a few more points

[Guest guest]

Dear Chitralakshmi,

 

Thanks for the inputs...This is exactly what I had

mentioned in my earlier email. There are temple lands

gifted by good hearted souls but they have all been

misappropriated with the connivance of the local

government and other bad elements.

 

We have to address them like SrI Vedantam had

mentioned in his earlier email. All these temple

assets should come under a master data base and be

transparent to all the devotees and this is the only

way we can have a effective mechanism running. Once we

make it transparent everyone in the village would know

who has misappropriated the temple property and

remedial steps can be taken. First step would be the

data base...

 

Once again I wish to stress the need for a core

group..and core place which should act as the central

fulcrum for all the divya desams. This should be

equipped with all the modern facilities of a office

and should have advocates, chartered accountants,

Public relations officer, media, press activities

etc......I think if all of us put in our effort it

would not be a hard task.

 

If SrI Vedantam can take upon the task of preparing

the approach papers and set the dates we all can

contribute our suggestions and inputs and final

document can be prepared and we have to execute it

meticulosly like a project..Deep planning is required.

 

 

I live and work in Brussels at the moment. I am

Scheduled to be here until Beginning August. I can

commit my presense in India and carry out part of

these tasks when I am in India.

 

Can we form a core group and a steering comittee and

identify those who would like to get actively

associated with these task and have regular email

exchanges with them. Ofcourse this is a task of all

the vaishnava community as a whole but the core group

can focus on the work...ahead..

 

This group need not be restricted to Srisri Ranga

group...It can have a wider participation but

committed members for the cause..

 

The data base of Vaishnavas is a must..

 

We all can begin with having a task of introducing

minimum of 10 vaishnavas known to us to this group and

then we can identify their strengths and interests in

participation in this cause.

 

Let us do our little part.....

[Guest guest]

Dear Suresh,

Adiyen and my wife offer our services for the project. We have settled

down in Bangalore after my retirement and have ample time at our disposal

to do any work assigned to us. We will consider it a bhagyam.

Incidentally we recommend all SriVaishnavites to read the following book

on our Divya Desangal.

108 VAINAVA DIVYA DESA STHALA VARALARU

By Doctor Vainava Sudarazhi A Ethirajan

published by Sri Vaishnava Siddhantha Noorpathippu Kazhagam, Karaikudi.

The book is available at Giri Trading Agency, Mylapore. The website of

Giris is

www.giritrading.com and e mail ID is giritrading Its fourth

edition has come out in the year 2000.

This book gives all the details about the Divyadesams, the temples,

the route to be taken and also the present condition of the temples. As per

the book quite a few DivyaDesams are devoid of finance and they are in need

of finance for daily Poojas and maintenance. The core group set up can

start with these temples.

My wife and myself had the BHagyam of having Darshans in about 25

DivyaDesams. We will be away in Singapore for about three months and on our

return we are planning to go on an yathra of DivyaDesams with the BLESSINGS

OF LORD

UPPILIAPPAN.

With Warm Regards,

dasan

lakshminarayanan