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" > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam > > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > ADVERTISEMENT > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Yahoo! Groups Links > > a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ramanuja/ > > b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > ramanuja-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! 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