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Dear Swamin,
I entirely agree with you. Wherever I go I personally make it a point to pay 
homage to the Jeeyar swamy of the Sthalam. Kancheepuram is a very important 
Kshettram and something needs to be done to improve the situation.
Adiyen,
Dasan,
Ramanujam




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> To: ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: vsmvishnu@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:09:52 -0700
> Subject: [sri ramanuja] Re: Reg - H.H. Vadikesari Azhagiya Manavala Jeeyar of 
> Kancheepuram
> 
> Dear Sriman Lakshmi Narasimhan,
> I agree with you.
> Same was the plight of previous embar jeeyar of Sri Perumbudur. When I visted 
> him in 1999, he was alone in the maTam and was having a big wound kind of 
> thing on his back and his kAhsAyam was quite loose.
> Unfortunately the Jeeyars at Kanchipuram and Melkote do not have any say in 
> the temple affairs. I heard that the Jeeyar Matam at Tirupati is also not 
> doing very well in terms of resources.
> While it is true that all mahA bhAgatOttamas and AchAryas are to be respected 
> in thennAchArya sampradAyam irrespective of varNa and ASrama, something needs 
> to be done to strengthen the hands of our Jeeyars. At least paying a visit to 
> them whenever we visit the holy places where they are stationed will bring in 
> some change. Actually AchArya/bhAgavata sandharSanam is much more important 
> than temple darSanam.
> adiyen
> Vishnu
> ------------------------
> OK. It has been a week since I have seen any reply on Sri H.H
> Vadikesari Azhagiya Manavala Jeeyar Swamy / Matam of Kancheepuram. I
> would like to share what I know about Swamy and the Matam.
> Sri H.H. Vadikesari Azhagiya Manavala Jeeyar Swamy Matam is a
> Thennacharya Sampradaya Matam that is located on the Eastern side of
> the Varadaraja Perumal Temple. The "Kizhakku" gopuram which remains
> always closed, was actually built by one of the great Swamies in the
> Vadikesari Azhagiya Manavala Jeeyar Swamy parampara. I was blessed
> to visit the matam and I admired the location and the capacity of
> the matam. At the same time, the most unfortunate point is that most
> of the walls and the ceilings are heavily damaged and the matam
> seems to be unrecognized by most of the devotees. The present swamy
> of the matam, is staying at the matam all alone and does not even
> have a SriKaaryam - he cooks what he could and is managing
> everything himself. Such is the plight of the matam which is just
> behind the Temple gopuram.
> Could someone who, is capable of bringing great hands and minds
> together, take up fixing the above mentioned issues and bring to
> lime-light the greatness of the matam?
> I am adding the photos of the matam (the photos are not that great
> as it was raining when I went there and more over my mobile camera
> is almost pre-historical: )
> Will submit better photos in a month.
> adiyEn,
> rAmAnuja dAsan.
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