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Sri:

Dear AasthikAs :

VenkadAdhri Samam sTAnam BrahmANDE naasthi kinchana
VenkatEsa SamO DevO na bhUthO na bhavishyathi

It is useful to recall how the second day's program got shaped .
  When adiyEn left these shores , I had no plans to travel to Thirumala 
  this time . adiyEn's fear was that the programs were already were very tight
  and that it would be very difficult to travel to Thirumala to have the 
blessings of 
  Malayappa Swamy this time . adiyEn consoled myself by saying that adiyEn 
  is going to visit the elder brother of Saptha Gireesan , Sri Oppiliappan and 
that 
  it was my prAptham this year . 

  On landing at Chennai , I learned from my sister that one of her dear 
students had brought
  the day before the laddu prasAdham from Thirumala and said that I can not 
come to India 
  and return without visiting Thirumala . In Kali Yugam , the Lord speaks thru 
His bhakthAs
  and bhAgavathAs . Hence , I accepted this new situation as Bhagavath 
niyamanam and
  changed the original plans . The son of my sister's student is a dynamo and 
is a whirl wind of 
  activity , who is at Thirumala at the drop of a coin . He knew all the VIPs 
there and as a result
  made all the arrangements for the trip from Chennai and went ahead to 
Thirumala 
  to prepare the lodging and SevAs . 

  The first stop:
  ******************
  Our first stop was at ThirucchAnUr to have the sevai of PadmAsani ThAyAr .
  It was dolOthsavam season . We had a wonderful darsanam of Moolavar .
  Uthsavar was missing . As we came out of the temple and turned right to reach 
  our car to begin the climb to Thirumala , another miracle happened . We heard
  the sound of Naathaswaram and MeLam as for PuRappAdu . Lo and Behold ! 
  Uthsavar PadmAsani left the DolOthsava Mantapam to return to AasthAnam 
  and we were fortunate to be blessed with Her adhbhutha sevai . Had we been 
  few minutes earlier or later , we would have missed Her anugraham .  

  It was all Bhagavath Sankalpam .   Who are we to look into the sambhandham 
between 
  Kaaryam and KaaraNam ? Swamy Desikan establishes however a tight realtionship 
between
  KaaraNam and Kaaryam in NyAya SiddhAnjanam . adiyEn said to myself that 
  the Supreme Master , Lord VenkatAchalapathy must have His own reason to 
command me 
  to arrive at His divine presence . The KaaraNam/Niyamanam became clear at the 
end of this trip . 
  Next , adiyEn also said to myself that He was giving the sankEtham that he 
was pleased with 
  the recently completed Kaimkaryam of the commentary on Sri VenkatEsa 
AshtOttharam , 
  which is recited in Hs presence every day at Thirumala. The VarAha PurANam 
version of 
  Sri VenkatEsa AshtOttharam and Sri VenkatEsa Sahasra Naamams are recited 
every day :

  http://www.sadagopan.org/snan/an7.htm 

  Above URL gives the text of  AshtOtthara Naamams  from VarAha PurANam.
  This is what is recited inside the Sannidhi of the Lord every day . There is 
another
  version of Sri VenkatEsa AshtOtthara NaamAs from BrahmANDa PurANam, which
  you can access at :

  http://www.sadagopan.org/snan/an2.htm 

  Meanings for both AshtOttharams along with the text and Meanings for the Sri 
VenkatEsa 
  SuprabhAtham , SthOthram , Prapatthi and Mangalam are available at :

  http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/oppiliappan/sva/bv.html

  Clicking on the images will let you access the text and meanings of individual
  Sri VenkatEsa AshtOttharams .

  The night of Oct 18 , 2005
  ***********************************
  We had arrived late in the evening of Oct 18, the second day of the visit at 
ThirumAla
  and had spacious lodgings at Sri Hathiram Babaji Matam . The rooms in this 
Matam are 
  just in front of the Southern walls of Sri VenkatEswara Temple . From the 
balcony of 
  the room , one can see the Anandha VimAnam of Lord VenkatEswara at a distance 
of
  200 feet . The entire Main entrance , Dhwaja Sthambham , the white gOpuram 
and 
  the sacred Ananda VimAnam with VimAna VenkatEswarar are so close that one 
wants 
  to stay at the balcony and have the uninterrupted Sevai of the VimAnam all 
night 
  and day . 

