ChithrabhAnu Samvathsaram, UttharAyaNam , GrIshma Ruthu , VaikAsi 23 , EkAdasi Thithi Sarva EkAdasi Vratha Dinam VenkatAdhri Samam sTAnam BrahmANDE naasthi kinchana VenkatEsa SamO DevO na BhUthO na Bhavishyathi ( There is no site in this vast Universe equal to the Venkatam Hills in sanctity . There is no God equal to Lord VenkatEsa anywhere now ; there will not be any one equal to Him in the future as well). SrI: NamO VenkatEsAya Dear BhakthAs of the Lord of Saptha Giri : adiyEn has the good fortune of hailing from the Dhivya Desam of Oppiliappan Koil , the DakshiNa Thiruppathi. The Persiding deity of this dhivya Desam is known as DakshiNa VenkatAchalapathy / OppilA-Appan/ SrinivAsan . In celebration of adiyEn's deep links to Oppiliappan Koil , SrEyas Sarangan of California and adiyen created and populated special web pages for DakshiNa VenkatEsan ( OppilA-Appan ) in 1997 (http://oppiliappan.org). Valuable information about the Vaibhavam of the DakshiNa VenkatEsan are enshrined there. During the Nrusimha Jayanthi of 2001 , Sri Haresh Balasubramanyan of Singapore and adiyEn created special Home pages for Utthara VenkatEsan: Thiruppathi SrinivAsan( http://srimannarayana.net). On May 25, 2002 Nrusimha Jayanthi was celebrated by us all. Since the past twelve months preceding this year's Narasimha Jayanthi , the Home Pages for Utthara VenkatEsan (Vada Venkatavan) has been enriched with the following items : 1. Sri VenkatEsa SuprabhAtham , SthOthram , Prapatthi and Mangalam with meanings and commentaries on the SlOkams. 2. AzhwAr/AchArya's MangaLAsAsanam of Sri VenkatEsan 3. Saint AnnamayyA's Life and his Naadha KusumAnjali to Lord Venkatesan 4. BrahmOthsavam at Thirumalai 5. Many Images of the Lord of Thiruppathi We are currently working on adding new features like Sri SrinivAsa ThirukkalyANam , Sri VenkatEsa AshtOttharam , SrI VenkatEsa Sahasra Naamam with meaning and commentary for each of the sacred names of the Lord of Venkatagiri . Scholars from India will be helping us to make progress on these projects. On this Sarva EkAdasi Vratham day of the Month of VaikAsi ( the birth month of Swamy NammAzhwAr ) , adiyEn would like to seek the anugraham of asmath AchAryan , SrI VaNN saThakOpa NaarAyaNa YathIndhra Maha Desikan and Sri VenkatanAthan of Thirumalai for initiating this Kaimkaryam of writing about the Sri VenkatEsa AshtOtthara and Sahasra Naamams . SrI VenkatEsa Sahasra NaamAvaLi at the First Bell ************************************************** Every day at Thirumala , the Lord is woken up with SrI VenkatEsa SuprabhAtham ; Suddhi, ThOmAla SevA and Koluvu Dharbaar follow thereafter. Now is the time for the First Bell and the First NaivEdhyam. Lord's SatthumuRai follows . At this time of the first bell , Sri VenkatEsa Sahasra Naamams are recited by ArchakAs. It takes approximately 45 minutes to recite this Sahasra- nAmams housed in BrahmANDa PurANam as Conversation between Sage Vasishta and the great VenkatEsa Bhaktha, Sri Naarada. This Sahasra Naamam recitation concludes with the benediction for the Lord: Sriya: KaanthAya kalyANa NidhayE nidhayEarTinAm SrI Venkata-nivAsAya SrinivAsAya MangaLam SrI VenkatAchalAdhIsam SriyAadhyAsitha Vakshasam Sritha-chEthana-mandhAram SrInivAsam aham BhajE The First NaivEdhyam for the Lord is offered now. SrI VenkatEsa AshtOtthara NaamAvaLi at the Second Bell ******************************************************* Now an EkAntha Pooja (aparanha poojA) takes place . Only ArchakAs are inside the sanctum and they recite the 108 NaamAs of the Lord housed in varAha PurAnam . Cherupulu and PaNiyArams are offered to the Lord as naivEdhyam during this period known as the second bell. Afterwards sarva darsanam and aarjitha sEvAs for the day continue until the end of that day's AarAdhanam for the Lord. The two recitations of the Lord's 1008 and 108 NaamAs take place at the early hours of the Morning described by ANDAL in Her ThiruppAvai as "SiRRam SiRu KaalE Vanthunnai Sevitthu ". These are very sacred recitations at Thiruppathi-Thirumalai before the Lord by His archakAs. adiyEn will commence with the 108 NaamAs of Lord VenkatEsa (recited during the second bell ) first and follow it up with the meanings and commentaries/reflections on the 1008 Naamaas. May the DayA Devi , the divine Consort of Lord VenkatEswara and ThUppul VenkatanaThan bless this Kaimkaryam ! The First Ten NaamAs of Sri VenkatEsa AshtOttharam **************************************************** 1. (PraNavam) SrI VenkatEsAya nama: 2. (PraNavam) SrIvAsAya nama:(*) 3. (PraNavam) LakshmI PathayE nama: 4. (Pranavam) anAmayAya nama:(*) 5. (PraNavam) amruthAmsAya nama:(*) 6. (Pranavam) Jagadh-vandhyAya nama: 7. (PraNavam) GovindhAya nama: 8. (PraNavam) SaasvathAya nama:(*) 9. (PraNavam) PrabhavE nama: (*) 10.(Pranavam) SEshAdhri-nilayAya nama: (*)One notices that number of these names are echos of SrI VishNu Sahasra Naamam(VSN) : a. SrIvAsAya nama: is the same nAmam as the 556th VSN. b. anAmayAya nama: is the same name as the 694th VSN. c. amruthAmsAya nama: is the same as the 348th and 679th VSN. d. sAsvathAya nama: is the same VSN as found in the 1188th, 244th and 568th naamAs of VSN. e. PrabhavE nama: is the same mangaLAsAsanam of VSN(160th naamam). Swamy ParAsara Bhattar has given elaborate commentaries for the 1000 VishNu Sahasra Naamams in His Commentary/BhAshyam revered as SrI Bhagavad GuNa DarpaNa . Sri Narasimhan KrishNamAchar Swamy of Illinois has been feasting us for the past many months on Swamy ParAsara Bhattar's commentary as well as the insights of other scholarly commentators of Sri VishNu Sahasra Naamam . adiyEn will therefore refer you to these valuable sources and for the sake of continuity rely on Swamy parAsara Bhattar's BhAshyam, whenever we come across the same names of VSN in Sri Venkatesa AshtOttharam and Sahasra Naamams . adiyEn will start the commnets on the individual AshtOtthara NaamAs of Lord Venkatesa in the next posting. (PraNavam) NamO VenkatEsAya SrImath Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam, Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan/SaThakOpan
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