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 Dear Sriman Venkatesh and Smt Sumitra,

Nice to hear about Sri Parthasarathy from you people.
Sri Parthasarathy's suprabhAta stotra is wonderful and can be compared with 
Venkatesa Suprabhata. Recently Parthasarathy took me into His fold by making me 
actively participate in emberumAnAr utsavams particualry in chanitng stotras. 
Will write soon abt some kainkaryam as commanded by a swAmI.

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan
Srimahavishnu
--

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 02:00:41 
vinjamoor_venkatesh wrote:
>srImathE rAmAnujAya namaha
>srImadh varavara munayE namaha
>
>Dear Smt Sumitra,
>
>Thanks for the wonderful postings on ThiruvallikkENi. I enjoyed it a 
>lot, especially being away from home. The complete details that you 
>have given is great and there are no words to describe my happiness.
>
>For all of you who have read this wonderful postings on the 
>BrahmOtsavam, this year the BrahmOtsavam starts on 26th (the coming 
>Friday) April. This year one more speciality is that Sri 
>Parthasarathy will be giving sEvai to us on a grand new Garuda 
>vAhanam. Yes, this is made new now as the old one is dilapidated. I 
>got this news back from India. And the best of all, Garuda sEvai is 
>on 28th which is a Sunday. Request every one, who is in Chennai to 
>visit the temple and have the wonderful sEvai of Sri Parthasarathy in 
>his brand to "Garuda vAhanam" and enjoy the wonderful "EkAntha sEvai" 
>at 12.00 Noon. I am sure, every one will be just wanting to have this 
>after reading Smt Sumitra's postings. Just think about Sri 
>Parthasarathy being adorned with just the ThoppAram (a type of 
>thirumudi - Special for Garuda vAhanam and Hanumantha vAhanam days)
>and nothing but a garland of only roses, amidst the fragrance of the 
>incense sticks, under a cool palm leaf pandal, when the sun is 
>scorching outside it. Well, I can seen, many of you already preparing 
>yourselves to attend it.
>
>Smt Sumitra, your posting ended with utmost humility, but I have to 
>say that I feel "thalaiyallAl kaimmARilENE" for this wonderful 
>kainkaryam.
>
>Well, I will also be back in India, in time to enjoy this sEvai. See 
>you all there.
>
>AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam
>adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan
>Thirumalai Vinjamoor Venkatesh
>
>--- In ramanuja@xxxx, sumithra varadarajan <sumivaradan@xxxx> wrote:
>> Sri Parthasarathi thunai,
>> Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha
>> 
>> Pranams, 
>> 
>> Let us get the divine grace of the thayars in the
>> present posting. As Acharya Ramanuja started in his
>> Gadya Trayam with the prayer to Sridevi Nachiyar
>> (Ranganayaki) similarly my first posting was also on
>> the Thirukalyanam of Sri Vedavalli Thayar with Sri
>> Mannathan. Let me continue with the divine qualities
>> of this thayar. 
>> When Arjuna asks Sri Krishna to tell him about his
>> vibuthi, Krishna is taken aback and replies that even
>> he himself cannot say in full about his divine
>> qualities. In our sampradayam piratti also has
>> innumerable kalyana gunas like the emperuman. When
>> emperuman or the vedas are unable to say about the
>> kalyana gunas of the emperuman or that of the piratti,
>> who am I, a mandha buddhi jeevatma trying to post
>> something about perumal and piratti. But as our
>> acharyas say this is no harm to the kalyana gunas of
>> the perumal and piratti but it will surely show us the
>> right path and enlighten us.
>> About Vedavalli thayar, her charm and beauty no words
>> can describe. If I say sugar will be sweet can anyone
>> really know the taste just because I tasted it? Even
>> thousands of words of description for the taste of a
>> dish cannot match to a person who actually tastes it.
>> Similarly, even if I select infinite number of words
>> from the dictionary and try to explain about Shree
>> Vedavalli thayar, it will be no match to the real
>> anubavam of being their in person and enjoying her
>> Kalyana Gunas. So please do go to Thiruvallikeni to
>> get the real anubhavam. To have the top most joy, go
>> and see the thayar during a friday evening Purapaddu
>> with the Madal Ghoshti. You will then realise that
>> there is no other joy in this world even miles close
>> to that. Then the 10 days Navarathri Utsavam for
>> thayar is THE absolute. I can say nothing more than
>> this. 
>> There is one story in the guru paramparai. Once when
>> Ranganathan dressed himself like thayar wearing all
>> the jewels of thayar(Nachiyar tirukolam) came on
>> purapadu, one shisya of Sri Parasara Bhattar remarked
>> how beautiful perumal was and that he looks similar to
>> thayar. But Bhattar replied, "Yes he is very beautiful
>> but still he cannot have the same look of the
>> thayar"(AAnalum avvizhi vizhika vonnadu). Thayar has
>> a special kadakshum that even perumal doesn't have. 
>> That karunai vizhi is present with Vedavalli thayar
>> also, as in Srirangam we call her as Ranganayaki and
>> the same thayar in Thiruvallikeni is called Vedavalli.
>> Even in our day-to-day life, we see ladies have a
>> different name in their parents place and they are
>> called by a different name in their inlaws place. What
>> ever is in our ancestor's practice it is shown by
>> perumal and thayar.
>> 
>> 
>> Then Sri Andal has a separate sannadhi here. She
>> being an alwar takes the post of thayar here, being
>> the consort of Sri Parthasarathi perumal. Andal wants
>> to be all in one. She begin an alwar, suddenly wants
>> to become a gopi and so assumes herself to be a gopi
>> and Srivilliputtur as Aayapadi and Mannar as Sri
>> Krishna and does the marghazhi nombhu and also gave us
>> the sweet 30 verses of Thiruppavai. Then Andal also
>> became the divine consort of the emperuman. It is well
>> known that Andal got married to Sri Ranganatha but the
>> beauty is Ranganatha has kalyana utsavam with
>> Ranganayaki, Andal and Uraiyur Nachaiyar at different
>> times of the year but in Thiruvallikeni Andal is
>> regarded as the sole Nachiyar for Parthasarathi with
>> whom he undergoes kalyana utsavam and serthi. Andal
>> has 10 days neerata utsavam in her special neerata
>> mandapam and also 10 days of aadipoora utsavam, which
>> ends with the kalyanam and the serthi. Andal stays in
>> the Parthasarathi sannadhi after this utsavam till the
>> next pooram after which she returns to her sannadhi.
>> Though vedavalli thayar is a padi thandha paththini
>> Andal is not like that. She is both modern and
>> traditional. She is a gopi, an alwar and a thayar and
>> henceforth has purappadu in the thiruveedhi and even
>> her neeratu mandapam is also outside the premises of
>> the Koil near the pushkarini. The way the neeratam is
>> done to Sri Andal is extraordinary. Though there is no
>> end to describe the divya dampadhis, still let me stop
>> with this. The next posting will be a conclusion. 
>> I pray in the feet of the learned bhagavatals to
>> forgive all my mistakes and enlighten me with them
>> too. 
>> To those of you, who have given their precious time
>> to read my postings 'talaiallal kaimarilene'. 
>> 
>> Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai 
>> Sumithra Varadarajan 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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