Sunday, March 29, 2009

Current Activities In Temple



This time, I would like to brief a little more about current activities done by temple's youth members. First of all Thevaram and Bhajan group, formed by the temple youth commitee itself to bring out the uynderlying talents among the members in order to urge us to be, utilitarian.

It is not a class, I mean neither a music class nor sanggeetham class. Like I said in our recent post, it is about the little effort put together by us to form a small group and start to contribute to the temple and preserve every cultural values we had. The main idea was to re-group together with our old and new friends under the temple's name and start doing some useful things.

Its really touching and overwhelming to see friends and brothers willing to sacriface their weekends and spend their own time here for the temple.Apart from that, cleaning works of the temple, minor reconstruction of the temple and also a little bit of cultivation of plants (gardening) are among of the activities done here. We are unable to upload the photos yet, but I can assure, twice, everything is under process and the next post will complete with photos .

So, for now I would like request, behalf of the temple commitee to all readers who are interested to join or vist the temple,or willing to make donations kindly contact - President- Mr Annadurai 012-9760557

Friday, March 27, 2009

Conserve A Pre-historic Temple





Well, this is the 1st post here, and a retentive article now, wont engage in so many ideas or story, so I decided to post more later or in few days time about friends, members and 'underlying' stories which constitute to the temple.

Yes, I am talking about Lord Khotai Muniswarar temple here in Batu Caves which located near the (old kenneison co) now, YTL co. Efforts are being put together by everyone especially among the youth members to reconstruct the temple and build it again. Donations are being raised all over place and, honestly, decent effort were put altogether by everyone.

Let me be more specific. About the temple, there is Lord Khotai Muniswarar's statue staabanam as the moolashthanam and Lord Edumbar as kaval theivam in front of the temple.

In future a Nanthee will be positioned here in front of the Lord and soon will be recognised as the Vaghana of the main deity.

A few metres away There is Lord Karupanna Swamy or Lord Karuparr, as we all know Lord Karrupaswamy is first deity Ayyapa's Bhaktargal will worship first before their Yathirai or any pooja of Lord Ayyapa. As the eighteen steps in sabari malai, here in the temple exactly eighteen small steps were built in front of Lord Karupar to idolize Lord Ayyapa and Lord Karupanna Swamy. You see thats why people here even already assigned a general specific name which sounds like this " Pathi-neTTaam padee Karupar".( Lord Karupar on the eigtheenth step).
I will brief more about the Lord Karupar in our future post.

There is AMMAN(AathiParasakhti) temple next to Moolasthanam, and Lord Jada Muni's temple few meter away in front of the main temple. Every temple here has its own strories, and we will try to compile all the stories and post it for those who seem to be interested about the temple.


Our next post will be about the members and few pictures of the current outlook of the temple.

Thanks for reading and Cheers Always.