Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Thematic Calander 2011 Presented by Velukkudi Sri U Ve Krishnan Swamy

12 pages of beautiful color paintings illustrating the purport of “Sri Vishnu Sahasranama” (available in Tamil and English)

A handy book containing the Brief meaning of each holy name.
2 mp3 cds with talk time of 160 hours containing detailed discourse in Tamil on each holy name by Velukkudi Sri U Ve Krishnan Swamy

Velukkudi Sri U Ve Krishnan swamy's Geeta Krishna Anubhava Yatra

Thanks to my brother Vijay for forwarding the below links to me received as part of vanamamalai@yahoogroups.com


http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=yx_gX6v4IhI portion relating to 18th chapter mass recitation of Gita at Jyotisar

http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=tT9AlfIHlJc mass recitation of sahasranamam- initial slokas

http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=9wDo-0pJi0Q portions of gita sattrumurai upanyasam – initial part -before sunset with day light at about 6pm

http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=gh9BcMp8DFs gita sattrumurai –later part - after sunset with lighting

Visit to Srimushnam and Thirukovillur

Since it was holiday(02-Oct-08) yesterday on account of Gandhi Jayanthi we started from around 6.15 AM from our house to Srimushnam. We reached around 11.45 AM to the temple we had very good dharsan of Sri Boovaragaswami. This is one of the 8 temples which is self created representing varaha avathar. The moolaavar is very small appearing in the form of Boar.
Srimushnam is around 240 KMS from Chennai and from Virdhachalam it is around 20 Kms.

While returing back we visited Thirukovillur Sri Thiruvikaramar temple it was great view of Perumal standing with one leg and another leg facing the sky. This is one of the divya desa temple and it is where naalariya divya prabandham orginated. The first 3 alwars recited the prabandham here.

The morning break fast at Hotel Brindavan was not good and we had lunch at Hotel Archana in Virdahchalam that too was not good and in the night we had food at Motel High way which was good.

Life History of Ramanujar

I found the attached link about life of Ramanujar. I didn't read it fully. I thought it is worth sharing with my blog readers.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3280904/Life-of-Ramanuja?from_related_doc=1
There is Program going-on the life history of Ramanujar in Podhigai(DD) sunday between 11.30AM - 12.00 PM and repeat telecast on Friday 7 PM-7.30 PM. Please watch it to understand greatness of SriRamanujar.

Sri Ramayanam by Sri U Ve Velukkudi Krishnan Swamy

Yesteray(23-Mar-08) I got chance to listen to Sri U VeVelukkudi Krishnan Swamy lecture on Ramayanam. The lecture on Ramayanam is for 9 consecutive days inVani Mahal T.Nagar.
http://www.kinchitkaramtrust.org/upanyasamListForGeneral.action
First time when I listened to his lecture on upanishad, it was bouncers to me. Sri U Ve VelukkudiKrishnan Swamy is CA gold medalist and have held several high postions before he plunged into spirtuality. The amount of knowledge he possess is quite staggering. Today some people say Ramayanam,Mahabharatam is myth but Sri U Ve Velukkudi KrishnanSwamy lecture is a fitting answer to those.
Some of facts, he talked on yesterday session partfrom the slogams.
1) Ramayanam took place nearly 16 lakh years back
2) We are in Kali Yuga approx. 5300 Years is completedin this, still 5,27,000 years is yet to be completedin Kali Yuga.
3) Ramayana has around 24,000 slogams. Mahabharatamhas around 2 lakh slogams.
4) Valmiki wrote Ramayana based on the inputs fromNarathar & Brahma.
5) Ithikasam like Ramayanam & Mahabharatam are writtenduring the period the event has occured . Purams like Vishnu puranam etc are written after theoccurance of the event.
6) Sri Ramar went to Vana vasam at the age of 25 andat the age of 40, he back came and ruled Ayodha for14,000 years.
7) At the end of 14,000 years Ramar reached paramapadam.
8) Sita reached parama padam when Lava & kucha was 6years old.
9) Valmiki started writing Ramayana when Sri Ramar wasaround 40 yrs old. Lava & Kucha was born after 10,000years after that only Valmiki did complete the SriRamayanam.
10) The main lessons from Ramayana is to treat ourparents well and Sri Ramar showed how a
person shouldbe, while Sri Krishnar gave lecture in gita based onRamayanam.

Note: The exact years mentioned above may not match asI remember only a few.

Adiyan Ramanuja Dasan

Upanishathil kadaigal by Sri Velukuddi Krishnan Swamy

Yesterday I got the opportunity to listen to the lecture by Sri Velukuddi Krishnan Swamy on Upanishathil kadaigal. Yesterday was the last day for his lecture and this was held in Astika samajam - venus colony Alwarpet for 9 continous days from 6.30 PM.

He came around 6.40 PM and he finished the lecture around 9.00 PM really stunning lecture for more than 2 hours with out break and with out a stutter, I was moved, impressed and got his blessings by falling on his feet.

Most of the concepts are way above my head and I felt atleast I got the chance to listen to this.

A Trip to Malai Naadu Thirupathi

We began the new year with a bang by visiting the Malai Naadu Thirupathis. We covered 12 temples of the 13 temples(One covered already covered as part of the earlier trip). We booked our journey through travel times(based on Mount Road, chennai). We started on 13-Jan-08 reached Thirussur around 2.00 AM and in the morning we covered 2 temples(Tirunaavai, Tiruvithuvakkodu) and also visited guruvayoor and in Ernakulum we covered 2 temples(Tirukkatkarai, Tirumoozhikkalam) and in changanessery we covered Tiruvallavaazh, Tirukkadittaanam,Tiruppuliyur, Tiruvanvandur ,Tiruchenkunroor and in trivandrum we covered Tiruvanantapuram temple and Tiruvattar(in Tamil Nadu 75 KMS from trivandrum)

Here are the 12 temple which we visited.

