Guest guest Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 SrI: SrimatE rAmAnujAya nama: SrimatE varavara munayE nama: Really excellent kainkaryam by Sri Manoram Chaitanya Dasa. Adiyen has been very fortunate to know him personally and to have gained valuable interactions with him during my student life in India. In mind and spirit, he only has Bhagawat-BhAgawat kainkaryam, and this endeavor is just one of the multitude of projects that Sri Manoram Chaitanya Das has undertaken. I personally convey my best wishes and gratitude to Sri Manoram Das along with the Kuwaiti BhAgawata-Bandhus led by Sri Krishnaswami, and of course Sri Sadagopan Mama on this new unique yet highly essential service. adiyen Dasan, Kidambi Soundararajan. ------------------------ Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click./lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/XUWolB/TM --~-> <*> Oppiliappan/ <*> Oppiliappan <*> Your Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 22, 2006 Report Share Posted April 22, 2006 Dear Swamin Because of my pre-occupations with the completion of construction of Mahamandap atOushathagiri, Sri Hayagreevar temple , Thiruvaheendrapuram I failed to see e-mails about the facility to be provided for nature's call at Sriperumbhudhur . There is provision for this with the H.R. & C. E. Department of Govt of Tamilnadu. and also the Tourism Dept. In fact MR. Iraianbu I.A.S., when he was Commissioner of Tourism , we approched him and because of his efforts ,toilet facilities were provided by Tourism DEpt at SRi Varadarajar Temple Kanchipuram. Sriman Sadagopan Swamin, Can you request Mr Manoram Das to meet Mr. Pichandi I.A.S., Commissioner H.R.& C.E . Dept. There will be a permenant solution to this. The Executive Officer of Sriperumbhudhur Devasthanam has to send a proposal to Commissioner. Dasan Srikainkarya Soundararajan gopan <yennappan (AT) computer (DOT) net> wrote: Dear Sishya Paramparais of Bhagavath RaamAnuja: Daasan Sadagopan"s PraNamams . For the past two weeks , a lot of exploratory work has been going on at Chennai, SriperumbhUdhUr and here to undertake a nontypical Kaimkaryam at the birth place of Bhagavath RaamAnujA in tune with this year's Birthday Festivals . His avathAra dinam is May 2 and close to ONE LAK OF PILGRIMS WILL BE visiting DURING THESE FESTIVITIES THAT CAPS ON MAY 2. The desperation of the pilgrims and particularly Women and children during their visits to the temple premises for offering their worships is readily imaginable. They have travelled a long distance by bus or car or foot . It is hot . They look for a place to answer the nature's calls after or before the darsanam inside the temple . They wish to wash their feet before entering the sacred premises .There is none available at the perimeter of the temple .The locals are overwhelmed and shut the door on these desperate people to use their homes . It is understandable reluctance given the size of the crowd. This unfortunate situation ends up in creating the most unsanitary conditions around the temple. SriperumbhUdhUr does not have the infra structure support of Thiruppathy-Thirumala KshEthram . Few of us who have been debating about this problem have been ably guided by Sri ManorAm Das of Chennai ; he has been shuttling between SriperumbhUthUr and Chennai and ISKCON offices in Chennai to hammer out a construction program of Sanitary Facilities at SriperumbhUdhUr in time for this year's RaamAnuja Jayanthy ( May 2). Details of his Engineering plan and cost estimates for a modest facility is attached . The essence of this plan is to start right away and finish the work with the help of a reliable construction firm and provide protection services after the Uthsavam is over to protect the investments for future times . Extra care has been taken to avoid price inflations and gouging at all levels with close supervision . The estimated cost is 3.75 Laks of Rupees , which comes to $8,500 in US Currency . The plan is to construct 6 Toilets and 2 bath rooms for the Ladies . The gents will have 6 Toilets , 5 Urinals and 3 showers . The unit cost for the 12 toilets, 5 showers and 5 urinals for men would be $8,500 divided by 22 items of uneven costs: $383 /Unit or Rs.16,872 . The ground has been given free by the temple authorities . 