BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI POSTING BY GNK ON 16TH OCT 2011

TO 18th Jan 2012 Mantra and Slokha group. We should appreciate the good qualities of a person .Why do we celebrate Srirama Navami ? Rama was an Ekapathni vrathan ; he obeyed his fathers orders . ( Pithru vakya paripalanam ) He accepted the Hunter Guha & the Monkey Sugreeva , without any patiality . He showed us to accept Vibheeshan , without any vengeance that he was the brother of Ravan , who kidnapped his wife Sithamatha . If anybody has all this kalyana gunas ( good qualities ) , then he too is Bhagvan . Leaving all these (good points & qualities) , many are keen only in finding out faults with Rama s actions He killed Vali , from hiding behind a tree; He ordered the pregnant woman Sitha matha to be left in the forest ; He ordered Sithamatha to bathe in the Agni ! Srirama was a Kin ! HE lived for the sake of the people . he sent Sithamatha to the forest , to give respect to even a washerman s words . HE spoke as if he didn t believe Sithamatha , only to avoid such talks, in the later periods . Didn t He know about Matha ? Matha too bathed in the Fire , fearing that the loka apavadham shouldn t touch HER ! The nerveless tongue ! Because it always wet , whatever nonsense it speaks , it will bathe immediately & purify itself ! So , it will speak ill of anything ! The brain alone should control it . The Bhagvan is arranging the 32 teeth beautifully in 2 rows to protect it . And , at times the teeth too bite it . Even then , the tongue has no shame . (vyavasthai ) . Ok ! We shall move over to valivadham ! Sugreeva had come first & surrendered . So , if Vali too surrenders , what to do then ? The very learned had already argued all this in the open debates . What is the reason of attacking Vali from behind a tree ? The first reason is , whoever fights with Vali directly face to face , half of their strength will go to him . Then , how will Ravan vadham happen ? Vasuki s boon too is another reason for Vali s vadham ! It was decided that the Devas & Asurs should stir the milk ocean & they had dropped all sorts oshadhis too in it . They used the Manthara Mountain as the axis & requested one of the ashtanagas Vasuki & wound it thrice around Manthara & began to stir . On the side of asurs & standing opposite to Perumal , Vali was stirring . The Koormavatharam was only going to be be taken by Perumal afterwards only ! Vali was that much old fellow ( puranawala ) Vasukis body suffered due to the wounds by the sharp nails of Vali . Too much pain all over its body , due to his rough pulling . After everything was over , Perumal asked vasuki , you have helped a lot to get the Nectar . What boon do you want ? He said I want to sleep for Yugs . Ok ! I shall give you one more boon . Ask me There is chain like link between these two boons & the avthar of Bhagvan . With tears , Vasuki said Vali is rude adamant fellow . Nobody should suffer from him like me . You must kill him ! Thathasthu ! ( Done ) Bhagvan gave him the word . Vasuki began to sleep in the forest , near the ashram of Mathangka maharshi and kept on sleeping . The Bhagvan had finished His Varaha , Nrusimha & vamana avthars too . The yugs were passing on . The Bhagvan created an ant - hill on him to avoid anybody disturbing his sleep . Vayu threw plenty of sand on it & 7 Accha trees grew on it . Bhagvan was born to Emperor Dhasharat , came to the forest separated from Sithamatha & was on His way insearch of Her , then met Sugreeva ! To create confidence to Sugreeva on Him , he made holes in the 7 Accha trees with one arrow . How could He do it ? Vasuki , who was sleeping under the trees for yugs , was visible to His eyes . HE preesed his tail by His toe . HE released the arrow . Disturbed from his sleep , Vasuki curved his body , hissed & woke up . The four trees were in one row & the balance three were in another row according to Vasuki s curvaceous body . All the trees came in one straight line , because Vasuki straightened his body . in the Sriramaswamy temple in Kumbakonam , they have drawn Ramayana in pictures . Wonderful work . These 4 & 3 curvaceous vasuki sleeping scene can be seen there . Bhagvan didn t kill Vasuki immediately after granting the boon to Vasuki . HE let him live for yugs . Once Vali & an Asur fought inside a cave . Sugreeva , closed the cave , mistaking the blood flowing out , was of Valis . When Vali came back , he immediately begged Vali to forgive him & handed over his rajya too . Wasn t it ? One shouldn t keep on chasing a running fellow !

Nobdy can live permanently on this earth . Vali s life ended only because of the great sin , accumulated by the action of Vali, kept on chasing Sugreeva . Rangaraja , gave word to Vasuki long before Sugreeva . Rajarama was a king to Ayodhya only . But , Govindharaja is the king of this Pruhvi .( world ) He was born to kill the Dhushtas ( asurs ) ; Was not HE born only to give asylum to the orphans ? (Who are helpless ) Sri Rama s Pattabhishekam ! The shouting of the people Prabho , Maharaja was hitting the sky . Ade Rama ! This udden voice startled everybody . A person in torn clothes & grey hairs , came in double up & embraced Srirama ! Sage Vasishta asked Srirama Who is this ? He Guru ! Don t you know him ? He is our Ananthan . keeping new palm new palm leaves ( for writing ) , keeping the asthras ( arrows ) in order , serving food like mother . What a lot of he;ps he did to Me ? After introducing him to Vasishta , He asked Ananthan Anbantha ! Where were you so long years ? What were you doing ? He Rama ! When I had been to the forest to pluck the darppa grass , didn t you return back to Ayodhya , without even informing me, because your studies were over ? I felt very sad . I came back top Ayodhya by walk only ! When I arrived at Yodhya , they told me that you had & Lakshman had gone along behind Visvamithra to protect his yagnas , to forest . Who will give you dharppa grass , samitthu ( sticks to perform homas ) , etc;? What will you do , if lion , tiger etc attack you there ? Will good food be available in the forest ? Like this I worried so much . What is the use of simply worrying alone ? I did penance , so that you should not suffer in the forest . He couldn t speak further as the sorrow stopped his voice . At that moment a rushi came forward & said When we were hurrying to attend your Pattabhishekam ( crowning ) , my foot hit the ant-hill on him broken & he came to his senses & called Rama . then , we told him the entire episodes & brought him here . Though , Anantha prevented Sri rama , he didn t listen to him ; HE sat him on this throne , garlanded him & did all the other respects . Srirama has no upper & lower class etc; . HE was born to honour the lower class . HE lifted up Sugreeva & Vibheeshan . He did padha pooja to Ananthan . We too should learn to be humble & simple , by remembering His history ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! POSTINGS MADE ON 17th OCT ASWINI DEVAS Aswini Devas are the Dhanvanthri of the Heaven . They tested Sukanya ; & gave the youth to the Sage Shyavana Maharshi ; This is well known matter to many people ; and , also that they are the father(s) of Nakula & sahadeva too . Kakshiva was a King . His daughter s name was Kakshivathy . She too composed songs like Owvaiyar . ( The famous Tamil Poetess ) . Leprosy caught her in her age itself . Sha was unmarried . Nowadays , some girls become more old , due to financial reasons . Some don t get the right job inspite of their better educational qualification . Some are refused as they are not beautiful. Who cares for their knowledge . They don t know to compose songs ! Kosha composed 14 songs One called Ripu made the chariot for the Aswini Devas . Kosha says in the sogs , how Aswini Devas saved her after she composed these 14 songs . Kakshuvathy was in Vrath for the Aswini Devas . King Kakshiva performed Yagna for Aswini devas . If those Deva doctors wish , even the very aged Cow ( which has stopped giving milk ) will start giving milk again ; the small bird in the mouth of the wolf too will get back its life ; I don t say all these ; Kosha had said in her songs . Thukkra s son Puchjyu ; He was a patient . The ship split into pieces ; because he was a patient , he couldn t swim ; he called the Aswini Devas for help ; he fainted by drinking the salt water ; nobody including him knew how reached the shore safely . Purumithra was a king ; His daughter was married to the Rushi Vamatha . He had a doubt , wheter his wife had some desease ; Aswini Devas came there , blessed them & united the couples .

Repar was aRushi . Bad people beat him heavily & threw him in a cave & gone . He couldn t even moan ; He thought o fthe Aswini devas ; They came & gave him life with their divine medicines . We are waiting for the arrival of the Big doctor ; We can think of these Aswini devas too , isn t it ? Their fees is just their namajapam only . The fir in the Homa kund of the Sage Athri was growing more & more . Nobody could douse ithe fire . The Sage praised the Aswini Devas with Sthothras . The water was falling on the fire to the extent of reducing its force . But , it is known from the water was coming from ! Kali was a rushi . He matured much too much very early & became old at the age of 20 . He did penanxce to Aswini Devas . His youth returned back as if he was born again . Pethu was a king . When he was ruling the enemy suddenly came with his battalions . Pethu s horse wing was not alright in his battalion . In our almanac , the star aswini is reffered as a male horse . The king prayed the Aswini devas . 810 horses in 81 rows were readily standing there , decorated fully at - forelock , back & whithers! It is not necessary to say that King Pethu won . Because , they are thesons of the Sun . They are the one who give us the Tejus too . Kushamba was of from the same family root of the Sage Jahnu , who let out the Ganges through his ears ! He did the penance to get a son equal in status to Indra ! Why should there be on eto compete me ? Indra thought so & himself was born to him as son with the name Kadhi . His daughter was Sathyavathy . Maharshi Bhrugu came to him asked for Sathyavathy , to be his son Reechika s wife . Kadhi was afraid of his curse , if he refused . He said to avoid him One ear should be black ; The rest of the whole body should be white as the Moon . Should run faster than the wind . I have vowed to give my daughter only to the person , whoever brings 1,000 horses with these descriptions . He thought that this beareded old man couldn t fulfill the condition . The father & son ( Jahnu Maharshi & his son ) wentb to the Aswa theerttham & did japa . 1,000 horses stood infront of the palace of the King Kadhi ! Could he say a word against ? King Kadhi quietly conducted the marriage of his daughter to Reechika . And the Sage Jamathagni was the son of that Sathyavathi only . He was the father of Parasurama Renuka Devi s husband . The famous sage Visvamithra was the brother of Sathyavathy . If the kanyas [ unmarried girls ] daily do the japa of the Aswini Deva s Name 108 times , they will get married on time & won t be pulled on . These are not my imagination . It is said so in the Rug Vedha . The king Kela s wife was Vispala . Other than Kaikeyee & Sathyabahama , we don t know about any other sthree woman who drove the chariot of her husband to help him in the battle field . Vispala fought in the war . The Rug Vedha says that she lost her leg & lived with artificial leg ! To join re join her torn thy , she prayed thebAswini Devas only . Mudhgala was a Maharshi & his wife s name was Indrasena . It was a practice in those days to fix a new name to the bride in the marriages of those days . Likewise , in her marriage , they fixed her new name as Mudhgalani . The robber is kidnapping all the cows given as dhanam . The rushi is Bending the Bow & splashing the arrows . The rug Vedha says in its 5th mandala s 30th Suktha , that Mudhgalani too sent out numerable arrows & saved the arrows ! In the war , One Vathrimathi s hand is broken The Aswini Devas fixed her a Golden hand ! Athri Maharshi s daughter was Apaala Athreyi ; a Brahmagnani ! She was well versed in composing poems . After her marriage , she was caught by the desease . She became lonely , shun away by her husband . she composed 7 songs on Indra . It was the in between period to control & push down the women ; The job of the human bafoons ; The Atharvana Vedha confirms that 3 kanya sthrees ( unmarried women ) namely Sulabha , Thrithavrutha & Sthruthavathi refused to marry & lived religiously ! The King Pilayoga s son was Asanka . Due to a curse , he was caught by the desease . He was already married to Angirasa Maharshi s daughter Sasvathy ; She was Maha pthivratha & a very leaned Pandit in Dedha Shasthras ! She followed Vratham for the sake of her husband &to remove his desease . She composes songs . [ on Aswini Devas ] . Aswini devas came & treated him & he became very alright & relieved of his desease . Though Asannksn was just like a twine , he too smelled as scent , by marrying a good chaste woman ! [ The twine that joins the flowers too smells good ! as we all too smell good by the grace of Sri maha Periyava s blessings ! ]

JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! OUR SRI MAHAPERIYAVA , ALWAYS HAS A SPECIAL LOVE TO GANAPATHY & THE ELEPHANTS . HE HAS OPENLY SHOWED THIS MANY A TIMES ! IT WAS THE REGULAR PRACTICE TO FEED THE ELEPHANT OF THE SREEMUTT IN THE EVENINGS . THEY MAHOUT WOULD MIX THE VELLAM WI...TH COOKED RICE (ANNAM ) IN BIG GULPS INTO THE MOUTH OF THE THE ELEPHANT . ONE DAY, PARAMACAHARYA JUST WENT THROUGH THE PLACE WHEN THE FOOD WAS KEPT READY TO FEED THE ELEPHANT . HE JUST ORDERED HIS DISCIPLE WHO WAS THERE " TELL THE MAHOUT NOT TO FEED THE ELEPHANT WITH THIS FOOD . " THEN HE WENT TO HIS PLACE & CALLED FOR THE MUTT MANAGER & TOLD HIM " THE RICE WHICH WAS KEPT THERE TO FEED THE ELEPHANT IS NOT FULLY BOILED PROPERLY . MOREOVER, IT WAS DRIED COMPLETELY & WAS LIKE STICKS. IT SHOULD NOT BE FED LIKE THIS CARELESSLY , BECAUSE IT CAN'T COMPLAIN & SPEAK . KEEP THE MAHOUT INFORMED . THE ELEPHANT MUST BE FED LIKE YOU DO THE NAIVEDHYAM TO THE LORD GANAPATHY ! YOU MUST HAVE THAT MUCH DEVOTION & CARE WHEN YOU FEED THE ELEPHANT ! TELL THEM COOK RICE AGAIN & FEED HIM ! " ALL THE DISCIPLES SIMPLY WONDERED HIS GREAT SYMPATHY TOWARDS A VOICELESS ANIMAL ! ON ANOTHER SUCH OCCASION TOO PERIYAVA GAVE UP HIS WEEKLY KASHTA MOUNAM ! ( COMPLETE SILENCE ) THERE WAS A SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND, IN POONDHAMALLI ! A TEACHER OF THAT SCHOOL CAME TO HAVE DHARSHAN OF PERIYAVA, WHEN HE WAS IN SHIVASTHANAM . HE ...REQUESTED PERIYAVA " I HAVE PLANNED TO BRING THE SCHOOL CHILDREN HERE. THEY ARE BLIND. HENCE, THEY CAN'T SEE PERIYAVA . SO I REQUEST PERIYAVA TO KINDLY SPEAK TO THEM & BLESS THEM TOO . ONLY TO INFORM THIS TO PERIYAVA I HAVE COME HERE TODAY . NEED PERIYAVA S BLESSINGS ! HE LEFT THE PLACE & PERIYAVA TOO JUST HEARED IT . THAT S ALL. NEXT SUNDAY THE TEACHER BROUGHT THE BLIND CHILDREN TO SHIVASTHANAM IN A SPECIAL BUS & KEPT THEM IN A QUEUE FOR THE DHARSHAN OF PERIYAVA . SOME PEOPLE SAID FROM YESTERDAY PERIYAVA OBSERVES KASHTA MOUNAM ! THAT S ALL. HE IMMEDIATELY CRIED ALOUD OH! THESE CHILDREN ARE BLIND ; THEY CAN T SEE PERIYAVA ; THEY WILL FEEL HAPPY ONLY IF PERIAYA SPEAK TO THEM SOME WORDS ATLEAST . WE WOULDN T BOTHER MUCH IF HE DOESN T SPEAK TO US . WE CAN HAVE DHARSHAN & GO . WHAT WILL THESE CHILDREN DO ? FOR THIS PURPOSE ONLY I CAME LAST SUNDAY HERE & BEGGED HIM . NOW , AS FOR THE CHILDREN, I HAVE BECOME A CHEAT ! SO BLABBERING HE STILL CRIED ALOUD LIKE A CHILD . SUDDENLY & UNEXPECTEDLY , PERIYAVA CAME OUT & TOLD THE TEACHER TO STOP CRYING & TOLD THE MUTT PEOPLE TO KEEP A PLANK NEAR THE WELL & SAT DOWN ON IT. HIS SILENCE HAD GONE ! HE CALLED THE CHILDREN ONE BY ONE & INQUIRED ABOUT THE DETAILS OF THEIR PHYSICAL DEFECT , REASON, NATIVITY ETC; & BLESSED THEM ALL. NEARLY ONE HOUR HE SPENT WITH THEM AND GAVE THEM ALL FRUITS , DRY GRAPES & SWEETS!EVERYBODY WAS VERY MUCH SATISFIED BY HIS ANUGRAHA ! THE TEACHER WAS OVERHELMED WITH JOY & CRIED NOW TOO . BUT THIS WAS DUE TO EXTRA-ORDINARY PLEASURE ! EVEN WHEN THE RASHTRAPATHI ( V.V.GIRI ) & THE PM ( INDRA GANDHI ) CAME TO HIM FOR A DHARSHAN , HE DIDN T GIVE UP HIS KASHTA MOUNAM ! BUT, HE DID IT FOR THESE POOR, UNFORTUNATE, BLIND CHILDREN ! SRI MAHA PERIYAVA IS A PERMANENT GNANA DHEEPAM . ( LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE ) WE SHALL ALL PRAY THAT LIGHT TO GUIDE US PERMANENTLY ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! NANGANALLUR ANJANEYAR STONE VAL PERIYAVA ORDER VAL THANE VIZHUNDHADHU PALALAYAM IN WATER, MILK , PADDY GRAINS ! SRI RAMANI ANNA OF NANGANALLUR , CHENNAI PLANNED TO BUILD A TEMPLE FOR A BIG HANUMAN OF 32 FEET HIGH, IN NANGANALLUR... . HE WENT TO SRI KANCHI , MET THE MAHAPERIYAVA & SOUGHT HIS PERMISSION & BLESSINGS. WITH GREAT DIFFICULT, THEY HUNTED FOR THAT MUCH BIG SINGLE STONE & FINALLY THE SCULPTER SELECTED A SUITABLE ONE & BEGAN HIS WORK . ONE FINE MORNING HE FINISHED THE WORK & THE STATUE OF GREAT HANUMAN WAS BROUGHT TO NANGANALLUR & KEPT AT THE PLACE WHERE THE TEMPLE WAS TO BE BUILT . THE PALALAYAM

( BEFORE PRATHISHTA , THE STATUE SHOULD BE KEPT FOR A CERTAIN PERIOD SEPERATELY IN THE WATER , MILK, PADDY GRAINS ETC ) WAS DONE PROPERLY . IN THE MEANTIME , RAMANI ANNA WENT TO SRI KANCHI TO INFORM THE ARRIVAL OF THE MARUTHI AT NANGANALLUR & TO GET FURTHER ADVICES FROM THE MAHAPERIYAVA . LIKE LORD GANESHA , MARUTHI IS ALSO MAHAPERIYAVA S FAVOURITE ONE ! ENTHUSIASTICALLY PERIYAVA INQUIRED ABOUT THE FULL SHAPE OF MARUTHI PART BY PART . RAMANI ANNA TOO EXPLAINED & ANSWERED ALL THE QUESTIONS TO THE SATISFACTION OF PERIYAVA . FINALLY , PERIYAVA ASKED ABOUT THE POSITION OF MARUTHI S TAIL PORTON . RAMANI ANNA REPLIED THE TAIL IS CURVACIOUSLY & BEAUTIFULLY RAISED ABOVE HIS HEAD PERIYAVA ! EXPECTING AN APPRECIATION FROM THE PERIYAVA . BUT, PERIYAVA WAS SILENT FOR SOME MINUTES . RAMANI ANNA FELT A LITTLE UNEASINESS . FINALLY PERIYAVA SAID YOU SAY YOU ARE ALSO GOING TO KEEP SRI RAMA THERE OPPOSITE TO MARUTHI ! MARUTHI NEVER STANDS WITH HIS TAIL RAISED ABOVE IN FRONT OF SRI RAMA ! RAMANI ANNA S WORRY INCREASED CONSIDERABLY . HE ASKED OH! PERIYAVA , WHAT TO DO NOW ? THE STATUE IS COMPLETELY FINISHED & READY ! THE PALALAYAM TOO IS BEGAN . THE MUHOORATH DATE & TIME IS ALSO FIXED . IF WE REMOVE THE TAIL NOW , WE SHOULD AGAIN START THE PALALAYAM & THE KUMBHABHISHEKAM & PRATHISHTA OF MARUTHI CAN T BE DONE IN THE ALREADY FIXED AUSPICIOUS BEST MUHOORTHAM . PERIYAVA ONLY HAS TO SHOW ME A WAY & A SOLUTION FOR THIS ! PERIYAVA SAID COOLLY YOU JUST PROCEED FURTHER WITH YOUR FIXED SCHEDULE . EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT . MARUTHI WILL CO-OPERATE ! & PERIYAVA BLESSED THEM WITH PRASADHAM . RAMANI ANNA CAME BACK TO NANGANALLUR & HE WAS THINKING ABOUT MARYTHI S TAIL ONLY ALL THE TIME . AFTER THE PALALAYAM THEY MADE ALL THE PROPER HOMAM & OTHER RITUALS & BROUGHT A BIG CRANE TO LIFT & KEEP MARUTHI ON THE PEETAM AT THE RIGHT TIME . WHEN EVERY OTHER THINGS WERE OVER , THEY WENT TO MARUTHI TO LIFT . TO THEIR GREAT ASTONISHMENT , THEY FOUND THE TAIL WAS CUT OFF SO EXPERTLY ALREADY AT THE VERY RIGHT PLACE AS IF IT WAS DONE BY A SCULPTOR, WITHOUT ANY FLAW ! AND , ARE THERE WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE STATUS OF THE MIND OF RAMANI ANNA & OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE , TO EXPLAIN ? THEY SIMPLY RAISED THEIR FOLDED HANDS IN THE DIRECTION OF SRI KANCHI WITH TEARS IN THEIR ROLLING DOWN THEIR CHEEKS ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! PAROPAHARARTTHAM IDHAM SHAREERAM ! THIS HUMAN BODY IS GIVEN TO US ONLY TO SERVE OTHERS IN ALL THE WAYS & MEANS . " ON MY HONOUR I PROMISE TO DO MY DUTY TO MY COUNTRY , TO HELP OTHERS AT LL TIMES & TO OBEY THE SCOUT LAW ! " THIS IS THE PROMISE I DID TO MY SCOUT MASTER 56 YEARS AGO IN THE SCHOOL ! I STILL FOLLOW IT TO MY BEST ! I DON'T WANT TO GO IN DETAIL AS IT WOULD TURN INTO A SELF PRAISE EQUIVELONT TO SUICIDE PERIYAVA NEITHER TOUCHED THE FOOD NOR EVEN STOOD THERE A SECOND TO LOOK AT IT . HOW DID HE KNOW THAT MUCH OF FAULT IN THE FOOD ? OH! WOULD HIS SARVAGNATHVAM ( UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE ) BE LET OUT IN THIS WAY THROUGH SUCH SMAAL THINGS TOO !

SRI V. SWMINATHA ATHREYAN TELLS ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE WITH SRI MAHA PERIYAVA ! NOW IN HIS WORDS :IN MADRAS , VIA CATHEDRAL ROAD , ONE FINE EARLY MORNING ( MIGHT BE 1964/65)BEHIND HIS TRICYCLE MAHASWAMIGAL WAS ALONG TOWARDS WEST . WITH HIM... MYSELF , P.G.PAL & CO NEELAKANTA IYER , SREE MATAM SIVARAMA IYER , PANAMPATTU KANNAN , ROYAPURAM BALU WERE ALSO FOLLOWING . MORE BHAKTHAS JOINED ON THE WAY TOO . AT THE CORNER OF GOPALAPURAM , PERIYAVA CALLED ME & SAID SEE ! THERE BEHIND US A FELLOW NEAR THE BUNK SHOP, IS LETTING OUT SMOKE THROUGH HIS NOSTRILS & MOUTH , GO & ASK HIM WHETHER HE KNOWS PAVAKKARAI SROWTHIGAL & COME BACK WITH TH HIS ANSWER . I RAN TO THAT THAT FELLOW WHO LOOKED UGLY 7 WAS TRYING TO LIGHT UP HIS BIDI IN HIS MOUTH FROM THE ROPE HANGING WITH THE FIRE AT THE END . THOUGH I DIDN T LIKE , I WENT NEAR HIM & ASKED HEY ! DO YOU KNOW PARAVAKKARAI SROWTHIGAL ? HE DROPPED THE LIGHTED BIDI & TREMBLED WHO ARE YOU & WHY DO YOU ASK ME ? ACHARYA SWAMY TOLD ME TO ASK YOU ? WHAT ? PERIYAVALA ?

