Dear Srimahi Nagu Satyan:
Geetha and I are sending $35 for the kainkaryam.
Lakshmanan
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 9:43 PM
Subject: [Oppiliappan] RE: Swami Desikan
Sthothra Padam CDs and His BrahmOthsavam DVD
Sri:
Dear Devotees,
During my recent visit to
India, I spent a full day visiting Kancheepuram and nearby Divya Desams.
I had coordinated my visit with. Dr. Satakopa Thathachariar of
Kancheepuram, Trustee of Sri Villakkoli Perumal Thoopul Trust. He was
gracious enough to accompany me to see the nearby temples.
After the
temple/Perumal darshanam, I spent a lot of time with Dr. Satakopan
Thathachariar to review the financial status of Sri Villakkoli Perumal
Thoopul Vedanta Desikar Charitable Trust, and the auditor’s
report.
Here is a synopsis of the
situation:
1. Per the HRC act, the
government collects the hundi donations and compensates the priest at Rs
300/month, the cook at Rs 250/month and the asst priest at Rs 150/month. (I
may be off by + or- Rs 50). 2. About 400 gms
of rice are given for preparing the prasadam.
To offset the disparity
and to ensure proper maintenance of the temples, nitya araadhana etc., private
trusts have taken up the task of renovating and maintaining some of the
very needy temples. One such temple is Sri Villakkoli Perumal Temple, along
with Swami Desikan’s temple. Any amount of devotion to our Acharya will not be
complete if we do not collectively support these causes. When most of the
temples are struggling even to meet the basic needs, we need to think about
the priorities in fund raising and question how/where should one’s limited
contribution be allocated.
Specifically, for the Sri Vilakkoli Perumal
and Thoopul Vedanta Desikar Sannidhis, we have about 140 days
nithya aradhana covered; leaving a shortage of 226 days coverage. The
minimum cost of the daily expenses come to about Rs 1750.00 (approx $35 per
day). I appeal to devotees to sponsor multiple days and get the blessings of
Perumal and Acharyas. Sri. AMR Kannan has spent his time and
resources to copy the CDs and is mailing a set to sponsors on his personal
motivation.
The trust income per year is around Rs 1,20,000.00 and the
expenditure is about Rs 1,95,000.00, resulting in an annual shortage of Rs
75,000.00. The expenditure is for basic items such as daily poojas and
prasadam, priest sambhavana to improve their standard of living, supplement
the expenses incurred in connection with the Sravanam festival.
The
goal is to raise adequate corpus funds and use the interest earned for the
daily aradhana and priest compensation.
May I entreat you to contribute
generously to this holy cause and enlist your friends and relatives for this
noble cause? I am neither a learned scholar nor a prolific writer.
From the bottom of my heart, with all the emotions, all I can state is that
I am deeply committed to this and other Srivaishnava related causes and I
believe that this cause of raising funds to ensure nitya aradhana to the
Lord and the great Acharya Swami Desikan is real and of higher
priority.
Please make your tax deductible contribution payable to NAMA
Inc and mail the check to the following address.
NAMA Inc C/O Nagu
Satyan 7821 W. Alder Drive Littleton CO
80128-5522
Regards, Nagalakshmi (Nagu) Satyan
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Original Message ----- From: "Kannan AMR" <kamr@xxxxxxx> To:
<Srirangasri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:56
PM Subject: [SriRangaSri] Swami Desikan Sthothra Padam CDs
Dear
Devotees,
Adiyen recently received two sets of CDs from Kanchipuram
Sriman Satagopa Thathachariyar Swami. One CD contains Swami
Desikan's mangalasasana uthsavam at Sri Devadhi Rajan Sannithi on the day
of Swami's thirunakshatram. The second set of CDs contains all
the sthothrapadam of Swami Desikan in a santhai format. The total
duration of these two santhai CDs is around 13 hours. Sriman
Satagopa Thathachariyar Swami has done a great service to our community
by rendering Swami Desikan's sthothras in a santhai format. Since
these slokas have been rendered by Sanskrit scholars, all the slokas have
been rendered without a flaw. Adiyen made 100 copies of these CDs with
Sriman Thathachariyar Swami's permission for distribution in USA. These CDs
is available at the cost of 35$ (for all the 3 CDs). This entire amount
of $ 35.00 will go for Swami Desikan's Nithya Thiruvaradhana Kainkaryam.
So essentially anyone who contributes 35$ for one day of nithya
thiru aradhanam, will get these CDs for free. While writing this appeal
I really feel sad and ashamed. We have become so ungrateful to
our Poorvarcharyas, we need to sell their own works to collect money
for their daily aradhanams!!
Anyways, to get these CDs please mail
your check to:
Nagu Satyan NAMA Inc C/O Nagu Satyan 7821 W.
Alder Drive Littleton CO 80128-5522
Please note that the checks
should be made payable to "NAMA Inc." After mailing your check, send me an
email (kamr at syr dot edu) with your address and adiyen will mail you
these precious CDs. Please do not send any personal checks to
me.
Adiyen also fully aware of the fact that many of us have involved
in so many kainkaryams on a monthly basis or some people even on a
weekly basis!! But please do give priority to Swami Desikan's nithya
aradhana kainkaryam as well.
I hope someone will take lead on
creating similar santhai format CDs for Swami Kurathazhwan's Pancha
Sthavas, Swami Parasara Bhattar's sthothras and other poorvacharyas
sthothra padams.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Adiyen
Ramanujadasan Kannan
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