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 ! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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