WHERE IS HE ? LOOK THERE I SHOWED HIM . IMMEDIATELY HE RAN VERY FAST IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION . I CAME TO PERIYAVA & SAID I ASKED HIM . BUT HE RAN IN THE OPPSITE DIRECTION THERE ? PERIYAVA DIDN T SAY ANYTHING & WALKED SILENTLY ON THE GOPALAPURAM ROAD . SOMEWHERE THERE , A COMPOUND WAS DECORATED WITH PANDHAL & THORANAM WITH PALM LEAVES & THEY INVITED PERIYAVA WITH POORNA KUMBHAM . INSIDE A BUNGLOW THEY KEPT THE ASANAM AT THE CORNER OF THE FRONT HALL & PERIYAVA SAT THERE . THE BHAKTHAS WHOEVER FOLLOWED SO FAR , BOWED AT HIM & LEFT ONE BY ONE TO ATTEND THEIR OFFICES . PERIYAVA GOT UP & WAS ABOUT TO GET IN , THAT BIDI FELLOW CAME THERE WITH VIBHOOTHI APPLIED ON HIS CHEST , FOREHEAD & HANDS, HIGHLY DISORDERLY 7 HIS TOWEL AT HIS WAIST . HE FELL AT PERIYAVA S FEET LIKE A STICK . PERIYAVA SAT DOWN AGAIN . I SAID PERIYAVA TOLD ME TO ASK HIM ABOUT PARAVAKKARAI SROWTHIGAL ! YES ! IAM PARAVAKKARAI SROWTHIGAL S GRANDSON . MY NAME IS PRANATHARTHI . DON T SAY PRANATHARTHI . THAT S SWAMY S NAME . SAY EITHER PRATHARTHIHARAN OR HARAN . EAWMY WILL REMOVE ALL THE PEEDAIS ( SINS ) WHOEVER DOES NAMASKARAM TO HIM . THAT S WHY THAT NAME ! EVERYBODY CALLS ME PRANATHARTHI ONLY . I AM ACCUSTOMED TO THAT . THAT S WHY YOU ARE LIKE THIS ! DID YOU DOD ADHYYANAM ? THATTHA TAUGHT ME SAMAM & ALL . TELL ME A SAMAM. PERIYAVA REFERED TO A FAMOUS SAMAM SAID BY ALL . HE SAID ABOUT 2 OR 3 LINES IN A SWEET BUT MAJESTIC TONE APT FOR THAT PURPOSE . I FORGOT THE REST DO YOU HAVE BROTHERS ? TWO ELDER BROTHERS STUDIED ENGLISH EDUCATION & EMPLOYED SOMEWHERE . THATTHA TAUGHT ME SAMAM , BECAUSE I SAID IT WELL . BUT I DIDN T LIKE IT & RAN AWAY FROM HOME ! WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW ? I AM HELPING THE POLICE WHAT , ARE YOU HELPING THE POLICE ? WHAT SORT OF HELP ? THEY WOULD TAKE ME TO THE COURT & TELL ME TO BE A WITNESS IN THE CASE & THEY WOULD PAY ME FOR THAT . HOW DID YOU CATCH THIS SMOKING HABIT ? WHEN THEY BUY IN BUNDLES , WOULD GIVE ME TOO , 2 OR 3. IN THE COURT WILL YOU TELL WHAT YOU SAW ONLY ? I SAW NOTHING EVER . THEY TEACH ME & I REPEAT IT AS IT IS . THE LAWYERS WOULD CROSS QUESTION YOU AS THEY LIKE ? YES ! THAT S WHY THE POLICE WILL TAKE ME TO THE MURDERED PLACE & TEACH ME THE MURDER WAS DONE HERE & YOU WERE STANDING HERE & SAW THAT , THERE WAS A BIG CROWD TOO , THE MURDER EAN TOWARDS THE EAST WITH THE ARUVAL IN HIS HAND & THE BLOOD WAS DRIPPING FROM IT I AM WELL VERSED IN THIS & WOULD REPLY VERY WISELY . A FEW TIMES I BLABBERED & WAS BEATEN BY THE POLICE BRUTALLY . WHEN YOU GO TO THE COURT , DO YOU WEAR SHIRT & ALL ? NO NO ! THE POLICE COMPELLS ME TO GO WITH VIBHOOTHI ALLOVER , WITH THE SACRED THREAD WASHED WITE AS MILK BY THE SOAP , & THE TOWEL AT THE WAIST . ISN T IT SIN TO SAY WITNESS BOGUSLY ? YES! SIN ONLY . I AM FULLY AWARE OF IT . BUT THERE IS NO OTHER GO FOR ME . IS IT ? I SHALL SHOW YOU A WAY . WILL YOU DO IT ? TELL ME PERIYAVA THER IS KAPALI TEMPLE IN MYLAPORE . DAILY IN THE EVENING GO TO THE WESTERN GOPURAM THERE, CLEAN THE ENTRANCE & SPRINKLE WATER . I WILL TELL THEM TO GIVE YOU Rs. TEN DAILY WITH MEALS IN THE AFTERNOON . THE KOIL UNDAIKKATTI (PRASADHAM) WON T GO FOR ME . OK ! NO PRASADHAM . I WILL ARRANGE MEALS DAILY AT ONE HOME ON WEEKLY BASIS . FOR NIGHT MEALS USE THE TEN RUPEES . ALL THAT WON T WORK OUT WAIT ! DON T BE IN A HURRY . BE IHERE IN THE MUTT FOR TWO DAYS . SEE THE CHANDRAMOWLEESWARA POOJA . I WILL TELL THEM TO GIVE YOU MEALS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE POOJA IS OVER . THINK OVER WELL & TELL ME ! IT ISN T POSSIBLE TODAY . THERE IS A BIG CASE IN THE EGMORE COURT . IF I DON T GO THEY WILL BREAK MY VERTEBRAL COLUMN . HE JUST LEFT IMMEDIATELY . MAHA PERIYAVA WAS LOOKING AT HIM TILL HE WENT OUT OF THE COMPOUND & THE WENT INSIDE . MYSELF & NEELAKANTA IYER FOLLOWED HIM . PERIYAVA TURNED BACK & LOOKED AT US . NEELAKANTA IYER SLOWLY BEGAN TO SPEAK HE DIDN T LISTEN INSPITE OF PERIYAV S SO MUCH ADVICE ? LEAVE ALONE HIM ! THE POLICE HAVE TAUGHT THE PEOPLE A PROFESSION OF BOGUS WITNESS ? NEELA KANTA IYER EXPLAINED WHAT WILL THE POLICE DO ? A MURDER IS DONE IN THE BROAD DAY LIGHT IN THE PRESENCE OF THE PEOPLE . IT IS WELL KNOWN CLEARLY WFO DID IT . BUT WHO WILL GO TO THE COURT TO BE A WITNESS ? EVERYBODY HAS HIS OWN WORK & WORRY . THE LAWYERS IN THE COURT WILL FINISH THEM WITH UNWANTED QUESTIONS 7 THEY CAN T ESCAPE TOO . SO , THE THE TRUE EYE WITNESSES WON T COME

FOREWARD . EVEN IF THE MURDER ACCEPTS HIS CRIME , THEY WILL DISMISS THE CASE IF IT IS NOT PROVED WITH RIGHT WITNESSES . FURTHER THEY WILL COMPLAIN THAT THE POLICE HAVE NOT CONDUCTED THE CASE PROPERLY . AS THERE IS NO OTHER GO , THE POLICE HAS TO PREPARE THE WITNESSES BOGUSLY MURDER IS AN ATROCITY . THE NEXT ATROCITY IS THAT THE REAL EYE WITNESSES DON T SAY THAT IN THE COURT . THIRD ONE IS , THAT THE PEOPLE WHO HAVEN T SEEN THAT SAY BOGUS WITNESS . YOU ARGUE LIKE JUSTIFYING ALL THESE ATROCITIES . FORGIVE ME PERIYAVA . I JUST SAID WHAT HAPPENS IN THE WORLD . AND, THE GREATEST WORRY IS , THAT ALL THESE ARE DONE CENTRALISING THE BRAHMIN CHARACTER . THE POLICE HAVE A FAITH THAT , EVEN IF A BRAHMIN TELLS A BOGUS WITNESS , THE COURT WILL BELIEVE IT ! LEAVE ALONE ALL THAT . THE GRANDSON OF THE SROWTHIGAL IS SPOILED LIKE THIS ? HE DOESN T EVEN LISTEN TO THE ADVICE OF PERIYAVA ? WHAT WILL HE DO ? HE SAYS THAT IF HE REFUSES TO GO TO THE COURT , THE POLICE WOULD BEAT HIM . IT SEEMS THAT PERIYAVA IS TOO MUCH WORRIED ! WHAT CAN WE ALL DO ? THE SHASTHRA SAYS THAT A SANYSIN SHOULDN T GIVE PLACE FOR THE FEELINGS OF PLEASURES & SADNESS ! Do you know ? SO SAYING HE WENT IN . I WAS SLEEPING IN THE VERANDAH NEXT TO THE POOJA ROOM . AROUND 3 OCLOCK . DUE TO A CALL IN THE TOP OF VOICE RAMA , I WOKE UP . THE VERY ORTHODAX MELUR MAMA RAMACHANDRA IYER WHO WAS DOING ALL THE KAINKARYAMS TO PERIAYAVA S POOJA , WITHOUT EVEN A SMALL MISTAKE . ALL OTHERS WERE AFRAID OF HIM . EVEN AFTER THE POOJA MURTIES WERE KEPT IN THE IRON SAFE & LOCKED , HE WOULD REMAIN THERE AS A GUARD TO THEM . HE ONLY CAME OUT WITH A BIG BRASS VESSEL FROM THE POOJA ROOM & CALLED ME . DID YOU COME ALONG WITH PERIYAVA THIS MORNING ? YES ! I HAD WHAT HAPPENED THERE ? NOTHING SOMETHING MUST HAVE AHAPPENED . PERIYAVA DIDN T DO POOJA TODAY ! THEN I TOLD HIM ABOUT THE PARAVAKKARAI SROWTHIGALS GRANSON, EVERYTHING IN DETAIL . HE BEAT ON HIS FOREHEAD & MOVED AWAY . BY THE TIME , PERIYAVA CAME TO THE SIDE OF THE PANDHAL . I BOWED . WHAT DID MELUR MAMA SAY TO YOU ? HE DIDN T EAT TODAY . DID YOU ASK HIM ABOUT IT ? WHEN PERIYAVA DOES CHANDRAMOULEESWARA POOJA , IT WOULD BE A FEAST TO TO OUR EYES . WE WOULD FEEL OURSELVES ELEVATED TO AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PLANE . A TEENAGE BRAHMIN BOY USED TO BRING THE FRESH BILVA LEAVES IN BIG BASKETFUL DAILY FOR PERI...YAVA S POOJA & WOULD LEAVE IMMEDIATELY . THIS WAS GOING ON FOR MANY DAYS . ONE DAY PERIYAVA WAS IJUST IN TIME WHEN HE KEPT THE VILVA LEAF BASKET ALONG WITH THE OTHER POOJA ITEMS . HE FELL AT HIS FEET & STOOD UP WITH THE FOLDED PALMS . PERIAYAVA LOOKED AT WITH GREAT AMOUNT OF KARUNA & ASKED HIM DO YOU BRING THE BASKETFUL OF BILVA LEAVES HERE DAILY ? HE REPLIED WITH TEARS IN HIS EYES YES ! PERIYAVA ! PERIYAVA WAS JUST SEEING HIM WITH INTENCE LOVE & OVERFLOWING KARUNA MY DEAR CHILD ! WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME ? SOME OTHER PEOPLE INCLUDING THE MUTT SERVANTS WERE SILENTLY LOOKING AT THIS HIGH LY DIVINE DRAMA ! THEY WERE ALL EXPECTING SOME UNUSUAL THING TO HAPPEN THERE & THEY ALL REMAINED SILENT SPECTATORS ! THE BOY WAS TRYING HIS BEST TO CONTROL HIMSELF & SAID IN A VERY POLITE & HUMBLE VOICE I WANT MOKSHAM ( ETERNITY ) ONLY PERIYAVA ! EVERYBODY ELSE WERE STARTLED AT THIS REQUEST FROM THIS TEEN WHO HAS NOT EVEN ENJOYED ANY PLEASURE OF THE HUMAN LIFE AT ALL ! TEARS KEPT ON ROLLING DOWN HIS CHEEKS . MAHA PERIYAVA WAS STILL LOOKING AT HIM STRAIGHT INTO HIS EYES . SLOWLY HIS HAND RAISED & BLESSED THE BOY . HE AT ONCE , UNDERSTANDING SOMETHING FROM THIS , AGAIN DID A SASHTANGA ANAMASKARAM & LEFT WITHOUT A WORD . BUT HIS BILVA LEAVES CONTINUED . ONE FINE MORNING , PERIYAVA STARTED IN THE EARLY MORNING & WENT TO THE NEARBY TANK TO HAVE BATH . MANY PEOPLE & THE MUTT SERVANTS TOO FOLLOWED HIM QUICKLY . PERIYAVA STOOD AT THE BANK OF THE TANK FOR SOMETIME SILENTLY . THEN HE TURNED HIS FACE TO A MUTT SERVANT & SAID BRING DHARPAI FROM THE MUTT ! HE IMMEDIATELY RAN TO THE MUTT & CAME BACK QUICKLY WITH DHARPAI & HANDED OVER IT TO PERIYAVA . HE STEPPED INTO THE TANK HOLDING THE DHARPAI & KEPT CHANTING SOMETHING LOOKING AT THE SKY & HELD THE WATER IN BOTH HIS PALMS & OFFERED IT THROUGH HIS FINGERS ! THE PEOPLE STANDING AT THE BANK WERE SIMPLY STANDING THERE LIKE DOLLS . AFTER SOME MINUTES , PERIYAVA FINISHED WITH HIS UNUSUAL & STRANGE ACTION & HAD A BATH CALMLY & RETURNED BACK TO THE MUTT SILENTLY .

FROM THAT DAY ONWARDS THE BILVA LEAVES BASKET WAS MISSING IN THE POOJA ITEMS ! THEN THE MUTT PEOPLE CAME TO KNOW THAT THE BOY LEFT AT THE SAME TIME WHEN PERIYAVA STEPPED DOWN THE TANK ! WHAT A PUNYATHMA HE WAS TO BE HONOURED WITH THE ETERNITY BY THE JAGATH GURU HIMSELF ! WHAT A GREAT DUTYFUL KARUNAMOORTHY OUR RESPECTFUL MAHAPERIYAVA IS, TO KEEP UP HIS PROMISE TO A TEEN BOY ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! SEEMABATTAR KANCHI , SHARES HIS EXPERIENCES WITH PERIYAVA ! :WITH SRI MUKKOR LAKSHMI NRUSMHACHARIYAR S EFFORT , THE ASHTALAKSHMI TEMPLE WAS BEING BUILT & WAS IN ITS FINAL STAGE . HE CAME TO HAVE PERIYAVA S BLESSING & TOLD HIM ABOUT ...THE TEMPLE . PERIAYAVA ASKED HIM WHETHER THE VIGRAHA OF THE PERUMAL WAS ESTABLISHED THERE ! HE SAID NO. PERIYAVA ORDERED HIM TO MAKE ONE IMMEDIATELY . AFTER IT WAS DONE , MUKKOR CARRIED IT TO SHOW IT TO PERIYAVA . AT THAT THE TIME THE HIGH COURT JUDGE KAILASAM & HIS WIFE SOUNDHARA KAILASAM WERE THERE ! SUDDENLY PERIYAVA POINTED TO THEM & SAID NEXT WEEK HE IS GOING TO THE JUDGE IN THE SUPREME COURT ! & TOLD THEM TO LOOK AT THE PERUMAL VIGRAHA FULLY . THEY DID SO & ONLY TOOK PERIYAVA S WORDS AS A BLESSING & DIDN T GIVE MUCH IMPORTANCE TO IT . NEXT WEEK , THE NEWS OF JUDGE KAILASAM S APPOINTMENT AS SUPREME COURT JUDGE CAME OUT . SOUNDHARA KAILASAM VERY GLADLY SAID ABOUT PERIYAVA S GNANA DHRUSHTI , TO ALL . AND, THE PERUMAL VIGRAHA TOO TOOK ITS PLACE IN THE ASHTALAKSHMI TEMPLE . ONCE , IN THE ANAIKATTI STREET OF CHINNA KANCHI MUTT , PERIYAVA WAS CMPING . THE FAMOUS MUSICIAN M.S. SUBBULAKASHMI , STAYED IN A HOUISE OF NEARBY REDDY STREET TO HAVE THE DHARSHN OF PERIYAVA DAILY . ONE DAY , SHE WAS SINGING CELESTIALLY FOR PERIYAVA TO HEAR . PERIYAVA WAS INSIDE THE MUTT . SUDDENLY PERIYAVA CAME THERE FROM HIS ROOM & TOLD M.S.S. TO STOP SINGING & ORDERED ALL THE AUDIENCE TO MOVE OUT . THEN, PERIYAVA ORDERED THE MUTT PEOPLE TO WASH OUT THE PLACE WITH THE WATER MIXED WITH THE COW DUNG . NOBODY COULD UNDERSTAND THE REASON FOR ALL THIS . AFTER THAT PERIYAVA HIMSELF EXPLAINED THE REASON . A PERSON KARMA BRASHTAN WAS ONE AMONG THE AUDIENCE WHEN M.S.S. WAS SINGING . HE DIDN T DO ANY PROPER KARMA TO HIS MOTHER . SO THAT PLACE BECAME DIRTY DUE TO HIS SIN . THAT S WHY I ORDERED TO CLEAN THE PLACE WITH THE COW DUNG WATER WHERE HE WAS SITTING . THEN, WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE NAME OF THE PERSON , THEY CAME TO KNOW THAT IT WAS A CINE DIRECTOR . EVERYBODY WONDERED ABOUT HIS GNANA DHRUSHTI ! ONCE , AT THE CHINN AKANCHI MUTT , A FAMILY FROM MADRAS CAME THEIR TO HAVE HIS DHARSHAN . THEY KEPT ALL THE JEWELLS THEY BOUGHT FOR THEIR DAUGHTER S MARRIAGE & CAME INTO THE MUTT . SUDDENLY PERIYAVA SAID ENOUGH OF MY DHARSHAN ! START IMMEDIATELY ! THEY JUST BLINKED NOT KNOWING THE REASON & CAM OUT TO THEIR CAR . THEN THEY FOUND THAT ALL THE JEWELLS WERE STOLEN . AGAIN THEY CAME IN & TOLD THE PERIYAVA ABOUT THE THEFT WITH SADNESS . PERIYAVA SAID THE THIEF WHO STOLE THEM IS AT THE BUS STAND , RUSH UP THERE , CATCH HOLD OF HIM & GET BACK YOUR JEWELLS ! THEY HURRIED TO THE BUS STAND & CAUGHT HOLD OF HIM & GOT BACK THEIR JEWELLS . THEY AGAIN CAME BACK HAPPILY TO PERIYAVA & BRIEFED ABOUT THE RECOVERY OF THE JWELLS & LEFT . ONCE , A GROUP OF BRAHMINS MORE THAN FORTY IN NUMBER , CAME FROM VANNIYA TENAMPET MADRAS , TO HAVE HIS DHARSHAN & TO SEEK REMEDY FOR THEIR DIFFICULTY . AFTER THEY ALL DID NAMASKARAM TO PERIYAVA THEY SAID PERIYAVA ! IN OUR AREA , IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO COME OUT OF OUR HOUSES , BECAUSE SOME NASTHIKAS ( RATIONALISTS ) MAKE NASTY COMMENTS ABOUT THEIR TUFFTS , SACRED THREAD & THE THIRUMAN ( NAMAM ON THEIR FOREHEADS ) ! SO , WE ARE UNABLE TO LIVE & GO OUT OF THEIR HOUSES WITH RESPECT ! PERIYAVA ASKED THEM DO YOU DO GAYATHRI MANTHRA JAPAM DAILY ? THERE WAS AN UNEASY SILENCE PREVAILED . ALL OF YOU DO THE GAYATHRI JAPAM REGULARLY . EVERYTHING WILL BECOME ALRIGHT ! THEN THEY WERE DOING SO & WITHIN 2 MONTHS THE ENTIRE SITUATION IN THAT AREA CHANGED TO THEIR SURPRISE . THEY AGAIN CAME TO PERIYAVA & INFORMED THIS GLADLY . PERIYAVA TOLD THEM ALL BECAUSE YOU LEFT THE GAYATHRI MANTHRA JAPAM ! AND, BY THIS INCIDENCE , HE

