BURTHDAYS,

Wishing a Happy Birthday to Skanda, Kiran, Sundaresan and everybody else having Birthday this month.

For my 80th Birthday (star birthday on 13th Oct) we had arranged an Abhishekam in the Sivan Kutil here - but it was postponed as our Siddhar Swami went out of station and was performed on 30th. Though I am unable to sit on the floor long, we attended the abhishekam fully and it was very satisfying. The abhishekam consisted of the usual puja to the kalasam first followed by the abhishekam with water, oil, seeyakkai, two kudams of milk, ghee, honey, curd, sandal paste, fruits, panchamirtham, vibuthi and milk. I wished I had taken my camera with me. The neivedyam was Sambar Saadham and curd rice and we used the prasaadam for our night meal.

The day after my star birthday we went to Pudukode village for the Navarathri celebrations as mentioned by Jayaraman earlier and it was a very enjoyable experience.

Saradam and I are going to spend a week in Brindavan with Jayaram and Narayanan.

-Ramakrishnan.