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Dear bhagavathas, 

namo narayana. adiyen's pranamams. 

adiyen dasan venkat from Bahrain. 

Yesterday(15th Oct), Our Bahrain goshti has celebrated
Swami desikan thirunakshatram in a grand manner.For
the past 6 years we have been gathering on every
sravanam to recite swami desikan stotras and desika
prabandham and celebrating purattasi sravanamn every
year in a grand manner. Last year we had the company
of Kuwait devotees and Sri Velukkudi Krishnan on this
occasion.Sri Velukkudi swami's upanyasam on Nyasa
dasakam is still fresh in our memory.

This year function was indeed a special one.The
highlights are: 

1.For the first time in Bahrain entire desika
prabandham was recited in one sitting as part of our
two day celebration. 

2. Competitions were conducted for children and prizes
and certificates were distributed to the winners.23
children aged from 4 to 13,were actively participated
in the Stotra recitation competition,A Quiz on the
life history of swami desika and drawing and colouring
competitions. Special mention has to be made about the
cryptic quiz where in questions were asked exclusively
from the 128 works of swami desika( Which of the
rahasya granthas are luptham,Which rahasya grantha
titles have tamil prabandhams in the same name etc.,)
and the children were sharp in shooting the correct
answer. It was amazing to note that the young children
have memorised the entire lot of 128 titles.Sri T G
Vijaykumar of Singapore has sent the certificate of
"ORonRu thaane amaiyaadhO" scheme and we are thankful
for this help.

3.We have released a MP3 CD of Sri desika prabandham
on this auspicious day.This CD has audio clips of
entire desika prabandham and texts of desika
prabandham and sri desika stotras in tamil,sanskrit
and english scripts.Sri Ananth and Narayanan of our
goshti has recited the pasurams in a traditional
manner.We have committed to donate the entire proceeds
from the sale of this CD for various divya desa
kaimkaryams.Please visit our site
http://srivaishnavam.com for more details.

Yesterday we have recited divya prabandham,Sri desika
stotras and sri desika prabandham for about two
hours.Ladies goshti have presented selected verses of
desika prabandham in a melodious voice which was
indeed a treat to ears.In the end,maha prasadam was
served.The sambhavana collection of this satsangh will
be donated to Sri Kainkarya for various kaimkaryams at
Thiruvaheendrapuram, where swami desikan has lived for
long years, admiring the charming beauty of sri
Hemambuja valli sametha Sri Devanayaka.

adiyen has uploaded few images taken during the
occasion in the following URL 

http://www27.brinkster.com/srivaishnavam/sravanam2002/images.html


Thanks for your patient reading and we seek the
blessings of all bhagavathas to continue our humble
kaimkaryams in this tiny island in Gulf.

regards 

adiyen ramanuja dasan, 

R.Venkat 



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