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Dear Sri Sudarshan swamy,

I am very happy at your response & u spoke the complete nerve that we have been 
following so far. In fact, we are a running a temple protection movement in 
Andhra Pradesh with a motto to restore past glory of many temples. It is with 
the support of many devotees an awakening to this respect is created now. Some 
are restored, let us see how far we can go.

Govt has a big department with lots of officers and staff, but the money they 
get from big temples like TTD becomes sufficient to pay the salaries of the 
high ranking officers and staff of these temples. Nothing ofcourse goes to 
small temples - only contributions to the exchequer are taken from them.

Being rich temple, TTD gets lot of attention from the govt.

Lord is the creator, protector & destroyer.

Sajjana Padapadma parama renuhu

Lakshmi Narasimha dasan



Sudarshan K Madabushi <mksudarshan2002@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: --- In 
SriRangaSri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, narsimhan csl <cslnarsimhan@xxxx> 
wrote:
> I am extremely pained to see the 1000 pillar mandapam in front of 
the temple simply razed to nothing.  It is pathetic to see that many 
buildings & surroundings of great importance which are desrved to be 
protected at what ever cost have been mercilessly demolished without 
any respect for the past. 
> >Instead of talking all these sampradaya, they should 
> >be talking about protecting our heritage and saving 
> >our lord from these corrupt TTD officials and fake 
> >swamijis. > > 
IT LOOKS TO ME JUST FOR THE SAKE OF 
> >DISCUSSION, WE DISCUSS ALL THESE CRAP (SORRY TO SAY, 
> >AS I FEEL IF WE DONT WANT TO PROTECT THE GOD AND THEN 
> >TALK GREATNESS ABOUT THE SAME god, IT IS REALLY 
> >FUNNY). BY DOING THIS , WE MAY GET SATISFACTION BY 
> >SHOWING OF YOURSELF TO EVERYONE ). May be I should get 
> >out of this yahoo group. 

                         **************

Dear members,

The sentiments which more than one correspondent has expressed above 
are all surely genuine and justified. 

However, I must say I wish the same degree of care and concern is 
also demonstrated by everyone for the upkeep, protection and 
preservation of several other hundreds of temples that are 
languishing in S.India (especially T'nadu). 

When a 1000-mantapam structure in Tirumala is razed it inspires 
SriVaishnavas, both at home and abroad, to take up cudgels if not 
arms. Very good, and we must welcome it, of course. But what about 
hundreds of lesser "mantapam-s" in scores of lesser temples being 
daily destroyed right before our eyes, through sheer neglect and 
apathy on our part? Why don't we raise a hue and cry for those poor 
temples simply rotting away? We must ask why is it that no "mattadhi-
pati" or high-profile pontiff comes forward to defend or otherwise 
rouse his faithful following to support such poorer temples? I have 
never quite understood why it must always be "tiruvEngadamUdaiyAn" 
who must always monopolize the limelight at the expense of hundreds 
of other poorer ones in the country? 

(Here I must say I really salute those individuals/charitable 
institutions who today are silently involved in the restoration and 
upkeep of small 'adopted' temples and "divya-dEsam-s". They, in fact, 
are the ones with the utmost credibility to protest against the 
destruction of the 1000-mantapam at Tirumala. They could easily make 
an iron-clad case if they were to say to the TTD, "With the same 
amount of money you spent in demolishing the Tirumala-mantapam, we 
could restore a dozen or more smaller temples that are under our 
care. So dear Mr.TTD, please let us restore our temples first before 
you go tearing yours down!").

To the gentleman who wrote above to say that (QUOTE) IT LOOKS TO ME 
JUST FOR THE SAKE OF DISCUSSION, WE DISCUSS ALL THESE CRAP (SORRY TO 
SAY, > >AS I FEEL IF WE DONT WANT TO PROTECT THE GOD AND THEN 
> >TALK GREATNESS ABOUT THE SAME god,(UN-QUOTE)... to him above, I 
can only say: Sir, unless you show us what really you did for the 
sake of the upkeep/ preservation of other indigent temples in 
S.India, all your righteous indignation might qualify too as no more 
than plain "CRAP" (to use your own very elegant & parliamentary 
expression).

The SriVaishnava community today faces a crisis of credibility, not 
of piety.

Rgds,

dAsan,
Sudarshan  






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