Fwd: Thoopul Mandapa Kaimkaryam

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SrI:

 

Forwarded is a mail from Sri Lakshminarasimhan Srinivas about the

Thoopul Mandapa Kainkaryam.

 

adiyEn

Diwakar

 

 

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Dear Bhagavathas

 

Here is a background of how the trust was formed. Smt. V.K. Santha is

the trustee of thoopul right now. Here is a story on how she came

involved with the kaimkaryam of Thoopul. Smt. V.K. Santha was like any

other middle class housewife but really orthodox. Her husband belonged

to Navalpakkam and hence they observed acharams and anushtanams

sincerely. Once, this lady toured with some other Smartha families to

Kanchi. The Smartha families wanted to pay visit to Sri.

Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swamigal (the previous pontiff who lived

till the age of 99). Hence they all stopped the van near Kanchi Sankara

mutt and went into the Mutt. As our maami is acharam and a strict

Srivaishnava, she did not enter the Mutt and stayed outside the Mutt.

 

The devotees had darshan of the Periya Periyava (As he used to be

called) and he talked with the devotees. They had informed that another

woman was with them and was waiting outside the Mutt because of being a

 

SriVaishnava. He immediately sent a Kainkarya Paral and summoned her

in. Our maami though not comfortable in going in thought that she

should not deny going in to the Mutt because the saint is still a saint

and higher soul indeed. Hence she went in and did pranams to the

Sankaracharya. He enquired about her and their family and where she is

from?. The maami replied that she belongs to Navalpakkam. After hearing

this, Sri. Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swamigal did pranams and told

that "Navalpakkam is a village where many mahans lived" . Then the

Swamigal told her that the garudotsavam in Thoopul had stopped and he

has not had sevai of Deepaprakasar and Swami Desikan for some years

now. He asked her to take this kaimkaryam of doing garudotsavam at

thoopul on SriVaikunta Ekadasi every year. This lady is a middle class

Iyengar living in W.Mambalam and her husband is retired from a Govt

Service.

She was worried about how to execute this wish but her efforts paid and

she got money from many people to build the corpus funds for the trust.

That is how Thoopul trust was started. Every year, thoopul garudotsavam

is being done in a grand manner due to the incident mentioned above.

Now as the corpus fund is sufficient for garudotsavam every year, the

trust did the kaimkaryam for pagal pathu, iraa pathu utsavam. Last

year, with the help of a few bhagavathas, A Tholu kinion with prabhai

was constructed by Thoopul Trust. Our Swami Desikan now travels in this

tholukinion for processions.

 

Now is the bigger kaimkaryam which Smt. V.K. Santha has undertaken (i.e

 

building a mandapam for thoopul). As you know the task is hilly and we

need good support from all of you. She has got Srimukhams from Srimath

Poundarikapuram Srimath Andavan, Srimath Srirangam Srimath Andavan ,

Srimath Azhagiyasingar and Sri. N. S. Ramanuja Thatachariar for this

kaimkaryam. All these acharyas have blessed this kaimkaryam and hence,

adiyen requests you to participate in this kaimkaryam (8lakhs Indian

Rupees is the target) according to your shakti.

 

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Please do visit http://www.geocities.com/lsriniva for more details on

this divya desam with pictures of Deepaprakasar. Please do also view

the

http://www.geocities.com/lsriniva/thoopulappeal.html for more details

on thoopul kaimkaryam and donate according to your shakti.

 

If you are in USA, you can send the money payable to

 

Lakshmi N. Srinivasa

3 Old Towne Road, #212

Ayer, MA-01432.

 

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Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan

Lakshminarasimhan S.

 

 

 

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