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The best answer I got from this group. Thankyou 

Mine was only a request on behalf of devotees. What is the point of holding 
Gita Classes, 
Ramayana Classses in our temples on Saturdays { Please bear in mind I am 
talking about 
Temples constructed overseas} 

The committe goes to great lengths to advocate Hindu Culture when the fact 
remains the 
Bhattar in question does not even acknowledge Sree Rama and Sree Krishna as 
avathars of 
Perumal .

Children atleast need to see how Lord krishna looked and How Sree Rama looked - 
Not 
that we humans are capable of even describing HIM. 

All mantra upacharanam is in Tamil only . So I trained a few people to sing 
Annamacharya 
Krithis. By the grace of God my next venture is to train people to sing 
Ashatapadis and 
Srinivasa Gadyam. Hope Perumal will look at me Kindly eventhough the devotees 
are vey 
appreciative .

A Temple belongs to everyone [ again Overseas } . I would love every Hindu 
child to know 
and appreciate the Hindu Dharma and this query was only to show How eventhough 
our 
thoughts are Good sometimes people in power abuse it . 

To make it clear Our Temple Calander for years does not mention "Sree Krishna 
Jayanthi "

Only the day is marked is" Sree Jayanthi " . Hopefully it will be added  from 
next year .

Please excuse any lapses

anjoo.











--- In Oppiliappan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ara Ram <aravaram@...> wrote:
>
> 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@...
>    
>    
>   
> 
> anjoonair <anjoonair@...> 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 ????????
> 
> 
> 
>          
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>









 
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