Recitation of entire Nalayira divya prabandham in Bahrain.

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Sri Lakshmi nrusimha parabrahamane namahaSrimathe Ramanujaaya namahaSrimathe nigamaantha maha desikaaya namahaSri lakshmi nrusimha divya paduka sevaka sri vaN satakopasri Narayana yatheendra maha desikaya namaha.

 

Dear devotees,

 

namo narayana. adiyen's pranamams.

 

adiyen is delighted to inform all of you that our Bahrain prabandha ghOshti has successfully recited the entire lot of naalayira divya prabandham during March and April and the concluding session went on extremely well on May 5th Friday. What follows is a brief report on the grand finale.

 

Bahrain is a small island in the Arabian Gulf. Although Bahrain is an islamic country Hindu religious activities are plenty here. There is nice srikrishna mandhir (without any anya devathas) in Manama.Srivaishnavas(around 25 to 30 families)here are having very good satsangh with weekly recital of divya prabandham and monthly recitation (sravanam)of desikarstotrams and desika prabandhams. Recitation of divya prabandhams every week is in practice for the past 10 years or so WITHOUT A BREAK. During anadhyayana period we recite prabandhams of Swami desikan and Sri Manavala maamuni.

 

We usually recite the nityanusandhana pasurams and little bit of Thiruvaymozhiand Peria thirumozhi and the weeky sitting is for about90 minutes followed by sarrumurai and prasadam.

 

Here adiyen have to introduce the wonderful couple Sri and Smt Azhagappan.Like Thirumangai azhvar who fed 1000 devotees every day these couple are feeding more than 100 devotees every week.There are three satsanghs intheir house every week and every one is kindly served sumptous maha prasadam.Sri Anand karalapakkam has seen this personally last year and we are really fortunate to be in company of such devoted, kind couple.They are made for each other and we pray Sriman Narayana to shower HIS limitless grace on them to continue such kaimkaryams.They always remindme of periazhvar's pasuram " kasinvaay karam virkilum karavaadhu mArili sorittu thEsa vArththaikal padaikkum vaN kaiyinArgaL vAzh thirukkOshtiyur " .

 

Our grand finale started at half past four.With festoons,colour paperdecoration, maavilai thoraNam,Sri. Azhagappan's residence (we call itas thiruppathi dhaam) was looking like a " kalyaana veedu " .Every devoteeis thrilled about this unique experience.Only very few of us have learntrecitation of divya prabandham in a traditional way and for the rest ofus Sri.Sevelimedu swamy's audio cassttees are the guide.

 

The recitation has started with paLLANdu, amalanaadhipiran,kaNNi nuNsiruththaambu,Thiruvaymozhi 10.9(sUzh visumbu) and 10.10,(muniyE!naan muganE) peria thirumadal and iraamaanusa nURRandhaadhi.Then we had a break for 20 minutes for sandhyavandhanam. After the break we have recited thiruvaymozhi nURRandhadhi, adaikkallappathu and prabandha saram.It was a thrilling experience to conclude the recitaitonof 4000 with prabandha saram because as you all know this desika prabandham nicely summerises the entire lot of 4000. (reconcilation!)

 

Smt Radha vijaykumar and her students sang " kurai onRum illai and other fewsongs.The pick of the evening was a tamil song composed on BhagavathRamanuja by her guru (Smt Indira Krishnamachari). adiyen has typed thismelodious song at the bottom of the email for your pleasure of reading andsinging on the coming Ramanuja jayanthi.

 

The recitation of 4000 was concluded with vedha and prabandha saRRumuRai.Sri.Ananth has recited the upanishad passages (samhitha,ashtakam,thaiththirIyAraNyakam, thaiththarIyOpanishad, samavedham and kadagam)very well.We were however missing the company of Sri.Chary swami who leftbahrain last year.

 

The prabandha saRRu muRai was a long one with pasurams from amalanadhipiran,peria thirumozhi( nallai nenche,nandha naragaththu)Thirunedum thandakam,Thiruvaymozhi( akalakillen, sUzhndha kanRu),kanni nun siruththambu,iramanusanoorandhadhi,thiruvaymozhi noorandhadhi,adaikkalappathu,adikara sangraham,prabandha saram,pillai andhadhi,pallandu and sarva dhesa dhasa kale.(bothsampradayams)

 

We then have sambavana and the collection of the evening will be sent tonavalpakkam srinivasa perumaL koil thvajasthambam renovation kaimkaryam.The recitation has concluded with manavalamaamuni and desika mangalam.

 

Then a grand feast was served. Incidently adiyen was told that 108 prasadamswere offered to perumaL to signify the 108 divya desams sung by our dearazhvars.

 

The recitation of the entire divya prabandham has given a chance for anotherkaimkaryam. Since most of us are not familiar with recitation of 4000 and there were not enough user friendly books.So five of us (srimans Ananth,Krishnakumar,Ramanujam,Sundarrajan and adiyen) have parsed the entire divyaprabandham listening to the audio recitaion of Sri.Sevelimedu swamy.This exercise included fixing of the typos, introducing * for the placeswhere to be pause and breaking the compound tamil words.We have downloadedthe prabandham from web and improved it as above and finally converted the text file to a MS Word document using Adhawin. We were encouraged bysri.Dileepan to take up this kaimkaryam and hopefully these files will beuploaded in the web. If any one of you is interested in receiving anadvance copy please let me know. Of course there is still room to improveand we will be working on it right away.We might have taken more than7000 printouts/ photo copies in the last two months. Believe me,withthe parsed text we could easily recite even peria thirumozhi.

 

We pray to the divya dhampathis to give us opportunity for more and more kaimkaryams in the years to come. Let HIM keep us amidst of bhagavathas all the time.

 

Thanks for your patient reading.

 

Azhagiya singer thiruvadigaLE saranam.

 

adiyen dasan,

 

venkataraghava dasan.----------------------A krithi on Bhagavath Ramanuja:

 

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