Dhivya Desams : Support to maiantain Daily AarAdhanam , NaivEdhyam and Vasthram ,

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Dear Dr.Sadagopan Swamy,

It is a wonderful, thoughtful and a very good idea of thinking about the need for maintaining uninterepted Thiruaradhanam etc., (soliciting contributions from Bhakhas/Bhgawathas) in the needy temples over here and most i;mportantly channelising such collections through trusted persons.

To my knowledge and with the limited experience that I have had in the recent past, I can think of personalities like Sri Govindarajan Swamy of Ch;ennai, who is an ;industrialist, to whom God has given whatall he wants (man above wants) and uppermost his Zeal, hardwork and enhusiasm in undertaking Kainkaryams for temples of our Sampradaya. We have seen him at work during the renovation of temple at Kappur Village (our native place), which we had neglected for more than 2 decades. He single handedly spearheaded the Project, after taking blessings (Srimukam) from Srimad Azhahiasingar. We all joined him in his task, collected contri;bu;tions and channelised through him and to everyone's appreciation he carried out the task very well. What is most important is that he could talk and convince the people at village level, who had not paid the rent for the lands of the temple which were u;nder their cultivation and made them voluntarily to come out pay the arrrears etc, What the law and au;thority could not do, he had succeeded. You can think of him (though he may be bury at work). Adiyen offer my services to work under him. There is a lady behind this successful man, i.e. his wife Smt.Hemamalini, whose devotation to Acharya and Arcchamoorthys and love for our Sampradaya Smpradaya is very deep. I thought of this couple, when I say your mail.

Another persons who comes to my mind is Sri KGK Swamy, whom you also know very well. Who does not know the self-less kainkaryam that he undertook in adorning Sri Veeraraghava Swamy of Tiruvellore with Pandian or Saaligothramaharishi Kondai and many kainkaryams he is doing for our Sampradaya say like running Divyaprabhanda class at Mambalam etc., I can not talk much about him since he is adiyen's sammandhi and I am suggesting his name without even having a word with him.

If I have overdone in giving the above suggestions, kindly pardon me.

Dasan,

Devanathan, Chennai.  

 

 

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 Dr.Sadagopan wrote :

>SrI :

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>Dear BhakthAs :

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>It is moving to see the enthusiasm and devotion of

>many of you wanting to participate in this laudable Kaimakryam

>to maintain our ancient treasures , enjoy them and protect them

>to pass it on to the successive generations .

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>It is most gratifying to learn that you are prepared to set aside

> a small contribution from your earnings per month to help maintain

>nithyArAdhanam at temples that are experiencing dificulties .

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>Number of bhakthAs involved with or having experience in administering

>such Kiamkaryams have sent in their inputs at a cautionary level to make

>sure that these well meant outpourings of Bhakthi reach the targets and

>not grabbed by greedy ones at the local level .We can tell you a lot of

>horror stories even at temples like Thirumala .

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>Time and again ground level supervision , control are needed

>to have accountability . Otherwise , it will be a disappointment .

>It is a sacred responsibility to recieve and manage these funds

> from dedicated AasthikAs .

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>I have some suggestions to offer for you all to consider :

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>1. Identify a religious minded person in India , who is just retired ,

>has the time , energy and enthusiasm to serve as the eyes and arms

>to direct and manage the priorotized distributions to the most needy Temples

>which do not have steady AarAdhanam , Food offerings , Lighting , Vasthram etc.

>It is not difficult to identify such dhivya dEsams based on the ongoing field work

>of groups like those of Sri Venkat of Dubai & Vedics.net .

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>I will help here and be happy to recieve your recommendations.

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>2. Form a committee of experienced people from overseas

>and India , who have been involved with such Kaimkaryams .

>Sriman Anbil Swamy , Sri Urupattur Soundra Rajan Desikan Swamy

>of Thiruvaheendhrapuram , Sri Venkat Ramadhurai , Sriman IVK Chary

>of Kuwait , Sri Swamynathan of UAR (Dubai) , SrI KrishNan Cidambi of

>Bangalore , Sri Mukund Srinivasan of Singapore are a few who come to my mind.

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>3. identify A list of Young and willing volunteers to supervise the work , visit the identified

>temples in coordination with the officals of the Institution already active in the fields .

>Bring them on board . Sriman A.Balaji , Sri Manoram Chaitanya Das and others

>come to my mind . People can be requested to volunteer .

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>4. We will focus only on the needy temples and not the rich ones

>( Thiruvenkatam , Oppiliappan Sannidhi , Srirangam , ThirumOhur ,

>Thiruvaheendhrapuram , Koodalazhagar , Kerala Temples ( for different reasons ) ,

>Vada Naadu Temples , and a few others .

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>All of these are just some suggestions .

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>In summary , this Kaimkaryam can be done but would need time and patience as well

>as genuine commitment . Let us exchange some more information to make

>necessary advances .There is enough work to do for number of groups

>without stepping on each other's toes .

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>NamO NaarAYaNAya ,

>V.Sadagopan

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