MADE EVERYBODY TO REALISE THE ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF THE POWER OF THE GAYATHRI MANTHRA ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SNKARA ! Mrs. GITHA MOHAN SHARES HER EXPERIENCE :- THE GREAT MAHARSHIS OF THIRUCHUZHI & SRIKANCHI ! LOVING , BREATHING & GRUKAINKAYAM ; THESE WERE THE ONLY DEVOTIONS OF THE FAMILY OF KADALUR SIVANANDAPURAM , MIRAZDAR MANI . HIS SON WAS SESHAIYA...R . WHENEVER MAHA PERIYAVA CAMPED , HE STOOD FIRST WITH TOO MUCH OF DEVOTION & INTEREST, TO DO THE NECESSARY ARRANGEMENTS . HENCE, HE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MOVE CLOSELY WITH PERIYAVA . BUT, HE FELT DEEP AT HEART VERY SAD THAT HE HAD ISSUES . ONE DAY , WHEN HE SHARED THIS SADNESS WITH PERIYAVA , HE SAID SESHA ! VBECAUSE , YOU HAVE COME FROM A FAMILY GOD S DEVOTEES , THE BAGAVAN HAS GIVEN YOU A CHANCE . AS PER YOUR FATE , YOU ARE A WEALTHY ONE NOW . YOU CAN DECIDE NOW ; WHETHER YOU WANT DHANA SAMPATH OR PUTHRA SAMPATH . IF YOU PRAY THE LORD DEEP AT HEART , YOU WILL GET PLENTY OF WHAT YOU WANT . ON THE WAY BACK , HE WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS VERY STRONGLY & FINALLY DECIDED THAT HE SHOULD GET A SON CERTAINLY ! HE ALSO HAD THE OPPORTUNITY OF MOVING CLOSELY WITH RAMANA NAHARSHI & HE WENT THERE TO MEET HIM TOO REGARDING HIS DECISION . WHEN HE MET HIM AT TIRUVANNAMALAI , THE MAHARSHI SAID LAUGHINGLY WHAT SESHA ! IS THE WORRY OF NO ISSUES, TROUBLING YOU TOO MUCH ? HAVE YOU DECIDED THE PUTHRA SAMPATH AS THE ONLY SAMPATH ? OK, OK ! YOU WILL GET IT IN ABUNDANCE ! GIVE DHANAM OF THE COCOUNUT FULL OF OIL WITH VICKS IN IT ! THE GOD WILL LOOK AFTER THE REST ! SO HE WAS FULLY SATISFIED WITH THE BLESSINGS OF BOTH THE MAHARSHIS & FORGOT HIS WORRIES FOR A WHILE & NOW BEGAN TO WORRY ABOUT HIS YOUNGER BROTHER WHO WAS LIVING LIKE A SANYASIN IN THE DEVOTION OF GOD & WITHOUT ANY AFFECTION IN THE FAMILY . THINKING THAT HE WILL BECOME A FAMILY MAN ONCE HE GETS MARRIED , SESHAN FIXED THE DAUGHTER NEELAMBAL - OF HIS DISTANT RELATIVE VILLUPURAM THASHILDAR RAMASWAMY IYER ! BUT SESHAN S BROTHER , WITH A FIRM MIND TO CONTINUE HIS DEVOTION TO GOD AS A SANYASIN , ABSCONDED JUST A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE MARRIAGE . IN THOSE DAYS , IF THE FIXED MARRIAGE STOPS SUDDENLY, THEN THE CONCERNED GIRL WILL HAVE TO MISS HER LIFE ONCE & FOR ALL . THE GIRL S SIDE PEOPLE WERE WORRIED SO MUCH . THE FATHER OF THE GIRL , WEPT WITH FOLDED PALMS IN FRONT OF SESHAN & BEGGED HIM TO MARRY THAT BRIDE , AS SESHAN TOO HAS NO ISSUES & TO GIVE LIFE TO HIS DAUGHTER . AND , ALL THE OTHERS TOO FELT SO & COMPELLED HIM SAYING THAT IT WAS THE ONLY REMEDY, HE OBTAINED THE CONSENT OF HIS FIRST WIFE & MARRIED THAT GIRL . FOR ABOUT A COUPLE OF YEARS THER WAS NO SIGN OF ANY ISSUE TO HER TOO . AT THAT TIME , PERIYAVA CAME TO SIVANANDHAPURAM & CAMPED THERE . AS USUAL , SESHAN MADE ALL THE ARRANGEMENTS & CAME TO PERIYAVA FOR BLESSING . PERIYAVA GAVE A FRUIT TO HIM & SAID GIVE THIS TO YOUR 2ND WIFE 7 MOVED ON . THE FIRST WIFE JUST FELT SAD FOR NOT BLESSED BY HIM . AFTER SOME STEPS FORWARD , PERIYAVA TURNED BACK & CALLED HER & GAVE HER A BLOUSE BIT WITH FLOWER & KUNKUM & SAID DON T WORRY ! THOUGH SHE WILL BEAR ( THE CHILDREN ) , THE LAP ( FOR THEM ) WILL BE YOURS ! SINCE THE NAME OF HIS FIRST WIFE WAS MAHALAKSHMI , SESHAN NAMED HIS 2ND WIFE AS RAJALAKSHMI . TEN CHILDREN WERE BORN TO RAJALAKSHMI & AS PER THE CAUTION OF SRI PERIYAVA , WITH THE BIRTH OF REACH CHILD , THE WEALTH BEGAN REDUCE THEY BECAME VERY POOR . BUT , DUE TO THE PUNYA PALAN OF THEIR ELDERS IN PAST , BY & BY ALL THE CHILDREN SETTLED VERY WELL IN LIFE, MUCH MORE THAN EXPECTED . ALL OF THEM WERE BROUGHT UP WELL BY THE FIRST WIFE MAHALAKSHMI WITH GREAT PAIN & CARE . THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE MYSELF IS THEIR TENTH CHILD ! -- PERIYAVA SEES NOT ONLY THE PAST BUT FORESEES SEVERAL FUTURE DECADES TOO ! WHO CAN UNDERSTAND HIS SUPER POWER OTHER THAN THE SUPER MOST POWER MATHA BHUVANESWARI ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA SANKARA ! IN THE ROYAL PATH OF OUR GREAT PARAMACHARYA ! OM SREE GURUBHYO NAMA : BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI ;-

ONCE , A DEVOTEE CAME TO PERIYAVA WITH A VERY SAD FACE . PERIYAVA SIMPLY LOOKED AT HIM & SAID MMM ! SOLLU ! IMMEDIATELY THAT DEVOTEE FELL AT HIS FEET WITH TEARS ROLLING DOWN JIS CHEEKS . HE GOT UP & SAID , PERIYAVA ! I AM AN AMBAL BHAKTHA ! AND , DOING REGULAR POOJAS TO HER PROPERLY . BUT, INSPITE OF ALL MY SINCERE POOJA , SHE IS PUNISHING ME CRUELLY ! PERIYAVA ! PERIYAVA OH ! YOU ARE DOING AMBAL POOJA ? AND SHE PUNISHES YOU CRUELLY ? TELL ME FROM THE BEGINNING HOW YOU DO POOJA DAILY , INCLUDING THE SLOKAS, MANTHRAS, ARCCHANAS TILL THE END ie ; INCLUDING YOUR FINAL PRAYER TO HER ! HE STARTED FROM THE SHUKLAMBAARADHARAM . ! AND FINALLY HE STOPPED AFTER HIS FINAL PRAYER TO AMBAL . PERIYAVA TOLD HIM NOW REPEAT THAT FINAL PRAYER AGAIN ! HE REPEATED IT ! PERIYAVA SAID SMILINGLY WHERE DID YOU LEARN THIS FROM ? NOBODY TAUGHT ME PERIYAVA ! I LEARNT THEM ALL FROM THE BOOK ONLY ! AND REFERRED A BOOK S NAME PUBLISHED BY A COMPANY . MMM ! NOTHING WRONG WITH AMBAL S ACTIONS ! WHAT YOU REQUEST HER DAILY IN YOUR FINAL PRAYER , SHE IS DOING ! YES ! YOU ARE DAILY PRAYING HER MAMA PATHNIM BHAKSHA ! AND , SHE IS DOING THE SAME ! SO FAR HOW MANY TIMES DID YOU MARRY ? 4 TIMES PERIYAVA ! ALL THE FOUR HAD PASSED AWAY ! WHAT WILL AMBAL DO IF YOU KEEP PRAYING HER TO EAT YOUR PAHNI ? IT OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN MAMA PATHNIM RAKSHA ! A SIMPLE SPELLING MISTAKE HAS COST YOU 4 WIVES ! THAT S WHY SUCH POOJAS MUST BE TAKEN FROM A RIGHT PERSON LIKE YOUR REGULAR SHASTRY OR FROM SOME SRI VIDHYA UPASAKA ! OK ! NOW GO TO KAMAKSHI TEMPLE & PERFORM AN ARCHANA & GO HOME STRAIGHT ! HERE AFTER EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT ! HE GAVE HIM PRASADHAM & THE DEVOTEE AGAIN DID A SAHTANGA NAMASKARAM & WENT OUT WITH A CLEAR FACE & SATISFACTION . I TOO SEE A PARTICULAR LINE IN LAKSHMI ASHTOTTHARAM . SOMEHOW I DON T LIKE IT & CAHANGE IT WHEREEVER I NOTICE IT . OM KSHEERODHA SAMBHAVAYI NAMA : ! THIS IS PRINTED IN MANY BOOKS AS KRODHA SAMBHAVAYAI NAMA : ! SRI LAKSHMI EMERGED FROM THE OCEAN OF MILK WHEN IT WAS STIRRED BY THE DEVAS & ASURS TO GET THE NECTAR ! SO KSHEERODHA SAMBHAVAYAI NAMA : SEEMS TO BE ALRIGHT ! IF I AM WRONG , I REQUEST SOME ONE TO CORRECT ME , PLEASE ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA !

IN THE ROYAL PATH OF OUR GREAT PARAMACHARYA ! OM SREE GURUBHYO NAMA : BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI ;THE HINDU RELIGION CELEBRATES THE GURU TO THE EXTREME LEVEL . THER WAS A RUSHI NAMELY AYO...THA DHOUMYA . HE RAN A VEDHA PATASALA & TAUGHT VEDHA TO THE STUDENTS . THE SON OF VYAGRAPADHA WAS A HIS STUDENT . IN THE SCHOOL OF THE VEDHAS , THERE WAS NO PARTIALITY BETWEEN A KIN S SON & A POOR MAN S SON . ALL WERE TREATED EQUALLY ALIKE . THERE WILL BE MANY ACID TESTS FOR THE STUDENTS ; LIKE THE GOLD IS THROWN INTO THE FIRE BY THE GOLDSMITH . ONLY THE GOLD WILL GLITTER ; THE VAX LIKE ARAK ( IN THE ORNAMENT ) WOULD BE BURNT IN IT ; LIKEWISE , THE UNWANTED BAD QUALITIES WILL BE ERASED BY THE ACID TESTS . IN THE ASHRAMS ( GURUKUL ) THE DISCIPLE S DUTIES ARE ; SHOULD TAKET HE CATTLES OUT TO THE GROUNDS TO EAT THE GRASS ; SHOULD WASH THE CLOTHES OF THE GURU & HIS WIFE ; SHOULD CLEAN THE ASHRAM ; AND, SUDDENLY THEY MAY HAVE THE GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO BE TAUGHT THE MOST WONDERFUL SLOKAS FROM THE VEDHAS , TOO BY THE GURU VIGOROUSLY ! THE GURU DHOUMYA THOUGHT THAT UPAMNYU WAS SOMETHING SPECIAL ; BUT HOW TO FIND IT OUT ? HE TESTED HIM . DIDN T FEED HIM FOR ONE WEEK ; THE GURU PATHNI IS EQUIVALENT TO MOTHER ; SHE WEPT SECRETLY . BUT, UPAMANYU S BODY DIDN T SUFFER . SO DHOUMYA INQUIRED HIM ; HE SAID HE ACCEPTED THE ALMS FROM THE VILLAGE PEOPLE . THE GURU SAID YOU HAVE GOT ME A BAD NAME . WONT THEY THINK THAT YOU ARE TREATED CRUELLY HERE ? UPAMANYU STOPPED THE BHIKSHA . BUT EVEN THEN HIS BODY DIDN T LOST ITS TEJAS . AGAIN HE WAS INQUIRED . HE REPLIED SOME COWS PRODUCE MORE MILK EVEN AFTER THE CALF DRINKS FULLY . THEN I DRINK THE LEFT OVER MILK FROM THEM ! THE GURU SAID THAT S WRONG ! UPAMANYU STOPPED DRINKING THE MILK TOO . BUT HE DIDN T THINK WHY THIS GURU IS TREATING ME ALONE CRUEALLY ? HE ASSUMED THAT THERE SHOULD BE SOME STRONG REASON BEHIND IT .

WHEN HE COULDN T BEAR HIS HUNGER , HE ATE SOME POISONOUS FRUIT UNKNOWINGLY & LOST HIS VISHION TOO . IN THE NIGHT , WHEN THE GURU TAUGHT THE UPANISHAD TO THE OTHER STUDENTS , UPAMANYU WAS MISSING . WHEN HE INQUIRED ABOUT HIM , HE WAS REPLIED THAT THE COWS RETURNED WITHOUT HIM . HE IMMEDIATELY WENT OUT TO THE FOREST WITH A TORCH OF FIRE SHOUTING UPAMANYU .. UPAMANYU . AT A PARTICULAR PLACE HE HEARED HIS REPLY SWAMI ! I AM HERE IN THIS NEARBY WELL ! THE GURU ASKED HIM COULDN T YOU SEE A WELL HERE ? YES SWAMI ! IN THE AFTERNOON I ATE SOME FRUIT . THEN BY & BY I LOST THE VISION THE GURU IMMEDIATELY TAUGHT HIM THE ASWINI MANTHRA THERE & THEN . HE WAS HANGING BY HOLDING A SMALL PEEPUL TREE FROM THE WALL OF THE WELL . HE BEGAN CHANTING THAT ASWINI ( THE DIVINE TWIN DOCTORS ) MANTHRA WHILE HANGING . THE ASWINI DEVAS CAME & APPLIED SOMETHING IN HIS EYES ! NOW HIS VISION BECAME BRIGHTER . THEY OFFERED HIM SOMETHING IN A GOLDEN PLATE TO EAT . HE REFUSED TO EAT & SAID I SHALL EAT IT, ONLY IF MY GURU PERMITS ME ! THE GURU PERMITTED HIM & SAID IN HIS SWEET TONE DEAR UPAMANYU ! EAT IT ! THEN HE ATE IT . DHOUMYA PRAISED HIS GURUBHAKTHI & BLESSED HIM . THE GURU PATHNI ASKED HIM YOU COULD HAVE EASILY GOT HIM THE VISION BACK . WHY TO TEACH HIM THE ASWINI MANTHRA WHILE HE WAS HANGING IN THE WELL TO CHANT TO GET BACK THE VISION ALRIGHT ; LIKE TOUCHING THE NOSE IN THE ROUND ABOUT WAY ? WHAT HAVE FOUND BY THIS ACID TEST ? THE GURU SAID PROUDLY I FOUND OUT THE VERY RIGHT HEIR TO TEACH THE VEDHAS ! IF I HAD CHANTED THE DHANVANTHRI ( ASWINI ) MANTHRA STRAIGHT AWAY , HE WOULD HAVE GOT BACK HIS VISHION ALONE . BY THE TOUCH OF THE ASWINI DEVAS , NOW UPAMANYU HAS OBTAINED THE POWER OF KNOWING THE PAST , PRESENT & THE FUTURE &TEACH , THROUGH HIS GNANAP PARVAI ! ( THE EYE OF WISDOM ) . THE PEOPLE SHOULD BELIEVE THAT , IF THEY KEEP ON DOING THERE DUTY , THE GOD WILL MAKE THEM TO UNDERSTAND THE REASONS IN FUTURE ! THE PEOPLE SHOULD LEARN TO DO THEIR DUTY ALONE WITH A BELIEF THAT ALL FOR GOOD ! GURUR BHRAMMA ; GURUR VISHNU ; GURUR DHEVO MAHESWARA : ! GURUSSAKSHATH PARAPRAHMMA THASMAI SRI GURAVE NAMA : !! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! OM SRI GURUBHYO NAMA : BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI ;THE ELEVATED POOR STONE ! Recently a devotee grumbled to me The deity will be respected, only when He remains in the temple . In ou...r village , He is visiting the houses of the people who donated , who served in the temple etc; Is this alright for the people to do like this just for the sake of money ? The Ganges comes in double up to help all sorts of the people . On its way a person washes his dirty hand . Will she go back because of it ? To visit the donated rich man s house , the deity has to go via how many streets ? How many old people will gladly have the free dharshan ? The festival of the temple is the one performed by the joint effort of the local people . Will the face of the deity be seen clearly , if one side of the oil lamp alone is lit ? The discourse is done by one Pouranika only . But , he will have interest , only if there are plenty to listen & to clap at the right places. Even , if we accept your complaint, for just an argument sake , who is ready to spend for a noble cause ? The punyathmas who performed the Lakshmi pooja to Her entire satisfaction , in their previous birth alone , are born as rich ones now . Even only a few of them only , have interest in doing the charities . In those good old days , the people used to live near the wells & tanks only , to avoid the water scarcity . residing in the streets between the temple & the donor , itself is great punya ! Though he spends proudly to get a name , how many true devotees are waiting on the way to have the dharshan of the deity ? The king was building the Big ( Brahadeeswara temple ) temple at Tanjore city . Plenty of sculptors from all the directions arrived & working there . An old woman was helping them all by supplying the buttermilk . One day that woman told the chief sculptor I have a stone . Will you please take it from me as my small donation to build this great temple ? He told hr to bring it & kept it with him to use at the right time & place . That stone was used by the old woman to grind the medicines & herbs , for a long

time . so , it was so smooth as silk . The chief sculptor sculpted It into a cone shape & fixed it on top of the sanctum sanctorum . It fitted in there exactly . The auspicious date for the Kumbhabhishakam was fixed . The King asked the deity happily Are you sitting comfortably in the shade of the Gopuram I had built for you ? & went to his place . The Deity appeared in the dream of the King in the night & told him I am perfectly & very happily sitting in the shade provided by the old woman ! & disappeared . The King immediately woke up & was sweating profusely . The next early morning , the king went to the temple & inquired the chief sculptor Did any old woman help you in setting up the Gopuram ? The sculptor said An old woman gave me a small stone & It fixed exactly at the top of the Gopuram & he also pointed out that old woman to the King . The King immediately did a sashtanga namaskaram at the feet of the old woman ! The God knows the quality of each of us . HE created this world . We are just a dust particle in it . The dust particles should never trouble anybody s eyes ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA !

OM SRI GURUBHYO NAMA : YOU MAY HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE ADAM & EVE STORY IN THE HEBREW RELIGIONS . THERE WAS TREE OF KNOWLEDGE . IIT IS THE GOD'S ORDER THAT ITS FRUIT SHOULDN T BE EATEN . ADAM DIDN T EAT IT & REMAINED AS HE WAS . BUT EVE AT...E IT . THEN ADAM DECIDED TO MEET THE CONSEQUENCES ( WHATEVER HAPPENS TO HER , LET ME TOO FACE IT ) & HE ATE IT TOO . THUS THE FIRST STORY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT WAS CREATED . ONE OF THE PRINCIPLES (THATHVAM ) OF OUR UPANISHADS HAS TAKEN ITS BIBLE SHAPE LIKE THIS . WHAT IS SAID IN THE UPANISHADS ? THERE ARE TWO BIRDS IN THE PIPPALA (PEEPUL ) TREE . ONE BIRD EATS THE FRUIT OF THAT TREE . THE OTHER KEEPS LOOKING AT THE BIRD , WITHOUT EATING IT . UPANISHAD SHOWS ( IMAGINARILY ) THAT TREE AS OUR BODY . IN IT ONE BIRD KEEPS THINKING ITSELF AS JEEVATHMA & ENJOYING THE WORLDLY EXPERIENCES . THE OTHER BIRD ( PARAMATHMA ) KEEPS LOOKING AT IT THE JEEVATHMA . THE JEEVAN DOESN T DANCE , EVEN IF IT IS ORDERED TO . EVEN ITS KARYAS DUTIES ARE ORDERED TO DANCE , THE JEEVAN DOESN T DANCE . IT REMAINS ONLY AS A WITNEES & KEEPS ON LOOKING AT IT . THOUGH IT IS SUPPORTIVE TO IT , THE JEEVAN DOESN T EAT THE FRUIT . ie; IT DOESN T ENJOYS THE KARMA PLAN THE RESULT OF ITS ACTIONS . THIS WHAT IS DESCRIBED BY THE UPANISHAD POETICALLY AS FRUIT THE BIRD WHICH ATE THE BIRD WHICH DIDN T ! THIS JEEVAN HAS TAKEN SHAPE IN THE HEBREW RELIGIONS AS EVE ! IT IS A GRAMMETICAL RULE THAT JEE BECOMES E . IT IS QUITE NATURAL THAT THE JA SOUNDS ARE CHANGED AS YA . THIS IS HOW YAMUNA WAS CHANGED INTO JAMUNA ; YOGINDER AS JOJGINDER . LIKEWISE , JEEV IS CHANGED INTO EVE . ATHMA AS ADAM ; PIPPALAM AS APPLE . ! THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE IS ONLY BODHI VRUKSHA ; BODHAM MEANS KNOWLEDGE GNANAM ; WE ALL KNOW THAT BUDDHA ATTAINED THE KNOWLEDGE UNDER THE BODHI VRUKSHA ; ISN T IT? BUT , EVEN BEFORE HE WAS BORN THE PEEPUL TREE WAS CALLED BODHI VRUKSHA . WE CELEBRATE IT AS THE KNOWLEDGE TREE & KEPT THE DEITIES & WORSHIP . HINDU RELIGION IS THE ONLY FOREMOST RELIGION (ADI RELIGION ) THAT HAS BEEN CHANGED INTO THE LOCAL RELIGION OF ALL THE OTHER COUNTRIES . AFTERWARDS , THERE TOO , THE CHRISTIAN , ISLAM & BOUDDHA HISTORICAL RELIGIONS HAD BEGUN & SPREAD ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! OM SRI GURUBHYO NAMA : BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI :An aged sumangali , very sadly told me My daughter expired in the early stage . I just don t know , why the God had taken her from me ,... instead of myself ! The God runs this world according to one s karma (the profit & loss account of previous birth ) ! HE has no partiality to differentiate among his devotees & others . Appayya Dheekshithar was a great gnaani . Though he knew the way to get rid of his unbearable stomach pain , he suffered from it . A Prince of the Hehaya dynasty , while hunting in the forest , killed a rushi , thinking that he was a deer , because , he was covering himself with the skin of the deer to protect himself from the winter climate .

When he heard the rushi s shout Ha , he ran to him to find that he was dead . He began to weep for his sin . The people consoled him & began to search allover forest , to find who that rushi was . Finally they came to the ashram of Arishtanemi , the son of the famous maharshi kashyap & briefed him the incidence . he said I just don t know whom you have killed ; come on , let s go there see to find out who that rushi is ! & went with them to the place . There was not the body of that rushi . Oh ! Along with sin of killing him , another sin has accumulated of missing his body too ! The prince & others cried aloud . At that moment , the supposed to be murdered rushi came there alive & said I am the one whom you killed ! Including the Prince , all of them wondered happily to see him alive again . The Arishtanemi said this rushi is my son . The apamruthyu ( untimely, early death ) won t attack him . Because , we eat the very hygienic food . The hygienic doesn t mean that washed vegetable & cleaned provision items . The fresh & not too young too old vegetables with sathva guna ( the vegetables which have no wrong qualities to induce the animal instinct ) The taste of tongue is not important . The salt , tamarind & the hot tastes will be too less in the cooked food . We take only the butterless buttermilk . The INJI ( a vegetable inducing the digestion ) is a must in our meals . We increase the bitter & thuvarppu ( one of 6 tastes ) & reduce the sweet taste . This is to keep the stomach clean & neat ! By driving out the ego , jealous , worry & sadness from our minds , by worshipping the God ! This is to keep the mind clean & neat . Daily , we clean the ashram with cow dung to keep away the incects ( rather than killing them & to add up sin ) By performing the Pooja with fresh flowers , we get the mental peace & the asrams are filled with His blessings . When there is no other wok to do , we go in search of other rushis to discuss the paramartthik ( divine ) matters . hence , the laziness is driven away ; The brain is kept busy ; we acquire more knowledge ; And , we appreciate their talents & knowledge , openly ! We get up early morning ; after our morning duties , we bathe in the clean water. We do the Gayathri japa thrice daily ; we do namaskaras( bow down at the feet ) to our parents , elders & the family teachers daily & receive their blessings . We strictly follow the brahmmacharyam ( bachelorship ) in our minds too ; We often meet the mahapurushas , who have attained the highest grade in yogas & the anushtanas.( strictly performing & following the vedic rules ) We help our best , to the people , whoever , perform homa , yagna & poojas ! We don t know to lie ! We follow strictly the sathya dharm ! ( the true & the right way as ordered in the vedhas ) We show our best hospitality to the guests whoever passes this route . We rightly follow the vraths as per the rules ( observe fast ) ; We protect the cows very carefully ; so , it prevents Yama - the lord of death - from showing his authority of untimely death here ! ; hence , we just faint for 33/4 ghatis ( one hour & 30 minutes ) only & get up again , even when a black cobra bites us ; The garuda manthra which we chant daily in the early morning will protect us ; The same 1.30 hours , to get rid of the wound by the arrow too ! We are the ones, who stop our breath under the water ; Hence , it is no wonder , the breath comes back alive , which is stopped , after all , in the land ! So , you won t be affected by the Brahmmahatthi dhosha (the sin by killing a human ) . So , you can go back to your palce ! the rushi Arishta nemi bid them the farewell . ( now paramacharaya tells the grieving devotee ) So , no use of crying for the untimely death . The lord Sankara is dancing in the burial groun , only to purify the souls going over there . He wears the garland of the skulls , which don t obey & leave the rest free . The human is like a tree . The life of a banyan tree is too less ; But , all the parts of its body leaf , stem , vegetable , fruit , flower & the twine are useful to the mankind ; We use its leaves as plates while dining in all the occasions ; it grows its heir By its side ; Though the life is short , the one who lives like the plantain tree , is only considered a human ! Oh ! The good man has left us ! If four people feel sorry for the one s death , then the God counts it that the soul has won in the life ! Ooph ! Finally he has left for good , yaar ! If forty pople think like this , then we fail in our life . If one fails , again the same class , same books & the same old teacher ! When all the others are new , we would remain old ! It is not important that , how many years we live ; How we live , is only important !

JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! VYASA POOJAS PERFORMED BY THE YUGA PURUSHA YEAR PLACE 1907 KUMBAKONAM 1908 THIRUVANAIKKA ... 1909 KUMBAKONAM 1910 1911 THIRUVANAIKKA 1912 MAHENDRAMANGALAM 1913 1914 THIRUVANAIKKA 1915 KUMBAKONAM 1916 1917 1918 1919 VEPPATHUR 1920 MAYAVARAM 1921 KADIRAMANGALAM 1922 ASHADAIYARKOIL 1923 THIUVANAIKKA 1924 THIRUVIYARU 1925 ILAIYATTHANKUDI 1926 KATTUMANNARKOIL 1927 KANJIKODU 1928 MANALURPETTAI 1929 POSAMALAIKKUPPAM 1930 CHITTOOR 1931 PUKKAI 1932 THANJAVUR 1933 PRAYAGAI 1934 CALCUTTA 1936 BERHAMPUR 1937 BALAKOL 1938 GUNTUR 1939 KUMBAKONAM 1940 THIRUVARAMKURUCCHI 1941 NAGAPPATTINAM 1942 NATHAM 1943 THIRUVANAIKKA 1944 THIRUVISAINALLUR 1945 THIRUKAUKAVUR 1946 KUMBAKONAM 1947 VASANTHA KRISHNAPURAM 1948 VENKATADRI AGARAM 1949 THIRUVIDAIMARUDUR 1950 THIRUVISAINALLUR 1951 MUDIKONDAN 1952 SAATTHANUR 1953 KANSHIPURAM 1954 1955

THE PARAMACHARYA OF SRIKAANCHI .

1956 1958 MADRAS 1959 VAANAGARAM 1960 KAMANAYAKKANPALAYAM 1961 ILAYATTHANKUDI 1962 1963 NARAYANAPURAM 1964 KANCHIPURAM 1965 THIRUKKATTUPPALLI 1966 KALAHASTHI 1967 RAJHMUNDRY 1968 SECUNDRABAD 1969 KANCHIPURAM MUKTHI MANTAPAM 1970 CHINNA KANCHPURAM 1971 KARVET NAGAR 1972 KANCHI SHIVASTHANAM 1973 KANCHI SHIVASTHANAM & RISHIKESH ANDHRA ASHRAM 1974 KANCHI SHIVASTHANAM & BINDUPUR & JAMSHEDPUR 1975 KALAVAI 1976 KANCHI KAMAKSHI AMMAN TEMPLE 1977 KANCHI SHIVASTHANAM & SALEM 1978 AGURI & KANCHIPURAM 1979 BELGAUM & SECUNDRABAD 1980 UGAR & AHMEDABAD 1981 SATARA & GURUVAYUR 1982 SHOLAPUR VYASA POOJAS PERFORMED BY SRI MAHA PERIYAVA & SRI JAYENDRA SARAS WATHI SWAMIGAL & SRI VIJAYENDRA SARASWATHU SWAMIGAL . YEAR PLACE 1983 KARNOOL 1984 KANCHIPURAM 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! TO BE CONTINUED . OUR GREAT YUGA PURUSHA SRI MAHA PERIYAVA MILE STONES FROM HIS LIFE ! 20TH MAY , 1894 He WAS BORN IN VILLUPURAM TO BRAHMA SRI SUBRAMANIYA SASTHRIGAL & SRIMATHI MAHALAKSHMI AMMAL . THE CHILD WAS NAMED SWAMINATHAN . 13TH FEBRUARY - 1907 - ...HE BECAME THE 68TH PONTIFF OF SRI KANCHI KAMAKOTI PEETAM IN THE ANOINTING CEREMONY HELD IN KUMBAKONAM AS SRI CHANDRA SEKARENDRA SARASWATHY SWA MIGAL 6th February 1908 - He performed the Mahakumbhabhishekam of sri Jambukeswarar temple at thiruvanaikkaval . HE also performed the Thatanga Prathishta for sri Akhilandeswari .

1909/1910 - he spent the years in educating Himself at the Sri Sankara matam at Kumbakonam . 1911 1914 - HE mastered the Vedhas , the Agamas & puranas through rigorous study at Mahendra Mangalam . 1915 - HE assumed full charge of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt . 1917 - HE held a Mahasabha in Kumbakonam to encourage ancient arts . 1918 - HE defied the British rulers & started wearing Kavi vcastra , made of Khadi , at the Rameswaram camp . 1919 - HE started His Vijaya Yathra . 1921 - Thyagi ( Freedom fighter ) Subramaniya Siva sought his blessings at the KUmbakonam Mahamaham , for the nation s independence . 29th april 1923 - Thatanga Prathishta for Sri Akhilandeswari at Thiruvanaikkaval . 1925 - HE honoured the Tamil Scholor Dr. Sri U.V.Swaminatha iyer with the tile of fhakshinaathya Kalanidhi . HE also honoured Pandithamani Kadhiresan Chettiyar in that camp at Ilayatthangkudi . 1926 - HE met the Congress leaders like Rajaji & Sathyamurthy . 1927 - HE had an intimate conversation with Mahathma Gandhi at a meeting held at Nallicherry in Kerala . HE showered His blessings for fruition of all the Mahathma s efforts . 1932 - Kumbhabhishekam for the Kanchi Sri Kamakshi Amman Temple . HE also spent 3 months at Madras & conducted discourses . 1933 - Mahamaham at Kumbakonam . HE started His Kasi Yatra in September . 25th july 1934 - HE had His holy bath at the Thriveni Sangamam . 3rd October 1934 - Ceremonious Welcome at Kasi . The Raja of Benares , Pandit Madan Mohan Malavia , several prominent leaders & citizens gathered in large numbers to welcome HIM . 9th February 1935 - Pandit Madan Mohan Malavia invites Him to the Benares Hindu University . 13th July 1935 - Vist to Calcutta . 1936 - Vijaya Yatra continues . 1938 - Karagpur , Tatanagar , Cuttack , Puri- Jegannath , Ahobhilam , Nellore, Thiruppathi . 1939 - Thirutthani , Kanchipuram , Chidambaram , Rameswaram & completed the Kasi Yatra . 4th June, 1941 - Kumbhabhishekam of Sri Bhangaru Kamakshi Temple . 1950 - An elaborate Thiruvembavai Thiruppavai Conference at Thiruvidaimarudur . 22nd March , 1954 - Blesses Brahmmacahari Subramanyam son of Sri Mahadeva iyer of Irul neekki village in Tanjore district with sanyasa dheeksha & appoints him as His successor Pudup periyava Sri Jayendra Saraswathy Swamigal . 1956 - Meeting with Sri Acharya Vinobha Bhave . 7th September 1957 - Silver Jubilee celebrationof His Peetarohana . Pudup periyava Sri Jayendra Saraswathy Swamigal performs Kanakabhishekam for His Guru The paramacharya . 28th April 1963 - HE installs the statues of Sri Adi Sankara & His 4 disciples in a Vimana Mantapa at the Agni Theertha , in Rameswaram & performs the Kumbhabhishekam . 6th February 1966 HE held a conference of all the Matadhipathis . 29th May 1983 - Annoits Sri Sankaran , son of Sri Krishnamurthy Sathrigal of Thandalam village near Ponneri , as the 70th Pontiff , of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam Bala Periyava Sri Sankara Vijayendra Saraswathy Swamigal . 1988 - He performed an abhishekam with Ganges water for the sivalingam at Gangai Konda Chozhapuram followed by Annabhishekam . This is continueing every year according to His wishes . 7th may 1993 - HIS 100th Birth Day Jayanthi is celebrated . 26th May 1993 - Pudu periyava Sri Jayendra Saraswathy Swamigal & Bala Periyava Sri Sankara Vijayendra Saraswathy Swamigal perform Kanakabhishekam for the Mahaperiyava . 8th January 1994 - Our Yuga Purusha Sri Paramacharya MOVES HIS PRESENCE TO THE ADHISHTANAM . HE CONTINUES TO BLESS HIS DEVOTEES FROM HIS BRINDAVANAM installed just opposite the place , where HE was giving HIS dharshan , till HE moved over to the brindavanam , at the Kanchi Sri Kamakoti Peetam Sri Kanchipuram . Regular Poojas are performed to HIM . OUR YUGA PURUSHA SRI MAHAPERIYAVA HAS CHANGED HIS PLACE OF DHARSHAN ONLY IN THE SRI KANCHI KAMAKOTI MUTT . AND, HE IS REGULARLY BLESSING , CHATING , ADVISING , SMILING ,

LAUGHING etc; AS USUAL ALWAYS , WHENEVER WE GO THERE TO SUBMIT OUR PRANAMS & WORRIES AT HIS LOTUS FEET ! HE WILL BE THERE FOREVER , BECAUSE HE IS A YUGA PURUSHA ! AND WHAT ELSE TO SAY DEAR FRIENDS ? JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! OM SRI GURUBHYO NAMA : JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! Once in Srikanchi , there were some people standing near periyava to have dharshan & blessings . A richly looking person in his 50s , came there with his family there ( IN EARLY 60s) . They were all in very costly dress & jewels . When his turn came he sat down on the floor opposite to Periyava . In between a Rope was tied as a fence . Periyava just looked at him . He stared to speak in his malayalam accent Tamil . Periyava ! I am in the States for the last 25 years . But , I honestly married our Indian girl & came to India only for that purpose . This is my bharyal (wife ) & these my puthrans & puthris ! ( sons & daughters . Though we are in the states we strictly follow our Indian Brahmin traditions & customs only . I perform sandhyavandhanam daily in the morning & evening . See , I don t even miss any annual shraddham ( pithur karma ) of my father & mother . Whatever is required for this purpose I can easily get them from here . I am very much particular about it , you know Periyava ? yes ! ( ekalamana en petthava nalla paragathi adaiya naan evvalavu venumnalum selavu pannu thayar Periyava ! ) I am ready spend any amount for my late Parents to let them get the good position There in the Heaven . ) Because of two reasons . Firstly they are my Parents who gave me this body . Secondly , I should be the roll model to my son , isn t it ? . Then only , he will follow all these & do these karmas to me too infuture ? If WE the periyava go in the right direction & create a raja paattai ( Royal path ) surely the next generation too will go in that same right direction smoothly & easily . Pithukkalai vida osandha periya dheivam yaaru irukka , Periaya ? ( other than the pithrus , which other God is in the higher level than them ) And, Finally , I shall be very happy , atleast if some people learn frome & follow these to show their sense of gratitude to their late parents & pithrus , Periayava ! I am right , isn t it ? What do you day , Periyava ? All the people standing nearby including the Mutt people , were simply looking at him furiously with ill manners & boasting blabbering . So long Periyava was just looking at the floor with his head down . Now , slowly lifted his head & began to ask him questions ( nee indha shraddhatthukku samanlam ingerundhu varavazhaikka etthanai selavaradhu ? ) How much it costs to import the required items to perform a shraddham there ? Looking around very proudly , he said some amount in dollors & the equal Indian rupees , in his manner . Oh! It costs that much ? I didn t think it would cost that much ! What about the shraddha manthras & a purohith to conduct it ? That s not a big thing at all Periyava . Nowadays science grown much toomuch level . And I take advantage of it for such good reasons only . There is one instrument called tape recorder & cassets . I recorded all the manthrs through my permenant family purohith at my joms here . And use it while I perform the dhraddha there . mansirundha margam undunnu solluva , illiya ? ( they say that if there is will , there is a way , isn t it ? ) Oh ! So there is a way like this too to perform the shraddha scientifically too ! Saraiyaach chonnel Periyava ! To come here & go back to YOUR States , how much it costs , each time ? Then , he replied elaborately about the different plane fares & othere costly expenses & said finally But , I always come & go back in executive class only For the reason to avaoid some unwanted elements of the lower class passengers who will take advantage to move with us equally , & sometimes , it will become dangerous too to the people like me , Periya . Do you viosit India every year & when ? Oh ! That I can t say , Periyava . Because , both officially & un officially I visit here . When I visit officially I come alone . But every year unofficially visiting India during the Christmas Holidays there & also during the Navrathri season without fail . For navarathri I come with my full family ,because of 2 reasons . Modhalle , andha Ambal , Lokamatha, ellathaiyum aattip padaikira Akilaanda koti nakai illainna indha lokam edhu ? (Firstlly , if that Super most power is not there , then how can this World will be there ? ) Secondly , to create intimacy & affection with these religious functions & festivals & to understand their value , I bring my children here . Money is the only criterion life . These types of good characters must be absorbed by them to become the best citizen in future , So , you earn plenty there

& spend lavishly only to bring up your children properly & to satisfy your phirus ! And, you have a good chance of coming to India both officialy & unofficially . from the way you have put all your cards on the table here , I can understand that , you are meeting the particular relatives only to suit your standard , because you want to avoid unnecessary low level people to take advantage to come near you ! ( Now the other people s face became bright with smiles as they had understood where Periyava s talk is leading to ! On the contrary , the rich man s group began to make curves in their bodies . The main person was simply staring at the Periyava to avoid othres eyes . ) You can spend any amount to import anything required from here to perform the phrukarmas there only to suit your convenience only . And , who advised you to do all this pithrukarayams there ? How will they be able to tak their pindams offered by you threr in that para desa ( foreign ) bhoomi ? They can & are allowed to accept the pindams & the monthly therthams ( new moon Tharppanam ) & Mahalaya tharppanams & shraddhams in this Bharatha punya bhoomi only . That s all the more reasons that we , the Indians brahmins are are refrained from crossing the seas Ie ; going abroad . these pithru karmas are done to to get their blessings & for the welfare of our family & the future generation too . Yes ! You are right in saying that there is no dheivam superior than the phithrus . Each time , when you did the shraddha there , they all came there eagerly & hungrily too to receive the pindams & to bless you all . On the contrary , they couldn t do so & had to return back with empty stomach & cursing you all in all these years . You are able to programme well in advance to come to India to celebrate the Super most power during the Navarathri . And, you thought it was acolosal waste to visit India to perform the Pithrukarma alone mainly . Now , all your poor pithrus are awaiting here eagerly & very hungrily to receive your pindams & theerttham . Immediately tell your family shasthri to prform thr pithru karmas for all these 25 years in one shraddha at the right place convenient to you & him . The pithrus will be very happy at this & bless you all . The rich man s ego has disappeared & with tears rolling down his cheeks fell at feet of the Real Guru/God who was smiling and happily & blessing them all satisfactorily . The rich man got up & said in a crying tone & flapping his cheeks Mahaperiyava , En dheivame . en kannaith thirandhuttel . ( O! my God . you have opened my eyes . ) thappup pannitten , Maha thappup pannnitten Periyava . ( I have done blunder ) Ippove poyi Periyava uttharavuppadi itthanai varusha shraddhatthaiyum kandippa seyyaren . ( immediately I shall certainly perform the shraddha of all these years balance as per the order of Periyava . ) Enga ellaraiyum Periava periya mansudan mannicchu prasadham tharanunu vendikkiren ! idhukku mela enakku onnum sollath theriyale . ! ( I request that periyava shoul forgive us all with great karuna & give us your prasadham . I don t what more to say ) . Periyava gave them the prasadham of fruits kalkandu kumkum flower and a blouse bit to his wife & said . ( ellarum madatthula aaharam pannittu ambalaiyum darsanam pannittu pogalam . shraddhamlam pannittup oorukkup poradhukku munnadi vandhuttup po ) All of you have your meals here in the mutt & visit the Kamakshi temple & proceed . After finishing with the pithru karma , before returning back to your country , visit here again & go ) ellarum kshemama iruppel ! ( all of you will be very much alright ) & lifted His palms to them & others too & blessed with His eternal & divine smile ! The rich man & his family again did a sashtaanga namaskaram saying adhudhan Periyava venum , adhudhan venum ! ) That s what we Periava & that alone ) & slowly went back with bright faces . The man full of ego & spoke volumes to Periyava Says idon t what to say more > you have opened my eyes . Who else can advise so eternally to such a person without wounding his heart & to realize his great blunder for 25 years to his pithrus ? Further how beautifully HE had got him the blessings of his pithrus too to relieve him from the great permenant curse too . Oh ! splendid . Nobody in the world would have tolerated this much lory load of ego & correct him too in such a mild manner & bless him also !!! This is the foremost lesson we all should learn from our GURU ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA JanAka Maharaja conducted a yagna in agrand manner . so plenty of people talented in the Vedhas gathered there . Yagnkyavalkya was a famous sage . he too attended the yagna . Janak kept well bread , fat & heavy 1000 cows in the yaha sala .... In their each horn 10 sovereigns were tied up . Per cow 20 sovereigns of gold . Janaka announced Whoever is talented in the Brahma vidhya , can take these to their home . All the other rushis were looking at each other s face . Yagnkyavalkya called his disciples & ordered them to drive them all to his asram . All the rushis ther got wild at this . One of them got up & asked him Are you the Brahmma sreshta ? Why doubt about it ? yes ! I am ! replied

agnkyavalkya . dhairyam ( courage ) is the first qualification . Then you must answer my questions firstly . Ok ! begin it It is said that the Bhagavan ( God ) is in all the creatures . So say the Vedhas & Puranas ! You must make it clear to us all here . And , you must show us the people whoever is seeing ( realizing ) the God within themselves & enjoying ! Yagnkyavalkya said Ok then ! Come along with me all of you ! & took them call to a forest area . There was a sanyasin . (saint ) A damn growth of hair on his head & face & hanging in pasted groups . He was lying on the floor , facing the sky & was talking to himself something . Nearby him , a six feet tiger was feeding its children ( cubs ) & two deers were playing there . A python was hanging from nearby tree top . Neither he was bothered about them nor they cared for his presence there . The Bhagavan is in all these living beings . Would a Bhagvan be afraid of another Bhagvan ? The man (saint ) too doesn t think that the tiger is his enemy ; And the tiger too doesn t want to kill the deers . There is water in the well and in the river too . one is running & the other keeps on producing drop by drop . Here , the running one & the standing one both are water . The saint has not even the sense of seeing ! He himself is a tiger , deer , hare & camel ! And , all these qualities are in the human beings too , by nature . We should not hate them for that reason . One man is able to earn plenty , educate himself more & has more talents by birth . And it is wrong to conclude that they have them on monopoly basis . The who has plenty , must give to the needy ones too with pleasure . The God comes & sits in such good athmas ( souls ) ! And , they get the best next birth . And the world celebrates them as Dharmavans . All the rushis accepted that the sage Yagnkyavalkya was fit & qualified to take the cows . But , he didn t want those cows for himself alone . he wanted them only for one reason . To do plenty of yagnas to have the regular rain , to prevent the evil powers such as robbery , murder etc; in the world ; and to do them , plenty of milk , ghee etc; are required . The Bhagvan is too kaarunyavadhi . ( pitying ) He is blessing everybody both the sinner & bhagyavan , in the form of the wind , rain , moon & the sun ! The rays of the sun falls on the ditch water too . if it falls on the Bhoomi too , she absorbs it as the fertilizer & returns back with her blessings , plenty of grains & vegetables to us . so the sage said . Likewise , a saint climbed up a tree & plucked the fruits . He began to eat one of them . He saw a hare came limping there & just sat at a place due to pain . he ran there & gave a fruit to it . And he went to a camel that was giving birth to its child & offered another one to it . And , he was looking at them happily . He is seeing & enjoying the God within himself . He thinks that the God has come in person . he has not done all this as a pomp & show . He thinks that whatever the Bhoomi gives , is for one & all . he is able to climb up the tree to pluck the fruits . For that reason alone , he is that much selfish to think that the tree belongs to him . WE TOO SHOULD TRY TO LIVE LIKE HIM . JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI If you apply the ankolath thailam ( oil ) on the seed of the mango fruit & sow it in the ground , it will immediately grow up well up our ...elders ) have said so . I don t say that the tree will grow up well to that level to give you fruits , because you all won t believe it ! But , it IS the thruth ! didn t Akalika get her life immediately when Srirama s feet touched on ther when she was a stone ? there are the Chank & Chakra lines & the Ganges in the feet of the Bhagvan . The bhagavath says that not even a single green grass grow up in the surroundings of the in the river Yamuna s madu . ( a small island made of the sand in the rivers . But Sri Andal has sung in the Naacchiyar thirumozhi ( a famous Tamil script sung by Sri Andal ) poottha neel kadamberip pugap paaindhu vaaittha Kaaliyan mel nadamaadiya ._ Mr. Varagooran ! Please give your best translation here . ) Her father Periayaazhvaar asks her What my child ! You have sung that when there was/is not a single leaf in the Kadamba maram ( Kadamba tree ) , it was giggles with plenty of flowers ? It was true that the tree stood dried up in black colour like the charcoal , due to the poison of the Kaliyan ( Kalnga serpent ) ; and it was also true that it giggled with flowers ! Ask me how Sri Krishna climbs up the that tree , isn t it , to jump on sand island ? If Srirama s feet can turn a stone into a woman , won t the feet of my Srikrishna turn a charcoal-tree into a giggling one with flowers ?

( appideennaale paarkkalaam ) Vishnu chitthar ( her dad s original name ) stunned with her wonderful argument ! Appa ( dad ) You said that when the fallen fruit of the Azhinjil tree , will go back again & get pasted to its mother & (it shouldn t have been spoiled ) , if the lightning strikes it ! If you immediately pick it up & crush & boil it , an oil will come out of it . And, you say that, if you apply that oil on the mango seed & sow in the ground , it will immediately grow into a big tree & give fruits ! If JUST one lightning has this much of power & effect , my Perumal is of crores & crores of lightnings pa ! Periyazhvar keeps on pleasantly listening & enjoying Sriandal s wonderful talks ( What a great punyathma he was to have that Sakshath Sri mahalkshmi to be his daughter & breed her up brilliantly to keep on talking to him like this ?! these are my expressions , which I can t prevent from sharing with you all here . You may point out if you don t like it , please ) This Ankolath thailam ! Periyazhvar : The feet that measured the three lokas (worlds ) , the feet those kicked the thrunavartthan , the padhukas which ruled over Empire , just they had connection with His feet if I ask you , that , whether the Kadamba tree would giggle with the flowers , yes , it would have definitely done so! What you say is perfectly alright my dear child ! The Battarpiran ( the Poojaka of Sri Perumal temple ) admitted ! Sri Andal reminded him Then , you said that you would tell me the reason for the name of Srirama as Kakustha ? Not like a father and daughter , Periyazhvar & Sri Andal would discuss freely all the matters pertaining to the Bhagvan ! Periyazhvar :- There was a king namely Puranjaya in the Ikshvaku vamsa ( Srirama s Syrya vamsa ) . It was the running period of the Thretha yug . A big battle was going on between the devas & the Asurs . The side of the devas was becoming weak . Some of them appealed to Srimannarayayana ! The Bhagvan appeared in person & said I can t fight with them directly . I was born in womb of Athithi . They are born in the womb of Thithi . Ina way , they are also my brothers . So , I would enter into the body of Puranjaya . Go & beg him to help & bring him here . Then the victory is yours . So, the devas go & beg Puranjaya to help them . He said If Indra is my vahana ( chariot ) , I am ready to fight from your side Indra thought it is only the Bhagvan going to fight from within his body ; it is a bhagya (Punya ) to lift the Bhagvan So he accepted for it & changed himself into a Rishabha ( Bull ) . Puranjaya climbed up & stood on the Bull s neck ( a short thick heap on the neck of the bull if this wrong , please somebody correct me ) & fought & won . Kakuth means rishabha ; stha means bull s neck . From that day onwards Puranjaya became Kakustha . And, Srirama ,too , who was born in such a great vamsa , is also called Kakustha . Really it was only His Tejas which got into the body of Puranjaya , isn t it ? Prahladha s grandson Bali , had given the loka as dhanam. And , the toe of the foot of that Vatapathra Sayee ( the one who was floating on the mandhara leaf ) touched the Brhmma loka ! Brhmma does abhisheka to THAT TOE only & keeps sprinkling that water on his head ! T that moment Jambhavan visited throughout this globe , beating the drum to celebrate it ! What a punya collected by that Bali , to get the touch of the Bhagvan s feet , like that Akalika ? And , you are just guessing , why did not that Jambavan cross over that sea , who could go all around this globe , isn t it , my dear child ? Jambavan gave it up to Anjaneya to get all the credit ! Further he was more aged too . There IS A pleasure too in giving one s credits for others . Do you know ? asked Periayazvara ! What a lovely last line ? Periyava only can give such lightning flashes in the end of his discourses ! None can even think to compete it ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! OM SRI GURUBHYO NAMA : JAYA JAYA SSANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI THE PHILOSOPHY OF ASWAPATHY . In those days , Guru - Kula vasam was in practice . The place where the students were learning was called mahasala . They used to admit only 100 students in each of them . They used to admit them only by conducting the knowledge test ( the entrance exam of those days ! ) The maharshis who teach the vedha shasthras , used to meet once in once in two years atleast to sharpen their knowledge .

