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srImathE rAmAnujAya namah

dear bhAgavathAs,

srI venkatEsan wrote,

> I think we need to start working on this right away.
> Many a times I have seen on the web such requests
> begin and stop due to lack of a concerted effort.

I definitely agree with the above statement. In fact,
I am one of the people guilty of not putting a concerted
effort towards the divya dEsam kainkaryams, after 
we all started the efforts about a year and a half back.
All we managed to do was to support a few divyadEsams
for about a year or so, and the effort to make it a 
widespread movement never occured.

One key lesson we learnt is the absolute need for local
involvement in these divyadEsams. We have to have local
people supervising these efforts, and all we can do is
set up a framework for financial and organizational
help. We hope we can continue learning through this
effort as well.

We have to maintain focus.In fact, that is one of the 
reasons we are planning to do this effort separately, 
without merging it with any other kainkarya sabha etc. 
(but of course, involving all the necessary people) - 
The focus was completely lost the previous time around.

> Sri Mukundan, can we start using VEDICS for this
> purpose of gathering funds? Once we establish that,

We potentially should start thinking about a monthly
automatic payment scheme ($50/100 per month, etc..)
into this pool of money. Similar efforts can be done
here in India as well. 

> and decide on where the funds should start going
> initially, then we can start the collection process.

This is the key. We obviously need to know what we
need the money for. So far, here is what we have
1. support for additional archaka/paricharakas for 
thirunAngUr area
2. support for day-2-day temple operations in kAnchipuram
area (not yet completed)
3. nitya-ArAdhana corpus in some of these temples, as
the need arises.

> We should look at Sri Venkat Iyengar's suggestion
> of continuously collecting funds and using the
> interest gathered for various efforts. 

This definitely is one good suggestion. Maybe the best
thing to do is to identify someone in the US who can
identify and prioritize the goals of such collections 
and work with someone from India on this. Any 
volunteers? (srI TCA VenkatEsan?)

> about this some time ago - I think we need to
> duplicate this library globally wherever there is
> a collecion of Srivaishnavas. 

mukundan is arranging for some old computers. We might
need additional scanners here. We intend to scan most
of these and put them on CDs/DVDs.

One request for members of the group:
We are in dire need of volunteers locally here. We can
find only 2/3 people that can spend time with
translation/scanning etc. Can you please pass on
names/contacts - retired people/housewives with
a knowledge of english, located in India, that can
help with (i) simple tamizh-english translation
(ii) scanning some of the old books we have collected.

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,
Varadhan






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