Helping out Sri Vaishnava Temples

Helping out Sri Vaishnava Temples

We so many Sri Vaishnava temples around us. Quite a few of them, which have got the privileges of being sung by Azhwars (Mangalasasanams) have been categorized as Sri Vaishnava Divyadesams. The sad state is that due a few of the temples are running under acute financial crisis and lack of renovation.

There are a lot of reasons for apathy towards our cherished temples. A few of them would be:

1. First and foremost would be ignorance on part of the people towards their native place and temples.
2. Localizing their views only to themselves and family and hence moving away from thier temples.
3. A variant of Shameful mimicing modernity.

Fortunately, a group of Orkuteers have formed a community called 'Vadagalai Iyengars', which has initiated a very noble cause of preparing the list of temples that are in need, compiling donations and services from philanthropists worldwide and helping out them. The team already has a like-minded guys working on the project from Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai etc. You can find the original message in the following discussion thread.

I just wanted to share this message to all, so that everybody interested can join hands in the service of the Lord.