Building Guru Raghavendra Mrithika Brindavanam: Experiences

By the grace of Hari, Vayu and Rayar, we have decided to start off the construction initially of the compound wall for the brindavanam area tomorrow - Sep 07. Coincidentally, when I went to the TNagar Rayar mutt today to place the photos of Lakshmi Nrsimmar, Anjaneya and Rayar in the sannidhi and then take these to the consturction site tomorrow, without any mention, the archaka took a big mala and gave it to me and my wife. I take this as an approval from Rayar to start the activity - since in my hearts before reaching the temple I was praying to him that he should bless us and give his seal of approval in a unique different way today.

By the grace of Sri Hari, Vayu and Guru Rayar, I was blessed to undertake the trip to Mantralayam leaving on Sep 1st from Chennai. It was a comfortable trip to Mantralayam by HIS grace and once I landed in MALM Road station, I quickly took an auto, checked in to my usual lodge and hurried to have the darshan of rayar. I have captured the moments here in the following links using my mobile camera: (Mangalarthi to the Moola brindavana on 02-Sep afternoon): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtDJm3Mcpzo (Rathothsava clippings on 02-Sep night – The image clarity is not that good since I had taken it from my mobile camera) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PucSpxSLnc4 (Maha mangalarthi to the moola brindavana on 02-Sep night after the rathothsava) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hzhYR-GAgY Overall, it was a great experience as always any visit to moola brindavanam is, with only a sad point of rayar not blessing with tirta prasada on 3-Sep - since it was getting very late in the afternoon and I had...

After getting the sale deed documents from the seller, it was now our turn to see how we can get the other documents from the other governmental agencies to ensure that the property has been successfully transferred to the name of the Trust (Sri Lakshmi Nrsimmar Guru Raghavendra Trust). After getting an appointment with the sub-registrar office of the Vembakkam sub-registrar, I had driven down today and applied for the EC (Encumberance Certificate) for the last 20 years. On the way to the sub-registrar office, on sustained pleading from my parents, I had also gone and visited the Ulagalandaperumal temple in kanchipuram. I had excellent darshan of the Trivikramar and it was a solo audience in the temple at that time. The darshan itself indicated that the activities are going to go smoothly today. After filling in the forms for the application in the sub-registrar office, I was told that that since this specific office was closed down in the middle for some years, I should also go to the...

Since we had not mentioned the property location and the details of the promoter and seller before, here they are: a) The property is located at around 9-10 kms from Kanchipuram on the outskirts. As we go in Kanchipuram - Vandavasi road, after crossing the Palar bridge, you have to take a right to a place called IyangarKulam. There is a famous Anjaneyar temple here by the name of Sanjeevi Rayar. After crossing this place and going still straight at a distance of around 4 - 5 kms, this property is located. The address of this property is Rajeswari Nagar, Namandi Village, Tiruvannamalai District. b) The benevolent souls involved in this property dealing as promoters are: R. Suresh and Palani, proprietors of Classic World City, based out of Chennai dealing with real-estate broking and also in IT industry!!! c) The seller who was the official owner of this property is Keerthinathan, a real-estate businessman based out of Kanchipuram We pray to the Almighty and Guru Rayar that they keep the...

Its been some time that I had updated my blog - but that was more because of the fact that I had been raking my head to come to a final decision on how I should succeed in getting the property documents from the seller and promoter than being lazy.... A lot of incidents had happened during this time from the last blog post - events which indicated the presence of Guru Rayar's continued watch on us to ensure that we are successful in this project... During this time, I had the opportunity to come across the website of a priviliged soul with a codename of chiraan ( http://chiraan.wordpress.com ) who had advised me to recite the Hari Vayu Stuthi sloka - especially Sloka #26 - which was pertaining to getting the complete guru anugraha. It so happened that on last Tuesday - 14-Jul-09 - I was at the height of the frustration on not getting the documents till that time and I was venting out my feelings in desperation at the Rayar brindavanam in TNagar in Chennai. I was internally conversi...

We started off to Mantralayam on the Friday night - 26th June. Although the train started from Chennai on time, the train reached slightly late to Mantralayam Road station at around 11:30AM. We were slightly worried that we might miss out on the morning darshan. We immediately hired the auto in the railway station and went directly to mutt office. For the last many years in which I have been travelling to Mantralayam almost twice an year, I have not been successful in getting a room in the mutt choultries. But this time fortunately, owing to Rayar's grace, we were successful in getting the choultry from the mutt itself as one of the rooms were vacant. We felt happy that our contributions are going back in some way to Rayar itself. After checking into the room and having a quick nap, we rushed to the temple to have the darshan. Fortunately, it was not late and neither was there so much crowd in front of the Brindavanam. This meant that we had more time at our disposal to have darsha...

I was supposed to be getting the property documents today from the registrar office. Not willing to take chances especially taking into account that I am travelling tonight to Mantralayam, I personally went to kanchipuram and reached the sub-registrar office at around 11:00AM in the morning. I was told that the papers were already collected by the seller's agent yesterday (Thurs). I called up the promoter from Kanchipuram and enquired with him to see if I had to collect the papers from someone in Kanchipuram itself or it would reach me in Chennai. I was made to wait in the hot sun till around 3:00PM since even after trying different people continuously on the promoter side, I was not given confirmation of where the property papers were. After 3:00PM, I was told to start from Kanchipuram with the assurance that the property papers will reach me before I leave for Mantralayam - since this was the full purpose of hurrying through with things so that I can keep these papers in front of...