Dear Varadhan, I have seen you both the mail and it is excellent work you have taken up and really we have to do some thing temples like this. I request your good self to kindly inform me in which address we should send the cheque or Draft and on whose name. I have a feeling that I will start with small amount and I will what best I can do . If it is possible Kindly give the estimate. Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan Kaliyur Srinivasan Rave Hyderabad -----Original Message----- From: tavaradhan@xxxx [mailto:tavaradhan@xxxx] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 7:57 PM To: ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ramanuja] dd update - kUdalUr (Aduthurai perumAL temple) srImathE rAmAnujAya namah thiru-k-koodalUr, ADuthurai-p-perumAL kOvil: This temple's perumAL is jagad-rakshaka perumAL. But the temple is in a very very bad shape, and is very poor. To make a long story short, this perhaps is the most deserving temple that I have seen for our kind of a project. I visited this temple as well on April 8th (have visited multiple times previously to do the legwork) , and here are the "steady-state" arrangements. 1. This temple has a bhattar who lives in a neighbouring village. He takes care of three temples (Along with his brother) for survival. This temple has practically no income. The priest's father has become blind due to some illness, and he has to be taken care of as well. There is another younger brother doing Agama studies, and a sister. These common survival issues make it a *necessity* for him to work in 3 temples to make a decent living (he might make around 2000 rupees a month totally, and the day I went there, was mentioning about 3000 rupees he needed to pay the examination fees for hsi brother who is doing Agama studies in thirupathi). Please respect the sanctity of this family by respecting the above information. I am giving this only to provide people with a better understanding of the day-to-day issues surrounding temples in rural areas. 2. This temple also has a staunch devotee who gathers local children everyday and does bhajans for about half-an-hour to an hour. (whenever he is in town and that is about 15 days a month). 3. I have agreed on behalf of VEDICS to provide a steady source of income to the priest of this temple (2000 rupees per month), and sponsor 4 feasts (thaLigai-s) a month - on every saturday. Since the local people are coming regularly, this will enable more of them to come and participate in the temple. That in itself will improve the temple by leaps and bounds. The cost for that is about 800 rupees per month. 4. The staunch devotee (srI srInivAsan) has agreed to bring the local people for these gatherings and for every-day bhajans in larger number. We will provide him with photocopies of 10 pAsurams that thirumangaiAzhvAr has sung about this temple, and that will become part of the bhajans as well. 5. The temple will be open from 7:30 to 11:30 and from 3:30 to 7:30. There might be some exceptions, but someone will *always* be at the temple. There is a watchman to this temple as well, who gets paid 130 rupees per month!. We need to do something about this in the long run. 6. A few of us bought a number of utensils for this temple a few weeks back. Now that the temple will be open regularly, they have requested for two things - (i) a ghee-lamp for use instead of camphor and (ii) a small loudspeaker/tape player for playing suprabhAtham, sahasranAmam and the AzhvAr pAsurams every morning and evening. I have committed that I will look into it and then get back to them about the feasibility. 7. We do need volunteers to support the above effort. Till the time we have volunteers, I will take care of the expenses from here. adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan, varadhan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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