thiru adhyayana uthsavam - At newyork - A Summary (part11)

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Srimadh Azhagiya Singar thiruvadikaLE SaraNam

Sri RanganAyikA samEtha Sri Rangarajan thiruvadikaLE SaraNam

 

Dear bAgawathAs,

 

After nammAzwAr mOksham and the sARRumurai Smt Padmaja sang her

own composition on Sri nammAzwAr, 44th jeer and perumAL. Sri

Raja Krishnaswamy and his patthini Smt Vaidehi from Boston, sang

several keertthanais on perumAL. The dinner prasAdham ran out

twice and Sri Krishna with the help of others had to cook uppumA

twice. There were so many bAgawathAs. The temple mariyAdhai was

offered first to the temple goshti memebers led by Sri Poondi

Vijayaragavan. The gOshti had been performing on every first

sunday of every month for the last several months. The gOshti

members who are offered mariyAdhai in the following order are Sri

T.R.Govindarajan, Sri Lakshmanan, Sri ManivaNNan, Sri ShreyEs

Sarangan, Sri pArtha Srinivasan, Sri Venkatesh, Sri Kannabiran,

Sri Rajaji, Sri Krishnaswamy of chicago, Sri parthsarathy (Sri

Dileepan's father) Sri Dileepan, Sri Sampath Rengarajan, Sri

Kannan of syracuse, Sri Ragunathan of texas, Sri Satyan and Sri

Anbil Ramaswamy. All of these gOshti bAgawathAs were all doing

the gOshti either from the 18th dec. for thiru adhyayana uthsa

vam or for the thiruvAymozhi ursavam from 24th to 27dec. They

were all honoured with a new vEshti and angavastharam (patthAru).

Several bAgawathAs joined us from boston to do gOshti on 24th,

and 25th. Among them Sri Raja, Sri SundarSaranathan, Sri Lakshmi

nrusimhan and a few were very impressive in their gOshti skills.

Several sponsors for the uthsavam were all honoured with a

silver sombu and pattu anagavasthram of peumAL on this night. A

very special mariuyAdhai was offered to Sri bAlaji bhattar with

veLLi sombu, shAlvi, perumAL angavasthiram, patthARu vEshti,

sambhAvanai and others.

 

Though it is not customary that Sthree will join in gOshti, many

enthusiastic female bAgawathAs were present during most of the

chanting of 4000 pAsurams. While the men bAgawathAs were

seated in two columns opposite to perumAL, the women bAgawathAs

were seated in a row facing perumAL and completing the circuit.

Among them some of them are very vocal and notable as well.

Smt Padmaja, and Smt Shashi kala iyengar were very impressive.

Smt Mrs Srinivasan, really thrilled some of the gOshti, when she

chanted the pAsurams almost without any text. Being from thenn

AchArya sampradhAyam she knew most of them byheart and was

chanting with us without any text almost all the time. There

were other women such as Smt Vaijayanthi and her 2 sisters, Smt

Vaidehi Raja and a few others who also chanted in the rows

of women bAgawathAs.

 

Since the amount of efforts put in organising (since Sept. 1999)

and conducting this is himalayan, adiyEn would like to thank and

acknowledge some of them here. If adiyEn had omitted anyone's

names it is adiyEn's own " annyAnam " and please forgive adiyEn for

same.

 

There were several kainkarya barALs of the temple who had been

working tirelessly for many months. They were all honoured with

vEshti and angavastharam as well. They are, Sri AyyAla moorthy,

Sri AyyAla Viswanathan, Sri Srinivas Tanikella, Sri MG Prasad,

Sri Sundar kOdiyAlam, Sri Laksmi nArayanan, Sri Ragavan of NJ, &

two young nephews of Smt. Shashi kala iyengar. There were many

voulnteers to whom we are all thankful as well. The transport

facilities were provided by Sri Kannabiran, Sri AyyAla moorthy,

Sri Kannan of syracuse, Sri mOhan (friend of Sri Aravind), Sri

Aravind (Son of Sri P. Dileepan) and several others helped in

carrying the vigrahas and transporting. Those helped carrying

the vigrAhAs mainly were, Sri Krishna, Sri Aravind, Sri Dileepan,

Sri pArthsarathy, Sri Sampath Rengarajan, Sri Ragunathan, and

Sri Venkat. The stage was dismantled by Sri Satyan, Sri Krishna

satyan, Sri Sampath Rengarajan. The floor was cleaned by Sri

Dileepan, Sri Sudarshan, Sri Krishna satyan, Sri Sampath

Rengarajan and a few others. The kitchen was managed by Smt

Malathy Dileepan SriTanikella. Several others worked with them

to provide us very delicious prasadhams. Some of them are, Smt

Usha Ragunathan (texas), Sri Srinivas Tenikalla, Smt Bama Sridha

ran, Sri Vijaya ragavan, Sri Arun Sridharan, Smt Vasumathi Nagar

ajan (Canada), Smt VijiVenkat, Smt Vimala Rajaji, Smt Satya Visw

anathan, Smt. Nagu Satyan, and Smt Viji Ragavan of NJ, SmtBooma

(Smt.Viji's mother, Smt Shanthi Srinivas (laddu). Smt Padma Kann

abiran, Smt Nagarathna Nadipuram (Iowa), Smt Dr. Vasanthi Renga

rajan, Smt Dr. Utthra KodiyAlam, Sri Sundar KodiyAlam, Smt. Madh

avi Tanikella (Sri Srinivas Tanikella's mother), Smt Vijaya Tani

kella Smt Lyka, Sri Krishana, and Sri K P Sridharan (for vessels

washing) and cleaning on the last day by Smt Sunitha, Smt Radhai,

Smt Vaijayanthi, SriLakshmi nArayanan, Sri Sundar, SriSudarshan,

Sri Rajaji, Sri Dileepan, Sri Venkat Rajaji, Sri Vijay Raghavan,

and a few others.

 

will continue .....

 

Srimadh Azhagiya Singar thiruvadikaLE charaNam

Sri RanganAyikA samEtha Sri Rangarajan thiruvadikaLE charaNam

thiru kudanthai Rengarajan

 

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