Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha
Dear Sri Srikanth,
Thanks a lot for such a great writeup on the
wonderful experience you had. Adiyen couldn't resist tears rolling down my
cheeks on reading your following lines:
With a very heavy heart and telling the local
people that we have given our Lord (our daughter) in marriage to their Son and
requested them to take care of our perumal ver well. we left the place
The anubhavam is still lingring in our minds and the moment we think of our
lord our eyes get moistened as though we have left him there in the hands of
Dewaswom Board.
We were not blessed enough to be there during the
samprokshanam and be part of the history. But azhvar and perumal gave us a
divine EkAntha darshan when we visited the divine place this weekend. It
was really a very great amazing experience to witness a temple in Kerala built
in TN temple style following Pancharatra Agama. Truely there is some
attraction in the temple as we didn't feel like leaving the place at all.
Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE
sharaNam
Adiyen ramanuja dAsan/dAsee
Varadarajan/Sumithra
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 4:20
PM
Subject: [ramanuja] Personal Account of
Samprokshanam of Sri Srinivasa Perumal Kulasekhara Azhwar temple in
Thiruvanjikalam
Dear Bhagavathas, I was personally there to
witness what all had been posted in the earlier mails regarding this
historical event. Sri. U.Ve A. Krishnamachary swamy of Sri Vaishnava Sri
told us that the history of constructing a temple for an azhwar is being
repeated after nearly 800 years. ie after manavala mamunigals time. Hence we
were were all a part of the history. A temple with an architecture which
you find in tamilnadu with pancharatra agama.
The local crowd was
overwhelmed by seeing our lord utsavamurthy so near to them. decorated in a
ananda sayanam with the two pirattis doing thiruvadi kainkaryam. - The local
crowd has always seen god smaller in size in the lights of a thiruvilakku
only.
The local crowd was also thrilled to have different types of
prasadam which was distributed to them on all the days
There was also
a thadiaradhanam arranged for the local people the previous day of the
samprokshanam in which they had to their hearts content. The thadhiaradhanm
started at 11.00 AM and went on till 3.00 pm with for each pandhi some 150
people had lunch.
On the eve of Samprokshanam day there was colorful
display of fireworks lighting the whole place.
The next day the
ghosthi began at 6.30 AM and went on to clock precision. All the credit should
go to Thirukoshtiyor Madavan who conducted it in avery nice and orderly
manner.
As posted by Sriman Murali seshadri we were all surprised to
see T. Madavan healthy and running around to do kainkaryam to our
lord.
Three elephants were brought decorated in a typical kerala style
for the occassion. Also we had Jandai vadhyam along with our traditional
Melam
The samprokshanam took place at 9.50 AM and the after the
samprokshanam the utsavamurthies of lord along with Sree and Bhoo devis and
Kulasekara Azhwar were placed in their respective sanctom Sanctorium and the
doors of the Moolavar were closed.
After the samprokshanm the doors
were opened by Our Swamy, His elder Brother Sriman Raman Samy, and the builder
Sriman Ramanujam Swamy and the place reverberated with the shouts of Govindha
Govindha Govindha Govindha.
Immediately the local crowd who were not
allowed to enter the temple during the samprokshanam were allowed first to
have darshan of the lord and as usual as we see in thirumala there was a heavy
surge of people in such a small temple and we had a heavy task of regulating
the people to come in line.
One localite was heard saying that quote"
Every year I make it a point to go to thirupathi Now the lord has come so near
to me It is as if Iam standing in front of thiruvengadamudiyan"
Unquote
After the local crowd darshan the grand Sattrumurai was held at
11. 45 AM for 45 minutes to one hour .
After the sattrumurai all the
adhayapaka swamys were honoured by our swamy with a sambhavanai.
At
3.00 PM we had the thirukalaya utsavam of Lord Srinivasa and the local
crowd was present in large numbers so witness the thirukalyana mahotsavam.
The samprokshanam and the thirukalyana utsavams was well attended by
the Cochin Devasawom Board people from president , commissioner etc and the
local Dewaswom board reprasentative. They were all honoured by H.H. Vadikesari
Azhagiya Manavala Jeeyar Swamy.
Our swamy dedicated this temple in the
memory of Keerthi murthy Karapangadhu Varadhacharya swamy and his four
disciples
After the Thirukalayana utsavam there was thiruveedhi
Purrapadu of lord along with Nachiyars and Kulasekara
azhwar.
With a very heavy heart and telling the local people that we
have given our Lord (our daughter) in marriage to their Son and requested
them to take care of our perumal ver well. we left the place
The
anubhavam is still lingring in our minds and the moment we think of our lord
our eyes get moistened as though we have left him there in the hands of
Dewaswom Board. But we also know that our lord knows how to take care of
himself and we can wish that this is first step in bringing the kerala crowd
also to thirumala else the keep wandering into some other hills
I just
wanted to share my anubhavam with all the people in our group Kindly pardon
me if there are any mistakes in my posting I remain
Adiyen Ramanuja
Dasan S.Srikanth
azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr
thiruvadigalE saranam
azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
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