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<\/a>SrIranganAthan – garuda sEvai<\/p>\nuthsavam generally means festivities or joyful celebrations. In dhivya dhEsams, abhimAna sthalams and AzhwAr\/AchArya avathAra sthalams, throughout the year, several festivals are celebrated.<\/p>\n
bhagavAn appears in five different forms – para, vyUha, vibhava, archA and antharyAmi (more on this can be seen at http:\/\/ponnadi.blogspot.in\/2012\/10\/archavathara-anubhavam-parathvadhi.html<\/a>). Of these, archAvathAra form<\/a> is the most compassionate. emperumAn<\/a> wilfully descends into the material world and assumes various forms in various dhivya dhEsams, mutts, thirumALigais (residences), etc. In doing so, he also vows to fully depend on his devotees to take care of him as he himself would not do anything to take care of his bathing, eating, sleeping, etc. It is the ultimate manifestation of his supremacy, that is, completely giving up his supreme independence and acting as if he is completely dependent.<\/p>\n uthsavam is a great revelation of the mercy\/compassion of emperumAn<\/a> and thAyArs enacting wonderful activities to uplift every one in this samsAram. People are generally engaged in all kinds of materialistic activities. By placing himself in the center of all the events and enacting wonderful events, emperumAn<\/a> attracts all kinds of people towards him, reform them, change their attachment from worldly pleasures to spiritual matters and finally uplift them. This is the main purpose of emperumAn<\/a>‘s uthsavams.<\/p>\n This article gives a brief introduction to the various uthsavams that happen at most srIvaishNava temples.<\/p>\n In srIvaishNava temples, all uthsavams are usually accompanied with dhivya prabandham<\/a> and vEdha pArAyaNam (Note: It is sad that vEdha pArAyaNam is slowly fading away in many dhivya dhEsams. Even during uthsavams, very few dhivya dhEsams have vEdha pArAyaNam nowadays). While in some uthsavams at some temples, all 4000 pAsurams are recited, in certain cases, only thiruvAimozhi<\/a> is recited. Also, at times when there is a procession, iyaRpA is recited.<\/p>\n These are usually celebrated with great pomp and festivities at srIvaishNava dhivya dhEsams. For example, nammAzhwAr<\/a> (vaikAsi visAkam), emperumAnAr<\/a> (chithrai thiruvAdhirai),\u00a0maNavALa mAmunigaL<\/a> (aippasi thirumUlam) uthsavams are celebrated wonderfully in many dhivya dhEsams for 10 days.<\/p>\n Generally, the main perumAL<\/a> of the temple will preside over the thirunakshathram celebrations on the last day. In AzhwAr\/AchArya avathAra sthalams, the paricular AzhwAr\/AchArya who is the sthalAchArya (presiding AchArya of the sthalam) will preside over the celebrations. For example, in AzhwAr thirunagari<\/a>, nammAzhwAr<\/a> presides over all AzhwAr\/AchArya thirunakshathram celebrations. In srIperumbUthUr<\/a>, emperumAnAr<\/a> presides over all AzhwAr\/AchArya thirunakshathram celebrations.<\/p>\n These uthsavams, as explained in the beginning, have a great purpose. It is to bring srIvaishNavas (and other faithful devotees) of various background and capacity together and engage them in kainkaryams together. Let us also participate in such uthsavams and perform kainkaryams selflessly.<\/p>\n Usually, SrI jayanthi, SrI rAma navami, varusha pravESam, makara sankarAnthi (pongal), dhIpAvaLi, kArthigai dhIpam and AzhwAr\/AchArya thirunakshathrams are commonly celebrated at SrIvaishNava homes too. Let us see a brief narration on how to celebrate these uthsvams at our homes.<\/p>\n Note: At homes, dhivya prabandham recital in the morning should normally include (at least) thiruppallANdu, thiruppaLLiyezhuchchi, thiruppAvai, amalanAdhipirAn, kaNNinuN chiRuth thAmbu, kOyil thiruvAimozhi (whatever possible), rAmAnusa nURRanthAdhi and upadhESa raththina mAlai.<\/p>\n adiyen sarathy ramanuja dasan<\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 https:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: SrI vAnAchala mahAmunayE nama: SrIranganAthan – garuda sEvai uthsavam generally means festivities or joyful celebrations. In dhivya dhEsams, abhimAna sthalams and AzhwAr\/AchArya avathAra sthalams, throughout the year, several festivals are celebrated. bhagavAn appears in five different forms – para, vyUha, vibhava, archA and antharyAmi (more … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-436","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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AzhwArs<\/a>\/AchAryas<\/a> thirunakshathrams (birth days)<\/h2>\n
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Celebrating uthsavams at homes:<\/h2>\n
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