Sri: Dear Devotees, During my recent visit to India, I spent a full day visiting Kancheepuram and nearby Divya Desams. I had coordinated my visit with. Dr. Satakopa Thathachariar of Kancheepuram, Trustee of Sri Villakkoli Perumal Thoopul Trust. He was gracious enough to accompany me to see the nearby temples. After the temple/Perumal darshanam, I spent a lot of time with Dr. Satakopan Thathachariar to review the financial status of Sri Villakkoli Perumal Thoopul Vedanta Desikar Charitable Trust, and the auditor?s report. Here is a synopsis of the situation: 1. Per the HRC act, the government collects the hundi donations and compensates the priest at Rs 300/month, the cook at Rs 250/month and the asst priest at Rs 150/month. (I may be off by + or- Rs 50). 2. About 400 gms of rice are given for preparing the prasadam. To offset the disparity and to ensure proper maintenance of the temples, nitya araadhana etc., private trusts have taken up the task of renovating and maintaining some of the very needy temples. One such temple is Sri Villakkoli Perumal Temple, along with Swami Desikan?s temple. Any amount of devotion to our Acharya will not be complete if we do not collectively support these causes. When most of the temples are struggling even to meet the basic needs, we need to think about the priorities in fund raising and question how/where should one?s limited contribution be allocated. Specifically, for the Sri Vilakkoli Perumal and Thoopul Vedanta Desikar Sannidhis, we have about 140 days nithya aradhana covered; leaving a shortage of 226 days coverage. The minimum cost of the daily expenses come to about Rs 1750.00 (approx $35 per day). I appeal to devotees to sponsor multiple days and get the blessings of Perumal and Acharyas. Sri. AMR Kannan has spent his time and resources to copy the CDs and is mailing a set to sponsors on his personal motivation. The trust income per year is around Rs 1,20,000.00 and the expenditure is about Rs 1,95,000.00, resulting in an annual shortage of Rs 75,000.00. The expenditure is for basic items such as daily poojas and prasadam, priest sambhavana to improve their standard of living, supplement the expenses incurred in connection with the Sravanam festival. The goal is to raise adequate corpus funds and use the interest earned for the daily aradhana and priest compensation. May I entreat you to contribute generously to this holy cause and enlist your friends and relatives for this noble cause? I am neither a learned scholar nor a prolific writer. From the bottom of my heart, with all the emotions, all I can state is that I am deeply committed to this and other Srivaishnava related causes and I believe that this cause of raising funds to ensure nitya aradhana to the Lord and the great Acharya Swami Desikan is real and of higher priority. Please make your tax deductible contribution payable to NAMA Inc and mail the check to the following address. NAMA Inc C/O Nagu Satyan 7821 W. Alder Drive Littleton CO 80128-5522 Regards, Nagalakshmi (Nagu) Satyan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kannan AMR" <kamr@xxxxxxx> To: <Srirangasri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:56 PM Subject: [SriRangaSri] Swami Desikan Sthothra Padam CDs Dear Devotees, Adiyen recently received two sets of CDs from Kanchipuram Sriman Satagopa Thathachariyar Swami. One CD contains Swami Desikan's mangalasasana uthsavam at Sri Devadhi Rajan Sannithi on the day of Swami's thirunakshatram. The second set of CDs contains all the sthothrapadam of Swami Desikan in a santhai format. The total duration of these two santhai CDs is around 13 hours. Sriman Satagopa Thathachariyar Swami has done a great service to our community by rendering Swami Desikan's sthothras in a santhai format. Since these slokas have been rendered by Sanskrit scholars, all the slokas have been rendered without a flaw. Adiyen made 100 copies of these CDs with Sriman Thathachariyar Swami's permission for distribution in USA. These CDs is available at the cost of 35$ (for all the 3 CDs). This entire amount of $ 35.00 will go for Swami Desikan's Nithya Thiruvaradhana Kainkaryam. So essentially anyone who contributes 35$ for one day of nithya thiru aradhanam, will get these CDs for free. While writing this appeal I really feel sad and ashamed. We have become so ungrateful to our Poorvarcharyas, we need to sell their own works to collect money for their daily aradhanams!! Anyways, to get these CDs please mail your check to: Nagu Satyan NAMA Inc C/O Nagu Satyan 7821 W. Alder Drive Littleton CO 80128-5522 Please note that the checks should be made payable to "NAMA Inc." After mailing your check, send me an email (kamr at syr dot edu) with your address and adiyen will mail you these precious CDs. Please do not send any personal checks to me. Adiyen also fully aware of the fact that many of us have involved in so many kainkaryams on a monthly basis or some people even on a weekly basis!! But please do give priority to Swami Desikan's nithya aradhana kainkaryam as well. I hope someone will take lead on creating similar santhai format CDs for Swami Kurathazhwan's Pancha Sthavas, Swami Parasara Bhattar's sthothras and other poorvacharyas sthothra padams. Thank you for your kind attention. Adiyen Ramanujadasan Kannan Yahoo! 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