100 Devotees supporting by $85 /per person would be able to cover the expenses . Clearly a higher level of support by the individuals or groups from India and Overseas will speed up the process . Sorry we did not have additional time to announce the project earlier . There are multiple ways to supprot this project from India & Overseas : 1. If you are in USA or overseas and if you have paypal or Master Card or Visa accounts , you can make a payment online. You have to go to http://www.dasanudas.org and choose the method of payment from the "participate " hyperlink on the left side of the home page. You have to mention that your contribution is ear marked for the Sri PerumbhUthur Project . All of your Tax contributions are Tax deductible in USA. 2. If you are in India , You can send it to Sri G.N.Balaji, T.Nagar Chennai . His ICICI account is given below . You can also send e-mail to Sri Manoramdas at : manoramjps 3. Sriman M.K.Sudarshan of Kuwait has met with Sri Manoram earlier this week in Chennai and he will be coordinating the donations from Kuwait ans Middle East . Please contact him at : mksudarshan2002 (AT) (DOT) co.in 4. Please also contact me if you need any help from my end . Please keep me informed about your participation details to keep track of the needed support funds . Thank you all for your anticipated Support . RaamAnuja Daasan, V.Sadagopan Details on the Project from Sri Manoramdas : ******************************************************* * Thursday, April 20, 2006 6:19 AM *************** * Final reports - Toilets in Sriperumbuttur.****** ******************************************************** Dear Vaishnavas, Dandavats Pranams! Project report: I met the Sriperumbuttur temple officials and they were happy to discuss the project and initiate project .The executive officer told me that until date the sanctioned fund from the Govt. had not reached and also there is no information on the matter. He also told me that things could change in the allotment of funds for this project as the Tamilnadu elections are expected to be held in the near future. Many priests in the temple are extremely happy with our initiative to initiate this project of constructing toilets for pilgrims. Around 5000 pilgrims visit the temple for the monthly Thiruvadarai festival and around 200 to 300 pilgrims visit the temple on a daily basis. For the yearly 10day festival the plgrim inflow is around 1,00,000. Priests in the temple are requesting to start the project without any delay and if possible complete it for the festival. The festival has begun and the main festival days are on the April 30th,May 1st and May 2nd is the Appearence day of Sri Ramanuja acharya. The present Toilets: This place was previously a temple cowshed (go shala) and the temple has constructed 2 toilets in this place and sending these pictures in few hrs time. The present toilet place is 3 minutes a walk able distance from the Main temple entrance. Most of the time toilets are locked and only used by temple authorities and if requested they are opened for the piligrims. There are also no signboards indicating the present place as toilets. The temple authorities told me to use this place for construction of the new toilets. Actually this is a nice place as it is situated close to the temple and on the main road toward the bus stand. The pilgrims can easily identify this place and there will be also signboards to direct the pilgrims toward this place. The authorities of the temple have given full freedom for the construction of the toilets. The toilet site: Apart from the 2 toilets the whole area is rough .In some places there are shrubs and plants growing. There is also no water facility in this place. Need to dig a bore well and create a small tank in this place for water facility. I have not mentioned this in the plan posted yesterday as the list was drafted in an emergency and most things have not been mentioned in the draft. Site plan: There will be 6 toilets and 2 bath rooms for the Ladies and 6 toilets, 5 urinal outlets and 3 showers for the gents. Time: The total time required for the project completion is 8 days. Need to do a little marathon work with quality as the priority. MR Shiva Kumar - Civil engineer: I know him for last 4 yrs and I am confident that he will show excellent results. We are paying him labour charges and all the requisite materials are supplied to him. Monitors: There will be 3 devotees staying in sriperumbuttur from the time of initiation until till the completion of work. They are: Tirthanga chaitanya prabhu: 53 yrs old - : has monitored a construction project in Sri Rangam and has good knowledge in construction part. He travels to villages, does small congregational programmers for the villagers and initiates them into the path of vaishnavism. vounteers himself for all Vaishnava projects. Krsna prem Prabhu:24 yrs old and is a Distributor of Vaishnava literatures. He is an dynamic devotee and can moniter the purchases and stocks. Murali Prabhu: 33 yrs old and also a Distributor of Vaishnava literature. He will be assisting Tirthanga prabhu. Thier contact nos are :9384516886 and 9380307147 Dasanu Dasanu International Charities:(Vaishnava charitable trust involved in Village school programmes and Prasadam distribution programmes OR Food relief programmes) To Start our work, The Sriperumbudur temple has to give me a letter authorization