Honourable Sir
This mail is from Ramanuja dasee smt hemamalini govindarajan
Namaskarams to you and the team of bagavathas , our virtual gurus
Currently we - my spouse sri govindarajan and self had decided to take up the
task of renovating the temple of Sri Lakshmi Narayana Perumal koil at
KappuR.This village is about 11kms fro Vizhupuram Dist; en route to THIRUKOILUR
Kappur had once seen the agraharam ,of which my==in laws had been a part; but
from early 1940's migration took the toll on the agraharam and the temple that
by 1980-84 ,this ancient temple (as old as 800 years that?s what the
villagers say))
had to depend on a vaikanas agamic archarkar for doing pujai once a day; a
change over from the pancharathram'
Was it the Lords wish that your noble self had recently hosted an entire write
up on agama shastram- vaikanasam and pancharatram
the temple as any ancient structure stands in ruins with breaking "sthambams"
and leaking roofs , roots of trees invading the garbhagriham
what made us seek the Lord here was a constant reminder by elders , bhattars
to"seek the kula deivam for he is in a asanthusta nilai"
all along we had been praying to the THIRUMAL OF THIRUMALAI as our kula deivam
The seeking of the Lord and Kappur began in April 2005,in May 2005 had the
first darshan of the LORD
He is SRILAKSHMI NARAYANA PERUMAL with Thayar on His lap in a seated posture ;
the utsavar Sri Varadharaja Perumal with Sridevi Bhudevi nachiars ;Sri
Chakrathazhwar and Sri Vedantha Mahadesikar ,the Mukha mantapam has Sri Desikar
in a seated posture
' sri anjaneyan sannidhi is about a furlong away
But what astounded us was the tejas of the LORD and His parivaram
To know the temple had been locked for a period of 10 months till such time we
paid and prevailed upon the archakar to reopen the temple was a rude shock
indeed.
As is the case of many languishing temple despite being under HR@CE the
archakar had not been paid for all those 10 months. the revenue from the 7.54
acres of the Lord had also not been collected
Since May 2005 it was a question of establishing rapport with the villagers and
then impressing on them the need for a renovation jeernodharanam and
samprokshanam of the temple
As novice in this field our very first instinct was to approach
sRI KGK swamy and under his guidance we were able to meet civil engineer sri
gopalan swamy and his team of sthapathi -sri varadharan and the contractor
Meanwhile atrust has been formed "SRI LAKSHMI NARAYAN PERUMAL KAINKARYAM
TRUST" . The whole kainkaryam amounts to Rs18-20 lakhs
We seek the help of you the bagavathas of the Oppilaappan group and the other
groups as well
This is a personal mail ;with your permission on hearing from you ;will forward
the appeal to the group members
To avoid tax problems it has been decided to collect funds via cheques/d.d/
only in indian currency
We had the sowbaghyam of getting the Acharyans blessings as well; a SRIMUHAM
on the SRI AHOBILA MUTT letterhead was also givenwas also given to us;SRI
AZ\HAGIYA SINGAR remarked of the utsavars tejas and beauty but the ruins made
him remark"adede rombho pazhuthu poche"
On 24th despite the torrential rains the bhumi pujai was performed
In all humility adiyal beeseches you and the group/sister group members to
help in this kainkaryam
at the feet of you the bagavathas
may i rest and await ...
ramanuja dasee
smt hemamalini govindarajan
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