SrI: Dear BhakthAs: It has been a memorable trip of One week (168 hours in India out of which 48 hours were lost in sleep , 28 hours in Travel and 12 in other lowkIkam logistics yielding 80 hours of PerumAl Sevai and Bhagavath Kaimkaryam related discussions with suhruths ).I will write about those 80 hours of that blissful experience . August 9: Arrival Late Evening at Chennai. August 10: ThUppul & Kaanchi VaradarAjan temple August 11: ThirukkOvilUr & ThiruvahIndhrapuram: DehaLisar / PoonkOval NaacchiyAr Sevai. August 12: Adi Pooram day : ThiruvahIndrapuram and ThiruviNNagar: Early morning Thirumanjanam for Dhivya Dampathis of ThiruvahIndhrapuram and Swamy Desikan ( ArchA Moorthy created by Him in response to the challenge of a silpi);Arirval at ThiruviNnagar for Golden ratham , NaacchiyAr Thirumozhi GhOshti and next day Kodai Thirumanjanam for Thiruvinnagrappan ( For Periya perumAL). August 13: ThiruviNNagar & SrIrangam: RathnAngi Sevai for Uthsavar(Oppiliappan) , MaNNikka KonDai Sevai of BhUmi DEvi, Thirumanjanam and departure for SrIrangam for Saaya Rakshai Sevai of Lord RanganAthan.Sevai of SrI RanganAyaki , uLL Desikar Sannidhi. August 14: Thiru uRayUr , KarambanUr , ThiruveLLarai with halts at Thirumazhisai and Thirukkacchi, Arrival at Thiruppathi in the evening ; SahasrAra DhIpa AlankAram and OOnjal Sevai of Uhtsavar(Malayappa Swamy). Earlier SrI Padmavathi ThAyAr's sevai at ThirucchAnUr. August 15 : Udaya-Asthamana Sevai at Thirumalai, August 16 : SuprabhAtham , ArchanAnthara SEvai and SaaRRumuRai Sevai at ThiruvEngadamudayAn's sannidhi with HH the Thiruppathi Jeeyar for 20 minutes .Descent from Thirumalai after visit to VishNu Paadham overlooking the hills of Thirumalai. August 17 A.M : Return to new York . Since so many blessed events happened , I would highlight a few happenings at the KshEthrams visited: FIRST DAY ********* A.ThUppul: Swamy Desikan has blessed us with so many anugrahams. The purpose of the visit to His sannidhi and to that of SrI DhIpa PrakAsan next door was to perform a group archanaa on behalf of all the BhakthAs , who helped with 7.25 Laks of Rupees for uninterrupted NithyArAdhana Kaimkaryam at these two sannidhis. Today the core funds stand at 12.25 Laks Rs. and the target is 20 Laks to have a self-sustaining fund.The Desika Dhivya Sahsra Naamam postings will be beneficial to gain a glimpse of the vast range of UpakArams of this AchArya Saarvabhouman in the coming days .Swamy Desikan's contributions are a vertiable ocean and we will satisfy ourselves with a brief dip in seven of his SrI Sookthis: 1)sEswara MimAmsa (2) MimAmsa PaadhukA (3) Pancha RakshA granthams: Saccharithra RakshA (4)PaancharAthra rakshA (5)NikshEpa RakshA (6) GithArtha Sangraha RalshA and (7) Rahasya RakshA . B. Hasthigiri & SrI PerumdEvi SamEtha PeraruLAlan ************************************************** We will enjoy the Vardha GuNAmrutham here . Arrangements were made for the distribution of prasAdham (Kaanchipuram Idly and BaadhAm Halva for NivEdanam on Aadi Pooram day ) at Lord VaradarAjan Sannidhi for sEvarthis to commemorate the half a lak of Rupees fund raising for the Nandavanam of ThEpperumAL for growing different flowers for samarpaNam as garlands every day. Many BhakthAs here helped to raise those funds. Second Day: ************ At ThirukkOvalUr dhivya dEsam , adiyEn enjoyed the SEvai of Thrivikraman and Aayan as well as DEhaLisa Sthuthi of Swamy Desikan and Mudal AzhwAr's MangaLAsAsanams. Sevai of VishNu Durgai referred to by Thirumangai in his paasurams , Vaamanar , ChakratthAzhwAn were addiitonal bonuses. Third day(Aadi Pooram ) ************************ SampradhAyic Thirumanjanam that lasted two and half hours with Ubhaya VedAntha GhOshti ; Darsanam of Swamy