Following the divine command of Swamy Ramanuja to maintain the holy shrines and ensure that flowers, chandan and prasadam are offered to the deity, we do daily maintenance as well as renovation of divya kshetrams.

Daily Maintenance

To develop the above Divya desams , we appoint a bhagavata in the divyakshetram for complete maintenance of the garden. Nandavanam (garden) is maintained right from tilling and arranging source of water to wreathing garlands and offering to the deity. We also supply the required provisions and financially assist the paricharaka (cook). We have now taken up this service in Tirukkannangudi, Koviladi, Sirupuliyur, Kattumannarkoil, and Tirunagari (Tiruvali).

We invite you to come and serve

Bhagavan gave us this body to serve him. For our members to realise this and reciprocate, we have established small facilities at 6 remote divyadesams. We invite you to come with family, stay here and do all possible services to the Lord. You will feel the spiritual energy. We invite you come with family, stay in our facility and serve the Lord there atleast for two days.

THIRUPPER NAGAR - KOVILADI (Appakkudaththaan)

Location: 20 Kms from Srirangam

Perumal / Thayar: Appala Rangan / Kamalavalli Thayar

Importance: Swamy Nammalwar did His Last Mangalasaasanam to this Divyadesam. “Uttren Ugandhu Pani seidhu una Paadham Petren”. Serene surrounding, on the banks of River Cauvery. Also, Blessings by Thirumazhisaialwar, Perialwar and Thirumangaialwar.

Services available: A big Nandhavanam maintained by our Trust behind Temple.

THIRUSIRUPULIYUR

Location: 16 Kms from Mayiladuthurai.

Perumal / Thayar: Aruma Kadalamudhan / Thirumaamagal Nachiar

Importance: Thirumangayalwar performed “Saranagadhi” to this Perumal. “Thirumaamagal maruvum sirupuliyur chalasayanaththu Arumaakadalamudhe unadhadiye saranaame…”

Services available: Two Nandhavanams at our facility and One inside temple is maintained by us.

THIRUKKANNANGUDI

Location: 1 Km from Azhiyur, a place in Nagai to Thiruvaaroor Road.

Perumal / Thayar: Lokanathan / Loka Nayagi

Importance: Thirumangayalwar hid the Buddha Vigraham at this place, hence the names “Urangaapuli, Tholaa Vazhakku, Ooraakkinaru and Kaaya Maghizh”. A Krishnaaranya Kshetram. Pratyaksham to Rishis and Vasishtar. Thirumanagayalwar mangalasaasanam “Aravu Neel Kodiyon Avayul Aasanaththai anjidaadheyida..Atharku periya maameni andamooduruva perundhisayadangida nimirndhon…”

Services available: One Nandhavanam at our facility and One of temple is maintained by us.

THIRUNAGARI (THIRUVAALI)

Location: 5 Km from Sirghazhi.

Perumal / Thayar: Devarajan / Amruthavalli

Importance: Kumudhavalli Nachiar samedha Thirumangayalwar Thirumeni. Manavaala maamunigal absorbed by the beauty of Alwar states ” Urai kazhiththa velayoththa….velanaiththu nindra vindha nilamai, en kannaivittagandridaadhu kaliyanaanai aanaye “ .
Pancha Narasimha Darsanam, 11 Thirunangur Divyadesams can be visited staying here. Thirumanagayalwar mangalasaasanam “Thooviriya malaruzhakki thunayodum piriyadhe pooviriya madhu nugarum porivariya siruvande… evari venchilayaanukku ennilaimaiyurayaye…”

Services available: Big Nandhavanam at our facility and a big Go sala with 6 cattle is maintained by us.

KATTUMANNAR KOIL

Location: 20 Kms from Srimushnam and a big town.

Perumal / Thayar: Kaattum mannaar.

Importance: Avathara sthalam of Sriman Nadhamunigal and Swamy Alavandhaar.
Naalaiyram paasuram Kaattum mannaar….

Services available: Big Nandhavanam inside temple and a Go sala with 4 cattle is maintained by us.

THIRUKKURUGOOR – ALWAR THIRUNAGARI

Location: 36 kms from Thirunelveli in Thiruchendur Road.

Perumal / Thayar: Adi Piran / Adi Nayagi

Importance: Avathara sthalam of Swamy Nammalwar, Thiruppuliyazhwar, Bavishyathachariyar and Swamy Manavala Maamunigal.
Nava Thirupathi, Vaanamaamalai and Thirukkurungudi can be visited staying here.

