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Sri:

Dear Sri Madhavakkannan,

Adiyen appreciate your athama-gunam and your good qualities. You are
very humble that you did not specify your part in this kainkaryam.

There is one more Sri Vaishnavan who took the initiative to start
this kainkaryam. He is our dear U Ve Sri Hari.

Above all, HH Srimath Paravakottai Andavan and Divya Dampati's
blessings enabled us to clear the obstacles and complete the kainkaryam.

Adiyen thank all in supporting this acharya kainkaryam and move on
in the same spirit.

Regards,
ramanuja dasan Vijay

-----Original Message-----
From: Madhavakkannan V [mailto:srivaishnavan@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 7:54 AM
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Subject: SrI ANdAL

SrI:
SrimathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:
Dearest SRivaishnavas,

Andal - the only female alwar. The greatness of Andal is explained in many 
ways by our preceptors. Andal was only a 5 year old child. Can we take her 
words as an authority ?

BhUmAdEvi was in troubled waters captured and taken away / submerged in the 
ocean by an asura called Hiranyaksha. Lord Sriya: Pathi SrimannArAyana took 
the incarnation of a big boar (varAha) and went into the ocean to uplift up 
BhUmAdevi and save Her after the destruction of asurA effortlessly. She was 
lifted up and made sit in the lap of the Lord. (MaadhavIm Madhavapriyaam- 
Lakshmi Priya sakhIm dhEvIm namAmyachutha vallabhAm) .

Still bhUmAdEvi was shivering. Lord asked her for the reason. She replied 
politely :" Oh ! my nAthA! You have protected me . But still I am not happy 
because our children in the samsArA are helpless. They cannot practice 
Bhakti yoga as preached by you in the vedas with their limited knowledge. So

you must be kind enough to show them a simpler way to reach you " Lord 
understood the affection of bhUmAdEvi towards her (their) children and gave 
a comforting and assuaging assurance:

The simplest way to reach me is to surrender at my lotus feet when one is 
able. With all three namley, manas , vAk and kAyam (speech, action and 
thought) one must surrender to the Lord. Think only about him, act only for 
his pUja, and speak only in praise of Him. Immediately bhUmipiratti grasped 
this easy means to reach the Lord and thought it fit to be preached to us in

this samsAra in simpler langauge easily understood by us.

So she incarnated as AndAl and descended in this world. Andal is none else 
but BhUmAdEvi herself.
The preachings of VarAha is enscribed in the 5th verse of tiruppavai
"vAyinAl pAdi , manatinAl cindikka, tUmalar tUvi tozhudu" .

That will the pave the way for performance of Saranagathi and the upliftment

to Paramapadham.
Thus we revere tiruppavai as "vedamanaitukkum vithu"- where are the meanings

of vEdAnta embedded in tiruppavai?

The above is as read (and as translated freely by aDiyEn) from the 
aruLamizhdhu written by asmadhAchAryan H.H Srimath PaRavakkOttai Andavan of 
Srirangam Poundarikapuram Andavan Ashramam.

At the Sri Lakshmi Hayagrivan Sannidhi belonging to Ashramam in Srirangam, 
there is a divinely beautiful Sri ANDAL Dhivya mangaLa vigraham going to be 
consecrated on Sunday the 6th of July (and I am going to Srirangam for 
that:-)

The anDAL prathishtai kaimkaryam (in its entirety) is taken care by Sri 
Vijaykumar, Sri Ramkumar Sri Mohan Kumar and Sri Krishnakumar brothers of 
our list.

Sri Vijaykumar posted about amonth ago about this linking to 
www.munitrayam.org
Please visit for further enjoyment.

neeLAtungastanagiritaTi - suptamudbhodhya krushNam -
pArArthyam svam SrutiSataSirah: siddham-adhyApayantI |
svOcchishtAyAm sraji nigaLitam yA balAtkrutya bhunktE
godA tasyai nama idamidam-bhUya yevAstu bhUyaha " ||

May I offer obeisance again and again to Goddess AndAL
alias GodA - to Her alone - who has awakened Lord
KrishNa(taking rest and) sleeping on the mountain-like
lofty breasts of Goddess nILA alias nappiNNai pirAtti;
GodA, who has imparted to Him her dependence (on Him)
as established in the hundreds of texts of the crown
of the vEdAs (viz. vEdAntA or upanishads); and gOdA ,
who forcefully enjoys Him after binding Him with
flower-wreaths that were already worn by Her "
[from Sri Anand Karalapakkam's ThiruppAvai article few years ago]

Regards
AndAL ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam
Regards
Namo Narayana
dAsan
www.munitrayam.org

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