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Dear Devarajan

Swamin your spirit and quest to build an appropriate
illam for your ishta devatha is exemplary.
But with times and changing locale we must adopt.
charitable funds allocated to such social causes
is indeed limited.

The loan outstanding of all our temples in the
US alone could easily reach 500 Mil.
And if we think about what can happen when loans
are not repayed on time although at this time not
one temple is in this dire state now..but almost
every temple in the US owes about a million or close
to that.

We have to think about this..little deeply.
All of us are in technology jobs (single market
sector) and as a community we suffer huge risks.
Past is no indicator of future growth and in my
humble opinion with outsourcing at its peak growth
is going send many hindus into jobless territory
in the next 2 years or so. And this means added
pressure on temple charity.

if one cannot maintain one child, no one would
think of having another one into further misery.
Same here. Anyone wanting to build a temple,
and is starting out, please consider adopting
another temple building effort already in progress
or establish not only initial funds but also a
trust funds so that the temple will never be
demolished by machines and detonations.
Just imagine our arca murthy subject to such an end.

Like Pattangi Swamin has pointed if a temple here
is not satisfying enough, then please consider
supporting one of the many run down divya desams
in India.

Also there is some misconception about divya desam
and other non divya desams. There is no comparison.
adiyen comes from uttiramerur near Madruanthagam
near chengalpattu. All three towns have excellent
temples and are not divya desams. Tough luck.

just because palar runs and feeds my town
(Chengalpattu) I cannot be myopic to think or revere
that as Cauvery or Ganges. If I may Divya deseam
is divya desam sung and eulogized by Azwar
who are all emanations of Sriman NArayana.

Knowing this Sri Ramanujar himself on his deathbed
asked prapannas not to sit around and cry for his
demise but instead work and contribute in divya
desams. 

So consider heavily in utilizing your grandeur heart
and the resources to the good use of eliminating
a temple that exists rather than build more and
decay more.

How is this different from the romans who binged
and binged and binged to vomit and then only to
resume binging. 

Hopefully adiyen has not offended anyone in this
chaste forum.

A group of us (12 to be exact) motivated by the good
works done by Sriman Pattangi have been contributing
$10 a month and goes toward maintaining a temple.

We have formed 3 such teams. We need 37 more to make
sure Emberuman Sriman Narayana, the formless, the
universal and the most powerful who needs no help
from anyone, will continue to eternity to bless in 
limiting HIMSelf to a discernible form, powerless
and waiting for us to take care of HIS daily needs.

Thank you so much
Contact me if you want to form a team or participate.
There is also RMVENKAT who is also doing DD kaimkaryam
from Bahrain. Please do not start but join an existing
effort and do not find a zillion negatives why not to 
do..but find one positve to join ...and Sriman
Narayana
will be with you as a great guide for all generations
to come.. not just seven or ten. this adiyen is 
convinced.
Bagawathe Vasudevaya namah
anandavalli dasan

--- "V.DEVARAJAN <devarajanvenkata@xxxx>"
<devarajanvenkata@xxxx> wrote:
> SrimathE rAmAnujAya namaha.
> 
> Is there any proverb or literary saying in TAMIL
> which extols the 
> efforts to construct a temple.
> 
> In TELUGU, there is a proverb that says constructing
> temple brings 
> PUNYAM to seven generations of the contributor. We
> are looking for an 
> appropriate exhortation in TAMIL. I have TSCII fonts
> with which TAMIL 
> words can be written and viewed, as well as tamil
> text editors.
> 
> We will be grateful for suggestions from members.
> Devarajan.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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