authorizing me to work in their place and they needed an organization name and I have no charitable trust registered and there is no time to start a charitable trust. I had a close friend from ISKCON congregation named Sri Sadasivananda das prabhu, dedicated devotee for the last 18 yrs and approached him for help to use his trust name and he happily agreed to help me in whatever way he could. I also asked him whether we can use his Charitable Trust to receive money from overseas and he said there is no problem as long as I give all the accounts in details. I am heading the project under this name as the temple authorities wanted me to give an organization name. I am also sending the letter from the temple management authorizing this trust to take over the construction for the Toilets. Dasanu dasa international charities are registered in America 3 yrs before and can receive online donations. Please visit his site for more details: www.dasanudas.org and to receive more details of the trust please read the Mission Statement under the menu bar. I think there is tax exemptions facility for donors from America. I request Vaishnavas to send their contributions through this charitable trust. Otherwise send your contributions to this account :G.N.Balaji,Chennai T,Nagar ICICI Account number :602301502499. Accounts and products used: I will produce the entire bill, labour charges and expenditures involved in this project and the entire list of construction materials used for this project, total donations received reported to the donors in the end. I only have a rough calculation of expenditures involved at present. Funds needed: The whole project costs about 3.75 lakhs approx .I have cut down a lot of expenditures. Desire to start the construction in 2 to 3 days time .The engineer assured he will finish the work in 1 week time or for the festival. Once the project starts it shouldn't stop at any cost. The funds should be in total so there will be no hindrance due to lack of finances. The time is short and I have tried my best to do the basic groundwork. We just have 4 days left to start the work. There are 70,000 bahagavthas present for this great festival to take Darshan of our Beloved Grand, Grand Spiritual Master Sri Ramanuja acharya .Bhagavatha Seva is more important than Bhagavan seva. Srila Ramanuja Acharya will be very happy and pleased if we can construct the toilets and provide bathing facility for his devotees. The toilet facility we are constructing will cater only to 30% of the crowd during festivals but something is better than nothing. The toilet facility will help the poor locals too who lack facilities for their daily bath and attending of nature calls . This is also considered as kshetra seva. If we have extra funds then it can be used for the future maintenence of the toilets.For this festival a team of devotees from Chennai will set up water booths -Thaneer pandhals to serve cold water and cold butter milk for the pilgrims. It is getting hotter every day and the Main temple has not even 1 water tank to quench the thirst of the several pilgrims who visit the temple. Our team has already created a small fund for this service. I am reachable on this no from tomorrow : 9380660433 and I will be checking mails every 2 days for a short time only until the completion of this project and the end of festival. I assure the work will be of high quality. After completion I will also see intend to maintain it properly. Please do forgive me if there have been any offences made in the course of my correspondences and bless our team for the excellent completion of this project . Vaishnava dasanu dasa, Manoram. Visit your group "Oppiliappan" on the web. Oppiliappan Mail goes everywhere you do. Get it on your phone. Love cheap thrills? 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Guest guest Posted April 22, 2006 Report Share Posted April 22, 2006 Dear Sriman SD Swamin: Many Thanks for your very timely and helpful suggestion. I have copied Sri Manoram Dasa on this note. The Temple authorities have applied few months ago for such a grant from the government and have not heard a thing . It will be ideal if the Tamilnadu Govt & its H.R & C.E dept funded this important kaimkaryam at Sri PerumbhUthUr. When we learnt about the stalled nature of the grant request due to whatever reasons , the decision was made to raise the funds privately from the BhakthAs of Bhagavath RaamAnujA. If we can turn it around even now , it will be a great relief . We will look into approaching the govt. again . Thanks very much for the specifics on who to contact . Daasan , V.Sadagopan ---- Original Message ----- "soundararajan desikan" <srikainkarya > <Oppiliappan> Friday, April 21, 2006 11:08 PM Dear Swamin Because of my pre-occupations with the completion of construction of Mahamandap atOushathagiri, Sri Hayagreevar temple , Thiruvaheendrapuram I failed to see e-mails about the facility to be provided for nature's call at Sriperumbhudhur . There is provision for this with the H.R. & C. E. Department of Govt of Tamilnadu. and also the Tourism Dept. In fact MR. Iraianbu I.A.S., when he was Commissioner of Tourism , we approched him and because of his efforts ,toilet facilities were provided by Tourism DEpt at SRi Varadarajar Temple Kanchipuram. Sriman Sadagopan Swamin, Can you request Mr Manoram Das to meet Mr. Pichandi I.A.S., Commissioner H.R.