Sri :
Dear Sri Ramaa BhakthAs :
In Sri RanganAtha Temple at Pomona , NY , there is
one of the most
beautiful Raamar Sannidhis with SithA PirAtti ,
LakshmaNa Swamy
and AnjanEyar . Our priests are offering daily
aaarAdhanam to
this Sri Raamachandra ParivAram . The Temple
priests are waiting for
the successful fund raising to have living quarters
of their own outside
the Temple abasement , where they are living .
The fund raising efforts are
going slow .adiyEn seeks your particpation in this
effort to make the priests
lives a little better far away from home
.
adiyEn thought that it will be appropriate to
focus on the individual
(EIGHT) sannidhis of Sri RanganAtha Temple
and the Krithis
or AruL Vaakku of AazhwArs during this season of
NavarAthri
stretching into Kaarthigai Dheepam followed by
the ThiruppAvai
season .
AdiyEn has chosen Saint ThyagarAja's krithi in the
beautiful
AsAvEri Raagam as a starter among the 8 Sanidhis at
the Temple :
Pallavi : LEkanaa ninnu juddukOnnAru
?
yEka hrudhayulai nithyAnandhamu anupallavi: Srikara ! KaruNA sAgara ! nirupama
chinmayA ! Sritha chinthAmaNi ! neeyeDa
( The FOUR sabdha prayOgams used by
Sri ThyAgarAja SwamigaL
in anupallavi are
mesmerizing and one can visualize many RaamayaNams
that can
be written about them: Aasritha Vathsalyam , SaraNAgatha
rakshaNa vratham , Vara
Pradhathvam , Jn~Anadha Svaroopam).
Pallavi : SoundharyamulalO
sukhamu Seethammaku
Soumithriki ganulu jADala sukhamu
Sundara mukhamuna sukhamu Bharthuniki
Suj~nAna roopamuna sukhamu Ripugnuniki
CharaNa yugamunandhu sukhamAnjanEyuniki
VaraguNa
ThyagarAja varadhAnandhamu ( LEkanaa)
Oh Raamachandra! Will all Your dear ones hovering
around
You in a state of everlasting bliss with their
hearts united with
their minds ? What is it that makes them enter
into this state of
bliss ? Oh bestower of Sarva MangaLams ! Oh the
limitless ocean
of DayA ! Oh matchless Jn~Ana Moorthy ! Oh
wish-granting Kalpaka
Vruksham to Your devotees ! Let me guess as to
what draws Your
family members (Raama Parivaaram) to You in this
bewitched
state .
Let me start with Your dear consort SithA PirAtti
, the most
beautiful among all women . Your dhivya
mangaLa vigraham
(Divine and most auspicious form) defining the 32
marks of
beauty for a male ( soundharya LakshaNam) draws
Her to You
and She derives Her happiness from that beauty of
Yours .
That is SithA BhAgyam !
Your brother LakshmaNan ( LakshmaNO Lakshmi
Sampanna: ) ,
the epitome of Kaimkarya Sri , derives his pleasure through
Your commands and through the movements of Your
eyes indicating Your wishes .This is Soumithri"s BhAgyam !
Bharata 's good fortune is to dwell on Your
charming face
(Sundara Mukham) . He finds His apAra
aanandham there.
That is His BhAgyam !
Satrugnan , the undefeated conqueror of his
Indhriyams
( SatrugnO nithya Satrughna: ) derives his joy
from Your
personality radiant with Sujn~Anam ( auspicious
knowledge)
about lOka neethi , Raaja dharmam and adhyAthma
Saasthrams
culminating in SaraNAgatha RakshaNam for anyone ,
who seeks
the unfailing refuge of His sacred feet
.
Your devoted servant , AanjanEyan found His
bliss by holding on
firmly to Your dhivya CharaNAravaindham ( Divine
pair of lotus
soft feet ) as His Jeevana SaamrAjyam
.
As for myself , another member of your intimate
family , I derive
my joy from looking at this happy
Coronation ( PattAbhishEkam)
scene/tabeleau , where the team of SithA-
LakshmaNa -Bharatha -
Satrughna-AnjanEyA are immersed in the ocean of Joy experiencing
one or the other of Your many divine and bewitching attributes !
Raama Daasan , V.Sadagopan
Danishta Nakshathram , TaaraNa Vijaya Dasami Day
P.S : Next time we will have the sevai at Sri
Venugopalan
Sannidhi at the temple and listen to the Susvarams
arising from His magic flute
.
P.P.S : Please take part in this
fund raising effort to help realize
the permanent quarters outside
the temple for the priests
in the year 2005 .There is a
raffle scheduled on midnight
Decemeber 31 , 2004 , where
three winners have the chance
to win either a 2005 Model
BMW car or a Time shared
beach apartment for two weeks
/year in Virginia Beach or two
round trip tickets to India from
here (http://www.ranganatha.org).
The raffle ticket cost is just
$100 .
PLEASE PARTICiPATE IN THIS
KAIMKARYAM TO THE LORD
AND HIS PRIESTS ENGAGED IN
SERVING HIM DAY & NIGHT !
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