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On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, tavaradhan wrote:


> In some cases, even the meaning of the whole pAsuram
> is changed significantly due to such breaking between
> the words. In any case, it might be irrelevant though,
> as the custom of divya prabhandham listening has disappeared.
> The original purpose of divya prabhandham chanting,
> and the setting up of iyal-pa and isai-p-pa, which seems
> to have been to propagate the ideas and thoughts that
> were revealed by the AzhvArs, seems to have been lost.
> It just is like any other ritual nowadays in most temples,
> with scant attention being paid to how it listens to
> someone outside the gOshti.
> 
> adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,
> varadhan
> 

SrI
SrImatyaI GodayaI Nama:

Just wanted to add some thoughts related to this regarding the
Araiyar Sevai in the earlier times.

In the earlier days during Svami Emperumanaar's time and sometime
thereafter it is said that,during those times a very distinguished
gathering of Vidwans and Sastra Pandithars used to assemble for
the ghosti during Araiyar Sevai.The Araiyar Swamigal himself was 
very learned knowing all the 4000 pasurams,and also the vyakyanam and 
abinayam for all the 4000 pasurams.During those days the Vazhakkam
was that Araiyar Swamigal used to recite the pasurams and anytime one
Pandithar would intervene and request the Araiyar Swamigal to perform
Abhinayam or Vyakyam for the particular pasuram which Svami would
have just finished singing.Immediatly Svami would perform the Vyakyanam
or Abinayam as requested by the Ghosti Bhagavatha.The Bhagavatha
Ghosti Vidwans would be closely following and enjoying the performance of
the Araiyar Swamigal. While performing abinayam Araiyar Svamigal would
sometimes glance at some learned Vidwans for their facial
expression/reaction .Sometimes they(Ghosti Vidwans) would nod their
heads in approval or sometimes they used to give suggestions regarding
their views on an alternate expression for a particular word/sentence
of a pasurams.In this way it is said that the Araiyar Swamigal
incorporated suggestions from learned members like Svami Embaar during
those times.

Maybe over the period of time there has been a
progressive lack of intrest and patronage to the Araiyar Sevai and
probably seems more drastic in the last few decades.I have heard from
my father and relatives about the large gatherings during Araiyar
Sevai during their childhood days and the gambhiryam and grace with which
they used to perform the Arayar sevai with Bhagavathas spell bound during
the entire performance.Nowadays very few people come to witness the
Araiyar sevai ,on most of occasions.This way sometimes one gets
opportunity to observe Svami doing abinayam from a close distance and
(correct one's mistakes in recitation -seperating the words in the pasuram
lines- for those like me) and understand the import of the pasuram easily
as i was fortunate on one recent occasion.

adiyen Ramanuja dasan,
venkat

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