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SrI:
Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

Swamin:

I think you can get the e-mail address from the TTD web site 
www.tirumala.org. I got the following IDs from this web site and are 
as below.

TTD - Administration E-Mail: ttdt@xxxx

Another ID: webmaster@xxxxx

May be you have to use the TTD adminisration e-mail

E-Mail ID of CM - Sri N. Chandrababu Naidu (from AP Govt. web site): 
cmap@xxxx . The above E-mail ID is from the following web site of 
AP Govt.:
www.andhrapradesh.com 
http://www.aponline.gov.in/apportal/contact/CONTACT_DETAILS.ASP?CONTACTID=494www.aponline.gov.in)
 
:

Dasan Srinivasan
nsp wrote:

> Dear Sri Tirumanjanam SundaraRajan swAmi. Thank You for your mail. 
> Your mail reminds me of, the timkering by the same person -persona 
> non-grata- at thiruchanur temple some years back. Fortunately, that 
> did not take off. Now, he he is trying his pranks at thirumala temple.
>
> It clearly points out to one thing. They are blatantly and shamelessly 
> displaying their jealousy insofar as the crowd, wealth and powers are 
> concerned.--> Can they match our Lord Almighty with any other deity?
> 'ethanai seyyinum en magan mugam nEAr ovvAi"
> "kandavARRAl thanadhEA vulagena ninRAn'
> The tenor of the rejoinder distinctly reflects not only your frame of 
> mind, not only your bent of thinking , not only your forceful writing, 
> not only the transmission of the message but vividly rings in my ears 
> your voice, thorugh this mail. Thank you.
> Can you please provide me with the mail ids of ttd and Chief Minister 
> of Andhra Pradhesh for us to send mails?
> Thank You for including me in your esteemed list.
> ramanuja dhasan
> vanamamalai padmanabhan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: SundaraRajan Tirumanjanam
> To: SriVaishnavaSri ; LakshmitatacharMA ; Ramanuja internet ; 
> RangarajanSujata ; AzhvarMA-Melkote ; PadmanabhanNS ; Rajappa ; 
> VelukkudiKrishnanSvami
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 9:13 PM
> Subject: [ramanuja] Kanchi Kamakoti on Tirumalai.
>
>
> Reproduced below is the rejoinder from the Divya-desa Paramparya 
> Padu-kappu Peravai, Srirangam,
>
> to the loud Terminological Inexactitudes attributed to the Kanchi 
> Kamakoti Sankaracharya
>
> in the matter of Tirumalai Sri Venkatesvara Temple, our Holy-of-Holies.
>
> The rejoinder merits the widest publicity in the press that you can 
> possibly arrange, and in other media and manner.
>
> A mail from you to the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh would also 
> be appropriate,
>
> so as to highlight the Kanchi Kamakoti's unwarranted attempts at 
> trivialising the Srivaishnava religion.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Divya-desa Paramparya Padukappu Peravai
> 214, East Uttara Street,
> SRIRANGAM-620006
> (District Trichy, Tamil Nadu).
>
> To
> The Editor,
>
>
> Subject: Unwarranted falsehoods of Kanchi Kamakoti Sankaracharya, 
> regarding the Tirumalai Sri Venkatesvara Temple.
>
> Sir,
>
> On his recent visit to Hyderabad, the Kanchi Kamakoti Sankaracharya 
> had made unwarranted public statements regarding the time-honoured and 
> established Vaishnava character and administration of the Tirumalai 
> Sri Venkatesvara Temple.
>
> We have the privilege of seeking your cooperation in discharging 
> your valued role as responsible Press, in contradicting the falsehoods 
> contained in the Kanchi Acharya's statements.
>
> The Press Note prepared by us is attached for your ready reference 
> and use.
>
> Regards from
>
> (A.Krishnamachari) 
> SECRETARY
> Phone: 0431-2434398
> kicha19@xxxx
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
> Sri:
>
> Certain unwarranted statements on the administration and worship 
> mode in the ancient and world-famous Tirumalai Sri 
> Venkatesvara-Srinivasa Temple have been carried in the Deccan 
> Chronicle (February 29 2004) and the New Indian Express (February 28 
> 2004). These statements have been attributed to the Kanchi Kamakoti 
> Sankaracharya when on his visit to Hyderabad.
>
>
> The Kamakoti personage's statements primarily betray his upstart bid 
> to capture power and property in the Tirumalai Srinivasa Temple which 
