Puthur Shiva Temple News - May 21, 009

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Puthur Shiva Temple News - May 21, 2009

 

1. The experience of a japam participant

2. The status of your puja request & donation

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1. The experience of a japam participant

 

One japam participant has sent us this email:

 

" I am praying to Lord Shiva and Parvati to give you and your team more blessings

for creating such a dynamic website which is helping thousands of devotees to do

the Koti Nama Japam. Lots of positive changes have happened in my life since I

started this japam.

 

First, since the last 10 days I have been free of tension. I am mentally at

peace. At home also there is now a good atmosphere, otherwise we used to fight

over simple things.

 

In my office, because of the present recession, we came to know that this year

we will not get any increment at all. While I was typing Om Namah Shivaya, I

prayed for some improvement. Two days later, my company announced an increment.

We are all eagerly waiting to find out how much.

 

From my experience, I know that Lord Shiva of the Puthur temple is very powerful

and whoever does worship with honesty and devotion, he will hear. I would like

to visit Puthur Shiva temple on my next visit to Kerala and will donate whatever

I can. My thinking is that Puthur Temple will be known to the world in the near

future and it will become a major center for meditation and more.

 

Thank you once again for your kind action. Please forgive me if I have made any

mistakes. Frankly we were from a very, very, poor family, under Daridryarekha,

so I have only studied upto 10th std in Malayalam medium.

 

From our childhood we have faced a lot of problems. Then also we used to chant

Om Namah Shivaya and Shiva's Pancharathna Sthothram and do whatever we could to

help old peoples in our village. My faith is that because of those day's karma,

we got a convenient life now. "

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2. The status of your puja request & donation.

 

The 80-year old temple elder who was helping us with the 101- kodum dhara and

prasadam has fallen ill and is moving to another town to be close to family.

There is no one else we know who is sincere, reliable, AND willing to do our

pujas for us.

 

Given the state of temples in Kerala (also India) these days, we are advising

participants to hold off on sending any more donations or requests for pujas

until we can find someone reliable and willing to help our group.

 

Given also the current international political situation, we are karmically

responsible for where we give our money and what it is really used for. So our

advice is: please hold off on sending any more money for a while.

 

In the meanwhile, you can keep your connection to Lord Shiva and Parvati strong

by doing japam regularly, invite Puthur Shiva into your home and heart, and do

puja to him there. What God really wants is our love and devotion of which you

all have demonstrated you have plenty.

 

IF you really want to, you can keep a lakshmi box on your puja table and put

some money into it regularly. When the time comes, Puthur Shiva will guide us

how to use it.

 

Those who have paid and not received any prasadam or official tax receipt for

your donations, please call the temple directly

 

Tel: 91-04933-224565

[Country code-city code- tele #]

 

Temple office hours:

7.30-10.30 a.m. (I.S.T)

5.30-7.30 p.m. (I.S.T)

 

You may also email us devotees at puthurshiva @ gmail .com, and we will follow

up for you as best we can from North America.

 

Devotee websites:

1. www. puthurshivatemple. blogspot. com

2. www. omnamahshivayakotinamajapam. blogspot.com

 

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We thank Satyan Ambalappatta, the 80-year-old elder, who has helped us sooo much

and wish him and his wife a speedy recovery. At his age, he does 54 malas of

japam with us everyday!!!