Re: SrivilliputthUr Andal's sayana sevai and related Home page from Singapore
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• July 31, 2000
Dear BhakthAs : As indicated by Sri MadhavakkaNNan , the perumAL displayd in the home pages The perumAL and ANDAL displayed in the sayana alankAram is the Aaatthu perumAL ( AarAdhana Moorthy ) of Sri Mahesh at home and not the Srinivasa PerumAL of Serangoon Temple as I had indicated earlier. I wish to share with you a little more information about Sri Mahesh's deep attachment to Srinivasa PerumAL and hope he does not mind my sharing of this information . I understand from the age 5 , Sri Mahesh has been assisting the Bhattars at the Serangoon Road Temple alankArams . He received at age 18 from his parents as a present , the Vigraham of Lord Vishnu with Sankha -Chakram , Mace ( Gathai)and abhaya hastham . Although the lakshaNam of this Vigraham with Ubhaya- NaachimArs would be that of either Sri VaradarAjan or Ranganathan,Sri Mahesh has affectionately named this archA vigraham as "SrinivAsan" and has been offering worship to that Lord at his home for the past few years .He sis till in his twenties. I understand it took 6 hours to complete this SayanOthsava alankAram for "SrinivAsan" at his home. Since Aug 3 (SayanOthavam day at Sri VilliputthUr) is a working day for him , he completed the alankAram on a Sunday ( einthu Garuda sevai day ) and released his home page same day containing that alankAram and sent it to us . BTW ,the correct address for Sri Mahesh's URL is---> http://Vishnu.homepage.com ( I had missed the dot between Vishnu and homepage in my previous note. Please have the wonderful sevai of Sayana ThirukkOlam of perumAL . The reason why I am writing about this wonderful happening is that you might have young children at home. Once you create a ruchi (taste)for them to get involved with Bhagavath Kaimkaryam , it will last forever . You might recall the story of MeerAbhAi , who received a vigraham of Giridhar Gopal and from then on He took care of every thing. ANDAL's anubhavam is the same according to PeriyavAcchAn PiLLai in 3000 Padi avathArikai although She is the amsam of BhUmi Devi, one of the consorts of the Lord . PeriyavAcchAn PiLLai says : " She(ANDAL) considered Sri VilliputthUr as ThiruvAipAdi , the girls there as Gopis, Herself as one of them , VaDapathrasAyee's temple as the ThirumALikai of NandagOpan and the resident inside as Sri KrishNan and by that BhavanA prakarsham ( pull of that feeling state) ripened in bhaagavath anubhavam which resulted in " Idai nadayum , idai mudiyum , idaippEcchum mudai naaRRamAi vittathu". This resulted in the total identification with the role( behavior, dressing and speech ) to yield the ThiruppAvai and NaacchiyAr Thirumozhi. MeerA bhai pleaded for her union with GiridhAri: "aavO manamOhanaa jee meeDA BhArO bhOl" MeerA followed the footsteps of ANDAL and sent several messages to KrishNA through her moving PadhAvaLis.She took pen in hand to write to Him and her hand trembled .She tells the bird watching her: " You are witnessing my physical and mental pain .You convey to my lover my helplessness , my pangs of heart and my uncontrollable emotions ( pathiyAm maim kaisE likhUm likhyOrI na jaaya , kalam dharatha MErO kara kaampatha hai naina rahai jaD jAya--).MeerA identified KrishNa in every object of nature. She invited Him to have a taste of 56 varieties of Food and side dishes as Raaja BhOga naivEdyam (PadaavaLi: Pada 47). She followed the route shown by ANDAL, who offered Butter and AkkAra Vadaisil to the Lord of ThirumAlirumchOlai. I am not suggesting here that MeerAbhAi knew of the Prabhandhams of ANDAL, but a Bhakthai's approach to Her Lord has similarities in praying for "SampUrNa Saannidhyam " of their Naayakan. Saint ThyahgarAjaa's anubhavam with Sri Raamachandran is the same.He had inherited Yeka Peeta Sri Raaman with His consort and parivAram from his fahter , Sri Raama Brahmam. When one has the darsanam of that AarAdhana Moorthy today at TanjAvoor Varahappiyer Lane , One notices the smallness of the size of these vigrahams . You can almost place them in the palms of your hand . Sadhguru Swamy was talking thru his krithis to that Sri Raman and Jaanaki MaathA Vigrahams like they(Raaman and SeethA) were humans standing before him as AajAnu Baahu with His divine consort. This is BhavAnA Prakarsham is all about . That Bhava PrakarshaNam ripened and led to Saint ThyagarAjA having the rare blessing of Raama darsanam twice , once with LakshmaNan as Yaaga SamrakshaNa moorthy and another time with SeethA pirAtti and AnjanEyar , when Raamachandran sat at the Thirumanjana Veethi house of His bhakthan and AnjanEyar cooked the evening meals and served them all . In summing up, blessed are those , who can have that type of feeling state due to Poorva- Janma Sukrutham and relate to the Lord with endearing service . ANDAL ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SatakOpan --------------------------------------------------------------------http://click.egroups.com/1/6631/5/_/716111/_/965084016/ --------------------------------------------------------------------|e>- -------------------------------------------------------------- - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list@eGroups.com Visit http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/ for more information
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