Saturday, June 20, 2009

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

Friday, June 19, 2009

Nearing the milestone....

Today, on the hope that all issues are going to be getting removed by Raghavendra, and also today being a Thursday, myself and my Brother-in-law set out to Kancheepuram to be in the land site by around 11:30AM in the morning. But the promoter and the seller of the land were nowhere to be seen till around 1:00PM. Since we were particular that we should not be having lunch without the land registration getting completed, we also skipped the lunch.... Continuous phone calls to the promoter only elicited the response that we are very close to the property....

However, the seller failed to appear till around 4:30PM in the evening by which time the sub-registrar being a part of the government formation had already closed shop for the day. The heavens had opened up on that day in Kancheepuram with some decent rains and I was hoping that this could be taken as a blessing for us from the heavens - since this is considered as one of the auspicious signs generally. But apart from my verification of the actual sale deed document and my actual signing of these, the actual process could not get completed.

Although I realize that this has been made to postpone for some valid unknown reason by Rayar, having come so close to achieving the milestone of completing this property registration for his brindavanam, it was a little bit disappointing not to have it accomplished. The disappointment was much more because of the fact that today was Thursday which is always considered as the most auspicious day for Guru Ragavendra.