> is amongst the most venerated and historically well-documented centres 
> of Srivaishnava worship in India. The statements constitute a paranoid 
> ranting which underline the rabble doctrine, "The more loud, the more 
> true" and "The more brazen, the more broadcast". They also betray a 
> compulsive emotional need of this speaker to keep drawing attention to 
> himself, and to stay centre-stage in the mass media, however reckless 
> his enunciations or dubious his so-called initiatives for public peace 
> or plainly moth-eaten his erudition. This manner of peremptory 
> noise-making is hardly fair or edifying to the common sense and 
> intelligence of the large number of followers he claims to have.
>
>
> Some of the Kanchi personality's discoveries are as sensational as 
> they are simply crass, as when he says that "Ramanuja had nothing 
> whatever to do with Tirumalai". His another profundity is that "the 
> Vaikhanasa mode of worship is not in anyway related to the 
> philosophical doctrine of Vishishtaadvaita".
>
>
> Two other of his statements are carping on Sri Tridandi Sriman 
> Narayana Ramanuja Chinna Jeeyar, and expose his neurotic jealousy of 
> the venerated Jeeyar Svami. "Sri Tridandi Jeeyar should not 
> interfere", says the Kanchi personality, "with Tirumalai temple 
> administration matters. The Jeeyar is not a mathaadhipati at all but 
> only a Vishishtaadvait preacher, and barely a wayfarer in Tirumalai !" 
> In targeting the Tridandi Jeeyar svami for his crude attack, the 
> Kanchi personality has forgotten to produce his own credentials which 
> would empower him to declare a Srivaishnava institutional head as 
> persona non-grata in Tirumalai.
>
>
> The Kanchi personality seems to be the only individual who is 
> ignorant of the fact that he has no locus standi whatsoever to declaim 
> and decide matters in respect of the holy Sri Venkatesvara Temple in 
> Tirumalai-Tirupati. Thanks to the media hype sponsored by his admirers 
> in public life, this neo-Sankaracharya has come to be just tolerated, 
> but not legitimised, in the four-seat Convocation of the 
> Sankaracharya-s (Badarinath, Dvarakanath, and Puri-Jagannath, and 
> Sringeri). None of the pontiffs of these four Sankara-peethas (which 
> are regarded as having been founded by the venerated Sankara 
> bhagavat-paada himself) has come out with the hilarious kind of 
> statements as the Kanchi personality has presently made.
>
>
> The Kanchi personality's strategy for gaining a foothold in the Sri 
> Venkatesvara Temple administration is contained in his rather bland 
> statement, "We Sankaracharya-s too have the right of offering 
> worship-rites in Vishnu temples." Sri Sankara Bhagavat Paada was 
> self-evidently a Vaishnava saint, but later-day distortions depict him 
> as an ash-smeared Saiva. Any of the Sankara mathaadhipati-s is 
> therefore received, as indeed any religious head of vaidika religion, 
> with temple honours not only in Tirumalai but
>
>
>
>
> also in other temples in the country. But it is one thing to receive 
> temple honours and a respectful preference to have darshan, and an 
> entirely another thing (and unwarranted claim) to administer the rites 
> of worship there. The Kanchi personality attempts to claim the right 
> to administer the rites of worship in Tirumalai temple with general 
> bland remarks, half-statements and by confusing the issues.
>
>
> The totality of available evidence establishes Sri Venkatesvara 
> Temple in Tirumalai hills as the Srivaishnava temple par excellence, 
> and of great antiquity. The multi-strand evidence is authenticated in 
> history, classical literature, inscriptional records, and the unbroken 
> tradition of worship here and in other temples of the country. The 
> Temple has been the inspiring theme of not only the ancient Tamil 
> Sangham classics and post-Sangham classics like Kamban's famed 
> Ramakatha etc, but is also venerated in the rapturous compositions of 
> the subsequent daasa-saahitya in Kannada language, the moving songs of 
> Kshetrajna, Annamacharya etc, and down to Sri Tyagaraja.
>
>
> Sri Ramanujacharya (1017-1137 AD) had visited Tirumalai Sri 
