Sri:
Srimathe Rāmanujāya Namaha
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Letter from a Kainkaryapara Friend

The following letter was written to us by a volunteer who along with a few friends from college helped with the Tirunandavana(sacred garden) kainkaryam at Sri Kamalavalli Nāyika sametha Sri Appāla Ranganāthaswāmi Devasthanam, Koviladi (Thirupper Nagar) on 25th August 2013. 

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From: mugundhan jagannathan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>;
Date: Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Subject: Trip to Koviladi

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Dear VEDICS Foundation volunteers,

Thanks for organizing the trip to Koviladi. It was indeed a great experience to take part in the grand scheme of helping establish a garden and supply flowers to the divyadesam kovil. It was a unique experience for all of us as we have never attempted to physically help in gardens, let alone in a divyadesam.

Perhaps the most enjoyable part of the whole day was the bath in the Cauvery river. All of us miss an experience like this since we haven't got the chance in a long time because of growing up in a city and moving off to college. 

The bhagavathar was also very kind and helpful and taught us first-timers how and what is required to be done when going about setting up a garden. He seemed a very experienced person and deftly handled a lot of difficult tasks and gave us plenty of advice and opportunities to help him.

The finishing touch was sharing our favourite Perumal, divyadesa, acharya anubhavams in the cool shade of the canopy built next to the garden. The more fun information was sharing the prasadams that everyone enjoyed to offer their perumals at home and their favorite portions of arulicheyal and stotra padams.  We finished by going over the story of Arulala Perumal Emperumanar from the Arayirapadi Guruparampara Prabhavam, whose life is a living example of humility, deep learning and great devotion - all are values which we youngsters should specially aspire towards. 

Fruits and refreshments offered to the Perumal were given to us at the end in plenty and we hope to get some more anubhavams, prasadams and opportunities to serve in future.

adiyen ramanuja dasan,
Mugundhan Jagannathan
II yr. SASTRA University
 

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VEDICS Foundation and our fellow volunteers from Kinchitkaram Trust take this as an opportunity to invite many more youngsters serve the lord. We have many ongoing kainkaryams which you can support with your time and efforts. There are several opportunities for short, medium and long term engagements with us and we would love to hear from you about the same.