Today was the Ekadeshi day - auspicious day of fasting....

We were asked to come in the early morning to the sub-registrar office at around 7:30AM in the morning. Surprisingly, we felt that the sub-registrar office being a government office, the staff would not turn up so early in the morning. But, we were in for a pleasant surprise....

After the staff including the sub-registrar all appeared by around 8:30AM in the morning, the entire process of the registration including the affixing of thumb impressions were all over within an hours time... The property registration expenses sky rocketed as compared to the original estimate given - but the promoter had successfully pushed us to limits of patience that we were not winking even for shelling out the extra amount here to get the transaction completed....

Finally, at around noon today, we were back at home. Maybe, today was considered as a better day by Guru Ragavendra today being Ekadeshi - But what ever was his reason, after seeing this transaction completed, we had a feeling of elation internally within us in our family. The feeling was more of a disbelief that this transaction has got completed after around 3 months - when we have started slowly believing that this is not going to get completed at all after all these delays. But it looks like that this was also one of HIS leelas to check our resoluteness and stubbornness on this noble cause. Hope that HE has taken and considered us to be passed in this exam that he gave us.

After this transaction was completed, we sort of started feeling that the samprokshanam of the finally constructed temple itself has been done - when in fact only the first step has been completed

We had blocked our tickets to Mantralayam for next Friday (26-Jun) and we wanted to ensure that we get all the document papers by that time. The intent behind this was to place these documents in the Moola brindavanam of Rayar and take his blessings for the further development of this project. We are now keeping our fingers crossed on whether we are going to receive the document papers before we board the train in Chennai on Friday (26-Jun) although with the strong belief that HE would not let us down on this request....

Sarvam Krishnarpanamastu