Services available: Nandhavanam at our trust is maintained by us.

Feedback's from DD Serve Participants

Thirukkanagudi kaingeriyam. Adiyen godhai nacchiar namaskaram sollikkiren ungaluku. Adiyen indha divya desamle perumal ellasevai nalla padiya panna vacchango.

1. Maa kolam potten
2. Nandhavanamthile poo parichi perumallukku 5 days katti koddthuvitten
3. Plantskku thanni payichiten
4. Daily Bhagavatha rukku pasumpalvangi prasadam kodhuthuvitten. All are happy to parigitango.
5. Adiyen magillam poo paritthu clean senji. Malai perumallukku orunal aduthanal sayana perumallukku thayarrukku samarpinchen.
6. Perumallukka marrundhu poosaradhu idichen. Perumal thayar kalyana utsavam anndru malai sattrinal pattu. Indha adiyen dance pannitten Swamy.

So we are very very very happy to done perumal thayar sevai. Govindha Govindha

Gomathi Opula

As already scheduled, we landed at Sirupuliyur divya desam on 16th July at 7.30pm. We have been welcomed by the care takers of the Kinchitkaram Trust.

We met Bhattar & gave him vastrams for Perumal & Thayar. The next two & half days we had wonderful darshan of Perumal & Thayar and we were blessed to do the kainkaryams which was instructed by the Bhattar like cleaning of praharams, folding of vastrams, tieing flowers.

The caretakers were courteous in their reception & all our requirements were very well taken care of by them. We also received Perumal prasadam during our stay in Sirupuliyur. The trust building & nandavanams were very well maintained.

We offer our sincere gratitude, respect & love to Bagavat Ramanujar & Kinchitkaram Trust for providing us this wonderful opportunity to serve Kripasamudra Perumal & Dhayanayaki Thayar. We look forward to do more such kainkaryams in the near future.

Amirthavalli

Dasyasya Vignayabanam. Adiyen with my dharmapathni had been to Kattumannarkoil divya shetram to fulfill the Sri Ramanuja Divyangya kainkaryam from 1st to 4th Aug 19 organised by Velukkudi Swami, KKT.

It will be very tough for any srivaishnavite to detail the divine experience that he/she gets in rendering such services in any Emperuman temple and I am no exception.

We can’t feel the taste of sugar until we put it in our tongue; like that one has to go for such kainkaryam and feel for him/herself.

The reason for my starting the kainkaryam from Kattumannarkoil: But for Sriman Nathamunigal, today we will not be knowing the values (Perumalin arumai, perumai, dhayai, HIS down to earth attitude towards HIS children (us), forgiving nature and so on) of SRIMAN NARAYANAN; because of Sriman Nathamunigal only, we got Nalayira Divya Prabhandam which throws light on Emperuman’s above said qualities, the importance and values of 108 divya desams and after his time only Alwar/Acharyas granthangal/vyakyanangal came as a treasure with Sriman Nathamunigal / Sri Alavandar’s poorna anugraham. But for these, we all would be like trees, cattle and other creatures. I intend to undertake this kainkaryam in other divya desams as well in the coming days.

Our service at Kattumannarkoil: We first started plucking flowers as prescribed by the bagavathas there in the Nandavanam. It is a feast to our eyes to see the greenery garden. Then we cleaned all the sannathis by removing the cobwebs. Daily we collected ThayAr, Perumal, Alwar / Acharyas vastram bundles, cleaned and folded it in a neat way to be stored safely. We cleaned Perumal’s some utensils.

Our stay/Aharam: KKT is providing a brand new 2 BHK house very close to the temple where the other occupant is the Paricharagar Sri Srinivasan. 3 times temple prasadams (different varieties) is substantial for our daily intake.

People: All bagavathas/srivaishnavites are very friendly and move as a family member (athma banthu).

Benefits derived:

1. Emperuman Kadaksham. 2. Satisfaction that we could fulfill one of Sri Ramanujacharya’s divyangya. 3. Satisfaction that we stayed in a divya shetram for 3 nights. 4. Could stay away from the monotonous life. 5. Could get the association of true dedicated bagavathas. 6. Without spending a pie for shelter / food, blessed to get Emperuman Veera Narayanar sevai daily for hours. 7. Feel that today only I am born.

