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Dear Sampath Kumar Swami:

Based on my interactions with Sri. Velukkudi Krishnan
Swami and Sri Gunaseelan Swami, it is my understanding
that Thiruvaradhanam has to be done with the
whole-hearted bhava of being done by one's achAryan. 

("achAryan thiruk kaigalal, <thiru mandiram>
Snanasanam samarpayami etc..")

The person who is performing the thiruvaradhanam 
doesnt have the right to do it directly to Perumal and
hence his achAryan kindly performs it at his request; 
hence the whole exercise from our side just becomes a
kainkaryam to the achAryan only, in my opinion. 

If you ask the achAryan, he would say that he doesnt
do anything and it is all his achAryan who is doing
the thiruvaradhanam. The ripple effect goes like this
and finally it ends like Perumal doing thiruvaradhanam
to Himself.

Hence achArya sambandham becomes essential for someone
to do thiruvArAdhanam. Best person to get approval on
what you are doing is to explain your situation to
your family achAryan or someone from whom you would
get your samAshrayanam done soon. Do as they suggest
you to do. They are highly accessible, rational and
are always willing to provide us the right advice to
put us in the right path.

Good Luck,

adiyen RamAnuja DAsan



You Wrote:
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My pranams to one and all of you. My name is Sampath
Kumar and I live in 
Atlanta, USA. I recently joined our Ramanuja Group. I
am sincerely amzed 
by the depth and wealth of knowledge shared by the
baghavatas of this 
group. I feel this is an opt forum for me learn more
and more baghavath 
vishayam and also clarify the doubts that arise due to
my ignorance.

I come from a Thengalai Iyengar family and have
studied and lived in 
various parts of India and finally after my higher
education settled 
down in USA. During my early years, due to my own
ignorance and 
negligence, I did not show much interest in any of our
sampradhayams and 
also not involved my self in the proper initiation
like samasrayanam and 
learning process.

However, due to the punyam of my parents and elders,
my interests have 
improved a lot and I am learning a lot about our
sampradhayam. I have 
mentally and physically surrended myself to Sri
Ramanuja and Sriman 
Narayana. To further purify myself I am learning the
process of 
performing Thiruaradhanam at my house. However, my
question is since I 
have not surrended to an acharya in a procedural sense
and had 
samasrayanam, am I allowed to perform thiruaradhanam?
In my present 
condition I am not sure when I would be able to go to
India.

I would be much obliged if somebody could clarify on
my doubt and with 
an open mind I will learn from this.

Since this is my first communication, this may not be
as per the 
standards and traditions of our group and I sincerely
apologize for this.


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