Guest guest Posted July 29, 2006 Report Share Posted July 29, 2006 29.7.2006 Dear all Re: Guruvayoor group & Navneetham news letter It is quite accidental that I came to know about this group. I got the name of the site while searching for some information on the guruvayoor devaswom site. Just out of curiosity, I logged on to the same and found the same interesting. I found that this is a forum where Krishna devotees can exchange their veiws, narrate their experience with Kannan etc. I decided to submit my reuqest to be a member of this group and proceeded. The application was sent to moderator and I was under the impression that this may be a person connected to Guruvayoor temple and sitting at the Devaswom office . I think I submitted my application on 10th or 11th May. Thereafter I was on leave for more than a month and hence could check the mail only after resuming duty on third week June. Therafter I started getting messages from all our group members, but I never saw messages from the "Moderator" and was wondering who can be this moderator who is doing the work behind the scene. I received valuable guidance from the members especially Gopalakrishnaji, Kerrthiji, Balagopalji etc., to my doubts. Due to lack of time, I could not go through all the messages I received. But today , I am free (my boss is not there) and while going through the messages I came across a message dated 9th July of Shri Ganapathy Ramanji in reply to the message of Shri Balagopalji. This message came as an answer to my querry and I came to know the name of the person who took initiative to develop such a group. I understand that this group was started way back end May 2001 with just one single person ( Shri Sunil Menonji himself I suppose). I can very well imagine the efforts he must have put to make this group a strenghty one with 385 members as of now which includes persons having great knowledge and always ready to guide us and clear our doubts. I am sorry I could be a part of this Guruvayoor group only this May 2006 which means I lost 5 valuable years and lost many information. However I am consoling myself that everything has got a time and Kannan wanted me to be a part of this group only now. MAY THE ALMIGHTY GOD BLESS HIM AYUR AROGYA SAUKHYAM.Re: Navneetham News letter I used to see messages related to this subject in my mail box, but did not bother to open the same and just overlooked the same. Only when I saw the message of Shri Sunil Menon's message announcing about the Navneetham July issue , I understood that it is a news letter. I saw the July news letter and could not believe my eys.It has come as a Kanninu ponkani for me. I have yet to read the full issue. What a wonderful task ! Hats off to him. Only with the Blessings of Kannan can anyone take up such a task and present it this way The selfless efforts being put in by the members of editorial board of this newsletter is praise worthy. This is all the more appreciable because this effort is being done in Kali Yuga when people are using their valuable time , knowledge and energy in promoting unwanted things rather than such noble deeds. My sincere regards to all of them and also those who are contributing in this news letter. May Lord Krishna bestow all of them with his choicest Blessings and also the members who are lucky to be a part of this group A humble devotee Syamala Talk is cheap. Use Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 Hare Krishna! Dear Syamala, Thank you for your comments and blessings. As I am going through a transformation time in work and life, your prayers and blessings are highly appreciated. Initially I started the web site Guruvayoor.com as an offering and silent prayer to Krishna to save my mother's life. She had memory loss due to Alzheimer's and it was a devastating time for us. However, Krishna had different plans for one his ardent devotees and she left us in 2001. Guruvayoor and Krishna were important part of my Mother's and Father's life. Hence doing anything related to Guruvayoor is a way for me to cherish their memories and respect their teachings (incidently, both my parent's were my Teachers too). Maintaining a devotional group needs quite a bit of effort considering that each message needs to be read before approval to the whole group. Primarily this security measure is to prevent people posting bad things, making personal attacks and avoiding virus attachments. We also discourage subjects not related to Bhakti. I could not have done this without the timely help from VEENA NAIR, who volunteered to help in 2003 and has done an excellent job of supporting the effort. Thank you Veena for your great service to this group. One of the main dilemmas being the moderator is participating in the discussions. When I post my personal opinion, many people take it as the Moderator's opinion and the only allowed view point in the group. Some people even leave the group to protest! I wanted to avoid such happenings and that is why you don't see many posts from me. Another question I get often is why I don't put my name everywhere in the group or on the web site. The answer is simple, it is for Krisha and his name is there everywhere. My name is not really important. It always reminds me of an experience from my village. Our Bhagavathy Temple is on a hill and they collected donations from people to build stone steps leading to the temple. In return, they wrote the donor's names in the middle of ever step. So, when we climb these steps now, we have to step on the names of the donor's... And that means stepping on people's names and many of them are my family members and respected uncles! Imagine you putting your feet on your dear uncles names one by one - it is no fun. Personally, I don't think we should write our names in big letters everywhere when it is a matter related God. After all we are doing HIS seva. A good news - we have crossed 400 member mark last week and it gives me a lot of pleasure to be associated with all of you. Om Namo Narayanaya: May God bless you all. Sunil. guruvayur , Syamala Nair <syamalaraghunath wrote: > > 29.7.2006 > > Dear all > > Re: Guruvayoor group & Navneetham news letter > > It is quite accidental that I came to know about this group. I got the name of the site while searching for some information on the guruvayoor devaswom site. Just out of curiosity, I logged on to the same and found the same interesting. I found that this is a forum where Krishna devotees can exchange their veiws, narrate their experience with Kannan etc. I decided to submit my reuqest to be a member of this group and proceeded. The application was sent to moderator and I was under the impression that this may be a person connected to Guruvayoor temple and sitting at the Devaswom office . I think I submitted my application on 10th or 11th May. Thereafter I was on leave for more than a month and hence could check the mail only after resuming duty on third week June. > > Therafter I started getting messages from all our group members, but I never saw messages from the " Moderator " and was wondering who can be this moderator who is doing the work behind the scene. I received valuable guidance from the members especially Gopalakrishnaji, Kerrthiji, Balagopalji etc., to my doubts. > > Due to lack of time, I could not go through all the messages I received. But today , I am free (my boss is not there) and while going through the messages I came across a message dated 9th July of Shri Ganapathy Ramanji in reply to the message of Shri Balagopalji. This message came as an answer to my querry and I came to know the name of the person who took initiative to develop such a group. I understand that this group was started way back end May 2001 with just one single person ( Shri Sunil Menonji himself I suppose). I can very well imagine the efforts he must have put to make this group a strenghty one with 385 members as of now which includes persons having great knowledge and always ready to guide us and clear our doubts. > > I am sorry I could be a part of this Guruvayoor group only this May 2006 which means I lost 5 valuable years and lost many information. However I am consoling myself that everything has got a time and Kannan wanted me to be a part of this group only now. > > MAY THE ALMIGHTY GOD BLESS HIM AYUR AROGYA SAUKHYAM. > > Re: Navneetham News letter > > I used to see messages related to this subject in my mail box, but did not bother to open the same and just overlooked the same. > > Only when I saw the message of Shri Sunil Menon's message announcing about the Navneetham July issue , I understood that it is a news letter. I saw the July news letter and could not believe my eys.It has come as a Kanninu ponkani for me. I have yet to read the full issue. What a wonderful task ! Hats off to him. Only with the Blessings of Kannan can anyone take up such a task and present it this way > > The selfless efforts being put in by the members of editorial board of this newsletter is praise worthy. This is all the more appreciable because this effort is being done in Kali Yuga when people are using their valuable time , knowledge and energy in promoting unwanted things rather than such noble deeds. My sincere regards to all of them and also those who are contributing in this news letter. > > May Lord Krishna bestow all of them with his choicest Blessings and also the members who are lucky to be a part of this group > > A humble devotee > Syamala > > > > > > Talk is cheap. Use Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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