All these could be possible because of KKT, but for whom we can not imagine such blissful experience.

We sincerely pray at the the feet of all 108 divya desathu Emperuman that Sri Velukkudi Krishnan Swamy be blessed with 240 samvatsarams (Twice that of Sri Ramanuja) with the physical strength of 20 year youth.

Raman Padmanabhan

Namaskaram.

Adiyen Chidambram from Tirunelveli. Thanks for the accomadation provided for us on 05-07-19 at Alwarthirunakari.

adiyen, S Chidambaram.

Dhanushkodi Das

Very devoted, dedicated Bhagavathar Sri Mukunda Azwar Swamy at KKT-Thirukkannangudi.

மிகவும் அன்பான கைங்கர்யதாரர் திரு முகுந்த ஆழ்வார், திருக்கண்ணங்குடி கிஞ்ச்சித்காரம் ட்ரஸ்ட். அவருடைய கவனிப்பில் மனம் நெகிழ்ந்த ஸேவார்த்தி

– கோவிந்தராஜன்

Govindarajan

Namaskaram. We had a blissful trip to Kattumannar Koil and thank Kinchit Trust for giving us this opportunity.

The accommodation was comfortable and the Paricharagar, Shri Srinivasan Swamy took care of us very well.

We were involved in cleaning the Deepa Aradanai lamp of the lord, seeping the Koil Sannidhi & Temple entrance, and plucking of flowers in the Nandavanam. In addition to this we had the privilege of folding the Vastharams of the Lord and Thayyar . We derived lot of divine pleasure and Athma satisfaction by doing these kaigaryam.

Perumal Prasadam was served to us in sufficient quantities on all the days, 3 times a day and it was very tasty. Srinivasan Swamy prepared/allowed us to prepare Tea/Coffee in his facility. A highly knowledgeable person he guided us very well.

Suggestion:

The drawing room and the accomodation room needs regular maintenance as lot of dust had accumulated.

We thank KKT for providing us an opportunity to serve the lord in a small way. The Nandavanam and Ghoshala maintained by the Trust deserves high praise.

We look forward to doing more kaingaryam in other places managed by KKT in the near future.

Adien,

K.Raghavan

Greetings….Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha.

As confirmed by KKT, we did the Divya Desa Kainkaryam at Sri Veera Narayana Perumal Koil from 14.2.21 (14:30 hrs) to 20.2.21(10:30 hrs). Our daily routine included:-
(i) plucking flowers from the Nandavanam;
(ii)making of garlands;
(iii)cleaning n mopping Sannadhi premises;
(iv)clearing cobwebs;
(v)cleaning brass/bronze vessels used for Divya Aaradhanam;
(vi)folding alankara vastram(s);
(vii)removing weeds at Nandavanam; and
(viii)feeding cows at goshala.
We felt at peace and satisfied doing the Kainkaryam. Accommodation facilities provided were adequate. Jagannathan Bhagavatar was at hand all the time to provide whatever help needed. He is totally devoted to doing Kainkaryam round the clock and we are very happy to come in contact with such a young bhakta. Our क्रितक्ञ्जम् to KKT for providing this opportunity… we look forward to doing more such kainkaryam at different Divya Desams in the future.

B.Rajagopalan & Gowri Rajagopalan

நமஸ்காரம் ஸ்வாமி நாங்கள் இரண்டு பேர் இந்த கைங்கர்யம் செய்ய வேண்டும் என்று ஆர்வத்துடன் கலந்து கொண்டோம். அந்த அனுபவங்களை முடிந்த வரை பகிர்ந்து கொள்கிறேன். சொல்லி முடிக்க முடியாது . ட்ரஸ்ட் வாலன்டியர் திருமதி ப்ரேமா என்னுடைய நண்பர். அவர்கள்தான எங்களுக்கு கைடாக இருந்து உதவினார்கள். முதலில் காட்டுமண்ணாரில் மூன்று நாட்கள் நந்தவனத்தில் இருந்து பூக்கள் பறித்து மாலை தொடுத்தோம், சன்னதியில் பெருக்கி கோலம் போட்டேன். நந்தவனத்தில் ரோஜா தோட்டம் அமைக்கவும் பொருளுதவி செய்யும் பாக்கியம் கொடுத்தார் பெருமாள் பசுமாடுகளக்கு புண்ணாக்கு வாங்க சிறிது பொருளுதவி செய்யும் பாக்கியம் கொடுத்தார் பெருமாள். அங்கே நாங்கள் தங்கியிருந்த இடம் அனைத்து வசதிகளுடன் டிரஸ்டால் ஏற்பாடுகள் செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளன. டிரஸ்டிர்க்கும், வேளுக்குடி ஸ்வாமிக்கும் எங்கள் மனமார்ந்த க்ருதக்ஞையை தெரிவித்துகொள்கிறோம். எல்லா இடங்களிலும் நிறைய ப்ரஸாதங்கள் சாதித்தார்கள். இது மாதிரி மற்ற மூன்று திவ்ய தேசங்களிலும் தொடர்ந்து செய்யும் பாக்கியம் ட்ரஸ்ட் முலம் கிடைத்தது. ஆழ்வார் எம்பெருமானார் ஜீயர் திருவடிகளே சரணம் அடியேன், இராமானுஜ தாஸ்யை.

