Thoopul Mandapa Kaimkaryam

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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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Srimathe Lakshminrusimha divya pAduka sevika

srivan satakopa Sri Narayana Yathindra MahadesikAya Namaha

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