dd update - kUdalUr (Aduthurai perumAL temple)

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srImathE rAmAnujAya namah

 

thiru-k-koodalUr, ADuthurai-p-perumAL kOvil:

 

This temple's perumAL is jagad-rakshaka perumAL. But

the temple is in a very very bad shape, and is very

poor. To make a long story short, this perhaps is the

most deserving temple that I have seen for our kind

of a project.

 

I visited this temple as well on April 8th (have

visited multiple times previously to do the legwork) ,

and here are the "steady-state" arrangements.

 

1. This temple has a bhattar

who lives in a neighbouring village. He takes care of

three temples (Along with his brother) for survival.

This temple has practically no income. The priest's

father has become blind due to some illness, and he

has to be taken care of as well. There is another

younger brother doing Agama studies, and a sister.

These common survival issues make it a *necessity* for

him to work in 3 temples to make a decent living

(he might make around 2000 rupees a month totally,

and the day I went there, was mentioning about

3000 rupees he needed to pay the examination fees

for hsi brother who is doing Agama studies in

thirupathi). Please respect the sanctity of this

family by respecting the above information. I am

giving this only to provide people with a better

understanding of the day-to-day issues surrounding

temples in rural areas.

 

2. This temple also has a staunch devotee who gathers

local children everyday and does bhajans for about

half-an-hour to an hour. (whenever he is in town

and that is about 15 days a month).

 

3. I have agreed on behalf of VEDICS to provide a

steady source of income to the priest of this temple

(2000 rupees per month), and sponsor 4 feasts

(thaLigai-s) a month - on every saturday. Since the

local people are coming regularly, this will enable

more of them to come and participate in the temple.

That in itself will improve the temple by leaps and

bounds. The cost for that is about 800 rupees per

month.

 

4. The staunch devotee (srI srInivAsan) has agreed to

bring the local people for these gatherings and

for every-day bhajans in larger number. We will

provide him with photocopies of 10 pAsurams that

thirumangaiAzhvAr has sung about this temple,

and that will become part of the bhajans as well.

 

5. The temple will be open from 7:30 to 11:30 and

from 3:30 to 7:30. There might be some exceptions,

but someone will *always* be at the temple. There

is a watchman to this temple as well, who gets

paid 130 rupees per month!. We need to do something

about this in the long run.

 

6. A few of us bought a number of utensils for this

temple a few weeks back. Now that the temple will

be open regularly, they have requested for two

things - (i) a ghee-lamp for use instead of

camphor and (ii) a small loudspeaker/tape player

for playing suprabhAtham, sahasranAmam and the

AzhvAr pAsurams every morning and evening. I have

committed that I will look into it and then

get back to them about the feasibility.

 

7. We do need volunteers to support the above effort.

Till the time we have volunteers, I will take care

of the expenses from here.

 

 

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

varadhan

 

 

 

 

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Dear Varadhan,

 

I have seen you both the mail and it is excellent work you have taken up

and really we have to do some thing temples like this.

 

I request your good self to kindly inform me in which address we should send

the cheque or Draft and on whose name.

 

I have a feeling that I will start with small amount and I will what best I

can do .

 

If it is possible Kindly give the estimate.

 

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan

 

Kaliyur Srinivasan Rave

Hyderabad

tavaradhan [tavaradhan]

Tuesday, April 09, 2002 7:57 PM

ramanuja

[ramanuja] dd update - kUdalUr (Aduthurai perumAL temple)

 

srImathE rAmAnujAya namah

 

thiru-k-koodalUr, ADuthurai-p-perumAL kOvil:

 

This temple's perumAL is jagad-rakshaka perumAL. But

the temple is in a very very bad shape, and is very

poor. To make a long story short, this perhaps is the

most deserving temple that I have seen for our kind

of a project.

 

I visited this temple as well on April 8th (have

visited multiple times previously to do the legwork) ,

and here are the "steady-state" arrangements.

