Fund raising concert went off very well by HIS grace!!!!

@03-Mar-2011:

A lot of people has been sending communication either in person or on phone mentioning the reasons behind why the blog is not getting updated frequently now... It got to show how many people had been following this blog and are well wishers for this project. It is nothing but HIS grace...

The main reason behind not being able to update the blog has been simply because of the fact that we were all extremely busy to make the fund raising concert by Sangeetha Kalanidhis Smt Saroja and Smt Lalitha a success.... As every reader to this blog knows, this concert was planned to raise funds towards the construction activities of this temple. Smt. Saroja and Smt. Lalitha, veteran musicians not needing any specific introduction - No awards in this field has eluded them till date possibly. They are ardent devotees of Sri Guru Rayar and this devotion showed when they instantaneously volunteered to give this fund raising concert on a request by us. It was one of our other experiences of how HE has showered his grace on a lot of people which is primarily responsible for their ascent to the heights of their individual careers!!!

The event was scheduled on 26-Feb-2011 - Saturday - to facilitate as many people to attend this event as possible, being a weekend off day typically. Ticket sales were going on till that day and a small snippets on this programme was given out in the papers as well. Based on this, there were more calls enquiring about the tickets availability. Taking into account the large sized hall and the popularity of Bombay Sisters, we were all concerned and a little worried on how much of ticket sales that we are going to make to increase the amount of funds available through this event and more importantly of how much attendance on that event day is going to be there.

As usual readers to this blog would be aware, for the last 2 years, there has been no event in this project which Sri Guru Raghavendra would not take care of personally by HIMSELF. While we mere mortal souls think that we are the ones who are acting and doing the work, it becomes difficult for the feeling to sink in most of the times that we are mere tools in the grand scheme of things - So much of belief that WE are the doers has crept into our thoughts owing to past karmas in so much of previous births - like a very thick layer of dust over our atma - that this thought does not get removed very easily. So like a typical Guru, who does not stop till his disciple learns, digests and assimilates the concept into his subconscious level, our Guru Raghavendra also keeps giving lessons to us stating that nothing need to be worried on any facts of life and will be automatically taken care of at the right time - IF we have the 'unconditional' belief and trust on HIM and completely surrender to HIM.

As if to underline this fact, an unexpected event out of the blue - happened on the day of the event on 26-Feb-2011. While I had finished my scheduled work on Saturday in the forenoon session on that day and making the last minute touches for the speeches and other arrangements for the evening, I suddenly got an email into my account at just a few hours before the concert was about to begin. The email was from an hitherto unknown person to any of us involved in this activity with the subject line which read as "CONTRIBUTION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF RAYAR MUTT". A little curious on getting an email with this subject and that too from an unknown person till now. I opened up the email to take a look at its contents - not withstanding the fact that I was getting late in the last minute preparations and could not afford any distractions at this time for fear of being delayed!!!!

The short and precise mail text had something to state something like this: "By the blessing of the Guru who has accepted a contribution from me and from the money earned through his kripu and blessing, I have electronically transferred Rs. 50,000/- to the trust under reference XYZ".

It took sometime for the message to sink in and after verifying it in the bank statement, was a little dumbfounded and still for some time. After the entire contents of this email sinked in and we realized that this is nothing but another act of grace from our Guru Rayar, we realized that it was HIS way to convey a message across that when the right time has to come, it will come and get done come what may... It was also a message from him stating that the event was going to be a success...

Just like the message that HE had conveyed to us, the event went off well and completed on a grand scale. Some of the pictures of this event is available at the following URL:

http://picasaweb.google.com/gururayar2009/FundRaisingConcert?authkey=Gv1sRgCProtNuO8JuD5AE#

We are submitting the success of this event to HIS lotus feet and await HIS next guidance to us on the further steps on this project... Please stay tuned for more details...

(PS: A related point to this note: The anonymous devotee has not answered back to our request for sending his/her contact details for us to get the receipt across. Multiple email requests from us to the same email address from which this email had come has gone unanswered till now - The devotee wants to possibly continue remaining to be anonymous devotee itself!!!)

Sarvam Sri Krishnarpanamastu