  Parama Bhaktha Sri Hathiram Babaji was a Manahthu from North and was a devout
  devtee of Sri Balaji . The Lord was so fond of His BhakthA that he came to 
the aasramam
  of Babaaji and amused Himself by playing dice with him . Over that sacred 
site , a Matam
  has risen with spacious accomodations . Even today , akanda Raama Naama 
sankeerthanam 
  takes place in front of the shrine of BaabAji , where the dice cloth used by 
BhagavAn and BaabAji 
  is preserved . 

  After settling down in the room under the shadow of Ananda VimAnam , there 
was a rumor
  that tickets were available for EkAntha SevA at 1.30 AM . We stood in line 
for the tickets 
  with the hope that we would be one of the fortunate 200 ticket holders 
allowed entry 
  for the unique ( last ) sevai for the day . 

  During the EkAntha SevA is SayanOthsavam . The Silver archA of Bhoga 
SrinivAsan
  is placed in a cradle bed at Ardha Mandapam and a descendant of Saint 
Annamayya 
  lulls the Lord to sleep with few songs comp[osed by his illustrious 
predecessor .
  Prior to that milk and cashew nuts are presented to the Lord . Two balls of 
Sandal paste 
  mixed with saffron in the form of an orange are placed at the feet of 
Moolavar .
  Big vessel contianing water is placed inside the garbha gruham for use by 
Brahma
  DevA for His aarAdhanam in the night . The Lord does not have much rest . Soon
  they will have SuprabhAtham and Viswaroopam followed by ArchanAs to prepare 
  the Lord for another gruelling day of audience to devotees .

  Although we stood in the Queue on that calm and cool night to get EkAntha 
Seva 
  Tickets , we were 10 persons away from the 200th person and hence could not
  get the sevA tickets . We tried ! The Lord wanted us to come next day for
  ArchAnanathara and Peddha Jeeyar SaaRRumurai Sevai . During the time 
  adiyEn spent waiting in the queue , thoughts about the bhakthAs that have 
assembled 
  at the Seven hills to have the darsanam of the Lord kept cropping up . The 
state of
  mind of Saint ThyagarAja and his humble prayer housed in his Gowlipanthu 
krithi
  ( teratheeyaga raadhA ) went round and round in the head :

  http://www.malolan.org/trk21.htm

  After we learnt that we could not be blessed with the tickets for EkAntha 
Sevai ,
  we returned to the Matam for the night . Meanwhile a gentle fog has provided 
  a cover for the Ananda VimAnam . It was almost 2 A.M . We fell asleep in 
anticipation
  of the soubhAgyams to follow next day and were up at 4 A.M to be prepared in 
case
  our friend could manage last minute seva tickets for SuprabhAtha Sevai . We 
got 
  tickets for ArchanAnthara Sevai alone . We heard the SuprabhAtham , Sthothram 
, 
  Prapatthi and MangaLam from our balcony and enjoyed the divine sight of 
  Ananada VimAnam embraced by the morning dew .

  After ArchanAnthara sevai , adiyEn was toild to stay inside the Mantapam of
  AchArya RaamAnuja Sannidhi to wait for the SaaRRumuRai SEvai . adiyEn
  spent 45 minutes there and reflected upon the slOkams of DayA Sathakam and 
  AzhwAr AruLiccheyalkaL on ThiruvEnkadamudayAn . adiyEn will describe
  them and the SaaRRumuRai SEvai in the next posting .    
                                                                                
  
  NaarAyaNa , NaarAyaNa , NaarAyaNa ,
  Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil V.Sadagopan

  P.S : May I request the abhimAnis and SishyAs of Ahobila Matam to contact
  me with respect to their particpation in the forthcoming 79th Thirunakshathram
  of Srimath Azhagiya Singar ? Your participation in the form of Paadha 
KaaNikkai
  on this auspicious occasion permits our AchAryan to undertake the many 
  Kaimkaryams in a  tieless manner . 
  Thank You .   


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