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From: R.Venkataraghavan (sunil.karandikar_at_msceb.com)
Date: Mon May 08 2000 - 04:57:20 PDT
Sri Lakshmi nrusimha parabrahamane namaha
Srimathe Ramanujaaya namaha
Srimathe nigamaantha maha desikaaya namaha
Sri lakshmi nrusimha divya paduka sevaka sri vaN satakopa
sri 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
desikar
stotrams 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 about
90 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 in
their 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
remind
me 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 paper
decoration, maavilai thoraNam,Sri. Azhagappan's residence (we call it
as thiruppathi dhaam) was looking like a "kalyaana veedu".Every
devotee
is thrilled about this unique experience.Only very few of us have
learnt
recitation of divya prabandham in a traditional way and for the rest
of
us Sri.Sevelimedu swamy's audio cassttees are the guide.
The recitation has started with paLLANdu, amalanaadhipiran,kaNNi nuN
siruththaambu,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
recitaiton
of 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 few
songs.The pick of the evening was a tamil song composed on Bhagavath
Ramanuja by her guru (Smt Indira Krishnamachari). adiyen has typed
this
melodious song at the bottom of the email for your pleasure of
reading and
singing 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
left
bahrain 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,iramanusa
noorandhadhi,thiruvaymozhi noorandhadhi,adaikkalappathu,adikara
sangraham,
prabandha saram,pillai andhadhi,pallandu and sarva dhesa dhasa
kale.(both
sampradayams)
We then have sambavana and the collection of the evening will be sent
to
navalpakkam 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
prasadams
were offered to perumaL to signify the 108 divya desams sung by our
dear
azhvars.
The recitation of the entire divya prabandham has given a chance for
another
kaimkaryam. 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
divya
prabandham listening to the audio recitaion of Sri.Sevelimedu swamy.
This exercise included fixing of the typos, introducing * for the
places
where to be pause and breaking the compound tamil words.We have
downloaded
the prabandham from web and improved it as above and finally
converted the
text file to a MS Word document using Adhawin. We were encouraged by
sri.Dileepan to take up this kaimkaryam and hopefully these files
will be
uploaded in the web. If any one of you is interested in receiving an
advance copy please let me know. Of course there is still room to
improve
and we will be working on it right away.We might have taken more than
7000 printouts/ photo copies in the last two months. Believe me,with
the 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.
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A krithi on Bhagavath Ramanuja:
raamaanujaa! raamaanujaa!
raamaanujaa raamaanujaa enRu sollip paadaNum..
nam nAvinil varAdhu pOnAl nallavarOdu sEraNum.(raamaanujaa..)
ANdAL thiruppaavaiyai AsaiyudanE paadaNum.
adiyaar kuzhaangaLudan gOshtiyaakavE sEraNum. (raamaanujaa..
keNYchik keNYchi kEdkaNum. thaNYcham enrE paNiyaNum.
aNYcana vaNNan paadhaththil adimaiyaakavE pukuraNum. (raamaanujaa..
AzhvaargaL avathariththa nAtkaLaik koNdaadaNum
avar aruLichcheytha prabandhaththai AsaiyudanE paadaNum.(raamanujaa..
poygaiyaar bUthaththaar pEyaar padhinmar pugazhai paadaNum
paasuram varaadhu pOnaal baktharOdu sEraNum.. (raamaanujaa..
kOyil thirumalaiyil kudiyaagavE irukkaNum
gOvindhan naamangaLai gOshtiyaagavE paadaNum.(raamaanujaa
thiruvarangam thirumalaiyil iruppu illaamal pOnaalum
raamaanujaa raamaanujaa enru sollip paadaNum..(raamaanujaa..
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