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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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