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• December 31, 1995


:      SrISam namAmi SirasA yaduSaila dIpam. 
:         Dear BhAgavatas,
:                     namO namah.
:                             I went to Bangalore on my personal
:work.I  met SrImAn S Venkatesa Iyengar(famous for having conducted 108
:sudarSana hOmams, husband of Smt Mythili, "pUrvASrama" sister of H H
:Tridandi Chinna JIyar svAmI) at his residence.From Bangalore, I went to
:   Melkote.Also met Prof Lakshmi Thathachar at his residence.These two
:mahAns were very kind towards adiyEn.
:              Lord sampatkumAra of Yadugiri is very very beautiful
:and extremely merciful..adiyEn
:had His darSan for more than an hour.adiyEn started from Melkote at 11.30
:AM, reached Bangalore Cantt. station exactly at 4.10 PM (arrival time of
:Blore-Gorakhpur exp.).adiyEn could catch the train only because of the
:karuNA of parama kAruNika bhagavAn.
:         adiyEn has a small question. can someone kindly explain to adiyEn 
:why PerumAL at Melkote wakes up very late in the morning(9 AM)!!one more
thing is that adiyEn was told that Melkote is DakshiNa badarI and perumAL
is ashtAkshara pradAtA.how is it so?
 :                                 sampatkumAra charaNau SaraNam prapadyE
                                   adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan
                                      V.Srimahavishnu
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