Guest guest Posted June 3, 2008 Report Share Posted June 3, 2008 Dear all,I would like to know if there is any free meals scheme (Annadanam) by the temple. If yes, can someone brief the details (also how to make donations for that)Thanks,Murali Krishna Emani Best Jokes, Best Friends, Best Food. Get all this and more on Best of . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 Der Mr Murali KrishnajiHare Krishna !!Yes, the temple provides for the devotees in the afternoon and night. As offerings, we can provide any amount towards that account in the counter and take a receipt is given to you. regardsJayasree Menon 2008/6/3 Murali Krishna <emanimurali: Dear all,I would like to know if there is any free meals scheme (Annadanam) by the temple. If yes, can someone brief the details (also how to make donations for that)Thanks,Murali Krishna Emani Best Jokes, Best Friends, Best Food. Get all this and more on Best of . -- Best regardsJayasree MenonBangalore+9900149461A well-thought out plan, execution excellence, market timing, personal leadership are drivers of the growth trajectory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 Dear Muraliji, Noble thought indeed. There are few different options- Guruvayur temple offer " Prasada oottu " (free meals) everyday to devotees visiting the temple. I don't know if temple accepts any monet for the same. Temple also have separate Annadanam for the less fortunate people outside and those of us wish to donate can make personal offerings for the same. Also our group member Vimalaji has written to me about Narayanalayam of famous Anjam namboodirippad - here is her email ------------- It seems that there is a place where the people deserves it more The place is called " Narayanalayam " (north side of temple - across from the temple pond) where we can offer donations for kanji and puzhukke for less fortunate take care vimala ------------ I do not have the contact address of Narayanayalam in Guruvayur or could not find any web address for the same. I am sure one of our members will be able to let us know the same. -------------------- To send donations to Guruvayur temple, use the following address- THE ADMINISTRATOR GURUVAYUR DEVASWOM GURUVAYUR - 680 101, KERALA. Web site - http://www.guruvayurdevaswom.org/howoffer.shtml --------------- Hope this helps. Om Namo Naryanaya: Sunil. guruvayur , Murali Krishna <emanimurali wrote: > > Dear all, > > I would like to know if there is any free meals scheme (Annadanam) by the temple. If yes, can someone brief the details (also how to make donations for that) > > Thanks, > Murali Krishna Emani > > > > Has your work life balance shifted? Find out - http://in.search./search? & fr=na_onnetwork_mail_taglines & ei=UTF-8 & rd=r1 & \ p=work+life+balance > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 Hari OM! Dear Muraliji, The best place to give donation nowadays is Narayanalayam. it reaches the derserving people. and founded by Great Devotee of Guruvayurappan like Anjam Madhavan Namboothiri, if you intent to give donation, please do not put it on the Hundial (as the present situation the money goes to the minority communities upliftment and also to the political gains--Politricks.) give it to the Melsanthi or Tanthri inside Guruvayur Temple. http://wikimapia.org/2614878/narayanalayam This is the address shown in the Sri Guruvayurappan Adhyatma Masika (Malayalam) published from Narayanalayam Manager, Sree Guruvayurappan Maasika,Vadakke Nada Guruvayur phone-0487-2556485, or 0487-2553919 Narayanalayam Map above: It is just near to the Guruvayur temple when we pray at East Nada just walk on your right hand side along side of the Temple pond, at the end you will See Hotel Vaisakh and (Govind Apartments) as soon as you reach the end take a left turn. at the left turn around (around the pond 500 yards you will see Narayanalayam (facing the temple pond) hope this helps. May Guruvayurappan bless all With Love & OM! Krishna Prasad guruvayur , "menon_sunil" <menon_sunil wrote:>> Dear Muraliji,> > Noble thought indeed. There are few different options-> > Guruvayur temple offer "Prasada oottu" (free meals) everyday to> devotees visiting the temple. I don't know if temple accepts any monet for the same.> > Temple also have separate Annadanam for the less fortunate people outside and those of us wish to donate can make personal offerings for the same.> > > Also our group member Vimalaji has written to me about Narayanalayam> of famous Anjam namboodirippad - here is her email> > -------------> It seems that there is a place where the people deserves it more> > The place is called "Narayanalayam" (north side of temple - across> from the temple pond) where we can offer donations for kanji and> puzhukke for less fortunate> > take care> > vimala> > ------------> I do not have the contact address of Narayanayalam in Guruvayur or> could not find any web address for the same. I am sure one of our> members will be able to let us know the same.> > --------------------> > To send donations to Guruvayur temple, use the following address-> > THE ADMINISTRATOR> GURUVAYUR DEVASWOM> GURUVAYUR - 680 101, KERALA.