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ghushyatE yasya nagarE ranga yAtra dinE dinE
tamaham sirasaa vandE rAjAnAm kulasEkharam.


The above is the salutation for srI kulasEkhara AzhvAr. The thaniyan 
says
that kulasEkhara AzhvAr started to go to Srirangam every day 
(ghushyatE
yasya nagarE) so that he can perform service to Sri Ranganatha.

kulasEkhara AzhvAr was the king of the chEra country (present day
kEraLa). He was born in a place called thiruvanjikkaLam. 
His rule is said to be so just that it has been compared to Rama's 
rule
over Ayodhya. His tamizh thaniyan says that he is a vEndar 
sikhAmaNi.

His devotion towards Lord Rama and his affection/devotion to 
SrivaishNavAs
is legendary. His ministers did not always appreciate king 
Kulasekhara's
devotion towards SrivaishNavas. They wanted to get rid of all the 
Srivaishnavas
that the king had invited to stay in the palace. So, they hid one of 
the key
gems that kulasekhara had for his palace deity. When the king did 
not find
the gem, the ministers cast aspersions on the Srivaishnavas and 
blamed them
for stealing the gem. King Kulasekhara swore by the SrivaishNavas, 
and 
challenged the ministers to prove their allegation. When the 
ministers 
kept on insisting that it was the Srivaishnavas who stole the ring, 
King
Kulasekhara put his hand into a pot containing a poisonous snake. He 
asserted
that if the Srivaishnavas had stolen the gem, then the snake would 
bit him,
and if not, the snake won't. The snake did not bit him, and the 
ministers
understood their mistake, and confessed and apologized to the King.

It is said that King Kulasekhara started for Srirangam every day. 
The ministers
would arrange for some Srivaishnavas to appear before the palace 
gate. The
king would then invite them to stay in the palace, and stay back to 
serve
them. This happened for years together!

Finally King Kulasekhara left for Srirangam, and performed 
tremendous service
there. He was blessed by our Lord, and He gave us a beautiful 
prabhandham called
perumAL thirumozhi. 

In one of the decades of perumAL thirumozhi, AzhvAr talks about the 
nine types
of relationships that exists between the soul and the Lord. Please 
join
us on the VEDICS bridge to enjoy those pAsurams. We are blessed to 
be able
to listen to Sri. u. vE. E.S.Bhoovarghachar svAmi on Feb 28th. At 8 
aM
CST, his son srI E.B.Sriram will talk about the six doubts that srI
thirukkachchi nambi got clarified from Varadaraja perumAL for svAmi 
Ramanuja.
Following that will be svAmi E.S.Bhoovaragachariar svAmi's upanyAsam 
on
the nava vidha sambhandham.

Time and Date:

Saturday February 28,2004 8AM CST to 10:30AM CST.

Please join us for these great anubhavams.


In order for VEDICS to bring you these quality upanyasams to your 
living room,
we request you to subsrcibe for yearly membership for upanyasams for 
$150.. For
more information please send email to vedic_discourse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Azhwar Emberumanar Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam
Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam

irAmanusan adiyArgal






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