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Respected Bhagavathaas,

I came to understand many compromises about the srardham has given for the satisfaction of the Kartha.

Take in my case, I am sweemkaram to my "Mathamahar".  My father is also no more.  We are doing the srardha kainkaryam without taking much pain.  How?  I explain as follows:

I have created a cloth bag for the above kainkaryam.  I will put Rs.500/- per month, this will  fetch Rs.6000/-.  This is more than enough for us to do srardha kainkarayam.

Kindly have a nice look the following breakup for every srardham.

1.  Brahaspathi Sambhavanai - Rs.350/-.
2.  Brahma                            - Rs.50/-
3.  Thandulam                      - Rs.10/-
4.  Anugnai                           - Rs.25/-(each Rs.5/- Brahaspathi, swamis,Thaligai)
5.  Srardha Anugnai              - Rs.25/-
6.  Swami Dakshinai             - Rs.300/- each
7.  Thaligai swamy dakshinai - Rs.400/- each (if 2) or Rs.600/-.
8.  Ghosti Dakshinai             -  Rs.50/- (Rs.10/- each)
9.   Sripada Theertham          - Rs.10/- each swamy
10.  Conveyance                   - Rs.20/- each swamy & Thaligai.
11.  Provisions etc.               - Rs.1500/- to Rs.2000/-

rounding off                           - Rs.3000/- per srardham.

We have to offer atleast 5 to 10% of our earnings to our pithrus.  This is pithru karyam should be done by every one.  We cannot escape (or) offering food for Orphanages is to be avoided.

I will inform 30 days notice to Brahaspathi & Thaligai swamy with 3 reminders.
A cotton bag will be hanged before 15 days advance with the item of Honey Bottle, Kirambu, Elachi, Jathikai, Jathi bathri, Betun pakku.

Cowdung cake and Chulli will always be available in stock.

Srardha kainkaryam in Chennai especially, Triplicane, Mylapore and other places is normally cheaper than the other city.

Also, I would like to advice the person concerned who raise the inability (or) inconvenience for srardham, have to prepare for themselves, to save an amount of Rs.700/-.

S.THIRUNARAYANAN of Karappangadu


--- On Wed, 10/12/08, Krishna <Krishna@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Krishna <Krishna@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Oppiliappan] Cost of srardham
To: Oppiliappan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: hellosimha@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, 10 December, 2008, 9:41 AM

Harsha Simha
 
Too good reply
Danyosmi
Dasan
Navalpakkam Krishna
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Oppiliappan] Cost of srardham

Dear swamin,
I can understand your pain. But, no where it is compelled that we should go beyond our limits and perform these rituals. As you have taken pain to calculate the amount to do shraddham, you can take a bit more pain to read Ramayanam to know how Shri Rama did "pinda pradhanam"  to dasharatha, when he was in "aranya vasa".  I feel, your thought is a direct result of "performing rituals without understanding the meaning and purpose behind that".

While we should condemn those Bruhaspathis  who perform these rituals for the sake of money, we should even more condemn those who are the reeal "karthas" (responsible doer) but who want to just perform these rituals without knowing the meaning and purpose of these rituals and end up blaming the Bruhaspathis.

Because, it is nowhere mentioned in our shastras (as far as i know) that we should go beyond our limits to perform these rituals, skipping shraddham itself is not a sollution. But, we should try to understand the meaning and purpose of the ritual and then find a way out to perfrom these rituals within our limits.

If you want to *really* feed 25 mouths every year, i have a better idea. We can skip one lunch every week. By this we will save 52 lunch in a year which can feed 52 mouths every year (and not just 25). But, lets do our rituals within our limits and also with an understanding of the meaning and the purpose of the rituals.

I apologize if you find any of my views offensive.

With humble pranamas,
harsha simha

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:19 PM, kochappaa <kochappaa@yahoo. co.in> wrote:

Respected swamins,
I want to share a haunting thought of mine. I am a retired middle
class pensioner in Banglaore. For the past 3 or so years I find
things are becoming very costly for doing annual pitru srardhams.
The charges are like this: Rs.650 for Bruhaspathi + small coins
Rs.50, Rs.600 for 2 swmingals, Rs.700 for thaligai swami and the
provisions Rs. 600. Thus the total cost of a srardham is Rs.2600. I
have to do two per year and arrange for the srardham of my poor
sister who passed away. Many middle class bramins must be facing
this kind of music. Can any middle class person can afford such
costs? Whether any other people from other religion or even other
caste people would spend like this annually on remembering the
departed souls? Rs.500 if donated to an orphanate or oldage home
would feed atleast 25 mouths. Where is our sect heading towards. I
am sure that unless our sect wakes up and rationalise and regulate
these fleecing bruhaspathis, the whole custom of peforming such
rites would quickly vanish. It is time, our mutts start some
registered body where they should register these bruhaspahtis and
swamins and fix reasonable tariff also.

adiyen
Kochappaa




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