> > Web site - http://www.guruvayurdevaswom.org/howoffer.shtml> ---------------> > Hope this helps.> > Om Namo Naryanaya:> Sunil.> > > > > > > > guruvayur , Murali Krishna emanimurali@ wrote:> >> > Dear all,> >> > I would like to know if there is any free meals scheme (Annadanam)> by the temple. If yes, can someone brief the details (also how to make> donations for that)> >> > Thanks,> > Murali Krishna Emani> >> >> >> > Has your work life balance shifted? Find out -> http://in.search./search? & fr=na_onnetwork_mail_taglines & ei=UTF-8 & rd=r1 & p=work+life+balance> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 Dear Muraliji, There is Annadanam for the less fortunate every day at Narayanalayam organized by Sree Guruvayurappan Sankeerthana Trust ( founded by Thirunamacharya Shri Anjam Madhavan Nambudiri). It is called the "Sree Thampuran *- Embrandiri** Smaraka Annadanam " - in memory of two great devotees of Guruvayurappan. There are various options to contribute to – Kanji (rice porridge) or Kanji and puzhukku or Sadya (feast). There is also an endowment scheme. You can pay in person or send in your contributions to Sree Guruvayurappan Sankeerthana Trust, Narayanalayam, Guruvayur – 680101 Ph Nos: 0487 2553919, 2556485 The name and address of those who contribute Rs 100 and above will be mentioned in the Sri Guruvayurappan monthly magazine***. *Kasi Appan Thampuran Among several Bhagavathotamas, Kasi Appan Thampuran stands out. He was a senior member of the erstwhile Cochin royal family, highly educated, with a degree in Engineering from the prestigious Benares Hindu University. He was holding a lucrative post in Calcutta and possessed robust health. In short he had everything one could wish for in life. Yet he felt great dejection, a state of unhappiness and want of peace in himself. So he renounced everything and repaired to holy Kasi. For the next ten years he made Kasi his home. He undertook pilgrimages to Badrinath, Mathura, Dwaraka and other holy places. At Dwaraka, while he stood praying to the Lord, he heard a voice saying: “Rama, you need not marry, I am always with you.” (His real name was Rama Varma Appan Thampuran). Like this, Thampuran experienced the presence of God several times. Those who are endowed with the qualities of renunciation, knowledge and devotion perceive the Lord in their hearts and in fellow-beings. Thampuran was full of compassion for the poor and destitute. When they lay shivering on the banks of the Ganga, on wintry nights, he carried bundles of woollen blankets on his shoulders and covered them unobtrusively. Thampuran left Kasi and spent nearly 25 years at Guruvayur. On occasions he visited Tripunithura, his native place, especially to tend his aged parents when they fell sick during their last moments. His aim was to complete chanting 39 crore of Narayana and achieve life’s purpose. He far surpassed this target. Every month he did one Bhagavata saptaha. His heart went out for the poor, who in 1942, due to scarcity of foodgrains virtually starved. He organised free kanji for them by spending his own money and collecting donations from others. This is being continued even today, years after his death on August 16, 1979. Like Poontanam, Thampuran was virtually awaiting to be taken to Lord’s feet. A few days before his end came, he distributed everything he had to poor including his own bed which he gave away to his maid servant. He did not suffer from any illness nor was bed-ridden even for a day. Chanting Guruvayurappa, Narayana, which even his neighbours could hear, he passed away around the time the sanctum sanctorum was being opened for nirmalya darshan that Ekadasi day - the anaayaasena maranam, an end that is peaceful, which only the blessed could aspire. **Bhaktothama Parameswaran Embrandiri If Thampuran was born into a rich family, Parameswaran Embrandiri was a poor Brahmana, who left his home in Karantaka at the age of 13 and had gone about holy places from the Himalaya to Rameswaram in search of God. Following the Vedic path of negative ‘neti’‘neti’ (not this, not this) which the searcher adopted to approach Brahman, he at last came to Guruvayur. After few days of bhajan, the poor devotee, who had nothing except the mundu he was wearing, found in Guruvayurappan what he had been searching during all those years of travel. He decided to spend his remaining years in the service of the Lord of Lords and His devotees. During the 43 years he spent in Guruvayur, the nirmalaya darshan of the Lord without Embrandiri was the one on July 3, 1982 when he passed away. He was a regular fixture in the temple from nirmalayam to tripuka rain or shine. He spent a few hours in the night sleeping under the gopuram or on the steps of the shops. One day, Kalati Narayana lyer, a staunch devotee, moved by the sight, requested him to sleep in his house, which Embrandiri did. As days passed, Embrandiri was seen joining in the Bhagavata discourses and in the Narayana japa conducted by Mekkad Nilakanta Sadguru. He completed recital of namajapa three and