Desikan at His aasthAnam after Thirmanjanam ; Sevai of DevanAthan and Lakshmi HayagrIvan on top of Oushada Giri. Sankalpam to iniitate the RathnAngi Kaimkaryam for Uthsavar , DeavanAthan as a part of the earlier Kaimkaryams of samarpaNams of MummaNikkOvai for ThAyaar (HemAbhjavalli ) and Nava MaNi Maalai for uthsavar with the help of aasthikaas from here . As a part of the RathnAngi kaimakaryam. the Sri Sookthis of Swamy Desikan ( DevanAyaka panchAsath, Achyurtha sathakam and the available Tamil Prabhnadhams on DevanAthan ) will be covered. At the end of the day, we arirved at Oppilaippan Sannadhi for the Tanga RaTam MaNDakappadi and evening sEvai with nila Maalai of Moolavar. Took part in the dhivya prabhandha ghOshti to recite AaNDAL's NaacchiyAr Thirumozhi in front of Desikar sannidhi. Next morning had the Visvaroopa Sevai with the Uthsavar adorning RathnAngi and ThAyAr adorning MaaNikka Kondai, Jata Kothsu et al ( Images of these aabharanams created with the help of BhakthAs here are at the Oppiliappan home pages). Thirumnajanam followed for Moolavar . At the end of that delectable Thirumanjanam , left for SrIrangam. At SrIrangam , due to the PuNyam of writing a series of postings on SrI GuNa Rathna Kosam , adiyEn had the intimate sevai of Lord RanganAtha . Due to poorva janma sukrutham , adiYen was invited inside the gate that lets archakAs alone inside so that adiyEn could feast on the beauty of NamperumAl and Lord RanganAthan. This was the time of SaayarakshA PoojA and PeriyAzhwAr's Kaappidal paasurams came to mind. Had Teertham and ShaThAri inside the sannidhi possibly due to SrI RanganAtha Paadhuka Sahsram Kaimkaryam . Fourth day: Viswaroopa darsanam at NisuLApuri (uRayUr), followed by sEvais at KarampanUr (Utthamar Koil ) and SvEthagiri ( ThiruveLLarai) KshEthrams. Return to Chennai for the night. The fifth Kaalam AArAdhanam sEvai of Lord ParthasArathy and TeLLiya Singam , Vedavalli ThAyAr, MannAthan and Lord Raama chandran at ThiruvallikkENi before resting for the night was the concluding good fortune of the day. Fifth day: ascent to Thiruppathi for the Udaya-asthamana Sevai. Wonderful and peaceful/uncrowded darsanam of AlarmEl Mangai (PadmAvathi) ThAyAr at ThirucchAnUr.Rest at AhObila matam . SahsrAra DhIpa AlankAra Sevai outdoors and PuRappAdu of Malayappa Swamy with Ubhaya NaacchiyAr at 5.30 P.M. Sixth day: The day started at 1.30 A.M to get ready for the SuprabhAdham sEvai. Throngs of devotees performing anga pradhakshaNam around the prAkArams as one rushed for the SuprabhAtha Sevai. Next was the 108 NaamArchanai and the ArchanAnathara Sevai thereafter. During suprabhAtha darsanam , Lord's Thiruvadi was visible without Flowers or TuLasi. After the first archanai, those sacred Thiruvadis were fully covered with flowers. Joined the Jeeyar's ghOshti for Saathumurai. There were 120 SrI VaishNavAs in that ghOshti. Due to some good fortune , adiyEn was able to be Sixth in the row of SaaRRumuRai GhOshti and was blessed with the most memorable darsana soubhAgyam of ThriuvEngadamudayAn. This darsanam was made possible by the invitation of SrI MalOlan Cadambi and Family as a part of the Udayaasthamana Sevai. Next day (Friday) there was ThirukkalyANam and Thirumanjanam . adiyEn could not attend since I had to descend the holy hills to be back in Chennai for discussions on other kaimkaryams . Seventh day: LowkIkam and family visits and at the end of the evening had to rush to the airport for the onward flight. Thus ended a most memorable 7 days in the PuNya Bhoomi of BhAratha varsham . SrImath Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE Saranam , Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SaThakOpan
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