SrI:
Dear Raama BhakthAs :
The dhivya soundharyam of Sri Kothandha Raaman
,
SithA PirAtti and LakshmaNa Swamy at VaduvUr
is unforgettable . VaduvUr is 25 miles from
Tanjore
in ThiruvArur district .
You may wish to browse the following URL to have
the darsanam of Sri SithA LakshmaNa SamEtha
Sri Kodhandha Raaman with an ardha chandra BhANam
on His right hand :
and other images relating to VaduvUr Temple
.
You will have the bhAgyam of seeing here,
Prakrutham
Srimath Azhagiya Singar's MangaLAsAsanam
at this abhimAna Sthalam
.
VaduvUr is known for hte Veda PaatasAlaa run
by
Sri GhanapAdi DesikAchAr Swamy on behalf of
HH Srimath Srirangam Andavan . Veda GhOsham
is always heard here .
adiyEn would like to invite Your attention to
contributing
a Total of $1,000 for the construction of the
special
Yaaga Saalai for use in the MahA SamprOkshaNam
and for future use in PavithrOthsam , Sitaa
KalyANam
and all Vaidheeka Ceremonies at this famous Temple
.
Please contact me if you wish to contribute
to
create the Special Yaaga Saala from
Aaasthika
Raama BhakthAs from India and overseas
.
V.Sadagopan
Moderator , Raama Bhakthi List
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Some Reflections of KodhaNdha Raaman at
VaduvUr
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Sri ThyAgabrahmam's Karahara Priyaa Krithi
,
Sri Raama KodhaNda Raama comes to my mind
when I think of VaduvUr Temple
:
The moving prayer of Thyaga Brahmam Takes
on
the form of a Krithi with 6 CharaNams
:
Pallavi :
Raama KodhaNdha Raama Paahi
,
Raama Pattabhiraama
Oh Lord with the powerful Kodhandam
in
Your hand for Bhaktha SamrakshaNam and
Dushta Nigraham
, please bless me
and
protect me !
Anupallavi:
yee-mahini BhommalAdda juchi
kammagAnu oka maaDa lEdhA ?
While You are enjoying this puppet play
in this world of samsAris , wont You
speak
one sweet word to me ?
The Six CharaNams continue in a spirit of
Dhainyam . The gist of the charaNams are :
Why this indifference to show me Your
youthful and beautiful face ? Why do You
look away from me ? I am longing for
Your
darsanam and pine for You and yet You
who knows my desperate condition would
not
come to me quickly. My adoration of You as my
Lord has no let up and I do not know which
ignorant
folk has cursed me not to have Your grace .It
is
also possible that You do not consider
me
worthy of being embraced by You tightly
to
Your chest and hold me by Your sacred
hand .
I have devoted my entire life to Your
kaimkaryams
and have stayed away from the termptations
of
this world and my mind is totally filled
with
Mahaa ViswAsam for You as my protector
.
Oh KodhaNda Raama! Please come to my rakshaNam
!
Saint ThyagarAja was 25 miles away at
VaduvUr
singing about the Vaibhavam of the Lord at
ThiruvayyARu on the banks of Cauvery .
In hundreds of Raaga Satha MaalikAs ,
the Raama BhakthA poured out his heart-felt
feelings about Lord Raamachandra in
many moods
as he went about his daily AarAdhanams and
Unchivruthti
Bhajans. Here are soem excerpts
:
1. Nidhi chAla sukhama ? Raamuni sannidhi sEva
sukhamaa?
nijamukha Bhalku manasaa ( Raagam KalyANi ,
where he asks
his mind to tell the truth about which gives
grater happines --
the possession of material wealth or
kaimkaryam to Raamachandra).
2. DahrmAthmaka ! dhana dhAnya dhaivamu
neevai yunDaka
( Ranjani Raagam , where he declared without any
doubt that
Lord Ramachandra is his material wealth
and his sole God ) .
3. Saint Thyagaraaja will be overcome by
the great beauty of
the Lord and will be raptourously involved
in enjoying that bliss
in BindhumAlini Raagam ( yenthamuddhO !
yentha sogasO?
yevarivalla varNimpa tagunE? What a beauty
and what a sweet
charm ? Who can adequately describe the
Lord 's soundaryam
and souseelyam ?) .
