You are here: SriPedia - SriRangaSri - Archives - Jan 2007

SriRangaSri List Archive: Message 00134 Jan 2007

 
Jan 2007 Indexes ( Date | Thread | Author )
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]


--- In tiruvenkatam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Sudarshan K Madabushi" 
<mksudarshan2002@...> wrote:


Dear members,

I reproduce below a report that appeared in THE HINDU newspaper issue 
dt. 19January 2007. It is self-explanatory.

As I explained to you all during the Veda class last night, the Vedic 
Sangeeta Foundation, Chennai, is a non-profit cultural organization 
devoted to the twin causes of propagating the Vedas as well as 
promoting 'saastrIya sangItam'. The chief patrons of this Foundation 
are eminent citizens of Tamil Nadu such as Sri Rajha from the 
renowned Raja family from Rajapaalayam, Sri Venu Srinivasan of TVS 
SUzuki, Sri N.Srinivasan of Chemplast Group, Sri Sivasailam of 
Amalgamations Group and Sri Mohan Paraasharan (son of the renowned ex-
Attorney-General of India, Sri K.Parasharan).  

The Foundation with the blessings of Sringeri Sankaracharya has 
embarked upon the project of collecting, collating, digitizing and 
creating a world-wide audio library of the Vedas as chanted by 
learned 'vaideeka' pandits and 'ghanapaatins'. In this endeavour, the 
TTD with its vast resources available in its own archives, will lend 
a helping hand. This cause is one that will appeal to the pride and 
sentiments of all of us who abide by the Vedic faith and believe that 
the Vedas are the eternal commonwealth of the entire world, not just 
of India.

The project is a mammoth one estimated to cost around Rs.15 mn or 
USD 300k. Here is an opportunity for all the 'veda-
abhimaanis', 'vedaDHYaYINS' and 'veda-adhyApakAs', 'veda-srOtriyAs' 
the world over to come forward and chip in their bit for the cause by 
extending financial support. It is a worthy cause.

May I therefore appeal to all "Kuwait Tiruvenkatam Group" members, 
especially the "vedAdhyAyana" students, to please come forward and 
help in this cause. All of us know how much spiritual benefit we have 
all derived and enjoyed in life the past 6 years since we all 
began 'vedAdhyAyana'. It is not possible to define or quantify the 
spiritual upliftment that the Vedas brought into our lives. We can 
show our gratitude in a small way to the ALmighty, the "veda-
purushan", by participating in a project of this kind that aims 
at "veda samrakshanam" and "veda samvriddhi".

We are all small 'gruhasthAs'/ordinary householders and each of us 
has his/her own economic conditions and constraints in life. There is 
no need to impose undue hardship on ourselves. What we can however do 
is to dedicate the 'sambhaavanam-s' collected from the the next 3 or 
4 "sravanOtsavam" in Kuwait for the sake of this cause. 

Furthermore, each of us can spread the message by word of mouth 
amongst friends and acquaintances in Kuwait and elsewhere and appeal 
for help and raise as much as we can. I have already given you all 
copies of the appeal brochure of the Foundation. After 3 months we 
can convert all the collections into a consolidated bank dd and remit 
the same to the Foundation of behalf of Kuwait Tiruvenkatam 
Group "vedadhayAna gOshti" and on behalf of all 'asthikaas' 
and 'vaideekaas' here.

I prostrate before you all who will embrace this cause and be ready 
to do your little bit. Members of other like-minded cyber-groups 
(like SriRangasri and Oppiliappan etc.) may also please consider this 
appeal favorably.

May the Almighty shower his Blessings on one and all!

Regards 
daasan,
Sudarshan MK

                      ********************

The Hindu dt. 19 January 2007


Plan to put Vedas, Upanishads on website 

Staff Reporter 


CHENNAI : The Vedica Sangeeta Foundation, which has planned to 
celebrate its fourth anniversary on Saturday, would take up the task 
of recording the chanting of Vedas and Upanishads and host it on the 
website. 

Speaking to reporters here on Thursday, Foundation's founder and 
trustee A K Ramamurthy said the project was estimated to cost around 
Rs 2 crore. While appealing to the public to donate generously for 
the ambitious project, he stressed the need for protecting and 
preserving the Vedas "at least now." 

The Foundation trustee K Jayaraman said there were around 1131 Vedic 
Sakhas in vogue some 5,000 years ago and now there were only 9 to 10 
Sakhas. 

In a bid to resuscitate the Vedas with all its variations, the 
Foundation had planned to get them chanted by erudite Vedic scholars 
and digitally record them in CD and host them on a website. 

"The aim is to take the Vedas to common man around the globe," he 
said. 

The TTD Tirupathi Executive Officer, A P V N Sharma, would inaugurate 
the anniversary celebrations to be held at Tattvaloka in Teynampet. 

The Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami would preside. 

On the occasion, the Foundation would honour a scholar G 
Balasubramania Ganapatigal, Mr Ramamurthy added.

--- End forwarded message ---




 
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/

<*> Your email settings:
    Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/join
    (Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
    mailto:SriRangaSri-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    mailto:SriRangaSri-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
 


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index ] [Thread Index ] [Author Index ]
Home Page
http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia
srirangasri-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
To subscribe to the list