Dear Captain Desikan, Thanks for your wishes and your views. I think the vaishnava community should look at not only the recital of hymes and performing rituals but also take stock of what state we are today. I have been observing the pictures of Divya Desams being released in this group. I am thankful and happy that some one is doing it. I would be further happy if the same persons does a little more than just visiting these divya desams. To quote an incident:- I was fortunate to visit the temple at Tirupallani..( During July - 2001) What a sad state of affairs... The temple I was told had no money to pay the electricity bill... and there was no electricity in the temple.We have to visit the temple before 6.00 PM. The day I went I was lucky since Ramakrishna mission was performing a "Villaku Pooja" and a big batch of local members of the mission were there from a neighbouring village and with the generator the lights were on in the temple and the bajans went on until 8.00 PM ( a lucky day for the temple and archakas). This generator I was told was gifted to the temple by TVS but since the temple does not have adequate resources they could not afford to either pay the electricity bills or run the generator filling kerosene. The reasons are ofcourse obvious. 1) There are a fewer devotees visiting the temple and contributing to the welfare of the temple. 2) Most of the deveotees who visit the temple have limited objective of being there for maximum one hour ( some behave like tourists visiting a museum )and they do not bother to extend their service to the temple, spend a little more time inquiring the welfare measures of the temple 3) The lands and properties which once belonged to the temple gifted by those with good intention have all been misappropriated and there is no good trustee who can make it a working mechanism. We can put tel conference, we can do bridge lines and also we can sit and mediate at home reciting all the slokas but I wish to remind you all that if this basic system of temple, priests and temple revenue is not in place we know what we can expect in another 50 years and what we will be passing on to our children. Let us act wisely... we are a gifted community by our intelligence but our contribution to Microsoft and Intel is a thousand times more than ensuring a simple thing like ensuring the temple lights are burning and rich legacy is kept flowing unadulterated.. Any one out there listening can share your views.. sureshvr19@xxxx Let us do our little part..
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