4. He will have nirvEdham over the fleeting
time at other times
and would beg his mind to engage itself in
Raama AarAdhanam:
ThOdi Raagam : prOddhu pOyyEnu , Sri
Raamuni BhUni
bhajimpavE manasaa ! ( Time is fleeting by
. The hour glass
is being emptied rapidly . Oh my dear mind
! hurry and engage in
earnest to worship Raama )
.
5. As he sung Raamaa to sleep at the end of
a day's worship ,
the Saint will sing in the soothing
NilAmbhari Raagam ,
" yennaga manasuku raani PannagasAyi sogasu
pannuga
ganugOnani kannulElE kaNDiminnalElE ?" (
What is the use of
our eyes and their lustre , if they
are not blessed to feast on
the soundaryam of the Lord resting on
AdhisEsha in a manner
beyond the comprehension of our minds ?) .
6. He will fret over the wayward habits of
samsaaris in Raaga
NaaTanAma Kriya and seek the Lord's
blessings to show the way
for redemption : " KaruNAjaladhE !
DhAsaraTE ! kamaneeyAnana
SuguNanidhE ! manasAraga poojinthurE ninu
maDi maadiki
yOjinthurE " ( Oh Ocean of Mercy ! Oh Lord
with the most beautiful
face ! the abode all kalyANa GuNAs ! will
the people worship You
to their heart's content and meditate on
Your Vaibhavam frequently ?
What a pity that they lead such empty
lives bereft of You? ) .
7. In Raagaa Naagaanandhini , the Saint
will protest against
the machination of the Kali Yugam and what
it does to people :
" No doubt this is the first part of Kali
Yugam . Should people on
account of that pay neither respect to
their parents and AchAryan
and indulge in different kinds of misdeeds
? ".
8.In PantuvarALi , he will celebrate the
boon of Raama Bhakthi
and recognize its matchless greatness : "
appa! Raama Bhakthi yenthO
gOpparaa ?".
9. In Kannada Raagam , the Saint would
declare "idhE bhAgyamu gaaka -
yEmi unnadhirA? Raama !" ( This alone is
the real bliss to be coveted --
incessant worship of Your lotus feet with
the whole heart . What is loftier
than that ? ).
10. In Raagam SupOshiNi , the saint
will declare : Oh RaghUtthama !
who else in this world that can transport
one to transcendental joy
but You ?: " RaminchuvArEvaruraa?
RaghUtthamaa ! ninu vinaa )."
11. In Sri Raagam , the Saint from
ThiruvayyARu will point out
that human existence becomes blessed only
if one worships the sacred
feet of Raamachandran with the flowers of
His names ( Naama
kusumamulachE pUjinji nara janmamE janmamu !).
12. In Janaranjani Raagam , Thyagabrahmam
will reveal the greatness
of performing Raama Naama Japam and the
sukham that results from it
( smaraNE sukhamu Raama Naama naruDai
BhuDDi nandhuku --naama) .
As the divine Raama BhakthA was engaged in
singing about the Vaibhavam of
KodhaNda Raaman and expressing his longing
to have the Lord's darsanam ,
His archaa Moorthy at VaduvUr was listening
; He could not wait
any more at His sannidhi . He walked with
His DEvi and LakshmaNa
Swamy to ThiruvayyARu and blessed the
Saint with His darsanam
at his residence in the Thriumanjana Veethi
of ThiruvayyARu .
The saint was raprurous and sang his famous
krithi : alakalalla .
If the Archaa Moorthy at VaduvUr would not
present Himself at
our houses , the best for us to do is to
travel to His sannidhi
at VaduvUr and feast our eyes on His dhivya
MangaLa vigraham
there .
Please participate in the construction of
the Yaaga Saalai , attend
the SamprokshaNam on Jan 31 , listen to the
Veda PaarAyaNam
and enjoy the TadhiyArAdhanam from Jan
27-31 , 2007.
Please contact me for help in forwarding
your samarpaNams
on this grand ocasion of Mahaa
SamprOkshaNam for
Sithaa SamEtha Kodhandha Raaman at VaduvUr
.
NamO NamO RaaghavAya anisam
,
Raama Dhaasan , V.Sadagopan
.
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