In Service of ANDAL

[Guest guest]

>From Sri Sundararajan, who has now returned to Srirangam.

 

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usdeiva <usdeiva

Mani Varadarajan <mani

CC: usdeiva, mani

In Service of ANDAL

Tue, 07 Oct 1997 01:12:30 -0500

 

Dear chiranjIvi Mani Varada,

 

I had transmitted on August 1 1997 an

'Appeal' for cash contribution to a fund for the worship in the

vaTapatraSAyI and ANDAL 'sannidhi' in SrIvilliputtUr.

 

I shall be grateful if you could consider repeating the message over the

'bhakti list', and also have it issued over the 'nAma list'.

 

best wishes from T.S. Sundara Rajan, @ Memphis, <usdeiva

 

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| APPEAL |

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It is my duty to circulate a request (transmitted from Chennai)

for cash donation from bhAgavatOttamA-s for organising the

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daily three-time service

(nitya-tri-kAla-ArAdhanam)

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in the twin temples of

SrI-vaTa-patra-SAyI and ANDAL

in SrIvilliputtUr.

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I have heard my elders speak of the 'nitya-taLigai' of 40 paDi

in SrIvilliputtUr. When I visited the divya-dESam two years

ago for tiruvADippUram, I was unable to get 'prasAdam' as,

I understood later, the 'prasAdam' stood reduced to nearly

half a 'paDi'!

 

The 'nitya-trikAla-tiruvArAdhanam' entails the main expenses of

 

~~ food offerings to the deities;

~~ keeping the lights [tiru-viLakku] burning;

~~ recitation of 'aruLiccheyal' and 'veda-pArAyaNam" and

'sambhAvanam'-present to the reciters (adhyApaka).

 

This comes to Rs.400/- a day, and a one-time donation of

Rs.3000/- would yield the interest amount required for a day's

worship. Donations of Rs.3000/- or multiples thereof may

please be made IN FAVOUR OF Sri Andal Charitable Trust (Chennai),

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and remitted to: Shri R. Kannan Swamy, Phone

Trustee, Sri Andal Charitable Trust, -----

91 Tulasingam Street, Perambur, 044-5371861

CHENNAI-600 011 (India). -----------

 

The cash donations are reckoned for 'income-tax benefit',

under section 80-G of the Income Tax Act 1961 in India.

 

 

aDiyEn rAmAnuja-dAsan, T.S. Sundara Rajan.

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