half crores times and Bhagavata parayana 108 times. When he came in close contact with Kasi Appan Thampuran, he shifted his residence to his house. A great organiser that he was, he helped Thampuran in the distribution of free kanji to the poor. He continued this philanthropic act even after Thampuran’s death. It was Embrandiri who built the asbestos shed in front of the eastern gopuram to provide shelter to the poor. He knew well how these helpless suffered as he himself had been one such when he came to Guruvayur. It was built at a cost of Rs.13,500 under the able supervision of the then Superintending Engineer of Paighat, Sri Thottakad Balakrishna Menon who declined to accept any remuneration offered by Embrandiri. On another occasion, Embrandiri offered the costly Udayasthamana puja to the Lord. How did Embrandiri get money for all these expenses? He offered to conduct vazhivadus for devotees for which he received dakshina, which he did not use for his material needs, but saved. It was Embrandiri who undertook the responsibility of conducting the namajapa at dusk. He had such organising capacity that once Appan Thampuran said that if at all he became the ruler of Cochin he would make Embrandiri the chief minister. Embrandiri loved children to whom he distributed bananas after the Namajapa. Embrandiri never left Guruvayur once he settled there. Once when he was advised to go to Coimbatore for treatment at the Arya Vaidya Pharmacy there for his urine trouble, he agreed but asked: “What about the darshan of Guruvayurappan?” Like the heart-broken gopis of Brindavan, he could not live even for a moment without seeing Guruvayurappan. On the night of July 2, 1982 Embrandiri called his companion at 12.45 and told him that he wanted to go to toilet. He washed himself and changed into new clothes. Then he stretched himself on his bed and lay flat, uttering ‘Narayana’, ‘Narayana’. After a few moments he was silent. Text courtesy: Sri Krishna The Lord of Guruvayur - a great book by Sri K. R. Vaidyanathan, Bhavan's Book University. ***"Sri Guruvayurappan" is a monthly magazine of the Sri Guruvayurappan Sankeerthana Trust, Guruvayur founded by Thirunamacharya Shri Anjam Madhavan Nambudiri (1918-1988) - a scholar devotee of Guruvayurappan who held vast audiences spellbound by his inimitable discourses on Bhagavata and the Namasankirtan. From 1967, it is being published on 1st day of Malayalam months or 16 th of English months. It has articles about - the mahatmya of Guruvayurappan, personal experiences of devotees, great devotees of Lord Krishna, poems, articles by Thirunamacharya, latest News about Guruvayur temple and details about Anjam Krishnan Nambudiri's Bhagavatha Saptahams ( He is the younger brother of Thirunamacharya and the Managing Editor of this magazine) etc. You can to Sri Guruvayurappan Magazine by sending a money order of Rs 60/- (Annual Subscription-12 issues x Rs 5/-) to The Manager Sri Guruvayurappan Masika Narayanalayam Guruvayur-680103 Phone No's- 0487 2553919, 2556485 Mention "New Member" in the M.O.Coupon. Regards, Krishnapriya menon_sunil <menon_sunil wrote: Dear Muraliji, Noble thought indeed. There are few different options- Guruvayur temple offer "Prasada oottu" (free meals) everyday to devotees visiting the temple. I don't know if temple accepts any monet for the same. Temple also have separate Annadanam for the less fortunate people outside and those of us wish to donate can make personal offerings for the same. Also our group member Vimalaji has written to me about Narayanalayam of famous Anjam namboodirippad - here is her email ------------- It seems that there is a place where the people deserves it more The place is called "Narayanalayam" (north side of temple - across from the temple pond) where we can offer donations for kanji and puzhukke for less fortunate take care vimala ------------ I do not have the contact address of Narayanayalam in Guruvayur or could not find any web address for the same. I am sure one of our members will be able to let us know the same. -------------------- To send donations to Guruvayur temple, use the following address- THE ADMINISTRATOR GURUVAYUR DEVASWOM GURUVAYUR - 680 101, KERALA. Web site - http://www.guruvayurdevaswom.org/howoffer.shtml --------------- Hope this helps. Om Namo Naryanaya: Sunil. guruvayur , Murali Krishna <emanimurali wrote: > > Dear all, > > I would like to know if there is any free meals scheme (Annadanam) by the temple. If yes, can someone brief the details (also how to make donations for that) > > Thanks, > Murali Krishna Emani > > > > Has your work life balance shifted? Find out - http://in.search./search? & fr=na_onnetwork_mail_taglines & ei=UTF-8 & rd=r1 & p=work+life+balance > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest varun Posted April 5, 2014 Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 dear .i would like to do reserch about the free meal at guruvayoor temple. so please give me some details about the annadanam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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