Sastras say that all items such as movables ,
immovables, houses, foods,jewellery,flowers,fruits etc are the properties of
GOD ( Sriman Narayanan) and we have to offer everything to Him, before we take.
In other words, we have to eat food, after offering to Him(even water),we have
to swallow fruits after offering them to Him,we have to dedicate anything
either house/flat to Him before our occupation. That is why , there is age-long
practice of naming the house as "Sri Narayan Mandir " , Sri Lakshmi Nikethan
etc from the days of our fore-fathers, fore-fathers
Emperors, Kings in the good golden days used to
construct large temples, dig temple-tanks, construct prakarams, thousand pillar
mandaps , hundred- pillar mandaps, sixteen pillar mandaps, four pillar mandaps
attaching them with the main shrine. Offering of ornaments ,jewels were rare in
those days itself , because of invasion of foreign-rulers of different
religious faith who were bent-upon to destroy the temples and to make robbery
of all precious jewellery.
Then came small rulers like Rajah of Sarafoji,
Rajah of Ramnad etc. These rulers offered lands to the temples for daily
up-keep and to conduct daily poojas without interruption
Then came the Philanthropists like Nattukkottai
Chettiars. They also contributed to the conduct of of festivals in the temples
according to Agama Sastras
Later on Musicians like Vaikundavasi M.S.
contributed their huge earnings to the temples in whatever manner they like.
These are all going to say onething.With the
grace of Sri Bhagvan , we are earning. All earnings belong to Him. If we offer
something of His own to Himself He is pleased . He returns it with
manyfold.to the devotees who offered it to Him. He mitigates their sufferings
. He appears indirectly during their critical times and solves problems. He is
taking care of the devotees who believe in Him absolutely.
It is not the question of earning, earning,
earning. It is not the question of saving and leaving it to next generation who
will not satisfy even if we leave the entire world to them. In our life , we
saw many rich families fell into deep trouble and poverty spending the wealth
in adharma ways( drinks race etc )In our life we saw some other rich families
grow richer , because they spend major portion of their wealth on the ways
directed in Dharma Sastras.
One thing is clear. If we offer something to GOD from
our earnings , the offerings will help us in many ways during our difficult
period. GOD is not crazy, because everything belongs to Him. But we are crazy
of everything, except GOD. If we are crazy with GOD ignoring other things ,
GOD will give such other things to us as it is His responsibility to protect
us. If we surrender to Him ,He will take us To Vaikuntam after our seperation
from this world.
Then , how we unveil our desire of offer to Him? It is
easy. We can partake,assist, help, cooperate in the service ( Kainkaryam) to
GOD in many ways. We can ourselves take up the service if we are so rich. If we
do not have such resources we can help the people who are doing such service(
Kainkaryam)
Here is an opportunity for this Kainkaryam. Hundreds
of devotees throng Oushatadri daily especially during thursdays to sundays to
worship Sri Hayagreevar at Thiruvaheendrapuram near Cuddalore braving the
scorching sun/heavy rain/bitter snow-fall Sri Kainkarya a registered Public
Charitable Trust , which is doing several services ( Please see
www.srikainkarya.org) has taken up the task of construction of final stage of
Mahamandap at a cost of Rs 8--00 lacs,because the construction of first stage
of Mandap at a cost of Rs 2-45 lakhs is not sufficiant to cater to the needs of
devotees. This Mahamandap will mitigate the sufferings of devotees. Service to
devotees is a service to GOD. Further to have ecstatic dharsan of the Lord and
to perform Uthsavas comfortably there is every need to complete the
construction of Mahamandap as quickly as possible. This is not only a service
to God Sri Hayagreeva , GOD of all knowledge such as science sculpture
state-craft, music, dance, prosdy, politics, ethics etc, but also a service
to the Society at large since this Mahamandap will stand permanently till the
end of this Kaliyuga as a shelter, as a witness portraying the contributions
made by the devotees like you for the construction , just like several mandaps
constructed by Maharajas
THE names of contributors of Rs 50,000/- and above
are engraved in the marble stone that will be put up at the Mahamandap. The
contributors will be presented with a silver coin (10 gms) depicting Sri
Hayagreeva for their daily pooja. They will be given with a letter=pad size art
paper colour photo of 12 Sri Hayagreevars with dyana slokas for meditation
japam etc
Whatelse, we want!Our desire will be to encourage
such kainkaryams (service) to GOD.Our aim should be to partake in such of those
services
Srikainkarya's aim is to complete the construction of
Mahamandap quickly as hundreds of devotees are suffering under the scorching
sun daily without protection. You can help/assist/partake in the fulfillment
of the aim a noble cause by contributing liberally
D.D./cheque may be drawn in favour "Srikainkarya" and
sent to
Srikainkarya
(D.Soundararajan)
F5,Chandra Flats 90 Brindavan Street West Mambalam
Chennai-600033
Telephone 044/24843986 Mobile 9444143685
Dasan Thiruvaheendrapuram Uruppattur Chakravarthi Soundararajan
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