Acharya TN Celebrations in Washington DC

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Sri:

Sri Brahmatantra Swatantra Parakala Guru Paramparaayai Nama:

 

adiyen would like to offer his praNaamams to all the

coordinators of the Acharya Thirunakshatram Celebrations

that were held in Virginia/Washington Dc on Sept.1-12

for their efforts in making this a grand success.

 

Attempt to describe the events that took place during

the TN celebrations will only fall well short of what

one actually felt. Amongst all the bhaktas that came

from far and near, we celebrated the glory of our

Acharya Paramapara. Both the days started off with

the nitya aaraadhana followed by thirumanjanam to Lord

Navaneetha Dolai Krishna. Constant veda and prabandha

paaraayanam interspersed with naatyam, gaanam and stotrams

was tuning the hearts and souls of all that were present

there to be in sync with the Holy. After the morning

festivities, followed by prasaadam, all of us were treated

to some scintillating lectures on our Acharya Paramaparaa.

To say that those lectures were moving, is an understatement.

At times, tears rolled out of the speaker's and listener's

eyes alike. Some times these, were the " aanandabaashpams " ,

and some times they were out of some recalled memories.

In the evening, our Lord, Sri Navaneetha Krishnan enjoyed

dolotsavam. He pardons our mistakes, realizes our love for Him.

He accepted our pushpa alankaaram with the same vaatsalyam, karuNa

and daya that He always showers on us, evem when we are making

mistakes at a rate faster than we can count!

 

adiyEn was overcome with emotions at the end of the celebrations

and wanted to do a saashTaanga praNamams to the coordinators.

No only did this unworthy soul and his family were invited

to participate in this event and help in its preparations, but

it was also suggested to adiyEn at the end of the first day that

the celebrations should also include the acharya paramparaa of

Sri Brahmatantra Swatantra Parakala Matham, the thirunakshatrams

of some of the acharyas whom we celebrated recently individually.

 

adiyEn carried this command of Sri Dileepan mentally on his head

and arrived next day with the pictures of Sri Laxmi Hayagriva

and selected pictures of the acharyas. There they were, Laxmi

Hayagrivar was by the side of Malolan and Sri Parakala Matham

acharyas, the 33rd, 35th and prakritim Jeer of the Matham were

gracing us and taking the aasanams by the side of the

illustrious line of Sri Ahobila Matham acharyas.

 

One picture was that of the Swarna Vigraham of Laxmi Hayagriva that arrived

into Swamy Desikan's hands, passed on to him through the

acharya parampara from Bhagavan Ramanuja, who recieved it from

Goddess Saraswati. As Sri Anbil Ramaswamy and Sri Srinath Chakravarthy

pointed out to us, both the vigrahams of Sri Laxmi Hayagrivar and

Sri Malolan have thaayaar embracing the perumaL in these particular

forms, as opposed to perumaL embracing thaayaar (Hence the usage of

the term Sri Matham by the shishyas, to refer to their respective

Mathams). For a split second, the platform on which perumaL was

present, appeared as the universe itself and perumaL occupying

it, as adiyen was reminded of the line from Sri Hayagriva Panjaram

('sveta parvata samkaasham chandra manDala madhyagam').

 

Later in the day, Sri Srinath Chakravarthy read a small and beautiful

article on Srimad Abhinava Ramanuja Brahmatantra Swatantra Parakala

Maha Desikan, whose thirunakshatram was celebrated on Bhadrapada

Sravana (Aug 31, 2001). As usual, we were again all treated

to a great evening of lectures, fun filled quiz program and

another divya darshanam of perumaL enjoying the dolotsavam.

 

To echo the coordinators' words, what happenned this weekend is

not just a one time celebration of our acharya vaibhavam, but

we should mark the labor day weekends from our calendars for this

event, since this is just a begginning!

 

 

mEdha gambhiiraya vaachaa vyaakhyaantam nikhilaagamaan

brahma shankara vaagiisha bhaaratii vyaasa sevitam

 

sri laxmi hayagriva parabrahmaNe nama:

 

 

rajeev

 

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