Once they didn t agree with each other s opinion .. One of them said Athma alone is heaven . No death to it . no hunger & thirst to it . Another said No . Athma is sun . If one realises athma fully , all the dirt in his mind will be burnt . The third one said I worship athma as the wind . It has no body . But , without it , we can t live . The fourth one said in an elaborate manner Athma is pread like the sky . In it , crores & crores of stars like thoughts twinkle . It is as cool as the moon sometimes ; and as bright as the sun too at times . some times , the clouds hide it . It is very far off & unreachable . We can feel that it IS there ; but can t touch it . The fifth one said All are wrong Athma is like water . It has no colour . But without the athma , a human is dead . No life can survive without water . because , all the opinions seemed acceptable , they couldn t come to a an amicable conclusion . All of them went to the son of uddhalaka maharshi , the son of Aruna maharshi . uddhalaka was great gnani & thapasvi . He knew the reason of their arrival through his gnana dhrushti . He said I can t clear your doubt . We shall g to the king of Kekaya country . he is a great philosopher ! So , he took them to him . The was very much pleased to se all the six maharshis at a time . He did all sorts of essential upacharas to them as per the shasthras . He kept six gold plates full of gold coins at their feet & did namaskarams . They didn t even look at the plates . The king felt so sad at this . Na me stheno janapathe Na katharyo na Madhya pa : Na anhithagni : na avidhya : na sviriri svirineekutaha the meaning of this poem is because all the people are rich , there is no need to lie & be fraudulent ! All are have desire to do dhanam & dharmam . You can t see even a single intoxicated person here . ( what a clean fool - proof administration & the king s confidence over it ? ) All the Brahmins perform the Agnihothram .All the people are educated . You can t see even a single dishonest fellow here . Hence , you can accept this wealth without any hesitation ! ( See , the best reasons given to accept the freebees from the king too ! And , it shouldn t have come out of the income through the liquor selling ! ) So , we come to know that , If the utthamas the most honest & straight forward people - should accept our dhanam , so many good qualities should be there , to the host . We can understand that how a king should rule & keep his country . Each citizen s responsibility is included in it . All should do their duties honestly . Then only , the government will be on the right path . Uddhalaka Maharshi said Aswapathy ! We haven t come here to get wealth from you These five say that the Athma is heaven , sun , wind , sky & water . I am worshipping the athma as the earth Bhoomi . For , we keep all the good and bad in our minds . In it , there is anger ; dhroham ( treachery ) , love ; truth ; And the athma is enduring all of them like the Bhoomi . It is only , should clear what athma is actually ! Aswapathy beautifully explained ( A king explains the athma to the maharshis !!!) Nobody can say , where the athma is at which part of the body . If anybody questions , the mouth answers . At that moment , the athma is the brain which thinks , the talking mouth , & even your moving tongue too . When absorbing the important matters , it is the ears & brain . While seeing it is the eyes & the wind while breathing . The people who say the vision is important , think that athma is the sun . The people who say the brain is important , the athma is felt as the heaven. If the breathing is thought as important , then the athma is the wind . To the people who think this body in which the athma resides, as main , then it is the sky . If it is thought that the athma will run away from this body , when the mal , jal don t come out properly , then it is water . To the people worried abouth the digestion of the food , , it is agni the fire . The stomach , which accepts whatever is dropped in it , is the Bhoomi . If that stomach is properly & responsibly looked after , the athma stays for long in that nest .( body ) The life is spent more in sleeping & eating . We require the long age to do good . Experience is required . Therefore , we shouldn t trouble the stomach much too much . If we keep on giving the stomach wished by the tongue , the athma will certainly run away fast . The tongue is the anukoola shathru . ( the dearest enemy ) It will induce , this is so tasty ; eat it it is only the athma as good cocience will prevent it . By not staying at a particular place , the athma keeps going alright ; as light , water , earth , wind , & sky ! Likewise , the human should live in this world . And do good alone . ! ( Oh ! What a fantastic explanation to show us the athma ! Only , Maha Periyava can do it so simply & superbly too ! )

JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI Periyava ! my son is in Australia . Just recently he came & gone back . My daughter-in-Law is pregnant now . My son says that he can t come as & when we like . is it alright , if we don t conduct the seemantham ? The only heir is coming for the family . She is pregnant now pregnant after 8 years . Periyava must give a good reply . The one who stood with folded hands , was a learned Srowthigal . ( vedha pandit ) . His brain has understood very alright already , that what he is doing is wrong ! But he is trying to add me htoo his partner . He is such a type that he will blabber If Periyava had already emphasized me , I would have surely conducted the seemantham ! , if anything goes wrong to-morrow ! In a home , when the auspicious date was being fixed & the preparations were going on , the child was born .Then on the day of punyahavachanm , the curtain was fixed & the seemantham was done . And then only father saw the child . That was parihara seemantham . In kalayana mantap , at the time of tying the mangal suthra , the boy had a sudden attack of the fits & the marriage was stopped . The father who felt it too much that they had told lies & cheated , asked his poor ralative s son to sit on the brides place & told him to tie the mangal suthra knot . It is all absolutely wrong to argue Firstly that fellow chanted the manthras & secondly this fellow I stying the knot ! No sin at the time of a dangerous situation . The samskaras are created to purify the jeevan as soon as it takes its place in the mother s womb . It is the paropahara done by the God on our behalf , for the sake of the child to live long hale & healthy & the father does it to let the child have its honest right & to get the acceptance of the society ! In this regard , it is only the elders have more responsibility . Nowadays , there are the right people in all the countries to conduct such samskatas like upanayanam , pumsavanam etc ; ! It is only the right method that a proper elder person should go to the concerned country to conduct it . Why do you pull all the people in this to attend & enjoy ? Is it proper to give up the samskaras , saying that it is not fashion nowadays ? This is done for the sake of another athma ( soul ) . Its is a sin to prevent it . I t is called Pumsavanam , which is done in third month of the pregnancy . Seemantham is done either in the 6th or in the 8th month . Nowadays , they do them both for their convenience . Jathakarma is done after the child is born . { naming the child } Even giving dhaanams too , is created , taking the child s safety . Each leg of the star { a star has 4 legs leg = part } has a letter . A suitable name of the Bhagvan should be selected to name the child { the first letter of the name should be of the concerned letter of the star } it is said in the shasthras that naming the child is purifying the jeevan . It is also the samskara to us , by calling the jeevan with that name . This jeevan should live life in such a way to bring credits to the parents ; & not to make them to repent praying like this , the paremnts should name the child . The fetus absorbs exactly the mentality of the parents as it is . They had pointed out the names of Prahlada & Abhimanyu as examples . There is a tree called Eru Azhinjil . Its fully matured & dried fruit falls down , it breaks & the seeds come out . Immediately , they by some sort of magnetic power , they move by and by & get pasted to the mother tree & in due course they will vanish into the tree . Just a minute dot jeevan is only becomes child . That will produce many jeevans . The father who wants that jeevan to be a super one , will not give up the samskaras . Srirama s grandfather was ajan . ajan s father was Raghu . In no place . it was mentioned Ajakula thilaka . On the contrary , adding the hreat grandfather s name , He is celebrated as Raghukula thilaka , Raghunandhana , Raghurama The name Raghava too means that He is the heir of Raghukula only . The God Bhagvan never allows the names of the to become dim , who toils tirelessly with the good intention for the welfare of his progenies . Rhaghu s father Dileepa , to get a child , protected Nandhini , the daughter of Kamadhenu . like the pearl of his eye & became holy by the dust its feet raised . That s why they called it Thavardha santhanam & kept one of the 16 bhagyas . { here the Tamil word thavaradha means in 2 ways unfailing & undying early } . When a rare guest comes , what a lot of preparations we do ? To honour you , the God has decided to send a jeevan to you that s pregnancy . That soul is going to be bound by you , obey you , share all your good & bad by living with you . Shouldn t you give it its due respect ? A person asked me The

second child too is new soul . Why no seemantham done for it ? The fear & tension during the first marriage won t be during the second marriage of the person . After receiving the first salary , the fear about the office will go away . The child which creates a hell to go to the school in the first year , will become calm in the next year . The respects shown to the child , which was going to give the parents a new position as father & mother , are only the the traditions to clear the defects of the womb . And these become a familiar place to the second child . The womb becomes an used residence . The punya gainbed by Dileepa through the dust raised by the cow as a gift of protecting it , his wife Sudhakshina gave birth to Raghu as heir . Each soul prays to the God to bless it to be born to a good person . But the God blesses so , just one out a thousand . The sage vyasa had written When the son born in a family , each drop of water that is dropped from his head on the floor , when he shakes of his head after the bath , is added to the iron rod of the hell to bring up his pithrus . Is it alright to question whether the seemantham is necessary to that child ? Periyava must bless me to go to Australia & come back The Srowthigal did namaskaram . BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI AGNI UPADDESH ! Sathyakama Japala was maharshi & a mahayogi too . He wouldn t step wrongly even a thread s thickness from dharm . He had plenty of disciples , and Upakosala was one of them . He was a too patient one. If the guru thinks that the education of the students was over, then a samavardhana festival would be conducted . The disciples would take the blessings & proceed to their places . On the day of this festival , the guru called Upakosala and ordered him chant the manthras & see that these five agnikuntas ( in which the fire is grown for homa ) keep burning by applying in each samith in it. & the guru went away . He too did as per his order . The guru went on a pilgrimage ! The mother like guru pathni consoled him There must be a reason for guru s action . One day Upakosala slept in between the agnikuntas . The Agni devathas woke up that dutiful Upakosala ! From each of the Agnikunta , one Devatha Gave/taught him the Brahmma gnanam . Dear child ! You should learn the brahmma vidhya through Japala only We take leave ! they disappeared . Upakosala couldn t control his joy! He immediately went to gurumatha & informed this . She too was much too much pleased & blessed him . The next day Japala returned .back . On hearing the matter he said Dear child ! This is what I went on the pilgrimage for . To me , the Agni devathas only taught . Because , you are so ptient & humble , I kept you back for the reason that you too should be taught by them only . Then he taught him the Brahma vidhya . He conducted a separate samavardhana festival & blessed him with a farewell . Gurupathni s eyes filled with tears . If only give up the I , myself & mine , the material life will be a pleasure . An aged man . He lived his life so miserly . He felt happy , only in keeping heaps of money . one day his life was over . Yama ordered them to push him in the hell . The suffering miser in hell was shouting to everybody going through that way has none of you sympathy . Can t you lift me up ? One of them had sympathy on him . He asked him Had you never been to places like temple ? No ! Then , I foolishly calculated that it would cost much . What I collected like a small bird , my sons are spending lavishly now he sighed . Didn t you do any dhanam , dharmam etc; ? Think over well . Had you taught anything to anybody ? did you do any kanyadhanam ( marriage of a girl ) I had only 3 sons . No daughter was born to me . If some woman comes for help to her daughter , I would speak with ego & send them out . I was only in the interested in adding up the heap of my money . Haan I remember only one now . One day I was damn hungry . I bought a nanana after a long bargain . When , opened it up hal;f of it was spoiled . Abeggar came at that moment & cupped his palm to me for alms . I tjust threw that banana fully in his plam with irritation . Half of it was good . Isn t it included in dhanam ? he asked him eagerly . That deava straightened his hand & said some manthra ! Half banana fell . He told the miser hold it tightly in length & come up Oh ! It is slipping So saying that miser was slowly climbing up . Per leg 2 persons , So 4 people held his legs & they too were coming up with him . The miser got damn wild . Hey ! Do you want to share my dharm ? How much I suffered to find a person to climb before he finished his words he fell into the hell again with 4 people . He cried over the spilt milk .

The deva said the heaven is not your grandfather s property ! It is the place for the punyavans . y ou have had ego just for the half fruit my dharmam . I suffered You didn t have good thought to let them also come ; That sympathy alone will strengthen your thread to come up . Till you are corrected , be in the hell only . If those 4 had caught hold of the legs of good person , they too would have gone to the heaven . Because it was miser , they too fell so saying the deva too was gone . therefore , as long as you are here , you must exchange that money into dhanam , pooja , sympathy , pilgrimage etc ; That travel will be easy & comfortable . What a lovely way to teach ! How deep He has analised the human tendencies , the ugly & cruel way of the human brain s & mind s working ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! HE is never against any sampradhayam . Further , in the Hindu religion there IS an excemption for everything excepting some important wrongs . for ex: no excemtion for eating & drinking bytheleft hand . and, self service by left hand while... eating & service by self while eating . There is no other religion deals in such a soothing way as the Hindu religion does . It has pariharam with a deffinite result . jaya jaya sankara ; hara hara sankara !

Janusruthi was a king . He was doing all sorts of good things to his people . You can t see a ingle person with torn clothes in his country . He gave clothes at free of cost to the people twice a year . From his place , all the necessary items would go to the poor fellow s house marriage . He hoisted the anna flag ( means : free meals available in this country ! ) in his country permanently & saw that the free meals was given thrice a day to the poor people . Because , he created plenty of tanks all over his kingdom , they were able sow do harvest thrice a year . 6 kala pooja in all the temples . The well paid employees . The people of that country boasted of their king Where can you see such a good king ? Because of the sever punishment , there was not even a single criminal in the country . The women were all free & very much pleased in life . And , the rich ones too slept well peacefully . Already the people have the habit of praising the kings . Should we ask for the reason here ? even the sweet is bad for the health , if it is taken too much . The king began to suffer from his pride of his fame . ( The too much of fame gone into his head more than enough ! ) One day , the king was just enjoying the cold breeze , standing at the top floor of his place . The king had learnt the languages of the birds & animals . Two swans were flying over the head of him slowly . One of them said Hey ! Look there ! Janusruthi is standing there . if you fly low , you will be burnt to ashes ! Janusruthi was startled ! all the people of this country are speaking very good of myself . Why is this swan saying against me ? He listened to the swans eagerly . The female swan asked Why do you say so ? The shathras say that , what the right hand gives , should not be known to the left hand . But this fellow even dreams prudery in his sleep I built the choultries (free boarding & lodging ) , I built this and that . Is there anybody like me in this world ? The sages have said the pride is the white ant ruining the fame . We are mere birds . We will be burnt alive in the fire of his pride ! That s why I told you so . Janusruthy will not be equal to to one dust particle of Raikva ! Won t this fellows pride be erased , if he gets upadesh ( lesson & advise ) from Him ? So talking , those two birds flew away far . The King s all the pride had gone by time now , like the fire doused by the water . The question who is this Raikva ? began to stir his mind . First job in the very next morning , he called all his servants to find out the ganani namely Raikva ! They searched on all the four directions , but couldn t find out who that Raikva was . The king ordered them to go & search in each village , each street , each house . Finally , they found out that a very ordinary hand cart man was that Raikva . The king immediately took plenty of diamonds , gems , cows , & rath ( the horse drawn cart used by the kings to travel ) . And , begged him to do upadesh to him . But Raikva turned him back saying that he was not matured enough for that ! After some days , the king went back again to Raikva , with more valuables . Raikva said Come tomorrow , with the item , which you think that won t come with you when you

die ! next day , the king received the upadesh from Raikva , sitting with Raikva , on the floor wearing the very formal clothes . You keep on thinking that you are giving aplenty to the people of your country . How much of them you brought with you , when you were born ? A shop - keeper did anna dhan & vasthra dhan . Too much of crowd gathered and he couldn t do it alone . So , he invited his known good people to help him . They too distributed them . Likewise , you are only the representative of the God . Because , you are a good fellow , you have got th right of distributing them . And, what is there for you to be pride so much in it ? The Sun is doing His duty , without boasting to anybody Oh , phow ! I have visited this entire Universe to-day ! In what way , are we higher than Vayu ( wind God ) , Agni ( fire God ) & Varuna ( rain God ) ? Daily we eat thrice , with various varieties of food items ! And , we never even utter a word about what we ate , to others , because of the drushti dhosha ! The sympathy is as important to the mind as the walking to the legs , as the seeing to the eyes , and as the hearing to the ears ! It IS MIND , only when it is filled with karuna dhaya the sympathy ! Otherwise it is only soonyam empty ! The hand should be trained to give ; The tongue should be trained to talk sweetly . We like the dosa , if it is nicely prepared ; we are pleased to say that the idly was like the flower. The tongue requests us to give more & more sweets . And, only the sweet words should/must be uttered by THAT TONGUE ! Like the window through which the sweet smell passes through ; the tongue too would pour out the sweet words , if the mind is like a soft flower , good flower ! Like this , Raikva gave numerous Upadesh to the king ! Then only , Janusrythis pride flew away . The king gave his daughter through marriage to Raikva , along with the village Raikva was residing . The name the king named the village as Raikva Parnam only lasted long & its old name was forgotten once for all . A whole village was turned into a Parnasala ! THEREFORE, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES & UNDER ANY STATE , THE PRIDE SHOULD NOT AFFECT ANYBODY ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI BHOOMA DEVI The earth shivered ; And, my son had written that he fell down from the cot ; Nothing should happen to him Periyava ! keeping the letter in his hand , a father asked me anxiously . I said Buy a Bhoosthuthi & send him that . Tell him to daily chant it after bath . Bhooma devi will cool down . You too can chant it for him If he doesn t have time . Another asked What is the reason for this Earth quake ? The land belong s to the others should not be sized atrociously. If the tanks & wells are seized , to do agriculture & build the buildings , the Vasuda devi - Bhooma devi - gets wild . The land from which the cows eat grass , should be taken for doing agriculture & to build anthing . If an old well or tank is already ruined visibly & creating a new tank , well & building a new temple , just to get fame , when the old one s already ruined visibly , Bhooma devi doesn t approve it too , unless the old ones are renovated ! When they try to redo the ear boring ceremony for the second time , without caring to listen that it was done already , who will accept it ? One should feel that it pains Bhooma Devi . The shasthra says that 5 handfuls sand from the river should taken & thrown out on the bank , before bathing in the tank or river . When I refer Bhoomi here , it means the ground full of sand & not the one of cemented or tiled . Nowadays, people live in the apartments . They draw a kolam infont of their apartments individually on the cement or tiled floors. Even , till about a few years ago , they had the habit of sprinkling cow dung mixed water infront of the houses . Still , it is followed in the villages . This good habit pleased Bhooma Devi very much . They conducted plenty of yagnas on Bhoomi . Now , they feel that it is a colossal waste of time to draw the kolams , in the cities . If the 3rd floor shakes , can the ground floor people alone escape ? Nobody understands this . The books , dheep ( lamps ) chank , flowers , leaves , thulasi , fruits & vegetables should not be kept on the sand floor . The ground related works should not be done during the eclipse . The burning camphor shouldn t be thrown on the floor . if the pits are dug to do yagnas , then the bhoomi must be cooled with the milk . Whatever the urgency may be , passing mal-jal on the sand ground , must be avoided . Should never spit the ground . Should we degrade the Vishnu Pathni ?

The proper bhoomi pooja must be done , before doing the bhoo dhan , ploughing , & starting the yathras . Instead of dropping the gems in the pits as it is , they should be kept in a brass or silver box . The same way , the Yanthras too , shouldn t be kept touching the ground directly . Bhoomi has another name too Pruthvi . Even the Ocean wouldn t create noise , if Venan s son emperor - Pruthu came . What did he do to fear even the ocean ? Due to Venan s atrociousness done while , Pruthu was crowned , Bhoomi pulled in all the oshadhis . No rain . The hunger & deaths due to hunger every where & not even a drop of water to drink even ! Venan ordered that no yagnas should be conducted anywhere . And, this was the net result of that order . The God always punishes in the latter stage . Pruthu was pure knight . When he prepared to aim Bhoomi with his bow & arrow & chanted the manthras , immediately she ran in the form of a cow . Pruthu too followed her . He didn t stop even at the Brahmma loka . Both of them argued . Bhooma Devi said Pruthu ! You make Swayambu Manu as the calf & your palm as vessel milk my energy . There were too much of many ups & downs & full of mountains & valleys ; The earth was too rough then . Firstly , Pruthu cleaned the Earth alright & made it a plains . For , he was anxious that the energy of the Cow ( Bhooma Devi ) shouldn t be wasted , by leaking through the fingers & falling on the soil . There was no agriculture ; The self growing vegetables & fruits were the only food to the people . Pruthu segregated the earth into villages & the cities & then only he milked the Cow . The tejas ( energy ) which ran through his palms , is only the food of the people till date . from then onwards , this Bhoomi got its name Pruthvi . Bhooma Devi was born from the feet of Sri mahavishnu . these are not my imaginations . Sri Narayana told the Sage Naradha ! Naradha asks Him how to praise Her ( sthothram ) . OM HREEM SREEM KLEEM VASUDHAYAI SWAHA : He ! The one so pure white as the white Lotus ! The one with face resembling the Moon of the Shrath Ruthu ; applied the sandal all over your body ; keeping the gems in your womb ; wearing the pure clothes made out of the fire ; The one always with sweet smile ! I pray & meditate on thee ! This is how she should be meditated . Next : - She , who supplies us the water ! Being in the form of water ! The one , who is the foundation support of the water ! The one , who purifies us like the water ! The pathni wife of the Parandjama , who is in the form of Yagna Varaha ! May You protect my family & heirs ! She , who gives us the victory ! The basic foundation of all the benefits ! he ! Mangala ! Mangalya roopini ! May You bless me with the mangalam in my samsara ! The know all powerful Goddes ! She , who fulfills all our desires ! May You fulfill my desires too ! The Bheeja swaroopa of the punyas ! She, who has no origin ! She , who is in the form of punyas ! The Mother of all the plants ! Please , protect my family , relatives & friends ( including the FB Friends !) give us the kshemam all the prosperities in life always ! The Varaha Moorthy , Brahma , Indra & all the Devas , Manus & the sages praised & worshipped Her ! If ithey order that ten rupees will be fined for spitting , nobody will spit ! The place where , the people , chant this sthothra daily in the morning & worship Vishnu , doesn t shake at all ( No earth quakes ) Nallar oruvar ularel , avar porutteelorkkum peyyum mazhai :- If there is one good man in a village/city , the sky rains for his sake to save everybody ! Owaiyar the famous Tamil poetess had sung this . The whole of this country will be clean & prosperous , if only everybody looks after the Bhooma devi , for their family s sake ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI KURUKSHETHRA ( I am not shrinking even a word of Sri Mahaperiyava , to let others to know the actual sufferings of those days our elders gone through , in those non- digital days . ) Once , in Kurukshethra , very sever cold waves & storm affected . All the water in the wells, tanks & the river became ice bars . Due to the poverty , people moved to other cities . The cattles died dueto the water & food scarcity . Chakra Sarma s son Ushasthi . He mastered in all the shasthras within his 12 years . His father made him a grahastha , as per the tradition of those days . The name of Ushasthi s wife was Adiki. Though , she

was hardly nine ( ! ) years , she behaved very responsibly . Because she was from a big respectable family . Because Ushasthi s mother too expired , both of them too began to leave the place by walk . They kept on walking . Nowhere a green grass to be seen . Their mouths dried ; and the hunger took away half of the life . Can have a cup of water , if atleast a hut is visible . But there were only hard rocks all around . His wife said I can t walk further . Leave me here & go . she fainted under a dried out tree . Ushasthi walked a little further . A small water falls was falling down like a thin wire . One can bear his hunger , if assured a meals . Then he will become enthusiastic . Likewise Ushasthi too felt happy . Chanting the Varuna japam , he drank the water his stomach full . He looked around through the trees, for a big leaf to take water to Adigi . He saw an elephant in a little distance . It looked as there was a man too . He walked with courage . The Mahout was eating the dhall rice . (Ulundhu ) Ushasthi told him Dear ! I am dying of hunger . Please give me some food . He stretched out his palms . Swami ! You look like a learned one of shasthras . Isn t it a sin to give you the balance of my food , which I am eating ? He hesitated . No sin in an the unavoidable situations . The sin won t go into the account of the givers , if the one asking for it , accepts . On the contrary , you will get only the punya of saving two lives . A hunter , namely Thinnappan , brought water in his mouth & performed abhishekam to the Lord Siva . We perform the archana to the God , with the flowers licked by the bees & butterflies . Honey is collected by the bees mouths . Don t the Mahans too eat it . Isn t the milk , the blood of the cow . You are only helping , to keep this soul in this body After hearing many more compromises , he gave Ushasthi the leaf full of rice & the water can too . Ushasthi said Thank you very much . But don t want this balance water . laughingly , the Mahout asked The balance of my food is ok . But not the water ? Won t you have hick ups ? No other food is available here . So , your balance food is medicine . (Owshadham ) But , when the water falls from the water falls here , if I take your balance water , then the dharm itself is spoiled . So saying , he plucked some Purasai leaves & stitched them with small sticks & made leaf bowl & collected water in it , & went back to Adiki . She cried shedding tears , I never thought that you would come back to this desert again & she felt glad too to see ger husband . Hadn t I promised in front of the fire that other than the death , nothing else would separate us ? Is it sufficient to learn the Vedha alone ? ( without following it ) Will the duty be over , with conducting the marriages & getting the dhakshin ? The couples can live long happily , if only the work ( My prohitham ) is done sincerely . ( athmartham ) . There will no meaning in my wearing this sacred thread , if I run away from you , while you are alive ! Eat this , firlstly . He stretched out the rice dhall . She preserved it in a vessel . Surprised at this he asked Aren t you hungry ? Seeing me swooned , some people going via this way , gave me some honey mixed - flour & fruits . Oh ! Didn t you eat ? She offered them to him . Ushasthi ate half of it & gave her back the balance , saying This will be useful to you , if you again feel like fainting . No , no . You are the one working . (Pravrutthi ) . You only need more strength . She preserved it in a vessel . Both of them stayed that night , under that tree . Next morning . Adiki ! They say that the king of this country is performing a Yagna in a big scale . If I chant the manthras I can eat well in the samradhana . And , I can also get you something to eat from the dhakshin I get there . So saying he moved . She gave the balance of the dhall rice to him . When Ushasthi hesitated to eat it , she said She who shares the difficulties of the husband firstly , is only a Pathni wife . I too will go with you & do some work in the Antha : pura ( Queen s wing ) & will look after my stomach & followed him . When they reached the yagashala , she separated . Ushasthi sat in the row of the people chanting the manthras . But , his mind suffered Oh ! What s this ? these people are chanting full of mistakes . He got up immediately . He shouted Prasthothas ! because you don t know the meaning of the manthras , you are mugging up spit . And the udhgathas , who follow you , repeat them simply . Therefore the sin will follow . Shall we make the King to suffer from the anger of the yaga devathas ? There was pin drop silence in the sathas . ( yagashala ) One of the prathiharthas asked him Do you know to say the manthras alright ? Ushasthi began to chant like a thunder . All of them , including the King were taken aback . The King asked him what is your name ?

