Wednesday, September 24, 2008

The Nandhothsavam Oonjal page http://www.srisrianna.org/ann_prg_103.html has been uploaded today.
Met Sri Anna at Govindapuram

Sitaram! With Sri Anna's grace we attended the Bodendral Aradhana at Govindapuram on 20th and 21st September '08. We reached Govindapuram on 20th early morning. We had Kaveri snanam, went to Bodendral Adhishtanam, prayed and then rushed to have darshan of Sri Anna.
Just then Sri Anna was coming out of his room. The early morning darshan of our Gurunadha is always special. There were only 5 to 6 devotees around and Sri Anna smiling enquired everyone of us. After 10 - 15 minutes Sri Anna went back to his room. We came back to Adhistanam and saw the abhishekam. There were lot of things going on in the mutt.... Ramayana Parayanam, Bhagavatha Parayanam, Bhajans, and Nama chanting.

After abhishegam the Bhagavathas did the alankaram and pooja continued. We got the teerta prasadam and thought to go and see if Sri Anna has come out. As we neared his house we heard the sound of Bhajans. We saw Sri Anna sitting on a chair in the veranda and Sri Vittal das singing Bhajans. As we stood at the entrance Sri Anna smiling asked us to come near. We went and sat near Him. Sri vittaldas sang a lot of Tarangam and Sri Anna thoroughly enjoyed each and every song. There were only 10 people around. Though we did not understand the Bhava of Sri Anna it was a great moment to sit near Him and look at His face for nearly one hour.
Sri Anna then blessed everyone and went inside. From 4:00 - 6:00 Pm and 8:00 - 10:00 PM Sri Anna gave Ramayana Upanyasam (Aranya kanda). At 10:00 PM divyanamam started.

Again on 21st morning we had the early morning darshan of Gurunadha and attended the adhishtanam pooja. We then went back to see Sri Anna. There were more devotees today. Sri Anna came out and sat on a raised platform. We all sat around Him. He blessed, enquired, talked to whoever came to see Him. After half an hour He went inside. Evening Sri Anna gave Kishkinda kandam Upanyasam. By then it was time for us to leave Govindapuram.
We took a few photos of Sri Anna which are available here

Sitaram

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Radhekrishna,
Happy to share with all bhagavathas that Shrimati Janani Manni delivered a baby girl on Thursday at 18th September. Both the baby and the mother are safe and well by Shri Anna's grace.