Azhwar Thirunagari - Mangalasasanam

நம்மாழ்வார் திவ்ய திருவடிகளே சரணம் !!

 ஸ்ரீமதே ராமானுஜாய நம : !!

Namaazhwar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nammalvar) an important and foremost considered among the 12 alwars in Sri Vaishnavam. He was born in Alwar Thirunagari Village in the banks of River Thamirabarani (Porunnai nathi). 

The festival of birth star Visakam in the tamil month Vaigasi at Sri Aathinatha Swamy Temple in Alwarthirunagari is one of the important festival in vaishnavam. The most popular Nava-thirupathi sthalam. 

I was blessed to be there to witness the Mangalasasanam, which happened last Sunday (19th May 2013)

Mangalasasanam:

Its the praising of alwars in form of hymn or verses in Tamil. 108 Dhivya desams in India has one or more mangalasasanam sung by Alwars.  

Specialty of Namaazhwar:

Rest of 11 Alwars visited physically to other vishnu temples and sang hymns. But divya prabantham sung by  Namaazhwar was from his own place. He never visited any other temple. It is believed that all divya desam perumal comes to Namaazhwar and get them praised.

On this day, Perumal from Nava-thirupathi comes to Namaazhwar's place to get them praised.

Namaazhwar - comes to maada veethi to welcome the perumal from nava-thirupathi

Perumal from Nava thirupathi:

•     Sri Mayakoothar Temple - Thirukkulandhai, Perunkulam
•     Makara Nedunkuzhai Kannan Temple, Then Thirupperai
•     Rettai Tirupathi - South Temple, Tholaivillimangalam
•     Rettai Tirupathi North Temple, Tholaivillimangalam
•     Vaithamanidhi Perumal Temple - Thirukolur
•     Adhinaatha Perumal Temple - Thirukkurugur(Azhwar Thirunagari)
•     Kaaisinavendhan Temple - Thiruppulinkudi
•     Vijayaasana Perumal Temple - Thiru Varagunamangai(Natham)
•     Sri Vaikuntanatha(Kallapiran) Temple - Sri Vaikuntam

[Couldn't able to click Sri Adhinaatha perumal and Sri Thevapiran perumal- Rettai tirupathi]

Namaazhwar (after receiving all parivattam from nava-thirupathi perumal)


Thanks to kinchitkaram trust and Mr. Babu (Volunteer) for giving me such a precious opportunity.

A car powered with Microsoft technology

A joke - source: Internet


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"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."

In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating (by Mr. Welch himself):

"If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

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2) Every time they painted new lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.

3) Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.

4) Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre such as a left turn, would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

5) Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT". But then you would have to buy more seats.

6) Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.

7) The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.

8) New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.

9) The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.

10) Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key, and grab hold of the radio antenna.

11) GM would also require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.

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13) You'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine