Respected Aunty,
My humble namaskar to you .At the outset let me thank you for helping my family
friends mother vide your Chief Minister's Special Cell Ref.No.347086 dated
06.09.2002 in the matter of family pension. When i petitioned your goodself,
the action is triggered and to cover up the deficiency officials have sent
fresh set of form for life certificate and asked her to fill and return it back
thus seemingly cover up the deficiency in efficiency. I am sure you will get
the poor souls blessings.
Aunty you are doing yeomen service to temples by giving Annadhnam in
selecttemples and i am sure by grace of GOD you will extend it to the other
temples also slowly. One more service is required you are aware that almost
allthe temples have lot of wealth in the form of Agricultural land but the fate
of the 108 Vaishnava Temples ( Being an Iyengar you will also know the
importance of 108 Divya Shetra & good majority temple is in Tamil Nadu) arein
pitiable condition.I will write a detail mail and also send the email
circulated in our Religious e groups which will be of great interest to you.I
am sure under your regime the temples will achieve its old glory. I am glad the
present regime headed by your goodself is GOD fearing one unlike the previous
regime.
I have a very genuine grievance which is of grave nature.It is a apachara meted
out to H H Srimath Srimooshnam Andavan of Srimath Srirangam Andavan Aasharam
who is a head of the age old Vaishnava Mutt in our India. I am attaching a mail
received from Sriman.P.Dileepan-USA who is a member of our religious e
group.Then I visited the site of Times of India and the article which came in
website is reproduced below . Aunty the Apachara caused to Great Acharya is
highly condemnable . The concerned Official should be pulled up, Sent for
re-orientation course and also sent to a place on posting wherehe will not have
any contact with Civilization. I am sure Justice will be done. I know you will
be pre-occupied with the burning Issue of Cauvery, but i request you to kindly
take some time and do the needful .A bad mole brings a lot of bad name for us
in Foreign country.I am sure under your regimethis sort of Apachara will not
happen once again.
With Warmest Regards,
L.Sridhar.
Ps: I am L.Sridhar, I am one of the nephew of Late S.Parthasarathi Ayyangar ,
Former Commissioner of Police , Madras Presidency ( He was the predecessor of
Mr.F.V.Arul) & I Inspector General of Railway Protection Force , New Delhi. I
am given to understand he was the good friend of your grandfather .
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Pontiff alleges insult to him in Kanchi temple
PTI [ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 05, 2002 10:12:41 PM ]
KANCHIPURAM: A visit to this holy city by Srimad Rangaramanuja Andavan
Swamigal, head of the centuries old Srimad Andavan Mutt in Srirangam, which
usually passes off unnoticed by the laity, has this time generatedcontroversy.
The Andavan Mutt has been closely associated with the traditions of the
Varadarajaswami temple here since the time of Saint Ramanuja.
The pontiff visited the Varadarajaswamy temple on Thursday, andon Friday night
he called the press and announced that an insult had been meted out to him in
the temple.
He said the traditional privilege of offering 'panchamudra' (touching the
forehead and arms of the devotee five times with the crown of the lord by the
temple priest) was refused to him expressly. He said this refusal came as an
oral instruction from the temple 'manikkarar' (officer).
"The temple priests expressed to me their regret at such an order which they
agreed was irregular but still had to obey," the pontiff said.
The pontiff said the Supreme Court had clearly defined that customs and
practices must be followed strictly in anciet temples.
"But contradicting such court orders, today all customs and practices are given
the go by. The officials misuse their powers and extend honours
indicriminately," he said.
The matter has been referred to the HR and CE commissioner, he said.
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