ஷீலா வெங்கட்ராமன்

Adiyen, I am writing this email to share my wonderful experiences at Kattumannarkoil Veeranarayana Perumal temple. First and foremost, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Kinchithkaram trust in enabling me to participate in this noble cause. I registered to perform the service for 3 days (26 Feb thru 28 Feb). With a warm welcome by Jagan bhagavathar, i started my service at temple nandavanam by plucking tulasi leaves and flowers. As next day was masi magam, i was blessed much more to attend thirthavari. I did got an opportunity to help temple battar for perumal kainkaryam like helping for thirumanjanam, thaligai serthal etc., I am sure this blissful experience will ever stay in my mind.

Above and beyond serving perumal, as a human everyone need food and shelter which was filled by kinchithkaram trust. I got a wonderful room arranged by the trust for my stay. It was maintained so neat and clean, with amenities like drinking water, geyser etc.,. Jagan bhagavathar took care of me well in serving coffee/tea for me everyday twice without any hesitation. He was so kind and active in ensuring his continuous service to perumal. On top of all, Perumal took care of me by providing prasadam 4 times a day to heavily fill my stomach for a very small service that i did. Everyone in the temple, namely the Bhattar, thirthakarar, other bhagavathars serving the temple were very kind to me.

Overall it was a wonderful and blissful experience that i am looking for again in future. Once again thanks to Kinchithkaram trust to fill little bit of good cause in my life.

Thanks,

R. Veeraraghavan

Dear Sir/Madam,

I have participated 3 days Kainlkaryam to Kattumannar Kovil, Alavandar Thiru Natchitram.

I was there from 5 to 7th Aug. Stayed at "Sri Nada Yamuna Bhawan". Jayaraman actively received me at early morning 4:30 at Temple. He picked up from temple and allocated a room on the 1st floor. Already one devotee stayed there. He also welcomed me without any issues.

By 7:00 am, we went to temple Nandavanam and picked various flowers and Thulai. Two Ladies already worked for Malai Kainkariam. They have completed 7 malai and we handed over these to Archakar.

The Chief of the temple gave respect to Trust volunteers. He also provided morning coffee, lunch in his house. We had prasadam in the temple every morning and at night.

We plugged the small herbs around the temple praharam. Due to the Festival, all Archagar are very busy and unable to allot more works.

Next day, we again plugged the flowers and asked archakar to clean the lights and vessels.

We cleaned 6 feet light, Ambal and Moolavar lights, Sodasa vessels, Brase Anda, Kunda. Also washed the floor near Narashima Perumal next to Moolavar.

Every day I went along with Urchavar around the 4 streets.To pull the cart.

Every day new volunteers come. All are actively participating. They help each other, we share the works based on age.

It is adivsible, not to combine the Kainkariyam along with Festival at Temple.Because all are very busy for Thirunatchitram works. They don't have time to allot cleaning work.

It was a very nice devotional experience. We forgot our routine works. We sat near the moolavar statue almost 6 to 7 hours daily and saw lord Perumal.

Thank you to Swami and others.

Sridhar

We must express our gratitude to KKT for accommodation in Kattumannar koil. It was really nice to stay and do some kaingaryam.

Anandapadmanabhan Lakshminarayanan

Namaskaram, adiyen went for koyiladi kaingaryam. It was a very good first experience for me serving at nandavanam and at temple. Thanks for accommodating me at the trust building. Appreciate the efforts by kinchitkaram trust.

