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Dear Friends:
   
  I am sorry to see that our temples are turning out to be places where the 
Lord Himself is shackled down by kgs of gold and diamonds and rubies. Yes, it 
is good to see Him decorated with jewels of all kinds, but it is equally 
pleasurable to see Him decorated in His various forms too. Even Lord Ranganatha 
Himself is being decorated as Mohini in Srirangam one day in the year and there 
is great crowd year after year to see Him in that form. They can't dress the 
Ananthasayana in Srirangam as Mohini, so they do it on the moorthi which they 
take out. However, in Tirupathi I have seen the standing Lord Venkateshwara 
being decorated, and I have seen likewise Lord Krishna in Guruvayur being 
dressed differently every hour. Once I wished very much to see Lord Ranganatha 
in the Mohini alankaram, but could not reach Srirangam on time. I regretted 
that very much, but when I reached Tirupathy later, I saw Him dressed in the 
same Mohini veesham during dharsan there. Another time He was
 dressed as Narasimha and it brought ecstasy to me both times. I am sure many 
of you have had similar experiences too! So, I don't see any reason why in the 
Ranganatha temple abroad they should not dress up Lord Ranganatha as Rama or 
Krishna or Narasimha. It is not the North Indian or South Indian custom, for He 
belongs to the whole universe. I wish that we change our attitude and make Him 
accessible in all of His different forms to all of the people who love Him, 
especially to those who do not know Him that well, but yearn to get close to 
Him. Lord Krishna allowed this to all Gopikas and Lord Ranganatha Himself 
accepted one of the Thayars in the form of a muslim princess. Why then in 
India, in the temples, they are still sidelining and preventing the white 
devotees from having His dharsan as others do? I am not advocating that we 
should dilute our values, but our blind belief without proper understanding is 
what is causing us problems. Lack of acceptable answers has been
 leading our children away from our virtuous path. Temples in US have to adjust 
to the needs of all Hindus and of those others who adore Him in His various 
forms such as Krishna, and they should become the center where people can learn 
more freely about Him. I suggest that we set up a place in front of every 
temple where the devotees can offer the prayers the way they like, of course, 
in a kind and gentle way. There is such a place in Tirupathy where the devotees 
can freely light up camphor and offer it to Him, even though it is about 100 
meters away from His sanctum. This may be to reduce the crowding and allow free 
access to all those who desire to light up a lamp or camphor. Many temples in 
the northern parts of India have such places in front of the sanctum. Why not 
have such a separate place in front of the Lord where people can freely offer 
their aarhties? Temple authorities should consider this and other desires of 
the devotees, such as the one indicated in the
 request of Anjoonair, seriously and enable them to be fulfilled appropriately.
   
  Aravamudhan Raman
  aravaram@xxxxxxxxx
   
   
  

anjoonair <anjoonair@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
          There is We have a beautiful temple where Perumal is standing in all 
Glory ( OVERSEAS } 
There is very restricted celebration of Sri Rama Navami and Sri Krishna 
Jayanthi . 

I requested the Bhattar maybe we should celebrate Sri Krishna Janmastami 
grandly - ( for I 
am longing to see the Perumal dressed as Sree Krishnan and also for my North 
Indians }

Imagine my Horror when the Sri Rangam Bhattar replied '' inke elame Perumaleka 
than 
Pannum" - meaning to say we cannot celebrate Janmashtami grandly . ie his 15 
min 
celebration is more than enough .

It is a case I am taking all the way up to Perumal and will request an answer 
from HIM.

Was he not Sree Rama ?
Was he not Sree Krishna ?
What is wrong in my request ?

Learned and wise men from this group may kindly answer my Query.

This Bhattar has even stopped burning Karpooram - He advised as per the rules 
in India 

What is wrong with this Sri Rangam Bhattar ????????



         


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