I am ushasthi , the son of Chakra sarma The king got up immediately , ran to him & did a sashtanga namaskaram & begged He ! Dharmathma ! I was searching for you only to conduct this yagna . I received the information that whole of Kurukshethra was empty . because , I couldn t find you , I started this yagna , with these rithwiks ( The pundits ) It is my bhagyam that you have come here . I request you to conduct this yagna properly . Under the control of Ushasthi , the yagna wa completed very nicely . He told the king to honour the elders who began the yagna & on their advise , to pay well others . Moreover , he requested the King , not to treat him with extra respects as a special case . The Santhokyopanishadh tells that Ushasthi was the best example to quote , how the learned ( Vedha ) people should behave ! After the yagna was over , the King appointed Ushasthi as his Asthana Guru . Once the King asked him Swami ! Why did the Paramotthama - your father selected Kurukshethra , as the place to live in ? What is there so special about it ? Ushasthi replied beautifully A very good king with the best qualities , namely KURU Prepared a plough in gold . Gold is the metal of Brahaspathi ( planet Jupiter ) To grow plenty of super education , brain & medha vilas ( genious ) there , he did so . He did penance to Lord Siva . Siva appeared & aked what he wanted herequested I want your Nandhi to plough with his full co operation Then , with his thapobal , he went to the Yamalok & demanded his Vahan too . So , he got them both alright . With the help of them both , he began to plough the filed . Devendra came & asked him Why do you do so , in this new way ? He replied I am going to sow :- Thapas (The penance ) , sathyam ( truth ), forgiveness , affection , dharm , Brahmmacharyam (bachelorship ) , sacrifice & purity ! Indra , who is far away from the bhrammacharyam & truth , laughed it off & went away . When Narayana heard this , he came to Kuru & said Kuru , Give some of your seeds . I too will sow . Without any hesitation , he cut off his hand & gave it to him ! Narayana cut that hand into thousand pieces by His Sudhasan & threw them allover the field . Even before , Narayana cut off that hand , Kuru cut of off his another hand & two legs too . Hari felt tension immediately & asked Kuru Oh ! Why did you do so ? Kuru rplied camly There should not be insufficiency of the seeds . Isn t it ? ( What a KING KURU was ? ) Then Vishnu blessed him with the full growth of all his cut off parts & gave him the boon that , that place will be shining with his name . For a very long years , Kuru ruled , to stabiles the dharm & the justice . He built thousands of patashalas ( schools ) & the choultries ( Free boarding & lodgings ) Kuru kshethra has another name too BAHUDHANYAKA , which means , The country which has every good thing in surplus! Saraswahy river is running here . If that is dried , that means , the dharmic mentality has gone down . The pandavas , representing Siva s Nandhi & the Kauravas represenring Yama s vahana , gathered here . Vidhura was the example of the penance & yoga . Yudhishtir for sathyam , Bhishma for brahmmacaharyam , and for, philanthropi , the philanthropist Karna grew up here . The ferocious Dhrowpath forgave Aswatthama , who killed her 5 sons . Yudhishtir , sent Bhima & arjuna to save Dhuryodhan from Gandharvas , without thinking about driven to the forest by Dhuryodhan . Sahadeva , fixed the auspicious time to them , forgiving the enemies atrocities . ( he was well versed in Astrology ) Thus , the quality of forgiveness , surfaced from each at different times . Arjuna s son , Aravan , sacrificed himself as narabali ( human sacrifice ) for the enemies . Then , Sri Krishna created the Bhodhayana Amavasya . ( New moon ) . It is the place that Sri Krishna , kept Arjuna in the front & taught the Bhagavth Gita to the world . It is the sthal ( Holy place ) where Bhishma chanted the Vishnu Saharanama , while he was lying on the bed of arrows & waiting for the arrival of the Uttharayana punya kal . This is the place where the philanthropist Karna s blood flooded . Isn t it the place where Sri Krishna Paramathma walked ? Because , once Brahma performed a Yagna , it has another name - Brahma Vedhi . Because , this is filled with so many proud events , my father resided here . Plenty people would come there to bathe in the same tank where Brahma bathed , during navrath, eclipse & new moon days . If the dharmic deeds are reduced , the water & the earth too would dry like the minds of the people . If the Kings walks in adharmic way , then evil things will happen in the country . That s why I had to interfere in between the Yagna . THE PEOPLE MUST BE BOLD ENOUGH & QUESTION THE ATROCITIES , WITHOUT THINKING THAT IT IS NOT THERE JOB & NOT KEEPING ALOOF THEMSELVES! IF WE DO GOOD , THINKING GOOD , ONLY GOOD THINGS WILL HAPPEN .

WHAT A BLESSED DAY TO-DAY IT IS ? WHAT A BLESSED DEVOTEES & THEIR EARLY MORNING WONDERFUL POSTINGS ON THE SRI GURUS ? hE ACHARAYS ! PLEASE KEEP BLESSING ALL THESE DEVOTEES IN SUCH A HIGHER STATE OF MIND WITH ALL THE PROPERTIES OF THIS WORLD & OF THE SAYUJYAM . JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI We should appreciate the good qualities of a person .Why do we celebrate Srirama Navami ? Rama was an Ekapathni vrathan ; he obeyed his fathers orders . ( Pithru vakya paripalanam ) He accepted the Hunter Guha & the Monkey Sugreeva , without any patiality . He showed us to accept Vibheeshan , without any vengeance that he was the brother of Ravan , who kidnapped his wife Sithamatha . If anybody has all this kalyana gunas ( good qualities ) , then he too is Bhagvan . Leaving all these (good points & qualities) , many are keen only in finding out faults with Rama s actions He killed Vali , from hiding behind a tree; He ordered the pregnant woman Sitha matha to be left in the forest ; He ordered Sithamatha to bathe in the Agni ! Srirama was a Kin ! HE lived for the sake of the people . he sent Sithamatha to the forest , to give respect to even a washerman s words . HE spoke as if he didn t believe Sithamatha , only to avoid such talks, in the later periods . Didn t He know about Matha ? Matha too bathed in the Fire , fearing that the loka apavadham shouldn t touch HER ! The nerveless tongue ! Because it always wet , whatever nonsense it speaks , it will bathe immediately & purify itself ! So , it will speak ill of anything ! The brain alone should control it . The Bhagvan is arranging the 32 teeth beautifully in 2 rows to protect it . And , at times the teeth too bite it . Even then , the tongue has no shame . (vyavasthai ) . Ok ! We shall move over to valivadham ! Sugreeva had come first & surrendered . So , if Vali too surrenders , what to do then ? The very learned had already argued all this in the open debates . What is the reason of attacking Vali from behind a tree ? The first reason is , whoever fights with Vali directly face to face , half of their strength will go to him . Then , how will Ravan vadham happen ? Vasuki s boon too is another reason for Vali s vadham ! It was decided that the Devas & Asurs should stir the milk ocean & they had dropped all sorts oshadhis too in it . They used the Manthara Mountain as the axis & requested one of the ashtanagas Vasuki & wound it thrice around Manthara & began to stir . On the side of asurs & standing opposite to Perumal , Vali was stirring . The Koormavatharam was only going to be be taken by Perumal afterwards only ! Vali was that much old fellow ( puranawala ) Vasukis body suffered due to the wounds by the sharp nails of Vali . Too much pain all over its body , due to his rough pulling . After everything was over , Perumal asked vasuki , you have helped a lot to get the Nectar . What boon do you want ? He said I want to sleep for Yugs . Ok ! I shall give you one more boon . Ask me There is chain like link between these two boons & the avthar of Bhagvan . With tears , Vasuki said Vali is rude adamant fellow . Nobody should suffer from him like me . You must kill him ! Thathasthu ! ( Done ) Bhagvan gave him the word . Vasuki began to sleep in the forest , near the ashram of Mathangka maharshi and kept on sleeping . The Bhagvan had finished His Varaha , Nrusimha & vamana avthars too . The yugs were passing on . The Bhagvan created an ant - hill on him to avoid anybody disturbing his sleep . Vayu threw plenty of sand on it & 7 Accha trees grew on it . Bhagvan was born to Emperor Dhasharat , came to the forest separated from Sithamatha & was on His way insearch of Her , then met Sugreeva ! To create confidence to Sugreeva on Him , he made holes in the 7 Accha trees with one arrow . How could He do it ? Vasuki , who was sleeping under the trees for yugs , was visible to His eyes . HE preesed his tail by His toe . HE released the arrow . Disturbed from his sleep , Vasuki curved his body , hissed & woke up . The four trees were in one row & the balance three were in another row according to Vasuki s curvaceous body . All the trees came in one straight line , because Vasuki straightened his body . in the Sriramaswamy temple in Kumbakonam , they have drawn Ramayana in pictures . Wonderful work . These 4 & 3 curvaceous vasuki sleeping scene can be seen there . Bhagvan didn t kill Vasuki immediately after granting the boon to Vasuki . HE let him live for yugs . Once Vali & an Asur fought inside a cave . Sugreeva , closed the cave , mistaking the blood flowing out , was of Valis . When Vali came back , he immediately begged Vali to forgive him & handed over his rajya too . Wasn t it ? One shouldn t keep on chasing a running fellow !

Nobdy can live permanently on this earth . Vali s life ended only because of the great sin , accumulated by the action of Vali, kept on chasing Sugreeva . Rangaraja , gave word to Vasuki long before Sugreeva . Rajarama was a king to Ayodhya only . But , Govindharaja is the king of this Pruhvi .( world ) He was born to kill the Dhushtas ( asurs ) ; Was not HE born only to give asylum to the orphans ? (Who are helpless ) Sri Rama s Pattabhishekam ! The shouting of the people Prabho , Maharaja was hitting the sky . Ade Rama ! This udden voice startled everybody . A person in torn clothes & grey hairs , came in double up & embraced Srirama ! Sage Vasishta asked Srirama Who is this ? He Guru ! Don t you know him ? He is our Ananthan . keeping new palm new palm leaves ( for writing ) , keeping the asthras ( arrows ) in order , serving food like mother . What a lot of he;ps he did to Me ? After introducing him to Vasishta , He asked Ananthan Anbantha ! Where were you so long years ? What were you doing ? He Rama ! When I had been to the forest to pluck the darppa grass , didn t you return back to Ayodhya , without even informing me, because your studies were over ? I felt very sad . I came back top Ayodhya by walk only ! When I arrived at Yodhya , they told me that you had & Lakshman had gone along behind Visvamithra to protect his yagnas , to forest . Who will give you dharppa grass , samitthu ( sticks to perform homas ) , etc;? What will you do , if lion , tiger etc attack you there ? Will good food be available in the forest ? Like this I worried so much . What is the use of simply worrying alone ? I did penance , so that you should not suffer in the forest . He couldn t speak further as the sorrow stopped his voice . At that moment a rushi came forward & said When we were hurrying to attend your Pattabhishekam ( crowning ) , my foot hit the ant-hill on him broken & he came to his senses & called Rama . then , we told him the entire episodes & brought him here . Though , Anantha prevented Sri rama , he didn t listen to him ; HE sat him on this throne , garlanded him & did all the other respects . Srirama has no upper & lower class etc; . HE was born to honour the lower class . HE lifted up Sugreeva & Vibheeshan . He did padha pooja to Ananthan . We too should learn to be humble & simple , by remembering His history ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI Once the famous powranika Sri Manjakkudi Rajagopala Sasthrigal had been to Srikanchi to have dharshan of Sri Mahaperiyava . After he did the sashtanga namaskaram, Sri Periayava asked him an important detail from Ramayan . Rajagopala ! When Hanuman went to Lanka , Why did he choose the Simshupa vruksham to hide himself in a small figure & to talk to Sitha matha ? Do you know that sookshmam ? ( secret ) Sasthry said with a little hesitation , It is because that tree was near Sithamatha , I guess No , It is not because of that . The leaves of that tree are in ash grey colour . It suits with that of Hanuman s skin colour . So , No rakshasi can find Him . So , Hanuman hid himself in between thos e leaves & spoke to Sithamatha . Those trees are on the way to Senkalipuram . If you happen to go via that way , see for yourself & know that the leaves of that tree are in the same ash grey colour ! On hearing this explanation by Periyava , Sasthry wondered & stood like a dumb ! TRhen onwards , wherever he gave the Ramayan discourse , he never missed telling this Periyava s explanation . Lakhs of people read & give Ramayan discourses . How many of them , learn with this much of perfection of such minute , wonderful things ? That s the magnanimity of Sri Mahaperiyava ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA . Tanjore Sri Santhanaraman shares his thoughts of THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI ! SUVEESESHAM ! Once , I had been to Ilaiyatthangkudi camp to have the dharshan of Sri Periyava , on the next day of a Diwali . There was no rush at 4 pm . HE was sitting alone . I did sasshtanga namaskaram & stood silently .

did you celebrate Diwali alright ? With the blessings & anugraha of Periyava Silence for a little moment HE began again . Did you see the Diwali Malar ( special issue ) of Ananda vikata ? I thought for a moment , to give what reply & kept quiet . Again silence . All the journalists their employees & the Editor each journal group will do bhiksha to me , once a year . The people of Ananda Vikatan , came here two months ago to do bhiksha to me . I asked them ( Has the Editor come ? They replied he had gone to Delhi on a work . I told them If possible , inform your Editor to come & see me . They may have told him so . After about 10/15 days , the Editor came for the dharshan . ( Periyava was referring to S.S.Vasan ) In between the talks , I asked him you did suveesesham ( propaganda by the Christianity ) to you on your wrapper , do they give plenty of money to you for doing so ? With astonishment , he said Yes Will you suffer too much , if you don t get this money ? He wasa worried much & said I can t understand anything . I don t know , what Periyava is saying All the people came here for dharshan , complained me . Vasan has allotted the inner wrapper for the publicity of the Christianity ! Can t Periyava stop this ? That s why I asked you They may have received it on business terms ; I will enquire it in my office . I can understand that this wrong . I will stop this immediately . Will it incur a big loss to you ? I have done a big blunder . Doesn t matter , whatever be the loss be , by stopping this . I will see that it doesn t appear again He was sitting for some minutes with the mental agony & then said I want to propitiate for the blunder I have done . Periayava has to allow me . I thought for a while & said Then do one thing . You publish in your magazine about me . He accepted it . The foreigners are coming to see me , isn t it ? One of them had written about me in their country , after seeing me & returning back there . He had sent a copy to Srimatam here . Get it from the Manager , read it & then publish it in your magazine . Do you know , what he had said in it about me ? HE is Jesus ; I saw Jesus publish it in your magazine ; and this is the suveesesham ! I shall publish this beautifully, in this year s Diwali Malar itself ! that alone will give me shanthi ! So saying he left . And, I only asked you , whether you had seen that ! He was simply smiling & gave me the prasadham . Till I reached my home , I was munching over it ! JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! MESSAGE OF UNIVERSAL PEACE BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG OUR YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI Maithreem bhajathaakkilajjethreem ! Cultivate friendship , which will conquer all hearts ! Aathmavadheva paraanapi pashyatha ! Look upon others as thyself ! Yuddham thyajatha spardhaa thyajatha ! Renounce war ; forswear competition . Thyajatha pareshvakramamaakramanam ! Give up aggression on others , which is wrong . ! Jananee pruthivi kamadhudhaSSthe ! Wide mother Earth , our Mother is here ready to give us all our desires ! Aathmavadheva paraanapi pashyatha ! We have the Lord , our Father , compassionate to all ! Dhaamyatha dhattha dhayadhva janathaa : ! Ye peoples of the World ! Restrain yourselves , Give , Be Kind ! Shreyo Bhooyath sakala janaanaam ! May all people be happy and prosperous ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA !

BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF SRIKANCHI DASA DASOSAHAM : If everybody thinks himself as the Paramathma , then none will commit any mistake at all . If you ask me how , the Bhagvan doesn t scold the people back again , whoever does the nindhasthuthi ( scolding Him ) He Bhagvan ! don t you have eyes ? He doesn t even explain , the reason for that difficult , arose to him . He knows it only through his experience in the course of time . He Bhagvan ! Thank you for giving me this pleasure ! So saying , he goes to the temple & perform special abhishekam , arcchanai , pooja & all . The punya will not accumulate in his account , because of that . Nor , the Bhagvan too doesn t get up & take part in his pleasure . It is a very big pleasure to be without any desire . If he lives unperturbed by these pleasures & sorrows , he won t have any sorrow at all . Everything must be surrendered at His lotus feet . A fellow went to a saint & asked him Which is permanent in this world & how to achieve it ? He replied sosaham . He asked him again What is it ? I don t understand The omnipresence , Paramathma is alone the permanent one . If you concentrate on this & chant this , then , that Paramathma will descend in your mind He too sat at a place & began to chant sosaham sincerely . A known person to him, came in search of him there . He woke him up from his japam & asked what tha japam was . To see the Bhagvan in me , I must concentrate & chant this japam . I must see the Bhagavan . So don t disturb me . The person disturbed was a very learned , good man . Adade ! If he taught youwrongly , what will you do ? Only by submitting yourself to Him , the knowledge will be born within you . Add up dha & chant Dhasosaham . You will be victorious very soon . He finished his upadesh to him & gone . He changed his japa manthra & began to chant . A mahan was passing through that way & stopped at seeing him . What are you chanting ? Dhasosaham Adada ! You are chanting anyway . Can t you chant to get the poorna palan ? ( full result ) If you add up , sa in the beginning of it , it will mean Always I am Paramathman ! So , Bhagavan will get into your heart . So he too began chanting sadhasosaham At that moment , another vedha pandit came via that way . He woke him up & said My son ! If you add up one more letter , you will become very near to Bhagvan . what letter Swami ? Please teach me that ! he fell at his feet , sashtangam. Chant dasa dasosaham ! You will fall at His feet saying He ! Bhagvan ! I am the servant of your servant ! Have mercy on me ! he finished his upadesh . He chanted so & was turned into a big Yogi ! The one word sosaham lifted him up step by step & changed him into a Mahan . Nobody can eat the raw rice . The water & fire- the agni change it into havis . Then , its name is not rice annam . before removing its skin ( umi ) , it is paddy grain . If the same is left as it is to mature , it is the seed . Before maturing, we call it natthu ( the growing young stage of the paddy crop ). If the same rice is ground well to make it a flour & we add up different items & call it seedai , murukku , appam etc; We see the the young paddy crop of natthu as Bhoomi . The matured ones become the seeds . The Agni & the water are the sorrows & pleasures . We just remove the umi - the skin & jump saying that we have got the responsibility . Everybody is doing whatever they can to the Worldly hunger . The scattered/left over grains on the floor too become the food of the ants & the birds . Bhagvan never create anything that is unwanted/not required . . Even the plant with the thorns too is useful to protect the garden . The plants on the banks of the streams , too protect strengthen its banks , by their roots . ( What lovely examples, explanation & conclusion of a Mahathma s growth ! Who else can give such a an excellent discourse other than Sri Mahaperiyava MAHAN ? ) JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG YUGA PURUSH - PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI SUBRAHMANYAM Sage vyasa Bhagvan had written in His Brahma soothra 3r adhyaya 3rd leg 32nd suthra - that , a soul which has born for a particular purpose , will ilve in its body , till the completion of that purpose .! Sri

Sdi Sankara Bhagavath Padhal too , written in His Bhashyam to this ( Brahma Soothra ) , Sanathkumara too gave the boon to Rudhra ( Lord Siva ) , & was born as His son Skandha ! This is really a surprising news ! What ? When Brahma , himself couldn t find the head of Lord Siva , should His manasa puthra gives boon or what ? It was scratching my mind . I read all the 18 puranas ; and went through all the upnishadhs too ; Atlast , one Somadeva Sarma , had found it out in the Thripura Rahasyam Mahathmya Kanda 37th adhyaya - & declared it . I will share it with you all . Once Sanathkumara dreamt that He was on side of the Devas in the battle between them & the Asurs & won the battle too , by killing all the Asurs . When he got up , he immediately told about this dream to Brahma & asked Why did I become the Chief of one party & fought too ? Brahma replied to him In your previous birth , you did the Vedha adhyayanam . You were very angry , when the Asurs tortured the people who were chanting the Vedhas . Then , the thought of erasing the Asurs , rooted too deeply in your mind . The unfulfilled desires of the previous janma birth will come in dreams . I am seeing ( treating ) all as brahmam , isn t it ? what Asurs & devas ! so saying , he again went deep in his yoga nishta . ( Samadhi statge of Yoga ) . The people with crystal like minds , & the people who follow the Sathya vrath , Whatever they say , it will become true . Even if it is an accidental one , it shall happen positively . Uma Maheswara appeared infront of Sanathkaumara & said My Child ! Wehave come to give you boons Even then Sanathkumara didn t open his eyes ! How pride you are ? I am going to curse you ! Said Sadhasiva . Sanathkumara opened his eyes & said camly & simply The Curse won t touch the Athma . Can you expect any upachara ( manners ) from a person who has closed his eyes . ? Pashupatheeswara said To make you to open your eyes , I spoke like that . But , I have come to give you boon only ! I have no any affections ; then why a boon to me ? can you spoil it , when I am enjoying the Brahmanandha ? Let it be aside ; Don t you know that both the boon & the curse are one & the same to the gnani ? Oho ! All the differences of anger , curse, pleasure , boon , etc; are all with YOU ! Ok ! Then ! In that case , I shall give you a boon ; you ask me then ! That s it . This is what Siva invited him for a word dual ? Appane ! ( He calls him dad . Later on he taught Him the meaning of OM ) you should be born to me as my son . ! After giving the boon , can he get back now ? He accepted it with a condition . Swamy ! You ALONE asked me to be born as your son ! Mother didn t ask me ! Our Shasthras say that , boon shouldn t be given to the one , who has asked for . You must bear me alone ! Devi was startled & argued My Child ! Whatever belongs to the husband , belongs to the wife too ; Isn t it ? So , I need not ask for the boon separately ; if you are His son , it means , you are my son too child ! Sanathkumara fell into deep meditation again . Siva consoled Devi & disappeared . In some families , mother may beat the child , when in a little angry mood . if the cries too much , the father would console the child See here ! I am going to beat the mom 1 so saying , he would keep his hand on his wife & beat it with his another hand . The child will be fooled & will laugh . And , in this , the wife too will be glad to find the husband s love , in taking care to see that she doesn t get any harm . This is a small drama in a family . One , Bhasmasooran did penance . Siva appeared & asked him , what boon he wanted . If I keep my hand on whoever s head , he should be burnt to ashes . Siva said Done . Isn t it qite natural to doubt anything that is easily given ? Hey ! What is this , he had accepted so easily . Will it be really valuable ? Asur too doubted ! It was the centre of the forest ; nobody else was there to test . Firstly I shall test it by keeping my hand on your head . so saying he chased Siva . He ran helter skelter , along with his rudhrakshas , snakes & his jatamudi too jolting ! Finally , He disappeared . Devi , when she heard this through Naradha , melted immediately . The one burnt herself , when her father Dhaksha , insulted Her , now melted into water! That is Saravana Poigai ! After , Mahavishnu came as Mohini & finished Bhasmasoora , Siva came back to his figure again . And , The Devi too came in Her figure . Even then , as the mark of Her love ( to Siva ) Saravana poigai remained as it was .

