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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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