SrI: Dear BhakthAs: A dear aasthikA pointed out a typo in the 52nd nAmam for Lord Garudan in the AshtOtthara Satham that I posted earlier.I thank him for catching this typo. That 52nd nAmA should read : (PraNavam) AruNa anantharAya Nama: (One who was born after AruNan , the Charioteer of Soorya BhagavAn. In deference to His elder brother's request , Garudan did not kill the serpents , which serve as the ropes to the Soorya ratham that AruNan drives . Due to the natural enimity between Garudan and Snakes , Lord VishNu and AruNan had to seek the understanding of Garudan to spare their favorite serpents (AadhisEshan for Lord VIshNu ) and the 7 ropes of Sun's chariot for the elder brother of Garudan , AruNan ). The 52nd NaamA was typed mistakenly as "AruNAntharAya nama:" That does not make much sense. Please replace it with the correct version. If any one needs these 108 Garuda NaamAs for archanai at Garudan Sannidhi at home or at the temple , I will be happy to send it to you .Please let me know about mailing address . SrI Garuuda Gaayathri is a powerful manthram that you can recite. If you do not have upadEsam , Please meditate on Your own AchAryan and invoke him as Guru to initiate this manthram and the PakshirAja Mantram and start your japams. Garuda Manthram was the family treasure of Swamy Desikan's family and he recieved upadEsam of this powerful manthram from his AchAryan , Swamy AppuLLAr (SrI AthrEya RaamAnujAr) . Another point I forgot to mention among the temples where Garuda BhagavAn is famous for Garudan are : SrIvilliputthUr , where Garudan ( Garuda amsam is PeriyAzhwAr) stands on the yEka Peetam with SrI Ranga MannAr and Our dear ANDAL. The gigantic Garudan at SrIrangam and its replica at Lord RanganAthA's temple at Pomona , NY are relevant in this context . At TherazhunthUr Garudan has an exalted palce of honor in the garbha graham.He stands to the left of PerumAL, while PrahlAdha AzhwAr stands to the right of GhOsakan. At ThiruveLLiyankudi dhivya dEsam , Garudan stands with Sanka-chakram at Kolavilli Raaman Sannidhi. At BadarikAsramam , One has the sevai of Garudan with Nara-NaarAyaNAls and ThAyaar as well as with KubhEran. At ThiruvallikkENi, He gives us His sEvai carrying GajEndhra Varadhan in a Tani Sannidhi close to TeLLIya Singham's Sannidhi ( Lord Narasmhan's sannidhi). Similar gajendhra Varadhan Sannidhi is at Takkan Kulam Bank at ChOLa Simha Puram for the benefit of ThoddAcchar Swamy , a great rasikA of the Garuda Sevai at Kaanchi. Speaking of Garuda Sevais , The ones that are famous at various dhivya Desams are: 1. Kaanchipuram VaikAsi Garuda sEvai 2. Aani Garuda Sevai at srivilliputthUr (para Tatthva NirNaya Sevai) 3.Aadi garuda Sevai at Kaanchi (GajEndhra Moksham) 4. SrIrangam Garuda SEvais (Thai, Maasi, Panguni and Chittirai Maasa Garuda Sevais). 5. NacchiyAr Koil Garuda Sevai for VanjuLa Valli NaTan ( ThirunaRayUr nampi) during Marghazhi. NaacchiyAr Koil is known as a kshEthram , where NeeLA DEvi has the highest recognition just as Oppiliappan Koil has the specail recognition for BhUmi DEvi. 4. The eleven Garuda Sevais in the month of Thai to honor Thirumangai Mannan by the Eleven PerumALs in and around ThirunAngUr: ** Maadhava PerumAL of Thiru ThEvanAr Thohai ** SrInivAsan of ThiruveLLakkuLam ** GopAla KrishNan of ThirukkAvaLampAdi ** Varada Raajan of ThirumaNikkooDam ** ParthasArathy of Thiru PaarthanpaLLI ** NaarAyaNan of ThirumaNi MaadakkOil ** PurushOtthaman of Thiru VaNN PuruDOtthamam ** Vaikuntha Naatan of Thiru Vaikuntha ViNNagaram ** Hema Rangan of Thirucchemponn Sey Koil ** SenkaNNmAl of Thiru TheRRiyambalam ** GopAlan of Thiru ArimEya ViNNagaram To be there during this 11 Garuda Sevai and witnes the MangaLAsAsaNam of Thriumangai AzhwAr is a great BhAgyam. 5. Onpathu (Nine) Garuda Sevai at Nava Thiruppathis in and around AzhwAr Thirunagari during VaikAsi assembled for MangaLAsAsanam of Swamy NammazhwAr: ** Vaikuntha Naatan of SrI Vaikuntam ** VijayAsanan of VaraguNa Mangai(Nattham) ** Kaaycchina VEndhan of ThiruppuLiyankudi ** DevappirAn Of Tholaivili Mangalam ** Aravindha Lochanan of Irattai Thiruppathi ** MaayakkUtthan of PerumkuLam ** Vaittha Maanidhi of ThirukkOLUr ** Makara NedumkuLakkAthan of Tenn ThiruppErai ** Aadhi NaaTan of ThiukkuruhUr / AzhwAr Thirunahari Swamy NammAzhwAr will ride on Hamsa Vaahanam for this MangaLAsAsanam of the Nine PerumALs on Garudan to recieve their SaThakOpan's MangaLAsAsanams. Maasi BrahmOthsava garuda SEvai at AhObilam is also very important . At AhObilam , Garudan did penance on a mountain (Gaaruda Sailam ) to have the darsana soubhAgyam of Lord Narasimhan as He appeared before PrahlAdhan at the time of HiraNya SamhAram . Lord was pleased with the Tapas of Garudan and appeared before Him as JwAlA Narasimhan . adiyEn concludes this special Posting on Garuda BhagavAn with a reference to japam of Garuda manthram that was recited by Swamy Desikan to gain Garuda SaakshAthkAram and HayagrIva manthrOpadesam from the Veda Moorthy, VaynathEyan on OushadhAdhri at Thiruvaheendhrapuram. PakshirAja Manthram has anga nyAsa , Kara NyAsams and ashta dhig Bhandhams and is better to receive it as Upadesams from those , who have been initated . NamO SrI Garudaaya , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan P.S: With folded hands , adiyEn seeks your particpation in the ThiruvahIndhrapuram RathnAngi Kamkaryam to be celebrated on October 5, 2003 (PUrattAsi SravaNam day at ThiruvahIndhrapuram). To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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