Lakshmi Narayanan / Mahalakshmi Temple at South Ham London

[H.Krishnamurthy]

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Hello Friends ,
Nice writing to you after few months.
Now am at U.K.
Last week my daughter took me to a Lakshmi Narayan Temple at South Ham / London. Here you will find sannidhis for all God / Godesses.
Now I am 60 and for the first time in my life time Gurukkal with Vibudhi on his fore head blessed me with Sadaari. It is quiet common here that Both iyer and iyengar Gurukkal performing pooja at all sannidhis. ( Like gurukkal with viboodhi at perumaal sannidhi and with namam performing pooja at Kasi Viswanadha sannidhi ).
Hariyum sivanum onnu ariyaadhavan vayula mannu.
Lovely to see

 

[sangom]

Hello Friends ,
Nice writing to you after few months.
Now am at U.K.
Last week my daughter took me to a Lakshmi Narayan Temple at South Ham / London. Here you will find sannidhis for all God / Godesses.
Now I am 60 and for the first time in my life time Gurukkal with Vibudhi on his fore head blessed me with Sadaari. It is quiet common here that Both iyer and iyengar Gurukkal performing pooja at all sannidhis. ( Like gurukkal with viboodhi at perumaal sannidhi and with namam performing pooja at Kasi Viswanadha sannidhi ).
Hariyum sivanum onnu ariyaadhavan vayula mannu.
Lovely to see

Even for the religion to improve it has to "go west"!

 

[Vaagmi]

Even when we stand before the God we are unable to overcome our pet prejudices. The surprise at being offered sadari by a man with vibhuti has been so overpowering that we forgot our presence before the God. We are able to say just a sentence about the temple/god and ten lines about our pet prejudice. LOL.

And a vidwan chips in with his medicine for improving the religion and not the human mind. LOL.

In Chennai I go to the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple in Adyar Gandhi nagar regularly. In this temple too the archakars are all Iyers and not Iyengars and they naturally wear only vibhuti.

நாராயணா! நாராயணா!!
எங்கேயும் கரைகாணாதெறிகடல்வாய் மீண்டேயும் வங்கத்தின் கூம்பேறும் மாப்பறவை போன்றேனே --ஆழவார்.

 

[Janaki Jambunathan]

Even for the religion to improve it has to "go west"!

Not nessarily. You may go south to Sundarapandiapuram near Tenkasi In this place the Agraharam is habitated by Iyers for centuries No Iyegar around this place. Interestingly the templeis is Vaishnavate dedicated Rajagopla Swamy The Agrharam has 2 streets. Till date all the houses are with iyers no one has sold their property They are spread all over the globe but make it a point to stay in this village with their families for 10 days during the Brahmotsam of this temple during Tamil month Thai There is no hotel to eat or stay in this place.
No body cooks iduring those 10 days They have a community kitchen and dining in the Sringerii mutt built here 30 years ago by the community. The bring caters from Tirunelveli. In fact the mood during those 10 day is like a family function like wedding. Interestingly the Sasrtrigal is a Madhva Brahmin from Mangalore region is married to Kerala brahmim whom he met in Tenkasi These photos you see in the link were shot by me when I was there for a day during the Utsavam as a guest.

https://plus.google.com/photos/1110...ms/5299736435879044257?authkey=CM-zn6em8qqnbQ

 

[Vaagmi]

Madam.
Thank you for sharing those photos. I know the place and the temple.

 

[CHANDRU1849]

Now I am 60 and for the first time in my life time Gurukkal with Vibudhi on his fore head blessed me with Sadaari. It is quiet common here that Both iyer and iyengar Gurukkal performing pooja at all sannidhis. ( Like gurukkal with viboodhi at perumaal sannidhi and with namam performing pooja at Kasi Viswanadha sannidhi ).
Hariyum sivanum onnu ariyaadhavan vayula mannu.
Lovely to see

Iyers performing pooja for Vaishnavite temple is not a strange phenomenon. In Chennai, you can find Vaishnative Gods find a place in Shiva Temples, Pillayar Temple, Murugal Temple etc. In one Pillayar Temple in Saligramam, on Pradosham day, Abhishekam is being performed not only to Shiva (supposed to be only to Shiva) but also for Ambal and Hyagreeva. On Pradosham day, Hyagreeva has this pleasant treat.

Regarding Iyengar Gurukkal (?), is he from Tamil Nadu? Gurukkal term is exclusive to Iyers. I think the Hindus in UK are predominantly from Gujarat and Punjab. They may not know the different sambradaya of Smarthas and others.

Perhaps, the Iyengar Gurukkal would have missed the opportunity of going to London, had he refused to perform pooja at Kasi Viswanadha Sannidhi. At least, for the present, London is first and sambradaya next for him, since you cannot find such practice in Chennai.

 

[H.Krishnamurthy]

Dear Friends ,
My intention was to share my observation. I am from Bangalore and have come across Iyengars and they donot enter into any temples other than vaishnava temples. If I have hurt somebody's feeling pl forgive me. Am really glad to note such lovely information and as a retired person will make all efforts to visit these temples in T.N.
ofcourse the Gurukkal and Bhattar here are from T.N. and not Gujarath.

Thanks friends