Dear Renganatha bhakthas,
as Smt.Varadarajan Swamin says, its purely correct. The temple
rules that is how to perform aradhana,etc. to Lord Sri Renganathar
had been framed by Srimath RamanujAchArya. According to that only
these rituals are carried out. These sequence wont be changed
under any circumstances. One old incident has to be remembered
which had taken place at SriRangam some years ago.
Onece a Vijayanagara king (Still he and his family members statue
is present along the prakAram of Sri Rangam temple near the steps
to Santhanu mandapam where Namperumal will enter inside the mandapam
called "Karpoora PadiyEtra sEvai") and his family members wanted
to have darshan of this karpoora padiyEtra sEvai of namperumal
and came to Sri Rangam. But unfortunately, that sEvai was completed
and Namperumal entered into the Santhanu Mandapam before the royal
families arrived to the temple. They requested to perform "Once More"
-"Ochettiki" in telugu- the sEvai. But the bhattars declined that
and said " You are after all a King of small region within this
globe, but HE is sarvalOka saranyan, sarvaratshkan, amarar athipathi
KING OF KINGS, Raja of Rangam, HE wont do or repeat again for you!!!"
Then it is said that, those royal families didnt returned to their
kingdom and waited there within the temple itself and died. This
prescription is written in SriRangam temple still now.
So, Namperumal wont abide for the sake of us. Its always better
we should obey the rules whatever laid by our poorvAchAryars.
Thanks for the bhakthas who have expressed the same view like
adiyen.
adiyen
senthil.b
--- In Oppiliappan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ara Ram <aravaram@...> wrote:
>
> Dear Friends:
>
> I am sorry to see that our temples are turning out to be places
where the Lord Himself is shackled down by kgs of gold and diamonds
and rubies. Yes, it is good to see Him decorated with jewels of all
kinds, but it is equally pleasurable to see Him decorated in His
various forms too. Even Lord Ranganatha Himself is being decorated as
Mohini in Srirangam one day in the year and there is great crowd year
after year to see Him in that form. They can't dress the
Ananthasayana in Srirangam as Mohini, so they do it on the moorthi
which they take out. However, in Tirupathi I have seen the standing
Lord Venkateshwara being decorated, and I have seen likewise Lord
Krishna in Guruvayur being dressed differently every hour. Once I
wished very much to see Lord Ranganatha in the Mohini alankaram, but
could not reach Srirangam on time. I regretted that very much, but
when I reached Tirupathy later, I saw Him dressed in the same Mohini
veesham during dharsan there. Another time He was
> dressed as Narasimha and it brought ecstasy to me both times. I am
sure many of you have had similar experiences too! So, I don't see
any reason why in the Ranganatha temple abroad they should not dress
up Lord Ranganatha as Rama or Krishna or Narasimha. It is not the
North Indian or South Indian custom, for He belongs to the whole
universe. I wish that we change our attitude and make Him accessible
in all of His different forms to all of the people who love Him,
especially to those who do not know Him that well, but yearn to get
close to Him. Lord Krishna allowed this to all Gopikas and Lord
Ranganatha Himself accepted one of the Thayars in the form of a
muslim princess. Why then in India, in the temples, they are still
sidelining and preventing the white devotees from having His dharsan
as others do? I am not advocating that we should dilute our values,
but our blind belief without proper understanding is what is causing
us problems. Lack of acceptable answers has been
> leading our children away from our virtuous path. Temples in US
have to adjust to the needs of all Hindus and of those others who
adore Him in His various forms such as Krishna, and they should
become the center where people can learn more freely about Him. I
suggest that we set up a place in front of every temple where the
devotees can offer the prayers the way they like, of course, in a
kind and gentle way. There is such a place in Tirupathy where the
devotees can freely light up camphor and offer it to Him, even though
it is about 100 meters away from His sanctum. This may be to reduce
the crowding and allow free access to all those who desire to light
up a lamp or camphor. Many temples in the northern parts of India
have such places in front of the sanctum. Why not have such a
separate place in front of the Lord where people can freely offer
their aarhties? Temple authorities should consider this and other
desires of the devotees, such as the one indicated in the
> request of Anjoonair, seriously and enable them to be fulfilled
appropriately.
>
> Aravamudhan Raman
> aravaram@...
>
>
>
>
> anjoonair <anjoonair@...> wrote:
> There is We have a beautiful temple where Perumal is
standing in all Glory ( OVERSEAS }
> There is very restricted celebration of Sri Rama Navami and Sri
Krishna Jayanthi .
>
> I requested the Bhattar maybe we should celebrate Sri Krishna
Janmastami grandly - ( for I
> am longing to see the Perumal dressed as Sree Krishnan and also for
my North Indians }
>
> Imagine my Horror when the Sri Rangam Bhattar replied '' inke elame
Perumaleka than
> Pannum" - meaning to say we cannot celebrate Janmashtami grandly .
ie his 15 min
> celebration is more than enough .
>
> It is a case I am taking all the way up to Perumal and will request
an answer from HIM.
>
> Was he not Sree Rama ?
> Was he not Sree Krishna ?
> What is wrong in my request ?
>
> Learned and wise men from this group may kindly answer my Query.
>
> This Bhattar has even stopped burning Karpooram - He advised as per
the rules in India
>
> What is wrong with this Sri Rangam Bhattar ????????
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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