August 28 1987

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First Ever Documented Festival, Ganesh Chaturthi, Organized by The Avatar!

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When I was 10 or 12, I conducted the first or at least we can say that, the first available photographs we have, is My public enriching activity, is the Ganapathi Chaturthi, Ganesh Chaturthi, I conducted in Tiruvannamalai, when I was 10 or 12. If you see even the photographs of that time and if you talk to the people, reminiscence of the people, who were with Me volunteering, the first batch of Kailasa Volunteers. If you talk to all of them, you can see very clearly, you can get it from them, the details - first collecting donation. Whoever gave, we had our own notebook, in that we noted down and all the expense is done properly, like making a pandal and paying for the musician, buying the sandalwood paste and doing all the rituals properly and conducting the pooja. After the pooja is done, taking the prasadam in bicycle, going to home to home whoever donated, distributing that prasadam to all and then finally bringing the accounts and remaining we had little money and with that money and that accounts paper, the whole thing was put into Arunachaleshwara temple Hundi as offering, surrender of the whole thing. I think, maybe we had some 75 paise or something remaining money, after all the expenses over. With that money, with the accounts slip, We offered the whole thing to Arunachaleshwara temple Hundi.