The First day of Thiru Adhyayana Uthsavam at Pomona Temple.

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SrI :

 

Dear BhakthAs and abhimAnis of AzhwAr aruLiccheyalkaLs:

 

Today was a blessed day indeed at Lord RanganAthA's temple

in Norht America .

 

After Dhanur Maasa AarAdhanam starting at 5.30 AM ,

the ArchA Moorthys of the 12 AzhwArs had Thirumanjanam

and PuRappAdu .They assembled as a group and took up

their places of residence for the next few days on

a special dais.

 

The archA vigrahams of AchArya RaamAnujA , Swamy Desikan ,

Adhi VaNN SaThakOpa Jeeyar , SrImath HH MukkUr Azhagiya

Singar ( the 44 th AhObila Matam Jeeyar and the founder of

the Pomona Temple for Lord RanganAthA left their AasthAnams,

had PuRappAdus and arived , where the AzhwArs were seated

and sat at the sacred feet of the 12 AzhwArs at a lower

pedestal.

 

Sudarsana Homam ( One of the 108 scheduled over a period

of one year ) was going on as usual on Saturdays. Powerful

aavAhana manthrams and Havis for Lord Sudarsana and others

made the seven tongued Agni to leap forth out of the agni

kuntam . The PoorNAhUthi was completed .

 

Meanwhile , Lord RanganAthA was waiting impatiently

at His garbha graham to join the AzhwArs and AchAryas ,

who had already taken seat in anticipation of the arrival

of their Lord ( Ranga Bharthu). A most enjoyable PuRappAdu

with two new grand umbrellas , two silver chAmarams ,

Veda Adhyayanam tok place next and SrI RanganAthan

joined His AzhwArs and AchAryaas to enjoy adhyayana

Uthsavam of Chithra BhAnu samvathsaram.The special

umbrellas were assembled for the occasion by craftsmen

from KumbakONam , who prepare fans and umbrellas for

Thiruppathi and SrIrangam as well as Kaanchi .The umbrella

during puRappAdu is an impotant insignia to remind us

that the Lord is the Emperor of all the Universes .

 

The Uthsavam started with the Taniyans for Periya

Thirumozhi, which is the same as for Thriunedum ThANDakam.

This was the first of the prabhandhams to be recited

as at SrIrangam. This prabhaNDam was used by Swamy

ParAsara Bhattar to bring the scholar from Melkote

in to SrI VaishNavite SampradhAyam , who is revered

today as Nam(n)jeeyar. Swamy ParAsara Bhattar had to

explain to Lord RanganAthA as to how he won in that debate

with the Melkote scholar belonging to another sampradhAyam.

The Lord enjoyed that reenactment of the debate using

Thirunedum ThANdakam as PramANam .Currently , Prakrutham

Azhagiya Singar is blessing us with UpanyAsams on

Thirunedum ThANDakam paasurams in an inimitable manner

over the Telebridge.

 

The just-arrived PoorNAdhikAri in Yajur Vedam and

4000 Divine Collect ( NaalAyira dhivya Prabhandham),

SrI VaradarAja Bhattar led the way in recitation of

the Pasurams of the day. SrI VaradarAja Bhattar is

from Oppiliappan Koil .

 

Thirunedum ThANDakam was followed by ThiruppallANDu

and the paasurams of PeriyAzhwAr Thirumozhi . At the end

of PeriyAzhwAr prabhandham , a special naivEdhyam was

presented to the Lord . A very talented cook by the name of

SrIman SrInivAsan has also joine dus two weeks ago and

Lord RanganAthA is very pleased with the TaLikais

prepared by this crative cook . At the conclusion of every one

of the 24 dhivya prabhandhams , visEshArchanai and special

TaLikai (naivEdhyam ) will be presented to the Lord.

 

During the afternoon and evening , ThiruppAvai , NaacchiyAr Thirumozhi,

Thiruchchanda Viruttham of Thirumazhisai AzhwAr , PerumAL Thirumozhi

of KulasEkarar, ThirumAlai and ThiruppaLLiyezucchi of Thondaradippodi ,

AmalanAdhipirAn of ThiruppANar and KaNNInuNN SiRutthAmpu of

Madhura kavi were recited .

 

A special Lakshmi Sahsra NaamArchanai wa sperformed in the context

of official release of the Multimedia , Interactive CD ROM on

the Lives of AzhwArs .

 

Around 8.00 P.M, Lord bid good bye to the AzhwArs and AchAryAs

to return to His aasthAnam after enjoying Vazhi MaryAdais , songs

and VeeNa play as a part of the EkAntha Sevai. SayanOthsavam

brought the day's most enjoyable first day of the uthsavam

to a close. This Uthsavam will continue for the next 10 days.

Swamy NammazhwAr Moksham is scheduked for DEc 28 .

 

Please come and join us on every day of this year's

Thiru Adhyayana Uthsavam.

 

SrI RanganAthO Jayathi,

Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan