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thirumanjanams to the pradhana murthys. Days like sankramanam, punyakalams will also see all the other murthys of the mantapam enjoying detailed Aradhanam and thirumanjanam from the karakamalams of Swamy. At his age, though this means very long hours of standing, yet, Swamy performs these with the greatest amount of affection, devotion and sincerity. Disciples much cherish their participation in the abhigamana, shaththumurai and teertha goshti. Swamy imparts the teertha-prasadams to all the participating devotees. On days of dvadashi, Swamy also consecrates Sripada teerthams of his Acharyas and imparts the same to one and all. Swamy conducts special thiruvaradhanams with additional procedures as per the visheshapujavidhi pramanams on the days of Srijayanti, Hayagreeva jayanti, Nrsimha jayanti, Sriramanavami etc. On other important days of Purvacharya thirunakshatrams, Swamy presents special nivedanams, sambhavana to the Asthana parampara Acharyas. On such days Swamy performs the Aradhanams to the pradhana murthys by making them preside on the vajrapadi-dolika – a must see sight of immense grandeur. On the days of thirunakshatram of brundavanastha Acharyas, Swamy performs the periya shattumurai at the brundavana sannidhi. The mudal shathari, teertham ityadi will be first presented to the Acharya consecrated in the brundavana sannidhi. Subsequently the Acharya’s Sripadateertham will also be consecrated by Swamy and imparted to all. Based on tvaratishaya-prarthana, Swamy performs upayanushtana-prarthanams on behalf of seeking mumukshus before the nivedana samarpana kalam. Pancha samskarams are generally performed after teertha goshti. After the completion of the teertha goshti, Swamy again submits anjali baddha prarthana to the Lord and performs chatuhpradakshinam. He then retires to his bhavanam for performing the madhyahnika anushtanam. The murthis in the jangama-parijata-samp WFЦ