September 2014

Beginner’s Guide – SrIman nArAyaNa’s divine mercy

September 16, 2014 by sarathy

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Previous Article Full Series vyAsa and parAsara hears ANdAL pAtti reciting amalanAdhipirAn on a lovely Sunday morning parAsara: pAtti, What are you reciting? We hear you recite this every day in the morning. ANdAL pAtti : parAsara, This is called amalanAdhipirAn. It was composed by … Read more

krishNa’s childhood in gOkula – 2

September 14, 2014 by mayuravalli

srI: srImathE satakOpAya nama: srImathE rAmAnujAya nama: srImadh varavaramunayE nama: In the previous post we saw how krishNa was already winning over the many demons, when he was just a small baby. Sometimes one would wonder if krishNa ever acted like a baby, given that He was the parmAthma himself. krishNa with his leelais has always … Read more

ALavandhAr

September 1, 2014 by mayuravalli

srI: srImathE satakOpAya nama: srImathE rAmAnujAya nama: srImadh varavaramunayE nama: Playing instructions: 1. Find the word you are looking for 2. Click and drag from the first letter to the end of the word 3. See that the list of words decreases! 4. Puzzle ends when there are no more words in the list … Read more

A is used for “aa” sound – example: emperumAnAr, rAmAnuja

E is used for “yay” sound – example: EkAdhasi

I is used for “ee” sound – example: Iswara

O is used for “Oh” sound – example: Om

U is used for “oo” sound – example: Urdhva pundram

zh is used for very strong “l” sound – example: AzhwAr

L is used for strong “l” sound – example: muL (thorn)

N is used for strong “n” sound – example: nArAyaNa

R is used for strong "r" sound - example: puRappAdu (procession); its also used for "tr" sound in thamizh when there is double "R" - example: uRRAr (utRAr - relative)

d is used strong “d” sound – example: garuda

dh is used for meek “d” sound – example: gOvindha

t is used for strong “t” sound – example: ganta

th is used for meek “t” sound – example: vratham

sa, sha, ksha are typed as it is – examples: samskritham, shashti and kshamA

: is used for ha sound in samskritham words – examples: nama: to be said as namaha

Terminologies listing at Reader's Guide

Beginner’s Guide – SrIman nArAyaNa’s divine mercy

krishNa’s childhood in gOkula – 2

ALavandhAr

Word puzzle – pUrvAchArya series

periyavAchAn piLLai

characters in krishNa’s childhood