& C.E . Dept. There will be a permenant solution to this. The Executive Officer of Sriperumbhudhur Devasthanam has to send a proposal to Commissioner. Dasan Srikainkarya Soundararajan <*> Oppiliappan/ <*> Oppiliappan <*> Your Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 22, 2006 Report Share Posted April 22, 2006 Dear Swamin I should have seen the e-mail quite earlier. There are many points in this 1. Sites at which these toilets to be constructed---Public places can be utilised by the Panchayats/Panchayat Unions or by the H.R. & C. E. Dept forwhich they have got powers under the Panchayat Act. There will be no objection/hindrance/obstacle from anybody if these panchayat institutions construct such public utilities,as they vested with power under the Act 2.Funds-- Tourism Dept has got enough funds to spend under this item, if not by H.R.&C.E. Dept 3. all such public utilities will be maintained by them and hence there is no maintenance problem if a private person does all these things( Private persons will not be able to do it, because of land problem funds problem etc) The main defect in the system is to chase the proposal forwhich the lower level people in the Department will not pay due attention because of various reasons. At Thiruvaheendrapuram , in the Hills ( OUshathagiri), the Executive Officer of the Devasthanam and Sri Narasimha Batter told me to create a Nandavanam to raise all flowers which can be of immense use to make garlands . I suggested to them on 21st of this month to approach the Project Officer District Rural Development Agency(Collector is the Chairman) cuddalore with a proposal and also with a consent from a reputed individual/ company to raise flowers and to maitain the nandavanam, as the D.R.D.A. will grant 50% subsidy for this. On my initiation , there is one nandavanam now behind the temple of CHakraththazhvar Kanchipuram. My initiative was to make links with the devotee who spent initially to make nandavanam and the Project Officer D.R.D.A. Kanchipuram forwhich local devotees like Sriman Sampathkumara Thathachariar ( Formerly Indian Bank) residing in Sannithi St and doing various improvement works involved themselved by chasing the project meticulously there. Sorry, Swamin, I would have interfered already. Dasan Srikainkarya Soundararajan gopan <yennappan (AT) computer (DOT) net> wrote: Dear Sriman SD Swamin: Many Thanks for your very timely and helpful suggestion. I have copied Sri Manoram Dasa on this note. The Temple authorities have applied few months ago for such a grant from the government and have not heard a thing . It will be ideal if the Tamilnadu Govt & its H.R & C.E dept funded this important kaimkaryam at Sri PerumbhUthUr. When we learnt about the stalled nature of the grant request due to whatever reasons , the decision was made to raise the funds privately from the BhakthAs of Bhagavath RaamAnujA. If we can turn it around even now , it will be a great relief . We will look into approaching the govt. again . Thanks very much for the specifics on who to contact . Daasan , V.Sadagopan ---- Original Message ----- "soundararajan desikan" <srikainkarya > <Oppiliappan> Friday, April 21, 2006 11:08 PM Dear Swamin Because of my pre-occupations with the completion of construction of Mahamandap atOushathagiri, Sri Hayagreevar temple , Thiruvaheendrapuram I failed to see e-mails about the facility to be provided for nature's call at Sriperumbhudhur . There is provision for this with the H.R. & C. E. Department of Govt of Tamilnadu. and also the Tourism Dept. In fact MR. Iraianbu I.A.S., when he was Commissioner of Tourism , we approched him and because of his efforts ,toilet facilities were provided by Tourism DEpt at SRi Varadarajar Temple Kanchipuram. Sriman Sadagopan Swamin, Can you request Mr Manoram Das to meet Mr. Pichandi I.A.S., Commissioner H.R.& C.E . Dept. There will be a permenant solution to this. The Executive Officer of Sriperumbhudhur Devasthanam has to send a proposal to Commissioner. Dasan Srikainkarya Soundararajan Visit your group "Oppiliappan" on the web. Oppiliappan Blab-away for as little as 1¢/min. Make PC-to-Phone Calls using Messenger with Voice. <*> Oppiliappan/ <*> Oppiliappan <*> Your Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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