The best answer I got from this group. Thankyou
Mine was only a request on behalf of devotees. What is the point of holding
Gita Classes,
Ramayana Classses in our temples on Saturdays { Please bear in mind I am
talking about
Temples constructed overseas}
The committe goes to great lengths to advocate Hindu Culture when the fact
remains the
Bhattar in question does not even acknowledge Sree Rama and Sree Krishna as
avathars of
Perumal .
Children atleast need to see how Lord krishna looked and How Sree Rama looked -
Not
that we humans are capable of even describing HIM.
All mantra upacharanam is in Tamil only . So I trained a few people to sing
Annamacharya
Krithis. By the grace of God my next venture is to train people to sing
Ashatapadis and
Srinivasa Gadyam. Hope Perumal will look at me Kindly eventhough the devotees
are vey
appreciative .
A Temple belongs to everyone [ again Overseas } . I would love every Hindu
child to know
and appreciate the Hindu Dharma and this query was only to show How eventhough
our
thoughts are Good sometimes people in power abuse it .
To make it clear Our Temple Calander for years does not mention "Sree Krishna
Jayanthi "
Only the day is marked is" Sree Jayanthi " . Hopefully it will be added from
next year .
Please excuse any lapses
anjoo.
--- 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 ????????
>
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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