SRINIVASA KALYANAM PERFORMED IN SUNNYVALE TEMPLE,SAN JOSE,THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
San Jose (U.S.A) 09 May(P.R.O) The cloudy sky and the rising humidity did not deter the devotees of Lord Venkateswara to make a beeline to the Sunnyvale Hindu temple at San Jose to worship and beget his blessings.
Since early morning they came in their cars from far off places like Liverpool, Bay area and other regions of California State to participate in the unique Sevas like Suprabatham, Archana and Tomala .
Doddapaneni Sagar and Asuri Vijaya enthralled the devotees with their melodious rendering of Annamacharya kirtans at the Auditorium of Sunnyvale temple. Special kiosks were set up in the auditorium for benefit of devotees to purchase traditional attire, tickets for all sevas and also prepare themselves for the rituals.
The Srivari sevas were being performed overseas at the United States in the same pattern and tradition as they were conducted at the Srivari Temple at Tirumala. ‘The objective is to ensure that more and more common devotees of Lord Venkateswara, though they were living in far off places, get to perform these sevas and also get blessings ‘says Dr. R Kavita Prasad, Secretary of Hindu Dharma Prachara Parishad, which was spearheading the campaign to take Lord Venkateswara’s blessings to common man all over India and also abroad.
Prominent among those who participated in the morning sevas which began at American time 6.00 AM ( Indian time 20.00 hours ) were Jayaram Komati , president of TANA and Telugu Times , Raj Bhanot , chairman of Sunnyvale Hindu Temple , Koti Reddt ( chairman of Delegates Committee ) Subba Row Chennuri , Managing Editor of Telugu Times , Tulasi Tummala and Veeru Uppala of Bay Area Telugu Association , Prasanna Reddy, chairman of Liverpool Hindu Temple and Raghavamma , President of Liverpool Temple.
Among the officials of the TTD, Dr. M Anjaiah ( Board member), Murali Krishna , Umapathi , Vijaya Kumar, Sri Ramana and Venugopal. A Team of priests from Tirumala led by Sridhar Swamy are performing all the rituals and special sevas at the Sunnyvale temple for the benefit of the NRI devotees.
Dr. G.V.Dasharathi , a soft ware engineer at a multinational Pharma giant said he was grateful to the TTD and the Sunnyvale temple for having enabled them to witness the celestial events in the United state itself . ‘We have been trying to visit Tirumala for last few years but were unable to go due to some reason or other. We are blessed by Lord Venkateswara now after a long wait ‘he said. Dasharathi had come along with his family to Sunnyvale driving a long way from Chicago to witness the rituals.
The TTD officials also organized distribution of original laddu prasadam which was air lifted from Tirumala for the benefit of the devotees. ‘We wanted to ensure that all devotees who came to participate in the rituals did not go without the Laddu Prasadam ‘said T.Ravi, Pro of the TTD who has been supervising the arrangements.
Nearly hundreds participated in the early morning sevas like Suprabatham, Tomala and Archana sevas which were performed to the Utsava idols of Lord Venkateswara and his two consorts Sridevi and Bhudevi in the sprawling auditorium of Sunnyvale Hindu Temple. The idols will be installed in the temple for future worshipping and praying by all devotees, says Dr Kavita Prasad.
As this report is being generated thousands are gathering at the auditorium for witnessing the celestial event of Srinivasa Kalyanam , the wedding of Lord Venkateswara with his consorts. The event is performed every day at the Srivari Temple for the benefit of thousands of devotees who come Tirumala.’ The legend of the celestial event is both a soother and a blessing for the mankind and reliever of all pains, problems etc faced by the human beings ‘ says the temple priests Dr A V Ramana Dikshitulu who could not visit the US.
The organizers of the event – Sunnyvale Temple authorities and others of TANA and BATA associations have made elaborate arrangements for the comfort and benefit of the devotees for parking, rest rooms, child care and also purchase of traditional clothes- dhoti and saris for participating in the event .special shuttles were also arranged from the parking zones to the Sunnyvale temple for the comfort of the devotees traveling from far off places in the US.
SRINIVASA KALYANAM PERFORMED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR THE FIRST TIME
New Jersy(U.S.A) 01 May(P.R.O) For the first time in the history , the coveted and divine celestial event of Srinivasa Kalyanam was performed in the United States of America.
Thousands of Indians and also Americans clad in festive apparels participated in the ceremony held at the sprawling Guruvayurappan temple in Morganville, NJ.
The colorful event was a spectacular feast to the Indians as the wedding of Lord Venkateswara to his consorts Sridevi and Bhudevi was performed amidst vedic chanting nd rythym of drums and shenai music.
TTD and its associate Hindu Dharma Prachara Parishad have taken a giant step for the benefit of devotees of Lord Venkateswara in the US to perform "SrivariKalyanam" in New Jersey and California.
This is the first event held at the Sri Guruvaayoorappan Temple (Sir Krishnaji Mandir), Morganville, NJ, the business capital of USA. Earlier to Kalyanam, the priests from Tirumala will also perform Suprabatha Seva, Archana and Tomala seva in th early hours for the benefit of the devotees.
These events were open to devotees from all over US and Europe . .
Situated in a 35 acre property, an authentic temple is being built to house Lord Guruvayoorappan, Lord Balaji, Lord Siva Ekabareswara, Lord Satyanarayana, Lord Ayyappa and other deity . the proceedings of the celebrations from donors and contribnutors will be utilised in the temple activity , says Yajna Subramaniam , the chairman of the Guruvayurappan Temple.
Chief Priest from Tirumala Sridhar Swamy supervised the rituals performed by his team of five priests. Dr R Kavita Prasad, the secretary of the HIndu Dharma Prachara Parishad, who also participated in the event said, this was a gaint step in the direction of popularisation of HIndu dharma , the task taken up by the TTD.
' I am thrilled about the event and it has been conducted exactly as it is done at Tirumala said Dr Venugopal , one of the devotees from Chicago .
' I am lucky to ahve darshan of Lord Venkateswara in San Jose ( New Jersey) and I enjoyed the celebrations which included Suprabatha Seva, Tomala Seva and also Archana. I was also grateful that I could get the laddu prasadam also aid Lavanya Krishnamurthy, another devotee, a software engineer at Illionois.
Commenting on the successful conductin of the celerbrations the TANA President and guruvayurappan temple chairman Yagna Subramanian said that the event opened up their eyes to the growing popularity of Srivari Sevas and the need to popularise them and also organise them in large number all over the country and abroad.
The second event of Srinivasa Kalyanam and Sevas of Suprabatha, Tomala and Archana will be performed at the Sunnyvale Temple, California , says Dr Kavita Prasad.
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