Vijayakumar

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha.

Namaskaram.

As you may be aware. we ( my wife and self) had been to Kaattumanaar koil during August 24-26 to do kainkaryam as suggested by U.Ve. Velukkudi Krishnan Swamigal. It gives me great pleasure to share our experience there.

The guest house built by Kinchitkaram Trust and the nandavanam were excellent.We both enjoyed whatever small kainkaryam service like plucking flowers, tulasi. making garlands, drawing kolams at various sannidhis, cleaning of Perumal utensils, contribution to prasadam, etc. Everyone in the koil was very cooperative and helpful.Our humble pranams and dhanyavaadams to Sri U.Ve. Velukkudi Swamigal for providing such convenient facilities for devotees.

This mail is not complete without mentioning the goodness of Sri Jayaraman, the caretaker of guest house.He is a true gentleman, hard working and totally dedicated person.The soft spoken gentleman was always ready to guide and help us.We are really grateful to Perumal and Thaayaar for giving us this opportunity to serve the koil in a limited way. We will always remember this divine experience as well as those earlier first at Appakudaththaan koil in 2017 and Siritirupuliyur in 2019 respy.

We hope and pray many more Bhagavatas will utilise this wonderful facility to serve this historic and ancient koil in the coming months.

We look forward to another opportunity to serve at Tiruvali-Tirunagari in the near future.

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan

S.Sarangan

Recently I (Girija) and my friend Rema went for bhagavat kainkariya siva to Thirukanankudi as per advice of Acharyar Sri. Velukkudi Swamigal. I had gone previously also to render kainkariyam seva as per his recommendation. I have no words to explain my gratitude. I feel blessed and honoured to be engaged and get an opportunity for performing seva. Inspite of my advanced age of 73 years, I am empowered to assist and render devotional service by Bhagavan & Acharya anugraham. Puspa kainkaryam, sudhi seva, Bhagavat paatira vessel washing are some seva we were assigned. The hospitality, care and guidance received are overwhelming. Our thanks to coordinators and management for directions.

Girija

Namaskaram,

I am Jayakrishna Nadakuditi from Bangalore, Kinchitkaram Trust Member : CHN99901918. Myself and my uncle Sri.Nageswara Rao recently completed our trip to Thirukannankudi under the “Serve Divaydesams” initiative of the esteemed Kinchitkaram Trust. Our dates of kainkaryam were on April 1st and 2nd 2023.

I am very grateful to Sri.Velukkudi Krishnan Swami and Kinchitkaram Trust for having given us the opportunity to perform kainkaryam at the Loganatha Perumal Temple. I am also very grateful to Sri.Shivakumar and Sri.Satyanarayanan swamy for guiding us throughout the seva. We arrived at the Thirukannankudi Kinchitkaram kudil on the morning of April 1st, 2023. The accommodation had all the amenities for a pleasant stay. We stayed in room no.2. I was very happy that the Trust has put in a lot of thought to provide facilities in the kudil. For example, the mosquito mesh to keep insects away and the UPS facility was really great. We spent quite some time in the sannidhanam and got the wonderful opportunity to recite Sri Vishnu Sahasranamam and Thiruppavai in front of the Perumal. Since it was Ekadasi day, we were blessed to watch the Thirumanjanam of Sri.Damodara Narayana Perumal. The temple itself is very nicely maintained. The nandavanam established by the Trust is well maintained. The temple archagar Sri.Prabhakaran Bhattar requested us to wash brass plates of the Perumal. We went to the Shravana Pushkarini and performed the cleaning. We really felt blessed to have got this opportunity to do kainkaryam to Perumal. Later we performed some cleaning in the sannidhi as well. The temple staff were very friendly and helpful during our entire trip. Sri Satyanarayanan swamy provided us Perumal prasadam during our stay. We were inspired by his way of life by being in Kainkarya seva to Perumal every day. With the blessings of Perumal, our Divya Desa anubhavam was very good. We also visited nearby temples too such as Sri AnantaNarayana Perumal of Avuraani, Sri SowriRaja Perumal of Thirukannapuram and Sri Bhaktavatsala Perumal of Thirukannamangai. I would sincerely request all devotees to visit Thirukannankudi to experience the divine bliss and get the blessings of Perumal.

Thank you for providing a great service. I have attached some photos of our trip.

Namaskarams.

Jayakrishna Nadakuditi