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swami desikan thirunakshatram celebrations in Bahrain

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venkat.R • October 16, 2002 


Dear bhagavathas, 

namo narayana. adiyen's pranamams. 

adiyen dasan venkat from Bahrain. 

Yesterday(15th Oct), Our Bahrain goshti has celebrated Swami desikan 
thirunakshatram in a grand manner.For the past 6 years we have been 
gathering on every sravanam to recite swami desikan stotras and 
desika prabandham and celebrating purattasi sravanamn every year in a 
grand manner. Last year we had the company of Kuwait devotees and Sri 
Velukkudi Krishnan on this occasion.Sri Velukkudi swami's upanyasam 
on Nyasa dasakam is still fresh in our memory.

This year function was indeed a special one.The highlights are: 

1.For the first time in Bahrain entire desika prabandham was recited 
in one sitting as part of our two day celebration. 

2. Competitions were conducted for children and prizes and 
certificates were distributed to the winners.23 children aged from 4 
to 13,were actively participated in the Stotra recitation 
competition,A Quiz on the life history of swami desika and drawing 
and colouring competitions. Special mention has to be made about the 
cryptic quiz where in questions were asked exclusively from the 128 
works of swami desika( Which of the rahasya granthas are 
luptham,Which rahasya grantha titles have tamil prabandhams in the 
same name etc.,) and the children were sharp in shooting the correct 
answer. It was amazing to note that the young children have memorised 
the entire lot of 128 titles.Sri T G Vijaykumar of Singapore has sent 
the certificate of "ORonRu thaane amaiyaadhO" scheme and we are 
thankful for this help.

3.We have released a MP3 CD of Sri desika prabandham on this 
auspicious day.This CD has audio clips of entire desika prabandham 
and texts of desika prabandham and sri desika stotras in 
tamil,sanskrit and english scripts.Sri Ananth and Narayanan of our 
goshti has recited the pasurams in a traditional manner.We have 
committed to donate the entire proceeds from the sale of this CD for 
various divya desa kaimkaryams.Please visit our site 
http://srivaishnavam.com for more details.

Yesterday we have recited divya prabandham,Sri desika stotras and sri 
desika prabandham for about two hours.Ladies goshti have presented 
selected verses of desika prabandham in a melodious voice which was 
indeed a treat to ears.In the end,maha prasadam was served.The 
sambhavana collection of this satsangh will be donated to Sri 
Kainkarya for various kaimkaryams at Thiruvaheendrapuram, where swami 
desikan has lived for long years, admiring the charming beauty of  
sri Hemambuja valli sametha Sri Devanayaka.

adiyen has uploaded few images taken during the occasion in the 
following URL 

http://www27.brinkster.com/srivaishnavam/sravanam2002/images.html 

Thanks for your patient reading and we seek the blessings of all 
bhagavathas to continue our humble kaimkaryams in this tiny island in 
Gulf.

regards 

adiyen ramanuja dasan, 

R.Venkat 




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