in bare hands. But the

newly arrived divya mangala vigrahams may be more than 300 lbs to

carry. We mounted Sri nammAzwAr on the pallakku. The straight

path between Sri nammAzwAr and Sri namperumAL was coverd with

4 new " patthARu " or vEshti angavsatharam of each length 16 feet.

The total distance was around 75 feet. Two young Srivaishnava

boys were asked to carry the sAmaram. Sri Jagan and another

Sriviashnava in rotation carried the dhoopam on each side. Then

the signal was given to start the gOshti. ie., " aruLappAdu " was

issued to the gOshti to begin the soozh visumbum. The gOshti took

its position on both side of Sri nammAzwAr next to the sAmaram

and dhoopam. More than 40 lions roared this time " soozh visumbum " .

As each and every line was rendererd in the highest possible

kOsham.

 

will continue......

 

Srimadh Azhagiya Singar thiruvadikaLE charaNam

Sri RanganAyikA samEtha Sri Rangarajan thiruvadikaLE charaNam

thiruk kudanthai Rengarajan

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