Then , After Siva parvathi marriage was over , Devas were very much worried that sill , Kumaran son is not born to them & sent Agni ! After Agni came in there , Parvathi staepped away from Siva . Siva gave His tejas to Agni . Agni suffered to carry the Siva tejas . kaishpathi said Leave it in the Saravana poigai . Doubting , whether Saravana poigai could bear it , he left Siva tajas in it . It bcame six children . SUBRAHMANYAM WAS BORN ! SU = SHUBHAM , SUBHEEKSHAM . { OM SARAVANA BHAVAYA NAMA : OM SRI VALLI DEVASENAPATHAYE ; SUBRAHMANYOM } Hereafter , Devas { and , all of us too } are going to be blessed with the shubham & subheeksham ! Sanathkumara came in as Brahmmanyam ! Six children were brought up by the Krutthika 6 girls . That is Adikrutthigai . ( The Krutthika star in the Tamil month of Adi ) . The one who took in the Sivatejas in the form of Saravana poigai , embraced all the six children & made them into one That is vaikasi vishkam . ( Vishka star in the Tamil month of vaikasi ) This is the special drama enacted by lord Siva , to make the dream of Sanathkumara to become true . JAYA JAYA SNKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI APARNA There is kshethram on the banks of river Cauvery , called Thiruvidaimarudhur . It has another name too Madhyarjunam . Ambal s name is Bruhath Sundhara Kushambikai . Eswaran s namadeyam is Mahalingam . One Sri Bhaskara Royar , who wrote the bhasyam to Sri Lalitha Sahasranamam was living there. He stabilized (avahanam ) Ambal in the Srichakra & was performing the poojas . Srichakra pooja is not a simple & easy one ! Bhindhu , Triangle , two ten angles , 14 angles , 8 dhalas , 16 dhalas , & the Bhoopuram with three lines . This is Srichakra ! I have heard that He would meditate the appropriate Devis of each , mentally & then only He would start the pooja . That Mahan , had borrowed a small amount from a local person . Not for the family maintenance! He had to cup his palms , to make a jewell to the idol ( Ambal ) to which He was performing the pooja . He couldn t return the debt on time as accepted . His wife , went to her mother s home in North , to get some amount . It might take two months for her to return back . Will the debtor wait till then ? Friday . That Devi Upasaka was performing the Sahasranama arcchanai to Ambal . The debtor had come there . Sri Bhaskara Royar didn t welcome him , because of the rule that shouldn t speak in between the pooja . The debtor got wild . He shouted like hell . It is my fate to give you my money & walk many times to get it back . Without even a little worry about the expiry date of the document you are performing the pooja ! It strikes to you that if you just saya word come , it will affect the pooja Isn t it ? Likewise , don t you have the manners that you should return back the debt too ? Has Ambal taught you to cheat me , without returning the debt ? Like this he scolded Him as he liked & gone . Sri Bhaskara Royar s tongue didn t cooperate to continue the Arcahanai . The eyes were filled with tears . The next line He ought to utter was the 754th line of Sri lalitha Sahasra Namam . OM APARNAYAI NAMA : 754TH . APARNA MEANS THE ONE WHO DIDN T EVEN EAT THE LEAF & DID THE PENANCE Without uttering that nama runamishta mathathvaiva thvannama japatho mama ! Shive gathamaprnethi rootir parayathe na the !! Amma ! you thought that the leaf too was a debt of hunger & omitted it & did the penance ! You are the one who thinks that the pooja done by your Bhakthas too is a debt & gives them the boons ! I am the one who keeps on chanting your name & you have kept me in a position that I can t even return the debt , which I borrowed for your poojas . You are keeping a name Aparna ! Isn t it heavy to you ? So he was feeling so much ! Then , he somehow consoled himself & finished the pooja ! Am I the only one bhaktha to Ambal ? Plenty of Bhakthas ! Plenty of prartthanas ! you shouldn t think otherwise He scolded His brain & showed the camphor dheeparadhana ! After finishing the dheeparadhana , there was a shadow seen at the entrance . The same debtor was coming back again with a paper in his hand . You must forgive me immediately . I had spoken with the uncontrolled tongue . Your wife came & returned your full debts . Before I could search for the document , she had gone saying that she had no time to wait . You might have been thinking to return it today . But , I only , had hurried . I have written

in the document , that you had returned the debt & signed it with the date . Here it is . Please check it . Don t keep anything in your mind ! The Mahan couldn t understand anything at all . He received the document , opend it & went through that . It was His debt document alright ! he was confused How is it possible ? My wife has been to North . It may take more than two months too . Even if she comes now , she won t come to your house straight away . Then bothe of them understood at once that the person who came , was Ambal only ! The debtor did a sashtanga namaskaram to the Upasaka . Hadn t she come in disguise of your wife , because she couldn t tolerate my abusing to you ? I have been a fool , not able to understand that you are the Ambal swaroopam ! And I didn t think of you are the Mahathma , who said the 64 koti ( crores ) Devaths samudhrika lakshanas , vasthras , armaments , when all the Pandits of Kasi ( benares ) asked you to say them against the line of Maha chathush shashti koti yoginee gana sevitha & you said them all without any interruption ! And I didn t think of them all & you are such a Mahathma He kept on blabbering . please get up . Everything is HER action ! I have to make a correction of what you have been thinking so long . would it have been possible to say the details of the creations of those 64 crores of Devathas by me - a very ordinary fellow like me ? Ambal sat on my shoulder in the form of a Parrot ( not seen by others ) & spoke to me . The hands of the people only , became tired . All the sthrees ( women ) are Suvasinees ! That s why , Ambal came in the form of my wife . Cried , blabbered & let HER walk for me , to clear my debt , isn t it ? I am the one who have no patience ! SHE is a wonder . She did many miracles . ! The name APARNA is suitable exactly to HER alone . HE ! Matha ! please forgive this SON ! So saying , SRI Bhaskara Royar did a sashtanga namaskaram ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI BENEFIT OF THE PENANCE Each one shares their family problems to me & go . Why ? Am I Bhagvan ? Because I will solve it ? No These people are only my family . They think that I am the one to worship the Bhagvan without any family worry . Hanuman was a good Ambassador . Sitha Devi received a good news . Sri Krishna Paramathma too had been as an ambassador . Then , Dhuryodhan doubted Him , for , He stayed at Vidhura s house . That s why due to the word dual , Vidhura broke his bow ., isn t it ? Aswatthama , a chiranjeevi . And , Sri Krishna Paramathma drove in his chariot Dhuryodhan too doubting Him . After Bhisma , if he had become the Commander of the Army , would the Pandavas have won ? The one who , simply mug-up & repeat the words , is not a good ambassador He must look for the right time, situation , opportunity, surroundings etc ; ! Srirama didn t order Hanuman to burn Lanka & come back nor He questioned why he burnt it too ! It can easily & simply said, that it is due to the sins of the previous birth . Somebody said by doing Abhishekam , the vigrhas the idols - become greenish dirt accumulates have to clean it with the tamarind at home they make fun of me that I am very old type & Puranic so , only a simple naivedhyam & arcchana .. Now, for our convenience , at homes , fridge , fan , phone , T.V. etc ; so many good things have come . Don t they dust them often & keep them clean & neat ? And, this too is ( doing abhishekam to idols ) same as that .. isn t it ? The ones who have money , if they give Rs 5 /= , somebody comes & cleans them . Everybody has fear in sub conscious , to see the TV safely , sitting under the fan . Therefore they have hung up simply Rama , Krishna , Siva , Muruga , Ambal , Ganapathy . But , they clean thedust on them , only on the auspicious days . Are two bananas enough as naivedhyam to all those Gods ? If the mother feeds her child with milk rice from the bowl , its stomach will become full . But , it isn t sufficient , when the child grows up . The mother teaches , ummacchi .. save me ; tap your cheek ; She must get up early, prepare the annam rice do the naivedhyam to the God . If the mind is adamant that it would het up at 6 O clock only , then the , our difficulties & problems too will be adamant to leave us . The bride groom comes to the Airport ; we have already spoken & fixed him up to the daughter . Periyava should bless us that the same place go through alright They are going to the airport at 3 am , if the plane comes at 5 am !

We should trust Him fully , that He shall finish up alright . We should only try on our part HE won t cheat us , if it is a good one ! The parents order , buy the jewells & saris & loch them up in the bureau & . refuse to wear them . unwillingness venomous Is it alright for the daughters to think so ? The right time & responsibility should mature enough for that . If become responsible , then automatically , you will get what deem fit . Kadhru & Vinatha were the wives of Kashyap . Cobras were born to Kadhru . Vinath s two fetus were in two jars . Because , she opened it at an early stage in a hurry , Arunan became a handicapped one ; and, was the driver of the Sun s chariot . He told his mother Don t be in a hurry . When the jar bursts itself & my brother come pot , all your difficulties will vanish The jar burst & Garuda came out . If fruit ripens , it won t stick to the tree ; if the flower blossoms , the bees will automatically fly to them . The difficulties will fly away , if we keep doing our duties ! Valakil;yas were the sons of Kruthu , who is one of the Saptharshis . They were the height of the thump & thickness ; but , they were 60,000 in totally . They hung in the same tree upside down & did penance ! Maha tejusvees ! They didn t think about their thump size height & collected the Samitthu for the yagna ( sacrifice ) of the sage Kashyap . Even at the rate 2 per head , it amounts to 1,20,000 , isn t it ? Once , Garuda rested on the same tree , where these Valakilys were doing penance . The sound of the broken branches . Garuda , immediately carried them & left them all in the Gandhamadhana parvam ( mountain ) Because , they wouldn t get away from each other ; isn t it ? Without any laziness , he carried them all , as much as he good & left them at the Gandhamadhana parvam . The Kruthu puthras were very much pleased with Him & gave Him all their benefits earned through their penance . That s all the more reason , that , Garuda went to the Devaloka ( heaven ) , won Indra & brought the Amrutham ( nectar , ambrosia ) & released His mother from the slavery . The mistakes may happen , without our knowledge ; If we try to escape from it , instead of seeking a solution to solve it , that s SIN . The Bhagvan keeps seeing . If only , garuda simply flew away , would He have got the benefit of the penance ? Or would He have Got the strength to Carry the Bhagvan Himself too ? Therefore , if we leave the laziness & the fear, think over & act on it , Half of the problems will fly away . { What a problem of insulting the idols was brought & what a great solution was given without hurting or wounding ! } JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI NARAYANA & NAMA: SIVAYAM The seven & half years period of Saturn is going to me now . I am suffering too much . Some people tell me that it will become alright , if I go & have dharshan of Ezhumalaiyan ( Thiruppathi Balaji of seven hills ) some people say that I should perform abhishekam to Nallarappan at Thirunallaru . Total confusion to me . is it Nallarappan or narayanan or Both ? If Periyava tell me , I shall do as per the orders ! like this one person asked , almost weeping . If the transit of ( gocharam ) of the planets aren t ok , one should worship the Bhagvan only & shouldn t keep doing the research of worship to whom ? Both are same . We do the archana with the bilva dhal to the Bhagvan , who dances in the smashana ( burial ground ) to reduce His heat . We do the archana to the Bhagvan who is resting at the so cool Thirupparkadal ( Milky Ocean ) , with the hot Thulasi leaves ! Prahladha was a small boy . He was chanting om namo narayana instead of his father s name . The king thought over If the own son is not respecting me , then others too won t have fear in me He is punishing his own son like this cruelly , then what will be our fate ? to make the people to think so , he ordered the ferocious cobras to bite him . They too bit him ferociously . In return their teeth were only broken ; the naga rathnas ( Gems ) from their heads busted out & fell . Now , they have found out in science , that there is an alternative for the poison . When they stirred the Milky Ocean , firstly the poison ( halahalam ) only came out . Lord Siva swallowed it to become Nilakantan ! Perumal is carrying the sinking mountain . There is no any difference in between THEM ! Their main aim was to get the Amrutham the nectar , somehow . Even then , the Amrutham came only

after the poison . The cobras fainted after they bit and took out the poison called the son of Hiranyakasibu ! But , Prakladha was chanting the name Govindha ! The whole of his body was filled with the Amruth the nestar of Narayana ! Next , Hiranya , ordered the Ashta dik gajas ( the wild cruel elephants ) on Prahladha . Perumal came and lay down in the chest of Prahladha . The trunks of the elephants alone broke into pieces . Prahladha was not aware of anything at all . After that , he ( Hiranya ) [ here I tried thrice to type H for Hiranya in capital , but only small h was only typed ! ; narayana ] ordered to dig a big pit & start growing the fire in it . But , there were only the Lotus flowers covering Prahladha ! And, Prahladha came out smiling from the ashes of the burnt out fire ! Again after that , he ( hiranya I don t want to test again with capital h ) fed him with the poison of Halahala mixed in the meals . But , the poison of the cobras in his bode this one to nothing a zero ! And again , he ( hiranya ) ordered them to push Prahladha from atop the last floor [ height of 100 yojanas. 1 yojana = 100 miles ] The Bhooma Devi carried him just like that . Then ( ! ) , he ordered them to bind him with the Naga pashas ( the ropes of the cobras ) & throw into the deep centre of the ocean ; and also to pluck the big mountains and build them on Prahladha . They too did so . The mountains were kept around him to the extent of 1,00 yojanas . Because he was afraid that Prahladha would escape through any small pin hole ! Achyutha , Anantha , keshava , Narayana , Madhava , Govindha , Vishnu , Madhusoodhana , Thrivikrama , Vamana , Sreedhara , Hrusheekesha , Pdhmanabha , Damodhara , Pundareeksha, Vaikunthavasa ! One day or the other , the people born , should meet their death , positively . My death is something of a new model ! Prahladha kept on chanting like this . The Naga pashas swelled in water & fell away themselves due to the unbearable pain . Prahladha got up and walked on the mountains so easily with his small feet . IN THIS ACTION , PERUMAL S PRABHAVAM WAS SEEN CLEARELY . Thirunavukkarasar [ one of the 4 most important Saivaites of the Tamilnad ] was , firstly in the Samana ( jain ) religion . Then , his name was Dharmasena . Then , he suffered from severe stomach pain & was cured by the Vibhoothi . So , he switched over to a Siva Bhaktha as per his sister s advise . When the Jains came to know of this & feared that , if the King too changes to Saivam , their livelihood too would be spoilt . So , they went to the King & lied that Dharmaseena had joined the Saivam lying that he suffered from stomach pain . That king was Mahendra Varma Pallava 1. He has also another name gunadhara . The jains induced him that , if Dharmasena was not erased , many more would go in his way . The king too didn t inquire . He ordered them to throw him into the calcium kiln . Thirunavukkarasar was in it so comfortably all the 7 days , just like he was on top of the mountain full of ice . The manthra he learnt when he was in the Jain religion , has been utilized by him now . This won t do . He must be given the most dangerous poison the Jains said . They kept him in the prison & gave the milky rice mixed with the poison . nanjum amudhamahum Nathan adyarukke ven the poison will turn into Nectar to the bhakthas of Siva so saying smilingly , Appar ( another name thirunavukkarasar ) ate it . What can the poison do , when the Lord who ate the poison ( Siva ) was with him ? He was perfectly alright . They told them to order the King s elephant on Appar . Its name was Kopadhisayam . ( kopam = anger , adhisayam = wonder ) Because its anger too would be a wonder , it was named so . Because , Appar was standing there, & singing the thevaram ( the songs on Siva ), the elephant did pradhakshin of him & bowed down to him . The mahout compelled it to kill Appar & hit wth his ankusham ( the weapon to control the elephant ) . It simply pushed the mahout down & killed him . And also . it stepped on many of the Jains standing there , & erased them too . The escaped ones ran to the King & told him We forgot that he learnt the Mruga Vasya Manthra ( to hypnotise the animals ) . He had hipnotised the elephant too . He will be erased if he is wound with the big stone & dropped in the sea They took him in a boat & pushed him into the sea . Appar sang katrunaip poottiyor kadalil paaicchinum , natrunaiyavadhu namacchivayame [ even if wound with the stone & thrown into the sea , The word Nama: sivayam is the only help ] Immediately the stone floated like a boat . The ropes wound him with stone , broke . He got up on the shores of Thiruppadhirip puliyur . [ Today s Caddalore ]

When the King heard this , he too changed to Saivam & built a Siva Temple Gunaparaveeswaram in Thiruvadhigai . The faith in God has no differentiation . As Perumal saved Prahladha , Nama : Sivayam saved Thirunavukkarasar . of these two , who is bigger ? [ None ] If one walks on this route & on that route for a while . he won t be able to reach his destination . Should trust in one faith firmly . From the amount allotted to buy the horses , Manikkavasagar spent for the temple works . So he also suffered a lot for it . Moreover , Bhagvan too came & was beaten . Likewise , Bhaktha Ramadas too spent the King s money to repair & renovate the Bhaddrachalam temple . For that , he suffered like hell for 12 years in the prison . No God spared , anybody who committed blunders . Therefore , one should live honestly & properly in the dharmic way . Should not seek the short-cut route to get fame . Such fame won t come alone . It will bring along the punishment & ill fame too with it . Hence , one should not wish to acquire anything belonging to others ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI OM SRI GURUBHYO NAMA : GANGESA MAITHRA A devotee asked me very politely I performed the abhishekam , aradhana etc to the vel ( The weapon of Lord Sri Kartthikeya & His mothere Shakthi ) at home . I did parayana of Vel Viruttham ( the slokas on the Vel ) By the blessings of Lord Kartthikeya my Grandson too has born . Now , what to do with that Vel ? Some people say that it can be given to the Purohith , along with thamboolam & ddhakshin . Some advise me to keep it in the temple . I am awaiting Periyava s order ! I really didn t know , whether to laugh or to repent for his illiteracy . Now , the mouth was speaking ; The ears are waiting to listen, what I am going to say . Isn t the nose doing nothing ? Won t it be sufficient to keep two holes alone to breathe , by operating it ? They say that velirukka vinai theerum ( if the vel is there , the evils will be cleared .) Has that Vel become a heavy burden to you after gaining the good result , like leaving the parents at old-age homes ? That was given to Lord Muruga Ambal . Could Ambal not have killed That asura Sooran ? She wanted that credit to go to Her son & blessed so ( with the vel ) Likewise , the child born ( grandson ) should grow well without diseases ; should study well & come up very well so thinking , why don t you to continue the poojas to that Vel ? Do we give away the mixie & the grinder , as danam , after our work is finished in them ? Don t we clean them & keep for tomorrow s purpose ? Why didn t it strike to you , that in future , you shouldn t suffer to get a grandson through your son or daughter ? After the cooking is over , we don t give away the vessels as danam ( free ) ! If our children go abroad for jobs , we start blabbering oh! They have forgotten us ! But, should we gorget the Shakthi Ayudham ? ( ( Shakthi s weapon ) Kshamikkanum ( forgive me ) , I forgot my brain ! He did a sashtanga namaskaram & gone . another one ( devotee ) said A good bridegroom s Horoscope has come for alliance to my daughter , from Kolkattha . Though willing to give my daughter , they say that they eat the fish ! Yes ! in East Bengal , they call it jala pushpam . The whole of East Bengal will be fully flooded . The vegetables won t grow . So , they have accustomed to eat the Mathsyam ( fish ) Now , the civilization is matured enough & the vegetables are available throughout the year . Just talk over this to them . There are more people who will give up & adjust . Sri Ramakrishna Parama Hamsa , Sri Shardhamani Devi & Swami Vivekananda lived without eating the Mathsyam . Gangesa Maithra was born in a Kuleeni Brahmin family . Kuleeni means , the high caste . hence their will be competition to give their daughters to Kuleeni males . They used to give as the 50th wife too even to the very poor Kuleeni Brahmins . By this , she & her children too will become Kuleeni caste , isn t it . Because , Gangesa was not so bright , only one gave his daughter as wife . He was the son-in-Law of the , father-in-Law s house . They would all call him as Ganga . They used to serve the best flesh parts of the Mathsyam to others & the left over bones to him .

