To-day's Tamil daily 'Dina-malar' has blown the whistle on the imperilment of the famous 'tolai-villi-manGalam divya-dESams' popularly known as the 'iraTTai-t-tiruppati' of Lords Sri Aravinda-lochana and Sri Devar-piran. Unrestrained commercial sand-quarrying is going on in the sacred river tAmra-parNee near this spot, as nearly everywhere in Tamil Nadu, especially in river kAvEri. To-day's report is that the quarrying is permitted for a depth of one metre only, whereas the rapacious diggers have been reaching down to six metres. This would weaken the foundations of the twin divya-dESam shrines. Who cares ? The rabid 'Saiva pUjAri' at the tiru-vEnkaTam-uDaiyAn sub-shrine (very much under the control of the Great Temple of Sriranganatha) inside of the famous south Raja-gopuram at Srirangam had very brazenly made up the Lord as 'ardha-nAreesvara', this on the day of the 'padineTTAm perukku' (August 2), even as namperumAL passed that way to reach the ammA-maNDapam. Unspeakable money-fed crimes are being sponsored and committed in Tirumalai, and Tiru-k-kurun-kuDi right now, by important entrepreneurs collaborating with media-hyped so-called 'sannyasi-s' (who are proven athletes). Lord ! aDiyEn rAmAnuja-dAsan, T.S. Sundara Rajan at Srirangam. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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