"Birth day " celebrations for Lord VenaktEsA , Swamy Desikan and Adhi VaNN SatakOpa Jeeyar at Sri RanganAtha Temple , Pomona , NY: Sep 29, 2001
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• September 30, 2001
SrI: SrinivAsa ParabrahmaNE Nama: SrimathE RaamAnujAya Nama: Dear BhakthAs : The devotees of Sriman NaarAyaNa joined together yesterday at Pomona , NY and enjoyed a grand celebration of the Thirunakshthrams of the Lord Of Seven Hills , Swamy Desikan , an avathAram of His Sacred bell at ThiruvEnkaDam and one of the greatest Sri VaishNava AchAryAs, Sri Adhi VaNN SatakOpa Jeeyar , who was initiated into SanyAsAsramam by none other than BhagavAn Narasimhan at Ahobila Dhivya Desam some Six Hundred plus years. ThirukkalyANam for Lord Srinivasa was performed by devotees in an elaborate and Vedic way by Dr.Venkat Kanumalla to the utter delight of the assembled devotees. Thirumanjanam for the archA Moorthys of Lord SrinivAsan , Sri DEvi , BhU Devi , Swamy Desikan and Sri Adhi VaNN SatakOpa Jeeyar were performed earlier .At the end of the Thirumanjanam ,alankAram was performed and TaLikai was presented to the Lord and His Devis.Prasaadham including the Madhuparkam used in the ThirukkalyANam were distributed. All of you , who have visited the Temple for Lord RanganAthA are familiar with the Soundharyam (great beauty ) of the uthsavar (processional deity) and the Moolavar ArchA Vigrahams of Lords SrinivAsA , Lakshmi Nrusimhan , Lakshmi HayagrIvan, Raamachandran and His Family , KrishNa ParamAthmA ,Sri RanganAyaki , Sri ANDAL and Garuda BhagavAn as well as the 12 AzhwArs , AchArya RaamAnujA , Swamy Desikan , Adhi VaNN SatakOpa Jeeyar and HH the 44th Jeeyar of Ahobila Mutt, the Founder of this magnificent temple on the Banks of Hudson River in the shade of the Taconic Mountains . AdiyEn invites those who have not yet visited this temple to come and have the darsana SoubhAgyam of the Dhivya mangaLa Moorthys of this magnificent house of worship for all AasthikAs and Bhaktha Kotis. After alankAram and TaLikai SamarpaNam , Sri VenaktEsa AshtOtthara Satha Naama Archanai was done with the participation of assembled devotees . The halls of the temple reverberated gloriously to the MangaLa Naadham of the Lord's sacred names. This is the first time that collective worship (Archanai) with particpation in repeatign the name of the Lord has been done at this temple . We hope to do more such archanais and offer worship with the participation of the devotees on such occasions . Next , Sri VenkatEsa Sahasra Naama Archanai was done in a MaanasIka manner by adiyEn and it was followed by recitation of Selected sthOthrams of Swamy Desikan by the Ghoshti of Men and Ladies : Sri HayagrIva SthOthram, Sri DasAvathAra SthOthram , Sri SudarsanAshtakam and Sri Gopala Vimsathi . AdiyEn recited thereafter the 108 slOkams of DayA sathakam specially composed by Swamy Desikan for the DayA Devi of Lord SrinivAsan at Thirumalai. AdiyEn also recited the First and the Last slOkams of the 32 chapters of Swamy Desikan's Sri RanganAtha PadhukA Shasram , which he composed in one Yaamam at Srirangam to offfer His salutaions to Swamy NammAzhwAr , who is the Lord's Paadhukais . It took Swamy Desikan less than three hours to compose the 1008 slOkams of this magnificent SthOthra Grantham/Kaavyam . It takes us more than 6 hours just to recite it. Inview of the shortness time , the Beginning and the end slOkams of the 32 chapters alone were recited by adiyEn. ThirukkalyANa Uthsavam for Lord SrinivAsan followed and every devotee had the Bhaagyam to witness this auspicious Vedic Ceremony of KanyA DhAnam of Sri PadmAvathi ThAyaar by AakAsa Raajan . Special gold Yajn~Opaveetham , Silk Vasthrams and fragrant flower garlands were presented to the Dhivya Dampathis on this occasion by Their children. This magnificent temple conducting SampradhAyic AarAdhanam in a manner prescribed by AagamAs as at Srirangam Temple needs your help to sustain these activities for Loka KshEmam and Bhagavath anugraham for ALL BhakthAs . Please support this temple , which reminds one of the ancient adage : "Sarvam VishNu-mayam idham Jagath /BhuvanAni VishNu:" . Please contact Sri K.RaghunAthan, the Chairman of the Temple Board or Srimathi Nagu Satyan, the secretary of the Temple Board for ways in which you and your family members can support the invaluable activities of Lord RanganAthA's Temple at Pomona , NY. Thier e-mail addresses are included in the front portion of this posting. Few days ago ,This temple with the leadership of Dr.Venkat Kanumalla ,the chief Priest of the temple conducted special prayers at this temple for the victims of the recent tragic events at the World Trade Center New York . Few hundred bhakthAs particpated in this special event . Last week , Dr.Kanumalla took part in a similar event at Los Angeles sponsored by the NAMA Chapter of LA . During the occasion , the Vedic Wedding of SeethA and Raamachandra with explanations of the sacred rites of the Vedic Wedding along with Satya NaarAyaNa Pooja was performed . In these times of uncertainity and national crisis , it is reassuring to gain one's peace of mind by participating in such sacred events , where we offer our worship to our AchAryAs and Dhivya Dampathis and participate in auspicious events like the Wedding (KalyANam) for the Parents of the Universe. SeethA-Raama KalyANam and Sri Sathya NaarAyana Pooja are being organized by the Colorado Chapter of NAMA Inc. on October 6 and 7 . For more details on this event and your particpation , please contact one of the following organizers thru phone or e-mail addresses cited above: 1. Smt. Nagu and Sri B.G.Satyan (303) 973-4847 2. Smt. Madhuri and Sri Mohan sagar (303) 696-1359 3. Smt.Sudha and Sri C.S.Ramesh (719) 282-6659 4. Smt. Sunanda and Sri Krishna Komanduri (303) 680-9187 The AchArya Thirunakshathram celebrations across this Country ( Sep1-2 at Washington D.C area , Buffalo, NY on Sep 28 and Pomona , NY on Sep 29) and overseas (Singapore , Bahrain ) and the one planned for Oct 27-28 at Denver, Colorado are harbingers of bringing all the followers of the teachings of AchArya RaamAnujA and our AchArya paramparai eastablished by Bhagavath RaamAnujA for the welfare (Kshemam) of this Universe . DolOthsavam for NavanItha KrishNan is perforemd at your homes and communities by Sri Matam SishyALs. Please contact Srimans P.Dileepan or Sri Raghavan Rajaji at the above e-mail addresses . May this Nation and the World settle back to normalcy and May the all compassionate dhivya Dampahtis bless every one with peace of mind and KshEmam! Akhila Bhuvana JanmasTEmabhangAdhileelE vinatha vividha bhUthavrAtharakshaika DhIkshE Sruthi Sirasi VidhIpthE BRAHMANI SRINIVAASE Bhavathu mama Parasmin sEmushi BhakthiroopA --DhyAana SlOkam of Sri BhAshyam of AchArya RaamAnujA Sri RanganAtha Para BrahmaNE Nama: DaasOham , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SatakOpan -------------------------------------------------------------- - 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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