SrI : Dear BhakthAs : Sri RanganAyaki SamEtha Sri RanganAthan's ArchakAs are maintaining the rich traditions of the temple and are performing daily , seasonal and special Uthsavams with strict adherence to Paancha Raathra Aagamam . Every day , they have Veda Vij~nApanam ( recitation of Yajur Vedam ) and AzhwAr's dhivya Prabhandhams . Nithya (Daily ) Daily AarAdhanam is conducted at all the 8 Sannidhis for lOka KshEmam . It is the tradition in many US HIndu Temples to provide living quarters for the ArchakAs . Here at Sri RanganAtha Temple , we had to defer it due to other pressing priorities in managing the available funds . Time has come now to address the critical needs of the priests to have quarters outside the temple . Currently , they are in cramped rooms ( two to a room ) inside the temple . Their families are in India since we could not invite them under these circumstances . The Board of the Temple has authorized a special fund raising effort to raise the needed funds ($150K ) to construct two priest quarters right next to the Temple in 2005 . 1500 Individual Raffle tickets valued at $ 100 each have been approved by the NY State to raise the needed funds . AasthikAs have helped with the purchase of 300 Tickets sofar . The Temple has a long way to go to reach its goal before the deadline of December 31 , 2004 . Please help by purchasing as many tickets as you can and give your valued support for this important project . Although it is odd for a temple to use the Raffle route , few sponsors have donated the following three prizes and we are obliged to distribute them to the three winners once we reach the completion stage of fund raising . The three prizes are : (1) BMW 2005 Model car as First Prize (2) A Board Member has donated the family's timeshare apartment in Virginia Beach , VA for one week per year for life and (3) Two Round trip tickets to India in 2005 to visit dhivya dEsams . The tickets can be purchased from anywhere in the world . Please contact either myself or Sri Venkat Kanumalla ( Kanumalla@xxxxxxxxxxx) for your tickets . Please help . During the Next round , the Temple will consider prizes that will permit winners to stay at one or more dhivya dEsams like Srirangam , Thirumala , Ahobilam and others for a week or two . Please help with the purchase of the raffle tickets to initiate the construction of the two priests' quarters in 2005 . We have only three months left to assemble the needed funds with your support . The Board is considering the naming of the first two of the Priest Quarters as Sri RanganAtha Bhavanam and Sri VenkatEsa Bhavanam . The remaining two quarters to be built in the year 2006 will be named Narasimha Bhavanam and Raama KrishNa Bhavanam respectively . Thank you all for particpating in this much needed initiative to house the priests and their families in appropriate quarters . Daasan , V.Sadagopan Secretary , Sri RanganAtha Temple Board Pomona , NY . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/VkWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/ <*> 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/
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