Thiru Adhyayana Uthsavam : Part XX( Sri Vaikunta EkAdasi day)
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• January 9, 2002
SrI: SrI RanganAtha ParabrahmaNE Nama: Dear BhakthAs: This would be one of the last of the three postings on the recently concluded Thiruadhyayana Uthsavam at the Sri RanganAthA Temple at Pomona , NY. Here is a summary of the happenings on the important day of Sri Vaikunta EkAdasi or Moksha EkAdasi.adiyEn thanks Sri Sampath Rengarajan for helping me with a full recall of the events that took place . On Sri Vaikunda ekadasi day, the very first sEvratthi arrived at 3:30 AM . The nityanusandhAnam commenced at 4:30 AM with the ghOshti of 40 sEvartthis. Around 5:30 AM , there were more than 80 sEvratthis lined up on both sides leading to the Garuda sannithi ,which is a distance of 100 feet from the Main Sannidhi of Lord RanganAthA. The amarar'a athipathi , Sriyapathi Sri RangEswaran beamed with joy at the sight of His devotees assembled at Brahma Muhoortham that special day and left Garbha gruham for the main hall to the accompaniment of the full throated recitation of the Final ThiruppAvai Paasuram "vagak kadal kadaintha Maadhavanaik Kesavanai " first followed by the chanting of chathur vEdham passages. At about 5:30 AM, Sri Ranganathar entered through the specially constructed Sri Vaikunda vAsal along with about 100 sEvarthis. He came around the sanctum to the main entrance of the Temple and proceeded to the southern entrance symbolizing AyirakkAl mandapam (thousand pillared maNTapam at Srirangam ). Many sEvartthis arrived now and recieved the blessings of Sri Ranganathan , who was ready to take on the role of Mumukshu entering Sri Vaikuntam. At around 9:00 Am. " ManiyakArar" ( an important executive in the Srirangam Temple administrative hierarchy responsible for the conductance of the uthsavams in the traditional way ) was adorned with mariyAthi and parivattam as he brought with great reverence the vastrham of the Sri Rangam moolavar and Uthsavar Sri Namperumal. The Prabandha ghOsti procedded in front of the MaNiyakkArar carrying these sacred vasthrams from Srirangam and was followed by vEdha gOshti .The vasthram went around the temple along with 100 sEvartthis and was duly recceived by the temple bhattars. Sri Ranganatha Moolavar and uthsavar of Pomona Temple adorned the vastrhams of Sri Rangam Perumals on this Sri Vaikunta EkAdasi day. It brought tears in the eyes of many as the strong presence of Sri Ranganatha was felt through the "special pefume " that is unique for any vasthram associated with Periya perumAL of Srirangam. At one time , the dhObhi for Periya PerumAL 's vasthram alone can identify the PerumAL taking temporary residence at Thiruppathi hills based purely on the dhivya gandham of the VeshTi worn by the ArchA Vigrham staying near KonEri fountain . Around 10:30 AM , after mangala hAratthi for Arayar( Sri Usha NArAyanan ), She performed an Arayar sEvai for the firsdt ThiruvAimozhi paasuram (UyarvaRa-- pAsuram .Similar to the tradition at Srirangam , thambiranpadi vyAkyAnam ( commentary fr the Paasurams used by Arayars ) was used by Sri Thirukkudanthai Sampath Rengarajan to explain briefly the importance of Aryar sEvai for uyar vara paasuram.(i.e)., the first line conveyes the meaning of pranavam and the second line conveys the bagawan sabdhham and the third line the para Vasudeva sabdham and the last line the nasmas sabdhham of the Sri VaasudEva manthram , the most sacred of all the manthrams (PraNavam).. namo bhagawathE vAsudEvaAya". Right after that , irAppthu began with the thiruvAYmozhi chanting. There were 20 people on the gOshti that day. On the evening of Sri vaikunda ekAdasi the sARRumurai was done with Sri ArA amuthe pathigam in a very moving and traditional way. It was very touching and fulfilling. During the day of Sri Vaikunta EkAdasi, 1,000 Mumunkshus (people desirous of Moksham ) entered the Sri Vaikunta Vaasal (gate) and felt fulfilled. The next day , the paRayanam was concluded with the sARRU murai using " kangulum pagalum pathigam " where the Mother movingly asks the Lord to tell her about the Lord's intentions rgarding her daughter, who has lost her mind over RanganAthaa. There were some 10 gOShti members who were singing in praise of muhil vaNNan's naamam . On December 28th , many sEvArrhtis and an army of kainkkaryaparALs started arriving from all states. On the night of December 28th , eleborate arrangemets were made by these kainkaryapraLS untill the next morning (2:00AM) for the biggest event of the year (viz)., Swamy NammAwhwAr mOksham. The path of travel to the mOksham was made 12 floursent lamps with six on each side to resemble a total of 12 sooriayns or Suns lighting the way . The entire temple was made roomy for accomodating as many sEvartthis possible. Our sincere Thanks to all those kanikaryaparaLs Sri Arun, Sri Kesvan, Sri Aravind Sai, Sri Ramanan ,Sri Srikanth, Sri Narasimhan, Sri Ramesh Ragavan, Sri Sarathy, Sri PArtha Srinivasan, Sri Srivatsan, Sri Prasad, Sri Krishna Kanumalla,Sri Chandra, Sri Niranjan, Sri Satyan, Sri Rengarajan and the priests , who helped in conducting this major uthsavam in the most traditional manner . adiyEn will describe the Swamy NammazAr Moksham in the next post and follow it up with the Paasurams used by aRayars at Srirangam during the Thiru Adhyayana Uthsavam next. This series would conclude with those postings. Sri RanganAtha ParabrahmaNE Nama: Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SaThakOpan -------------------------------------------------------------- - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list@yahoogroups.com Archives: http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ >
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