Some time back my brother performed Shrardham in the traditional way in a Temple near Chingleput, which costed him only Rs.250/=. Perhaps it may be little more now.
This Temple for Sri Lakshminarayana Perumal is in a village called NELMELI just 7 Kms from Chingleput on the road to Tirukalugukundram. My brother said that regular buses are plying on this Road from Chennai. This Temple helps aasthikas to perform Pitrukaryams, at an affordable cost, as a matter of service. The cost includes food for two persons also. There are facilities for bath etc also available there.
You can get more details in the brochure if you contact the following Bhattacharya:
Sri Sampath Bhattacharya, Phone : 004 27420053
I am not sure whether such facility is available at Bangalore.
Namaskaram,
Brahmanyan. Bangalore.
--- In Oppiliappan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "kochappaa" <kochappaa@...> wrote: > > Respected swamins, > I want to share a haunting thought of mine. I am a retired middle > class pensioner in Banglaore. For the past 3 or so years I find > things are becoming very costly for doing annual pitru srardhams. > The charges are like this: Rs.650 for Bruhaspathi + small coins > Rs.50, Rs.600 for 2 swmingals, Rs.700 for thaligai swami and the > provisions Rs. 600. Thus the total cost of a srardham is Rs.2600. I > have to do two per year and arrange for the srardham of my poor > sister who passed away. Many middle class bramins must be facing > this kind of music. Can any middle class person can afford such > costs? Whether any other people from other religion or even other > caste people would spend like this annually on remembering the > departed souls? Rs.500 if donated to an orphanate or oldage home > would feed atleast 25 mouths. Where is our sect heading towards. I > am sure that unless our sect wakes up and rationalise and regulate > these fleecing bruhaspathis, the whole custom of peforming such > rites would quickly vanish. It is time, our mutts start some > registered body where they should register these bruhaspahtis and > swamins and fix reasonable tariff also. > > adiyen > Kochappaa >
__._,_.___