Mannathan

POSTED ON MARCH 29 2002 in Bhakti List egroups

sri parthasarathi thunai

srimathe ramanujaya namaha

Srimad varavara munayE namaha

Sri vanachala mahA munayE namaha

Pranams,

Adiyen really felt very bad for not being able to get the experience of the divya dhampathis on the panguni uthiram day as the other lucky bhagavatas. But this was only this year since we are in America. So adiyen thought that adiyen could just remember the previous sevais the divya dampathis have given adiyen.  Adiyen saw a posting on the divya dampathis in srirangam and also about kalyana ranganathar at thiruvali-thirunagari. You may wonder about whom adiyen is going to talk now. It is about the divya kalyanam of ranganathar (sri mannatha perumal) with sri vedavalli thayar in Thiruvallikeni. Here ranganathar came for the very purpose of marrying sri vedavalli thayar. On the panguni uthram day a grand thirumanjanam for the dhampathis on ekasanam is done and then ranganathar purapadu on kannadi garudan. A special vahanam on which only mannathan has purappadu and only once in a year.During this purappadu mannathan is dressed like a mappilai and the purappadu significe the mappilai azhaypu.Mannathan is mappilai for all the thiruvallikeni vasees since vedavalli is a girl of our place.The mappilai is welcome at each and every house and then with all the greetings His majesty comes to the thayar mandapam ready for the marriage scenario.

Then is the marriage.Though the original marriage is on masi dwadasi day.Today the main occassion is the

gadyatraya ghosti. Acharya sri ramanuja takes his seat at the side of the divya dhampathis and the gadyathraya ghosti starts.adiyen need not tell much about the ghosti in thiruvallikeni.Even if the ghosthi is at 12 in the night the sound of gadyam will reverberate everywhere. Noone can imagine such a crowd at the time of night anywhere else. Even small kids take part in all ghostis so entusiastically in thiruvallikeni.

can you imagine in this age of computers kids at the age of 7-10 fighting with their parents to do their

upanayanam fast and send them to sandhai? If you are surprised come and see in thiruvallikeni. In many

ghostis the voice of the small boys excel even their grand fathers.It is really a great seen during the

brahmotsavams to see small boys who even do not know how to wear a veshti and with sleepy eyes but with

full of joy come to see the purappadu of sri Parthasarathi.

Another thing is sri ramanujar whose gadya trayam reverberates all over the world on this panguni uttiram

day is considered to be the incarnation of the lord sri parthasarathi himself.The geethacharyan wanted to give the bhasyam himself so that it will be easy for manda buddis like us to understand the strong inner meanings of the geetha sastram. So dont ever miss acharya's utsavam in thiruvallikeni.To hear the yatiraja vimsathi ghosti and also to see mangalasasana utsavam of sri ramanujar at each sannadhi one really needs thousands of ears and eyes. Adiyen really feels very bad to miss all these kolakalams this year. Even if you be there for one year the next year you will never miss it.The kattiyam during emperumanar's thirumanjanam is excellent.

adiyen  started some where and has gone somewhere. Each utsavam in thiruvallikeni needs a separate posting and of course words can never give the experience. Coming back to the panguni uttiram day after the gadyam ghosti there is serthi sevai.The sevai is also there on the next day for say a half hour or so.Then

ranganathar and thayar have a oorgola utsavam in the evening.With this the pallava utsavam also comes to an end.This is vedavalli thayars birth place and she has special powers . So here her purushakaram is very powerful. Mannathan is impressed by vedavalli's charm and grants everything she asks for. SO the best place to do saranagathi is here so that all our sins will be over looked by the divya dhampathis.Even thirumangai alwar in his mangalasanam says 'oppavarilla madargal vazhum madamamayilai thiruvallikeni kandene' first in his list of opavarilla madar were sri vedavalli thayar and sri andal in search of whom sri mannathan and sri parthasarathi settled here.

Another highlighting feature inside the sannadhi ofsri mannathar is that we can find sri Bhoovaraagar and

sri lakshminarasimhar inside who were supposed to have come to the marriage of sri ranganathar and vedavalli thayar.

adiyen think it has become a big posting already. Bhagavat anubhavam is never ending so adiyen will take a short break here.

adiyen ramanuja dasee

sumithra varadarajan