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Dear Sri Ranganatha BhakthAs :

NamaskArams to you all !

An Appeal to You 
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It is my honor to invite your attention to 
the 2006 Capital Campaign to address two
pressing needs of Sri Ranganatha Temple :

1. Purchase of living Quarters for the 2 Priests .

2. Roof Repair expenses and other needed fixings .

We need a total of $500,000 ( $250 K for each project ) .
Your contributions can be in the form of grants ,
interest free Loans for 2 Years or Stocks or Bonds . 

You can also become Life Members ($1,116 ) and 
encourage other Members of Your Family & Friends
to become Life Members , Benefactors ( $5,000 ) or
Patrons ($10,000) . All of your donations are 100%
Tax deductible . For donations at and above 1,166 $ ,
a 50 gram silver coin embossed with the beautiful
image of Sri Ranganayaki will be given to you for
worship at your homes . For Benefactors and Patrons ,
special poojaas will be organized at your homes or 
at the temple by our priests .  

Sriman Trimbak Bharati , the Chairman of the Fund 
Raising committee or Dr.Venkat Kanumalla or myself
to answer your questions and provide you more details on 
these special poojaas that would become available to you .  

1. Why Priest Quarters Now ?
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Since the opening of the temple , the 2- 4 Priests and cook have lived 
in the cramped  basement area of the temple with not much privacy . 
The Married priests could not bring their family here as a result.
As you all know , Most of the Hindu temples like the Pittsburgh 
Temple have provided seperate quarters for the priests and their 
families .Due to the pressure of paying down the temple debts 
from the time of temple construction to now  ( 2 Million Dollars to 
~300 K$ today ) , we have been unable to assemble enough of  
the needed funds for the oriest's quarters . The price of housing 
has gone up in this area meanwhile and we need to take care of 
this now to recruit and retain high quality priests . Our Current priests 
are First Class in Bhagavath AarAdhanam and PourOhithyam skills 
( Priestly duties) . These outstanding servants of the Lord 
need your support .   

Why the attention to the Roof Now ?
*********************************************
We had attended to the fixing of the roof few months back.
The severe winters and the harsh summers coupled with 
huge rain storms have caused havoc to whatever repair we 
have done . Those who have flat roofs at their places of
residence can appreciate the problems in protecting 
the roof  from leaks . Learning from our adverse 
experience and backed up by competent Roofers using
appropriate materials to withstand these severe weather 
conditions of  the North Eastern Part of USA, we feel confident
that we can repair and seal the roof over the 8 Sannidhis and 
the area between the VimAnam and the Sannidhis . We can 
buy relief for the next 10 years . 

We have a window of opportunity to address this urgent 
problem before the 2006 winter season sets in . We can complete 
this work before October 15 and breathe a little easy . 

Who has supported the Temple  in the Past ?
*******************************************************
Many devotees from all corners of USA have donated funds 
in the past generously ( Gifts and Interest free Loans). We have
paid off most of these loans and are prepared to pay off 
the interest free loans over the next two years .Occasionally,
Overseas visitors to the temple have provided much valued
support based on their appreciation of the level of sanctity and 
the authentic traditions that the Board maintains in running of 
the day to day worship at the temple by eminently qualified priests . 
We follow strictly the codes followed at the Srirangam Temple for 
Lord Ranganatha and Ahobila Temple for Sri Lakshmi Narasimhan
and Lord VenkatEsa Temple at the Seven Hills ( Thirumala).
The supporters' perception is that Sri RanganAtha temple 
at Pomona , NY is the best of its kind in USA as well as in India.

Services available to your families at the Temple 
***************************************************************
A host of services ( Anna PrAsanam , Aayush Homam , Upanayanam ,
VivAham , Pumsavana Seemantham , Sathya NaarAyaNa Poojaa ,
Sudarsana Homam , LakshArchanai , Wedding for the Divine Couple,
anna dhAnam et al ) are availble to you and your family .The details 
about the conductance of these services are described in :
http://www.Ranganatha.org/priests.html

Some more details on your contributions to this Capital Campaign are available 
at :

http://www.Ranganatha.org/contribute.html

This is an older version and any one of us ( Sri Trimbak Bharati , Dr.Venkat 
Kanumalla
or Myself ) will be happy to update you on the current campaign & the ways in 
which
all of You can support the Temple to reach the campaign goals . Please donate 
whatever 
you can to reach the needed funding level before the end of August 2006  .

Please address your checks to Sri Ranganatha Temple 
for Tax deduction purposes .

Thank you all very much and May the blessings of Sri RanganAyaki Sametha 
Sri RanganAtha be with You & Your Family always !

Respectfully Yours and in service to the Divine Couple ,

Dr. V.Sadagopan
Vice Chairman , Sri RanganAtha Temple 
8 Ladentown Road
Pomona , NY 10970
(Phone): 1-845-364-9790
Http://www.Ranganatha.org 




   



  



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