76. Tirunaavai
77. Tiruvithuvakkodu
78. Tirukkatkarai
79. Tirumoozhikkalam
80. Tiruvallavaazh
81. Tirukkadittaanam
82. Tiruchenkunroor
83. Tiruppuliyur
84. Tiruvaaranvilai
85. Tiruvanvandur
86. Tiruvanantapuram

87. Tiruvattar
88. Tirruvannparisaaram(We already this temple during our visit to Tirunelveli)

The above 2 temples are in Tamil Nadu but following Kerala style of workship.

Note: In the 11 Temples in Kerala , find the equivalent name of temple\places in Malayalam to identify the places quicker. Please check the temple timings before starting to any temples. The thumb rule is that always start early and visit the temple. Generally temples will be opened from 4.30 AM to 11.30 AM and evening 5 PM to 8.00 PM this will vary based on the places.


It was personal statisifaction to me as covered 90 Divya Desams of the 108. 9 more in north & 7 more in South in Tamil Nadu. 2 temples are not present in this world.

Thanking Sri Ramanuja & Lord Vishnu for making the Malai Naadu Thirupathi a grand success.

Visit to Thirukandiyur - Divya Desam#15

After visiting Srirangam, on sunday(23-Dec-2007) we visited Thirukandiyur one of the 108 Vaishanav Temples. We couldn't have the dharsan of the permual 2 times as the temple was not opened during that time. This time we are fortunate to have dharsan of the permual.

We have visited 80 temple of the 108 vaishanav Temples. Hoping to complete more.

A Visit to BooLoga Vaikuntam - Srirangam

Last Thursday(20-Dec-2007) was Vaikunta Ekadesi. All the Vaishanava temples was jam package with devotees visting the Paramapada Vasal in the early morning. Last saturday(22-Dec-2007) we were blessed to visit BooLoga Vaikuntam - Srirangam. We started around 6.15 AM in the morning through WagonR car(very small car for 4 people to go for such a distance) and we reached around 2.00 PM. After 30 minutes we started to temple and came out of the temple around 7.30 PM after having wonderful dharsan of Lord Ranganthar. The Muthangi seva was awesome and we also crossed Paramapada Vasal. I don't have words in English or Tamil to describe the beauty of the Lord Sri Ranga.

As Paramapada Vasal will be opened for 10 days after Vaikunta Ekadesi. Please visit the temple to get the blessing of Lord Sri Ranga.

Sri Ramanuja 1000th Birthday

In another 10 years we will be celebrating 1000th birthday of Sri Ramanujar. We all should be blessed to be on earth during this great occassion.

Check the article from Hindu regarding this some time back.

http://www.hindu.com/fr/2005/05/13/stories/2005051300080300.htm

Sri Koorathazhwan 1000th Birthday

Sri Koorathazhwan is celebrating 1000 birthday on Jan 2010. He is staunch disciple of
Sri Ramanuja and infact lost his eye to prove Lord Vishnu is the supreme god.


I know about only this much about Koorathazhwan, Please visit the below url to know more.

http://www.kuresan.com/
http://srivaishnavanetwork.blogspot.com/

Lesson Learnt from Sri Velukkudi Krishanan Lecture

Here are some of the lessons which I learned from the Sri Velukkudi Krishanan Lecture about AZHWARGAL

1) Learn Tamil properly so that we can pronounce AZHWARGAL Pasuram properly with out stutter
2) First Parents should be role model interms of reciting slogams(sandhyavandanam etc) before expecting the children to do the same.

Sri Velukkudi Krishanan -AZHWARGAL KAATTIYA BAKTHI NERI

After listening to Sri Velukkudi Krishanan "AZHWARGAL KAATTIYA BAKTHI NERI", I become huge fan of him. The way he explains about 12 Azhwars is really good, I upload some of the mp3 files into my ipod shuffle and keep listening it again & again. It was real eye opener for me interms of what Bakthi is all about. The amount of knowledge he posseses on the Bhagavad gita, Nalayira Dhivya Prabhandam is really stunning. I wish I could learn something from him.

Being a Vaishnavite, I feel ashamed not knowing Nalayira Dhivya Prabhandam byheart.

Must listen for every one irrespective of age group.

A Visit to Ahobilam

Last Friday(11-May-07) we started to Ahobilam around 11.00 PM in the night through Tempo traveller and reached Ahobilam around 8.30 next day. Ahobilam is around 400 Km from Chennai. We were fortunate to get blessing of Lord Narshima. There are 10 Narshima temples in Ahobilam. 2 in the bottom of hill and others in the top of the of hill. By God grace we were able to cover all 10 temples. The Pavana narshimar is 18 Km from Ahobilam with dumpy roads around thick forest is the diffcult of all though we travelled by jeep. The Jwala, Malola, Kroda narshimar is top of hill where you have climb the hill. We started to Jwala on sunday early morning walking and was able to cover the 3 temples by 11.00 AM. You need to 5 hrs to cover Jwala, Malola, Kroda temples.


A visit that I can never forgot. I am blessed to 75 cover Deivya Desams. Hope I will be able to complete 108.