 

1. This temple has a bhattar

who lives in a neighbouring village. He takes care of

three temples (Along with his brother) for survival.

This temple has practically no income. The priest's

father has become blind due to some illness, and he

has to be taken care of as well. There is another

younger brother doing Agama studies, and a sister.

These common survival issues make it a *necessity* for

him to work in 3 temples to make a decent living

(he might make around 2000 rupees a month totally,

and the day I went there, was mentioning about

3000 rupees he needed to pay the examination fees

for hsi brother who is doing Agama studies in

thirupathi). Please respect the sanctity of this

family by respecting the above information. I am

giving this only to provide people with a better

understanding of the day-to-day issues surrounding

temples in rural areas.

 

2. This temple also has a staunch devotee who gathers

local children everyday and does bhajans for about

half-an-hour to an hour. (whenever he is in town

and that is about 15 days a month).

 

3. I have agreed on behalf of VEDICS to provide a

steady source of income to the priest of this temple

(2000 rupees per month), and sponsor 4 feasts

(thaLigai-s) a month - on every saturday. Since the

local people are coming regularly, this will enable

more of them to come and participate in the temple.

That in itself will improve the temple by leaps and

bounds. The cost for that is about 800 rupees per

month.

 

4. The staunch devotee (srI srInivAsan) has agreed to

bring the local people for these gatherings and

for every-day bhajans in larger number. We will

provide him with photocopies of 10 pAsurams that

thirumangaiAzhvAr has sung about this temple,

and that will become part of the bhajans as well.

 

5. The temple will be open from 7:30 to 11:30 and

from 3:30 to 7:30. There might be some exceptions,

but someone will *always* be at the temple. There

is a watchman to this temple as well, who gets

paid 130 rupees per month!. We need to do something

about this in the long run.

 

6. A few of us bought a number of utensils for this

temple a few weeks back. Now that the temple will

be open regularly, they have requested for two

things - (i) a ghee-lamp for use instead of

camphor and (ii) a small loudspeaker/tape player

for playing suprabhAtham, sahasranAmam and the

AzhvAr pAsurams every morning and evening. I have

committed that I will look into it and then

get back to them about the feasibility.

 

7. We do need volunteers to support the above effort.

Till the time we have volunteers, I will take care

of the expenses from here.

 

 

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

varadhan

 

 

 

 

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SriMathe RamAnujAya Namaha:

 

Dear Sri Varadhan and all,

 

Divya Dampathi's paripoorna kataksham will always be there for "etraikkum

Ezh Ezh piRavikkum" to all the bhagavatha's who are really working hard to

save "OUR" Divya Desams. I personally feel, SriMann Narayana at this

juncture wants to TEST all of us whether we really love him and Bhagavatha's

involved in this project are showing their gesture as how much we "love"

him.

 

In fact I had written my experience after coming back from Chola Nadu Divya

Desams Yathrai (Jul/Aug 2001) where I mentioned about Thirukkoodaloor Divya

Desam in particular.

 

To remind you all here it is

==================

01-08-2001

Thiru Kkoodaloor: (Aadudhurai Perumal Kovil): Before I begin, I should say

that this divya desam is the most poorest condition of all 106 divya desams.

It is such a state that the temple will be open only for few mins/hrs daily.

The Bhattacharya has to come from 5 kms away. There is no madapali all the

walls got damaged. Really I couldn't imagine a Divya desam to be like this.

The moolavar thiru namam is Vaiyangaatha Perumal (Jagath Rakshagan) but

there seems to be no Raksha for perumal himself. We all cleaned the floors

and donated liberally for maintenance of the temple also gave New Vasthrams

to Perumal and Pirratti. Had darsanam at 10:10 am. Something has to be done

seriously to improve this temple.

==================

 

"Seeing is Believing", any person who had been to this divya desam will get

tears, in fact many of them will be unfortunate to see perumal here, because

most of the time the temple will be closed. There were so many bats in

Azhwar sannadhi's making almost impossible for Arachaka to enter inside the

sanctorum.

