Thursday, May 20, 2010

Sanction for the construction plans received!!!!

@20-May-10

Last Thursday (13-May-10) was the amavasya day and the start of the new month - end of adhi masa as per the kannadiga calendar and start of the vaikasi masa. It was also an auspicious day being the Thursday. We were told that the construction plans that were submitted to the local panchayat body a few days back were approved and can be collected! Since was a major milestone, we were thrilled with reaching this critical phase of this project.

Also, the start of the construction activity required soil testing to be done on the site to determine what kind of foundation has to be laid. Coincidentally, after multiple weeks of follow up for that activity, it looked like it was destined to happen on the same day. By late evening on that date, the soil testing was also completed and the test reports are awaited by the end of the week. Since this was an activity being undertaken for a social cause, the owner of the firm that did the soil testing - a good samaritan - offered to do this activity free of cost except for transportation cost of the equipment to the site. Another help that was received to reduce the expenses on this project by divine grace!!!

Incidentally, we had gone to visit the Moola Brindavanam at Mantralayam at the beginning of this month on 5th and 6th and HE ensured that we were all in vantage positions for the different darshans. A case of HIS benevolence in giving us darshan can be seen in this episode: While we were seeing the morning abhisheka of the brindavanam, suddenly one of the security guards came in from the back and asked if we had seen the moola rama pooja and being told that we are not, immediately he offered to lead us by taking the permission and made us sit in the second row to have an excellent darshan of the entire Moola Rama pooja for close to 2 hours. Such was the divine grace that we were subjected to in this trip!!! The main intention of this trip to Mantralayam was to keep the property documents and the drawings as well in the moola brindavanam for taking his blessings and come back and by HIS grace, we were able to do that and complete this wish as well.

One of the small videos that we took when the mangalarthi was being performed at the moola brindavanam can be seen at the following location:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svZXSPksc-o

The next stage is to receive the working drawings from the architect and proceed with the structural drawings and then finally for the actual construction to start!!!

Sarvam Sri Krishnarpanamastu