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Sri:
Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:

Dear saha bhAgavathAs,
Accept my pranAms. Whenever I think of beauty,ANdAL only 
comes to my mind(no Mona Lisa or supermodels). ANdAL is incomparable 
in madisAru(9 yards),ANdAL koNdai(par of the hair is knotted into a 
bun shape) and that great wedding garland. She knew very well about 
Her own charms and that's why She chose the Tall,Dark and Handsome 
SriRanganTha. I am sure all SV females love to get married in ANdAL's 
way.

We can talk,without getting tired physically,mentally and 
spiritually,about ANdAL and Her Divine works anytime. I don't have 
any status/background to talk about her works but I can talk about my 
feelings for her. The best temple(I have seen 13 divya desams) I 
enjoyed from all angles was the vENugOpal temple in Malleswaram, 
Bangalore. I don't feel as if I'm entering a SV temple if there are 
no shrines for Ramanuja,maNavALa mAmunigaL,ANdAL and AzhvArs. I spent 
my childhood in Tiru AllikkENi so I don't remember much how much I 
enjoyed as a small girl. But in Bangalore,I could enjoy that thAyAr
(Sri),ANdAL,vENugOpAl,Cakkaraththu AzhvAr, SriRama,rAmAnuja,maNavALa 
mAmunigaL,AzhvArs wholeheartedly. 

In that temple,ANdAL was always decorated nicely and it 
was a feast to see her standing so beautifully in madisaru. I used to 
go to that temple daily. Everyday I would walk to the temple and it's 
a beautiful temple and I hated to come out of it and come back to 
this stupid world! The bhattar in that temple was a gem of a person 
and another bhAgavathA(70 yrs old and with 12 pattai tirumaN)would 
come for sure on all SV occasions and I would see him less on other 
days(may be our timings didn't match). I would go to that temple on 
occasions just to see that bhAgavatha(more than the Lord) in 12 
tirumaNs and listen to his chanting. If I don't see him on festive 
days I don't feel good that day. He inspired me a lot to feel proud 
of our tennAcArya sampradAyam. When it comes to bhagavad and 
bhAgavath anubhavams,no words can suffice and justify our feelings. 
Let ANdAL bless us all to do eternal service to emperumAnAr,his 
darshanam(SV sampradAyam) and his possession(sri ranganATha/sriman 
nArAyaNa).

AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE sharaNam
NC Nappinnai 




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