 

I was deeply hurt when Varadhan mentioned about the Bhattar in this DD.

Words fail to write about Bhattar's family. I pray this situation should not

happen to any Sri Vaishnavan.

 

As Sri Varadhan said in earlier mail, "It is very heartening to see how big

of a change tht such a little thing as this kainkaryam does. It really has

to be seen to be experienced."

 

Our support in terms of moral/cash/kind/goods/sharira to this divine cause

cannot be measured as how much satisfaction we derive from it.

 

I am assured, the next time any bhagavatha will visit this divya desam in

particular will definitely have a different experience due to all the great

efforts being taken care by VEDICS.

 

Adiyen RamAnuja dAsan,

K.M. Shantha Kumar.

http://www15.brinkster.com/mudaliandan

 

 

 

tavaradhan [tavaradhan]

Tuesday, April 09, 2002 7:57 PM

ramanuja

[ramanuja] dd update - kUdalUr (Aduthurai perumAL temple)

 

 

srImathE rAmAnujAya namah

 

thiru-k-koodalUr, ADuthurai-p-perumAL kOvil:

 

This temple's perumAL is jagad-rakshaka perumAL. But

the temple is in a very very bad shape, and is very

poor. To make a long story short, this perhaps is the

most deserving temple that I have seen for our kind

of a project.

 

I visited this temple as well on April 8th (have

visited multiple times previously to do the legwork) ,

and here are the "steady-state" arrangements.

 

1. This temple has a bhattar

who lives in a neighbouring village. He takes care of

three temples (Along with his brother) for survival.

This temple has practically no income. The priest's

father has become blind due to some illness, and he

has to be taken care of as well. There is another

younger brother doing Agama studies, and a sister.

These common survival issues make it a *necessity* for

him to work in 3 temples to make a decent living

(he might make around 2000 rupees a month totally,

and the day I went there, was mentioning about

3000 rupees he needed to pay the examination fees

for hsi brother who is doing Agama studies in

thirupathi). Please respect the sanctity of this

family by respecting the above information. I am

giving this only to provide people with a better

understanding of the day-to-day issues surrounding

temples in rural areas.

 

2. This temple also has a staunch devotee who gathers

local children everyday and does bhajans for about

half-an-hour to an hour. (whenever he is in town

and that is about 15 days a month).

 

3. I have agreed on behalf of VEDICS to provide a

steady source of income to the priest of this temple

(2000 rupees per month), and sponsor 4 feasts

(thaLigai-s) a month - on every saturday. Since the

local people are coming regularly, this will enable

more of them to come and participate in the temple.

That in itself will improve the temple by leaps and

bounds. The cost for that is about 800 rupees per

month.

 

4. The staunch devotee (srI srInivAsan) has agreed to

bring the local people for these gatherings and

for every-day bhajans in larger number. We will

provide him with photocopies of 10 pAsurams that

thirumangaiAzhvAr has sung about this temple,

and that will become part of the bhajans as well.

 

5. The temple will be open from 7:30 to 11:30 and

from 3:30 to 7:30. There might be some exceptions,

but someone will *always* be at the temple. There

is a watchman to this temple as well, who gets

paid 130 rupees per month!. We need to do something

about this in the long run.

 

6. A few of us bought a number of utensils for this

temple a few weeks back. Now that the temple will

be open regularly, they have requested for two

things - (i) a ghee-lamp for use instead of

camphor and (ii) a small loudspeaker/tape player

for playing suprabhAtham, sahasranAmam and the

AzhvAr pAsurams every morning and evening. I have

committed that I will look into it and then

get back to them about the feasibility.

 

7. We do need volunteers to support the above effort.

Till the time we have volunteers, I will take care

of the expenses from here.

 

 

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

varadhan

 

 

 

 

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azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam

 

 

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