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Srimathe ramanujaya namaha
Srimathe nigamanta mahadesikaya namaha

Dear bhagavathas,

namO nArAyaNaa. adiyen's pranamams.

adiyen is extremely glad to inform all of you that we had wonderful 
celebration of our acharya's Thirunakshatram for the seventh year in 
row. Way back in 1997 on a Purattasi sravanam day bhagavathas Sri 
Madabushi Sudarshan and Sri IVK Chary swamin have started this 
satsangh in Bahrain and since then we are assembling once in a month 
on the sravanam day to recite the divine sookthis of Swami Desikan. 
Also every year the Thirunakshatram of Sri Desika is being celebrated 
in a grand manner. Now these two bhagavathas are living in Kuwait and 
you are aware of the various satsangh activities going on there thru 
thiruvenkatam group mails. adiyen understand that in Dubai also 
Thirunakshatram celebrations were planned. In short Swami desika is 
remembered very well in Gulf today.

This year we had three day celebration and adiyen will give a brief 
account of them.

Day 1 (26th Sep): 

We had a children's day with recitation competition of Desika stotras 
and Desika prabandham and divya prabandham followed by a quiz on the 
life history of our acharyas. adiyen has been sharing whatever little 
known to me with the children here and they have been taught many 
stotras and prabandhams. So in order to encourage them we are 
conducting competitions around this time and prizes are being given 
to the winners along with certificates from Srimad Poundripuram 
andavan under Sri Seshadri swami's "Orondru thaane amaiyadhO" scheme.

Sixteen children have participated in the competition and it was a 
treat to watch them performing in front of the parents and other 
goshti members. Although the booklet compiled by adiyen on the life 
history of acharyas was around 35 pages, the children were sharp and 
shooting the answer even before the question was completed. We were 
delighted at the enthusiasm of the children.

Day 2: (3rd Oct)

Being weekend here, our goshti members have assembled around 4 PM to 
recite the entire Sri Desika prabandham in one sitting. It was a 
great experience and every one of us enjoyed the seva kalam, which 
went for 3 hours. Once in year we are doing recitation of entire 
Desika prabandham although few of them are recited during every 
sravanam and during anadhyayana period. You may aware that our gosthi 
members Sri Ananth and Sri Narayanan have recited entire desika 
prabandham and this is available in a MP3 CD. For more details visit 
our web site http://srivaishnavam.com

Day 3 ( 5th Oct) Thirunakshatram day

Yesterday we have assembled at the residence of Sri V.Murali swamin 
around 7 PM and the recitation commenced with Pancha suktam followed 
by nityanusandhanam and Thiruvaymozhi. Sri Thiruvenkatamudaiyan's 
pasurams Ozhivil kaalam and Ulagam unda peruvaayaa were recited from 
Thiruvaymozhi.

On desika stotrams, Hayagreeva stotram, Bhagavad dhyana sopanam , 
Daya shatakam (part), Dasavatara stotram, Sristuthi and part of 
Yatiraja saptathi were recited. Children's goshti have recited 
Kamasikashtakam and Nyasa dasakam and adaikkalappaththu. The 
recitation session concluded with recitation of Pillai andhadhi. New 
stotra padam lesson was started for the children on this auspicious 
Vijaya dasami day.

Our goshti member Sri Ananth has been sharing the meaning of Sri 
stuthi slokas during every sravanam and yesterday this he has 
concluded this kaimkaryam. adiyen spoke briefly on the glories of 
Swami desika and why he is considered as an avataram of Lord 
Srinivasa.

Our ladies goshti then sang Sri Oppiliappan pasurmas and many desika 
prabandham pasurams set to traditional carnatic music. They have been 
putting lots of efforts in the past few weeks and it was a treat to 
listen to their presentation. adiyen will encode and upload them to 
our site and send a note for the pleasure of your listening.

We had traditional thiruvaradanam and adiyen was blessed to perform 
this on this occasion. Slowly more and more Saligrama moorthys are 
blessing us here in Bahrain as every goshti member is inspired to do 
thiruvarandana and they are bringing the moorthys from their home 
after their visit to India.

The perumal and acharya sambhavana collection of this evening will be 
sent to Thiupputkuzhi divya desam for various ongoing kaimkaryams, 
which are being 
coordinated thru Sri V Murali swamin.

Then prizes were distributed to the winners of stotra padam, 
pranbandham and quiz competitions along with certificates. This time 
adiyen has printed the certificates in English so that the children 
can read them on their own. The children were thrilled and this 
competitive spirit has kindled their interest to learn more and more 
in the days to come, which was indeed the very purpose of this 
competition.

Not to miss out to mention the delicious prasadam that was served 
finally. Elaborating the menu in detail will make you feel more 
hunger on this upavasam (today is ekadasi) day. Many bhagavathas have 
put in great efforts to make a grand feast for the Lord Srinivasa and 
Swami desikan and our sincere thanks to all of them.

It was close to 11 PM and for about 4 hours we were in a different 
spiritual plane and the event was indeed memorable. adiyen will 
upload few of the images soon in our site and send a note to the e 
groups.

We are indeed blessed to have such a wonderful satsangh in a far away 
place where the local culture is totally different. We seek the 
blessings of Sriya:pathi and merciful acharyas to bless us to 
continue our humble efforts to observe and train our children about 
our sampradayam in a small way in this island.

Hope adiyen has not tested your patience.

regards,

adiyen ramanuja dasan,
VangIpuram R Venkataraghava dasan.






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