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Dear members of the Tiruvenkatam Group,

Some of you may have wondered about my long absence
from the group-list. (Some others might perhaps have
been rather relieved too to escape my spate of
incessant postings to which the Group-list is
accustomed!). The reason for my absence is that I was
away for a fortnight from Kuwait visiting Chennai
during my annual summer vacation.

This vacation (2006) was really one of the most
memorable one I have had in recent years. The
enervatingly humid weather of Chennai not
withstanding, I enjoyed it thoroughly for the
spiritually elevating events which, by the Grace of
the Almighty, seemed to fill up the calendar of the
period.

The first event was connected with the celebration of
the "sathAbhishEkam" (80th birthday or
'tirunakshatram') of my dear father which it was my
privilege and honor to celebrate in true 'vaideeka'
manner.

The second event was my visit to Sri Perumbudur to
firstly have darshan of the Lord there in His form as
Sri Adi Kesava PerumAl and of our "pratamAchArya" Sri
Ramanuja too at his very place of birth -- his
"avatAra-sthala". Secondly, the visit also served the
purpose of my visiting the construction site at the
temple of the public-facility now being built under
the supervision of Sri Manoram Chaitanya Das (a member
of this group and others) thanks to the  financial
support extended by scores of members of the
Tiruvenkatam and Oppiliappan Group-lists during the
last few months.

The third event that occured (rather fortuitiously
indeed thanks to the prompting of my good friend Sri
GK Ramakrishnan of Kuwait) during my memorable
vacation was the brief but thrilling visit to the
campus of the Sri Sarada Ashram (of the Ramakrishna
Order) at Ullundoorpet, T/Nadu (about 200kms away from
Chennai on the highway to Trichy). Here I had the good
fortune to witness at first hand a sampling of the
kind of low-profile, quietly efficient but magnificent
work of social and spiritual upliftment that the monks
and nuns of the Ramakrishna Order (and the Sarada
Ashram) are engaged in all across rural India over the
past several decades since the independence of India.

All the three events above I experienced gave me great
satisfaction and enjoyment not in any narrow personal
or selfish sense but in the significant way they
helped to open my eyes to and made me, in all
humility, keenly aware one or more lesson or insight
of life that was both new and valuable.

A few years ago I had resolved to maintain a personal
diary in which I intended to enter daily journals of
events and impressions of life that I believed
possesssed some kind of extraordinary meaning of
significance for me. Alas, that resolution was never
really carried out. In the midst of a working life
that is so full of 'loukeeka' agitation (i.e.
deadlines, schedules and travel-plans) and with all
the attendent distractions and disturbances of life in
today's corporate world, it is really not that easy to
find time to faithfully record the important
happenings that fill one's life. 

When I reflect, however, upon my experience of the
vacation of Summer'06,  I cannot help wondering if,
thanks in the main to the events described above, it
might not have merited registering, by way of a series
of journal notes or entries, in the pages of a daily
diary. That such a diary never saw the light of day is
another matter but reflecting about it certainly makes
me want to resort to the next best alternative:
recounting the experience through a few brief postings
on the Tiruvenkatam Group list!

So, dear members, in the next few postings to follow,
let me share with you all a diarized account of my
summer of '06 vacation. I sincerely hope you will all
find it interesting at least if not instructive.

Regards,
dAsan,

Sudarshan             

Sudarshan Madabushi
Chief Financial Officer & Vice-President
KGL Ports International
Plot A-21, Kuwait Free Trade Zone.
PO BOx 24565, Safat 13106,
Kuwait.
Ph: (965)- 4827804/5 Ext 212
Fax:       4827806
mob:       7063337
email:  mksudarshan2002@xxxxxxxxxxx


                
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