Shrimathe Ramanujaya Namaha Dear Sri Nappinnai: 1: > I don't have time and hence utter "srirAma...varAnanE". This is a major misconception. Most of us are told to chant the entire "Srirama... varAnanE", while, this is actually a conversation between Siva-Parvati. Sivaperuman tells parvati to recite the "Rama" namam and that is what this statement is. So, the gist is to say the "Rama" namam but not to recite the entire conversation. 2: > Not everybody is fortunate to have the right/perfect AcArya > to learn prabandham or other works. First of all where do you draw > a line for "learned" scholar? Who do you think in mind when you say > learned scholars? Learned scholars are those who have been practising the recitation of the Nalayira Divya Prabandham and who have been teaching others. We could find 1000s of them in various Divyadesams and other places in the south India. 3: > Moreover people have their own problems. I, coming from AcArya > puruSha family, can learn from my own father. But he doesn't have a > computer at home and he doesn't like to go to browsing centres, > prefers "proper" letter writing. If it is over the phone he > complains that he is not able to hear my voice clearly. I, being a > student, can not afford to listen to each and every upanyasams plus > I stay with roommates which causes lot of problems wrt phone line. > So what do you want me to do in such cases? Would you advise me > that I should drop the idea of learning about our sampradayam and > wait? There are always options and we need to seek one. I would say, if one knows tamil, one can buy the prabandha book and read the same instead of reciting it wrong. Or, there are hundreds of cassettes released every month on the nalayira divya prabandha recitations that one could buy and listen to. 4: >I had learnt koil tiruvAymozhi and some other azhvars > pasurams from a person who sings prabandham in a raaga based which > is not similar to the usual style of chanting that I have heard in > TiruallikkENi. Would you say that it is wrong? I never commented about the style of recitation. To be honest, the style that is being practised is wayyyyy different from what Swami Nadhamunigal devised. The Prabandha Goshti is only for the outside people and was devised only for the Thiruveedhi Purappadu(I don't know how to say this in English:). Periya Perumal(Shri Rangam Moolavar) listens only to the Araiyar Sevai i.e a style of recitation that is based on what Swami Nadhamunigal devised - a style that combines a subtle dance by the araiyar swami and a musical recitation. The araiyar swami has a thalakkattu in his hand and he maintains the rhythm as he sings the Divya Prabandham. Swami Nadhamunigal identified different ragams and the thalams for all the 4000 divya prabandhams based on the analysis of the moods and tones and the context of the prabandhams by the azhwars. Even in Shri Villiputthur, the prabandha goshti is only outside the Temple. Inside the temple, it is always the Araiyar Sevai. So, singing the prabandhams in different ragas, is something that was never questioned by any one till date, as far as I know. 5: > As long as he chants alone and making some > mistakes,that's okay and that also will get rectified over a period > of time. Anyways PerumAL had been listening to some incorrect > renderings of Sri Soundararajan before we all replied. I'm pretty > sure that He would have enjoyed and I'm infinitely confident that > AzhvArs and the Lord will direct him in the right path. This is what I differ from. I never said lord would not enjoy the wrong recitations. I only said that we should not be sloppy on this. If we know for sure we are reciting wrong, we should try to correct it ASAP - Is all I wanted to say. And my point was that "Engane sollilnum inbam payakkume" should not be used in this context. Yatheendra Pravanam Vandhe RAMYA Jaamaataram Munim Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan, Lakshmi Narasimhan
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