> Venkatesvaram hills at least three times, and had established the 
> Elder Jeeyar in 1057-58 (with his residential Matham) in order to 
> oversee the organisation of worship of Sri Venkatesvara. The Junior 
> Jeeyar was established in 1102.
>
>
> Sri Ramanuja's first-generation disciple Sri Anantaazhvaan (who 
> hailed from to-day's Karnataka) was appointed by his mentor to keep 
> the Lord's flower gardens and orchards. Anantaazhvaan's crucial 
> Sanskrit work, Sri Venkataachala Itihaasa-maalaa, is a very authentic 
> and comprehensive record of the debate sponsored by the local ruler 
> Yaadava Naaraayana to put an end to Saiva importunate claims. It fell 
> to Sri Ramanuja to establish, in this debate, on unambiguous and 
> unassailable evidence that Sri Venkatesvara was the Vishnu of the 
> veda-scripture. The streamlined modes of worship identified and 
> reintroduced in the Temple by Sri Ramanuja were somewhat affected on 
> account of the ravaging raids (1310 circa) of the Temples in the South 
> by Malik Kafur and Ulugh Khan. The worship in Tirumalai was eventually 
> restored by Manavaala Mahaa-muni who became the pontiff of the 
> Srivaishnava capital of Srirangam.
>
>
> The worship in Tirumalai Temple is rendered as per the (Vaishnava) 
> Vaikhaanasa Aagama, which is the twin of the (Vaishnava) Pancharaatra 
> Agama which is in observance in Srirangam Temple. The 108 sanctified 
> Vaishnava Temples of the country observe one or the other Aagama, and 
> Sri Vedantaachaarya's work, Paancharaatra-rakshaa, establishes that 
> there is no material conflict between the two Aagama-s. It is 
> therefore palpably absurd to say, as our Kanchi personality now 
> fantastically proposes, that the Vaikhaanasa of Tirumalai is exclusive 
> of the Srivaishnava Vishishtaadvaita religion and doctrine. The Kanchi 
> research-finding is contradicted by the fact that every Vaikhanasa 
> temple in the South (Aandaal in Srivilli-puttoor, for instance) is 
> indisputably corroborative of Vishishtaadvaita metaphysics and has a 
> clear and unique Srivaishnava in character.
>
>
> It is to be deplored that with the ostensible objective of widening 
> the space for festive perambulation, the centuries-old large 
> 'thousand-pillar' mandapam- pavilion was demolished recently. The 
> demolished mandapam contained stone sculpting of as many as 164 
> time-honoured 'Tenkalai' Srivaishnava Oordhva-pundram (sanctified 
> religious marking). This has simultaneously caused a triple loss to 
> the Temple traditions, historical evidence, and archaeological values.
>
>
> On behalf of the vast Srivaishnava Community of the country,
>
> and as especially the ardent devotees of Lord Sri Venkateswara,
>
>
> WE APPEAL
>
> to the TT Devasthanam
>
> urgently to consider the following steps
>
>
> in the interests of the un-vitiated continuance of the fragrant and 
> time-sanctified worship-modes of Lord Sri Venkatesvara's Temple, which 
> is our Holiest of Holies ~~
>
>
> * Give no quarter whatsoever to the Kanchi Kamakoti Sankaracharya in 
> the administration and organisation of worship of Sri Venkatesvara 
> Temple in Tirumalai, considering that he has no 'sampradaaya' 
> affiliation to the Temple at all, and has therefore no locus standi to 
> dictate to the TTD on the Temple affairs.
>
>
> * Reconstitute the Temple Board to provide primacy for the Elder 
> ('pedda keylvi' ) Jeeyar Svami, the Junior ('chinna keylvi') Jeeyar 
> Svami, identified descendant of Anantaazhvaan, and Sri Tridandi Sriman 
> Narayana Ramanuja Chinna Jeeyar Svami (whose 'sampradaaya' insight and 
> service are unassailable).
>
>
> * Constitute a seven-member standing committee to ensure the 
> preservation of Srivaishnava Vaikhanasa Vishishtaadvaita traditions 
> which had historically prevailed since ancient times in the Tirumalai 
> Temple. The committee will provide ex officio for Sri Vaana-maa-malai 
> Jeeyar Svami, one Vaikhaanasa archaka, three scholars of 
> Veda-Shaastra, and two persons with sound administrative experience 
> (one retired from Central Government and another retired from State 
> Government).
>
>
> "Sri Venkateyso jayatu"
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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