Pravachana Karthas or Keerthankars usually have a set of topics or Nirupans. They keep rotating the same topics, same songs or abhangs program after program. For most of them it is just a profession. For Sri Anna it is a passion. He has never considered pravachanam as a profession nor has he taken the sambavanai given to him in his name. To reveal the truth for very many years Sri Anna refused any sambavanai ( honorarium) given to him after roaring lectures from his nabhi ( navel) for 7 or 9 full days. Much much later he realised that the funds could be taken, if not in his personal name, for a trust and through it they could do much more service. Thus he would hand over the unopened covers to trustees of the respective trusts he had established.
The Lectures that he has propounded to our bewilderment are as follows :
1) Srimad Ramayanam : Navaham ( 9 days, 2 sessions each )
Since 2008 Sri Anna makes it a point to do a Navaham at Delhi Rajaram Mandir built by Sri Anna himself.( Apologise for my omission in my previous chapter on his establishments). Sri Anna wanted to establish a temple in our capital city as it is the ever green Indraprastha. At the beginning he wanted to do the prathishta of Sri Krishna as he was the one who sowed the seeds for this Rajadhani(capital). However it ended up being a temple of Lord Sri RajaRam with Sita, Lakshmana and Hanuman. Here Hanuman sports the Abhaya mudra and stands next to Lakshmana in Equal status unlike all other temples where he is a dasa. Probably Lord Rama wanted to come there because it is Dasarathpuri, an area in Delhi and Ram is always Rajaram, eternally ruling our land.
2) Thani sloki from Ramayanam: ( Periyavachan Pillai's work)
3) Srimad Bhagavatham
4) Mahabharatham: This needs a special mention. Suddenly 10 years back in 2013 during His 80th Jayanthi He made a bewildering announcement.” We shall have a 83 day series on Mahabharatha. I will do the lecture series for 83 days.” “ What, 83 days ? Humanly impossible, said many. But Sri Anna usually doesn’t do the humanly possible acts, after all. It’s always superhuman, divine, extra than the extra-ordinary. The 83 day event happened at Ayodhya Mandapam in full grandeur. Chathurveda parayanam, Premika Granthams, felictation of 100 Ganapadis along with the Magnum opus 83 day Mahabharatha series.
Kanakabhishekam was performed to Sri Anna, who in turn donated the kanaka ( gold coins) to the ganapadis and the remaining was used for the golden roof covering of Sri Villiputhur Andal's Gopuram.
5) 108 Divya deshams
6) Aacharyargalum Aranganum
7) Vaishnava Samhitha saints ( Saints of All sampradayas)Like Aadi Sankarar, Narayana Theerthar, Sadasiva Brahmendral, Ramanujar, Azhwargal, Madwar, Raghavendra, Vallabhar, Hithaharivamsha, Nimbarka etc )
Kalyanam series : Seetha, Rukmini, Andal, Padmavathy, Usha, Subhadra, Panchali Kalyanam
9) Ambarisha Charithiram, Murali Haranam, Rukmangada Charitham. Sabhari Moksham (Harikatha)
10) Azhwargalum Aranganum
11) Bhagavath Gita
12) The Ten Upanishads
Here I have to mention my Himalayan omission in his writings, The Veda Vignanam and Vyasa Vijayam. The former magnum opus is in Tamil about the Vedas, what they tell us in detail, an unmatched work. Vyasa Vijayam is about the life of Sage Veda Vyasa.
13) Dasavathara
14) Dayashathakam
15) Garuda Garva Bangam, Kailasa Yaathra, Parijaatha Haranam, Syamanthaka Upakyaanam (Harikathai)
16) Pancha gitams of Gopikas
17) Kshetra mahathmyams
18) Vedantha Desikar
19) ManavaaLa Maamunigal, Pillai Lokachariyar, Sundara Bahustavam,
20) Meenakshi Kalyaanam, Paarvathi Kalyaanam, Sri Valli Kalyaanam
21) Narada bakthi sitaram
22) Narayaneeyam
23) Panduranga leela, Namadeva, Thukaram, Ekanatha etc
24) Rahasyathraya Saaram
25) Ramakrishnar, Guruvayurappan, Vallabar, Sooradas
26) Ramanuja Ashtapathi
27) Ramanjua Nootrandadi
28) Rudram, Chamakam & Dakshinamoorthy sthothram
29) Samskarams [ро╕роо்ро╕்роХாро░роЩ்роХро│்]
30) Sadguru Bodendraal, Sreedhara Ayyavaal, Marudanallur Swamigal
31) Skanda Puranam [ро╕்роХாрои்род рокுро░ாрогроо்]
32) Sri Badrachala Ramadas, Sri Thulasi Das, Kabir Das
33) Sri Brindavana Mahathmiyam
34) Sri Kaancheepura Mahathmiyam [ро╕்ро░ீ роХாроЮ்роЪிрокுро░ рооாро╣ாрод்рооிропроо்]
35)Sri Kannada Bhakthaas, Kanaka Dasar, Sri Chaithanya
35) Sri Ranga Mahathmiyam
36) Sri Venkatachala Mahathmiyam [ро╕்ро░ீ ро╡ெроЩ்роХроЯாроЪро▓ рооாро╣ாрод்рооிропроо்]
37) Sukthams in Vedas
38) Thayar Perumai [родாропாро░் рокெро░ுрооை]
39) Theertha Sathakam [родீро░்род்род роЪродроХроо்]
40) Thirumaalai, Thiruppavai
41) Vyasa Vijayam
42) Vishnu Sahasranamam - Bhashyam [ро╡ிро╖்рогு ро╕ро╣ро╕்ро░роиாроороо் - рокாро╖்ропроо்]