Ganga , is it good ? You are sucking the bone itself like this . What would you do , if it were only served in full ? The dog which bites the bone only guards the house . Ganga , shall we test today either your teeth are strong or are the bones strong ? Like this they used to torture him daily in a very low manner . How long could he tolerate ? One day Gangesa left for Benares . At the mercy of a punyavan , he studied for ten years . His people were just aloof thinking that this duffer would return home when he felt the hunger . He came back to his home with the title name Misropadhyaya . As usual , they served him the bones . ( even after 10 years ! ) He said naham Ganga ; kimthu Gangesa mithra : His in Laws were taken aback . They wondered that he had studied Sanskrit & was able to write the poems too . If I am the same old Ganga , you can leave the asthi ( bone ) to me So , he made them to realize that behind the name - Gangesa , the his qualification degree Misra was following ! Such a wonderful history is there about that Bengal fish . Gangesa Maithra wrote the Thathva Chinthamani , comprising 63 Tharkka vadham (arguments ) ! So , if only the minds agree , fish & all are secondary . Don t just think that our country women are just duffers . They are very intelligent ones . They will adjust & settle in any place . For the first time , when Adisnkara Bhagavth Paddhal , went Mahishmathi country He asked the women carrying water , Which is Mandana Misra s house ? SWATHA : PRAMANAM BHARATHAPRAMANAM KEERANKANA YATHRA CHA SANKRANTHO THVARASTHA NEEDANTHARA : SANNIRUDDHA JAANEEHI THAN MANDANA PANDITHOW : ( Sorry ! I am not sure of the spelling here, as per the book ) One of the women answered like this . She had declared that she could say poems in a second & she had studied the Sanskrit language too . The meaning of this sloka is :Know that it is the house of Mandana Misra , where the female parrots are debating Swatha : pramanam Bharathapramanam , at the entrance ! The female parrots are only arguing. From this, we can know how intelligent the women of Bengal are! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI AMARAKOSHAM Samskrutham amarabhasahai . Amaram means deathless . Amaras means Deavas . Sanskrit is the language spoken by the Devas . Amarakosham is the dictionary written by the Jain poet Amarasimhan . Kosham means treasure . He had written the meaning as Devasenapathy ; Sooraswamy gajamukhanuja : Amarasimhan had given the title of Swamy to Subrahmanya alone & not to any other God . What s the reason ? He is the Swaminathan who taught lesson to His Father too , isn t it ? It is the practice of the World that , the father acting like an illiterate , listening his son s teaching of the things , as if they are new to him , only to lift his son ! Paramasiva too did the same . , The one who ordered to chap off the head of His father-in Law , is simply keeping the hands across the chest , shuts His mouth with one hand & sitting under the Son s feet & listening to his teachings ! He is sending His wife Umadevi to feed the Milk of ganana to the child Thirugnana Sambandha , who is born iin the amsa of his Son Karthikeya . he is giving [ Siva ] golden instruments , after seeing his hands [ Sambandhas ] hands bcame reddish by clapping . to avoid his feet suffering from pain , the pearl palanquin is given . In Thirumaraik kadu , Thirunavukkarasa [Appar ] sang 10 songs to open the door of the temple . To close it again , Sambandha sang only one song chathuram marai . Appar felt sad by this . Sambandha gave him a different explanation to console him ! [ The lord wanted to hear more of your songs ; But he finished me with one only ! ] Eswar is only a father who comes down for the sake of the son ! And , Adi Sankara Bhagavath Padhal was the Descendance Avthar of that same Eswar ! Amarakosham was the one saved by Him !

Adi sankara came in double up , on hearing that Amarasimhan was burning all his books [ plam leaves ] in fire ! The final bunch in his hands was this Amarakosham alone . What are you doing ? You have given them all to the Agni , which you wrote with great efforts ! So saying , Acharya snatched the Amarakosham from him . What was the reason for his such an anger to throw all his books in the fire ? Adi Sankara travelled the entire Bharat to spread the Hindu religion . Then , he met Amarasimhan too . They both argued aplenty . Many will switch over to the winning side/party & the defeated party will become weak . Amarasimhan fixed a condition that he would hang a screen between them both . Acharya accepted it . Acharya is asking questions very minute points from the vedhas & Upanishadhs . Even before He finishes , Amarasimhan answers fast ! Acharya very much astonished . The way the words were built up , wondered Him ! Acharya closed His eyes for a while & saw behind the screen . The people who were with him thought that their Guru was thinking . Amarasimhan felt too much of pride for keeping him in an embarrassing situation ! Acharya could find out that he established Goddess Saraswathy in aKumbham/ghatam ! He prayed Her He Matha ! Is it the justice on your part ? He is arguing for the party which emphasises that there is no idol/figure . Should you reply in his voice ? The one who says there is no figure , is secretly worshipping you to master in poems . Should you too help to erase the Sanathana Dharm ? Then it will become equivelont to the action of firstly , giving boons in return of the penance of the Rakshas & then to find a way to kill them ! This mush of your help to him is already more than enough , against his Upasana . Please come out of that Ghatam/kumbham ! Suddenly the screen was cut off & fell down . After that , he couldn t answer even a single question of Acharya . He accepted his defeat . Hereafter , who will respect my books ? Acharya made the screen to fall without touching it . There is more power only to His principles & writings ! Letmy books be erased rather than being insulted badly ! So thinking , he threw them al in the fire . And , The Acharya came in double up only to save them , on hearing about this news . But , he could save the Amarakosham alone ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! See the magananimity of Maha Periyava through this incidence. Once, a father & son came to the mutt at Kanchi & attended the Chandhramouleeswara pooja & came in the Q to get the theerttham from periyava. When the their turn came, Periyava told them to stay that night in tha mutt. The father produced a Marriage invitation of his son & demanded HIS blessings & further insisted that they had plenty of marriage works in pending .but Periyava again insisted them to stay & ordered the mutt manager to make arrangements for them to stay.The other people told them " if Periyava sinsists your stay there will be a strong reason best known to HIM only. Obey his instruction." Hence, they HAD to stay there. The manager took CARE of them. The next morning duo, came in line to get the theertthap prasadham from Periyava. The son first & the father behind. periyava was giving the prasadham bowing down & looking at the theerttha vessel only, which was unusual. When the turn of the sun came , Periyava immediately lifted his head & looked at him straight into his eyes & then at woman in the in the ladies' Q, simultaniously. And again HE repeated the same action& put the uddharani in the vessel & sat down quietly! After about a minute the sun suddenly held the right hand of that woman & fell at the Lotus feet of the Maha Periyava. Now, after this, the father too feel at HIS feet &Said, " Periyava! I made a blunder. Please forgive me " All three of them were crying. Periayava calmly told tha father " Enda! Nee vayasula periyavan; petthavannum kooda. Sirusugal thappup panninaak kandikka vendiyavan. Neeye itthanaip periya thappup pannalaama?" The woman was his son's first wife! She was sent back to her parents" home for some reasons, by them & they arranged for the 2nd marriage of the son & came to HIM to get His blessings too! She was in another town & suddenly felt like seeing the Periyava for remedy to her pathetic life & started from her home the same day the duos came there. Would the thrikaa;a gnaani Periayava bless them? Then periyava finally ordered them Exchange Harams & then only gave them the theertthap prasaadham ! I read this in a deepaavali malar of vikatan in '60s written by the Famous disciple of periyava, Bahraneedharan! JAYA JAYA SANKARA HARA HARA SANKARA!

Just below is the Horoscope of our Sri Mahaperiyava .Once a famous astrologer from Kerala visited Kanchi mutt to have dharshan of maha periyava . Some people who came to know that he was an astrologer, just asked him about their horoscopes . But he replied immediately " This is Mahaperiyaval's jurisdiction . hence surrounding ten miles are His area. The Navagrahas won't speak here!" One gentleman had finished his posting here with the sentence " Ivaredhaan adhi Sivano" This incidence proves that HE TS ADHI SIVANE ! " SRI MAHAPERIYAVA' HOROSCOPE ! https://mailattachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment?ui=2&ik=ed4b78fa6c&view=att&th=13185e6490021ddb &attid=0.2&disp=safe&realattid=f_gqtktevc1&zw&saduie=AG9B_P_pXMBaMCD6HKOBt96YBgxr&sadet=1 312346247430&sads=L1VJUMUDTJWSMDkXR1jKbCZBExMP JAGATH GURU : -In the year 1933, our Paramaachaaryaa visited Kasi ( Benaras) the most ancient city of this Globe . He was given a red carpet welcome by the Kasi Maharaja! All the VIPs & plenty of learned(!) Pandits were also present at the... Darbar hall. All the Pandits were very jealousy, felt irritated & had some sort of too low thoughts about the Parmacharya . How can He call himself a Jahath Guru? Just by asking him a couple of questions, we can degrade Him! was the only thought running in all their minds ! The very moment Periava came in & occupied His throne , one of them stood up & asked Him ferociously Who is that , Jagath Guru ? Periyava: Myself ! Ho ! Are you the Guru of this Jagath ( Globe)? Periyava :- No ! Jagathaam Guru : na ! ( I didn t say in that meaning ! ) I am NOT the Guru of this World! Jagathi padhyamaanaa: sarve mama Gurava: ! ( all the creatures of this world are my teachers ! ) All the Pandits were stunned & they didin t expect such a simple & wonderful explanation . Periyava, looked around & at the pigeon holes at the top of that hall & at the small nests of the birds ( kuruvi ) . He showed them those nests & asked What are they? Nests Built by whom? The small birds Though the birds have no hands & legs, buid their nests . But, eventhough we have hands & legs, we can t build our houses . They have a type of kinetic energy, which I don t have. So that small bird is my Guru teacher ! So saying he tapped his both the cheeks with his hands & bowed down His head to them ! The pandits were taken aback & astonished by His humbleness ! Immediately they whole heartedly bowed to Him & accepted that He IS the Jagath Guru! And, till the last day of Periayava s stay over there in Kasi, daily they all came to His camp & did saashtaanga namaskaaram at His feet ! What to say further ? JAYA JAYA SANKARA, HARA HARA SANKARA ! IN SOUNDHARAYALAHIRI, THERE ARE YANTHRAS , ALLNIVEDHANAM, DAILY AAVRUTTHI & THE RESULT ARE ALL CLEARLY CONFIRMED FOR ALL THE STANZAS, BY AADHI SANKARACHARYA, EXCEPTING THE 68TH STANZA. FOR IT SHOULD BE LEARNT THROUGH A PROPER GURU ONLY. "...BHUJAASLESHAANNITHYAM PUDHAMAYITHU: KANTAKAVATHEE, THAVGREEVAA DHATTHE MUKHAKAMALANAALASRHRIYAMIYAM ! SVATHA:SHVETHAA KAALAA GARUBAHULA JAMBAALAMALINAA, MRUNAALEE LAALITHYAM VAHATHI YDHADHO HAARALATHIKAA !! LORD SHIVA IS ALWAYS EMBRACING THE LOKAMAATHA WITH HIS HANDS AROUND HER NECK. SO, HER FACE LOOKS LIKE A LOTUS SURROUNDED BY ITS STEM (WITH ITS SMALL THORNS !) FURTHER, THE PEARL HAARAM , WHICH IS APPLIED WITH THE SANDAL OF AGARU WOOD,LOOKS LIKE THE STEM OF THE LOTUS! THE SMALL HAIRS AT THE NECK OF HER STAND ERECT DUE TO SPARSHAM- TOUCH -OF HER LORD IS EQUIVELONT TO THE STEM OF THE LOTUS WITH LITTLE THORNS! WHAT A LOVELY EXAMPLE OF ACHARYA? THIS 68TH STANZA IS KEPT AS THE TOP MOST SECRET & NO RIGHT GURU SHALL PART WITH ITS SECRET SO EASILY, UNLESS HE IS SATISFIED WITH SISHYA - DISCIPLE ! OUR PARAMACHARAYAAL IS THE 68TH PEETAADHIPATHI OF KANCHI MUTT PAMPARAA ! AND, NOBODY HAS SO FAR UNDERSTOOD THE FULL SECRET OF HIS AVATHAAR, IT SEEMS ! IT COULD BE KNOWN BY THE OTHER GURU OF THE KANCHI PAATAM ALONE ! WHAT A SECRETIVE COINCIDENCE OF THE GREAT SOUL ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA, HARA HARA SANKARA ! ON ANOTHER SUCH OCCASION TOO PERIYAVA GAVE UP HIS WEEKLY KASHTA MOUNAM ! ( COMPLETE SILENCE ) THERE WAS A SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND, IN POONDHAMALLI ! A TEACHER OF THAT SCHOOL

CAME TO HAVE DHARSHAN OF PERIYAVA, WHEN HE WAS IN SHIVASTHANAM . HE ...REQUESTED PERIYAVA " I HAVE PLANNED TO BRING THE SCHOOL CHILDREN HERE. THEY ARE BLIND. HENCE, THEY CAN'T SEE PERIYAVA . SO I REQUEST PERIYAVA TO KINDLY SPEAK TO THEM & BLESS THEM TOO . ONLY TO INFORM THIS TO PERIYAVA I HAVE COME HERE TODAY . NEED PERIYAVA S BLESSINGS ! HE LEFT THE PLACE & PERIYAVA TOO JUST HEARED IT . THAT S ALL. NEXT SUNDAY THE TEACHER BROUGHT THE BLIND CHILDREN TO SHIVASTHANAM IN A SPECIAL BUS & KEPT THEM IN A QUEUE FOR THE DHARSHAN OF PERIYAVA . SOME PEOPLE SAID FROM YESTERDAY PERIYAVA OBSERVES KASHTA MOUNAM ! THAT S ALL. HE IMMEDIATELY CRIED ALOUD OH! THESE CHILDREN ARE BLIND ; THEY CAN T SEE PERIYAVA ; THEY WILL FEEL HAPPY ONLY IF PERIAYA SPEAK TO THEM SOME WORDS ATLEAST . WE WOULDN T BOTHER MUCH IF HE DOESN T SPEAK TO US . WE CAN HAVE DHARSHAN & GO . WHAT WILL THESE CHILDREN DO ? FOR THIS PURPOSE ONLY I CAME LAST SUNDAY HERE & BEGGED HIM . NOW , AS FOR THE CHILDREN, I HAVE BECOME A CHEAT ! SO BLABBERING HE STILL CRIED ALOUD LIKE A CHILD . SUDDENLY & UNEXPECTEDLY , PERIYAVA CAME OUT & TOLD THE TEACHER TO STOP CRYING & TOLD THE MUTT PEOPLE TO KEEP A PLANK NEAR THE WELL & SAT DOWN ON IT. HIS SILENCE HAD GONE ! HE CALLED THE CHILDREN ONE BY ONE & INQUIRED ABOUT THE DETAILS OF THEIR PHYSICAL DEFECT , REASON, NATIVITY ETC; & BLESSED THEM ALL. NEARLY ONE HOUR HE SPENT WITH THEM AND GAVE THEM ALL FRUITS , DRY GRAPES & SWEETS!EVERYBODY WAS VERY MUCH SATISFIED BY HIS ANUGRAHA ! THE TEACHER WAS OVERHELMED WITH JOY & CRIED NOW TOO . BUT THIS WAS DUE TO EXTRA-ORDINARY PLEASURE ! EVEN WHEN THE RASHTRAPATHI ( V.V.GIRI ) & THE PM ( INDRA GANDHI ) CAME TO HIM FOR A DHARSHAN , HE DIDN T GIVE UP HIS KASHTA MOUNAM ! BUT, HE DID IT FOR THESE POOR, UNFORTUNATE, BLIND CHILDREN ! SRI MAHA PERIYAVA IS A PERMANENT GNANA DHEEPAM . ( LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE ) WE SHALL ALL PRAY THAT LIGHT TO GUIDE US PERMANENTLY ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! What awonderful way toteach a sishya?! Once he taught me to indirectly without my asking for it! After finishing my studies in '60 I was struggling to get a job. One day my mom told me to go & see periyava at Srikanchi. I immediately procee...ded there & when I reached the Mutt, Periyava was coming out of the mutt & started wlking holding the triwheeler from its behind. A lot of people followed him. i too in a hurry was following HIM closely. There were about 3,or four Mutt people were just behind him & behind them I was walking. But I was very much worried to look at his feet with difficult through the gap of those people.. Suddenly Periyava reduced the speed & the people in between me & HIM moved away.Now, I was just behind HIM & Periyava simply got of HIS wooden Paadharakashas & left it there on the road & moved towrds the house on the right. Everybody hurried to follow him & I picked up the pair of the Paadharakshas & asked a Mutt Purohith " Where to keep these?" He stared at me & took it from me & said " You aren't supposed to touch these " & kept them in triwheeler. Then I two went into house to findHIMm sitting in the cornor of the room smilingly. After a little more than half an hour, He again came out & proceede to a lKali temple & was simply waiting at the Dhwajastham for the Priest/Gurukkal to come. The news reached him & came in double up with the keys & opened up the Sanctum Sanctorum! Then He went inside the Garbaggruha & started explain the Deity's beauty part by part from the head to toe. Even after so many years I just can't forget HIS blessing of allowing me to carry HIS padharakshas, when I was struggling to see the beauty of his feet. And, when I recently a couple of months ago I went to the Mutt, my daughter packed up all the photos there, in her cell & kept the pair of HIS holines's feet as the screen saver of my system! What a wonderful way to bless me? I have been daily chanting the Soundarya Lahiri & when I say the 25th stanza I stand up & look at the lotus feet of the main deity of my pooja Bhuvaneswari! Thrayanaam dhevaanaam thriguna janithaanaam thava shive, bhaveth poojaa poojaa thava charanayoryaa virachitha ! Thathaahithvath paadhodhvahana manipeetasya nikate sthithaa hyethe shasvan mukulitaha karotthamsa makutaa: !! :- He Mangalaambike ! The three Moorthees Brahma, Vishnu & Rudharan are created from the three gunas of sathva, rajas & thamas. Their heads with the Crowns, are always at your feet. Hence, WJAYA JAYA SANKARA, HARA HARA SANKARA!hen we worship your feet, it means we worship them too! Isn't it?" Asks Adhi Sankara through this sloka!

18th Oct WHAT'S THERE TO WONDER IN THIS . THIS TYPE OF MIRACLES HAD HAPPENED MANY A TIMES IN OUR PURANAS & ITHIHASAS . WHEN SRI RAMA WAS IN AYODHYA , DIDN'T PARASURAMA - THE OTHER FORM - AVTAR - OF VISHNU COME & MET HIM ? DIDN'T SRI BALARAMA & SRI KRISHNA DO MIRACLES IN SRI MAHABHARATH ? BOTH OF THEM WERE SRI VISHNU'S AMSAS , ISN'T IT ? SRI MAHA VISHNU IS IN HIS YOGA NIDHRA ALWAYS LYING ON HIS ANOTHER FORM ADISESHA ! LIKEWISE , INCHIDHAMBARAM TOO , SHIVA HAD THE DHARSHAN OF SHIVA ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! ( SEVERAL YEARS AGO WHEN PERIYAVA VISITED THE CHIDHAMBARAM TEMPLE )

OCT 19 Shall we share a light moment of a comedy track of our Periyava ? A very long ago , in Srikanchi Sankara matam , an old woman ( paatti ) was staying there & was nearly a menace to all , by talking to everybody about Periyava unnecessarily etc;. One fine morning Sri Periyava called her in the midst of many people and ordered Many people are visiting here nowadays to see me . Hence , we have to feed more & more people . You go to your native place , collect individually from everybody & send a bag of rice & bring it here . All the people of your area should share the punyam . That s more important ! She immediately told HIM Oh ! When Perirava Himself has ordered me , can I waste a minute here , hereafter ? I carry your order on my head & proceed to my place & will come back with a bag of rice in about a couple of days , Periyava ! It took a very long time for her to collect one bag of rice ! The people of the Mutt tooheaved out a sigh of relief ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA !

PANCHA VELVI ( FIVE YAGNAS SACRIFICES ) They say Panchavelvi ! What is that ? Somebody asked me .I said Brahma yagna , Deva yagna , Bhootha yagana , Pithru yagna & Manushya yagna ! He didn t understand it . But hesitated to question me back . I explained it myself . To chant the Vedhas , or to make others to chant Vedha atleast by paying for it , teaching Vedha ; are all called , Brahma yagna . It will satisfy Brahma . The untimely death will be prevented . The longevity of life will be extended to the heirs . But , even the slightest pride should NOT be mingled , in the thought I AM doing this ! Performing Navagraha homam , Sudharsana homam , giving Havir bhagam ( giving their share of Havis to the Devas ) ; being angry with the Rithviks ( the one who conducts them ) is forbidden wholly ; should not ill treat the rithviks conducting the Deva Ygna ; To feed the crows ; feeding the cow with the Agatthik keerai ( a vegetable leaves ) ; feeding the fish with pori ( made of paddy grain ) ; keeping the dogs & cats as pets properly ; these are confirmed as Bhootha Ygna , by the Puranas . Performing : Sraddhas ; tharppanam on Amavasyas ; Mahalaya Paksha Sraddham ; are all called Pithur Yagna ! The pithrus will bless . The sorrowful incidences will not occur . To welcome the Athithis ( guests ) & treat them properly with Upacharas , without wounding/hurting their gearts & minds , is called Manushya Yagna . speaking without hurting others mind ; being without jealous/envy of others ; doing possible help upto our capacity ; all these too are included in the Bhootha Yagna ! The Bhoomi ( earth ) is satisfied by the Yagnas ; doesn t catch fire ( the fire doesn t destroy unnecessarily ) ! Agni s hunger is erased by the Ghee & annam ( havis the cooked rice ) , isn t it ? The air pollution is well balanced to be pure by the fire of the Yagna & the sound produced by chanting the Vedhas. Varuna is proud/satisfied/pleased & blesses , when the water used for the puposes of : washing the feet of the Pithrus ; bathing them ; performing tharppanam ; preparing the Havis ; ! We clean & satisfy the sky with our Vedha ghosham ( sound produced by chanting the Vedhas ) & by the smoke of ygnas ! Like this , we are blessed by the Pancha Bhoothas ! ( five basic elements )

We submit the Appam , Ghee , Kozhukkattai , sugar cane , fruit varieties , aval , pori etc in the Ganapathy Homam ; these are for the light of the Agni ( fire ) ; fruits , ghee , flowers , havis with ghee are all for the flavour/scent ; The sounds of the Mnthras & vedhas are for the sound ; when all the five of our organs are used , itself IS a Homam ! The eyes should have the clear vision to pour the ghee & havis in the Homa fire ; The body should co-operate fully , without any desease ; The mouth must utter the manthras ; Our Atham ( soul ) will get satisfiesed , only when it can hear the sound of the manthras uttered by us ; We should hear the Vedha manthras & the discourses , through both of our ears & fill up our minds full with them ! This is possible only , when our minds are pure, isn t it ? By preventing the bad thoughts alone , it will NOT become a pure mind . Some people , while standing at the Sanctum Sanctorum of the Swami ( god ) , grumble in their minds He Bhagvan ! How many varieties of sarees , I decoraeted on you ? What a lot of milk & panchamirdham ( made of fruits & sugar ) in plenty of vessels ? But , my problems are not solved at all ! Bhagvan is nether a debtor nor a businessman to deal with/bargain I wll give you this & you give me that ! . HE is the ocean filled with Karuna ( Mercy ) ! It IS the pure mind , only , when worshipping Him without expecting anything in return ! The good matters will get fixed in such MINDS only ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA !

OCT 20 OUR GREAT YUGA PURUSHA SRI MAHA PERIYAVA MILE STONES FROM HIS LIFE ! 20TH MAY , 1894 HE WAS BORN IN VILLUPURAM TO BRAHMA SRI SUBRAMANIYA SASTHRIGAL & SRIMATHI MAHALAKSHMI AMMAL . THE CHILD WAS NAMED SWAMINATHAN . 13TH FEBRUARY - 1907 - HE BECAME THE 68TH PONTIFF OF SRI KANCHI KAMAKOTI PEETAM IN THE ANOINTING CEREMONY HELD IN KUMBAKONAM AS SRI CHANDRA SEKARENDRA SARASWATHY SWA MIGAL 6th February 1908 - He performed the Mahakumbhabhishekam of sri Jambukeswarar temple at thiruvanaikkaval . HE also performed the Thatanga Prathishta for sri Akhilandeswari . 1909/1910 - he spent the years in educating Himself at the Sri Sankara matam at Kumbakonam . 1911 1914 - HE mastered the Vedhas , the Agamas & puranas through rigorous study at Mahendra Mangalam . 1915 - HE assumed full charge of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt . 1917 - HE held a Mahasabha in Kumbakonam to encourage ancient arts . 1918 - HE defied the British rulers & started wearing Kavi vcastra , made of Khadi , at the Rameswaram camp . 1919 - HE started His Vijaya Yathra . 1921 - Thyagi ( Freedom fighter ) Subramaniya Siva sought his blessings at the KUmbakonam Mahamaham , for the nation s independence . 29th april 1923 - Thatanga Prathishta for Sri Akhilandeswari at Thiruvanaikkaval . 1925 - HE honoured the Tamil Scholor Dr. Sri U.V.Swaminatha iyer with the tile of fhakshinaathya Kalanidhi . HE also honoured Pandithamani Kadhiresan Chettiyar in that camp at Ilayatthangkudi . 1926 - HE met the Congress leaders like Rajaji & Sathyamurthy . 1927 - HE had an intimate conversation with Mahathma Gandhi at a meeting held at Nallicherry in Kerala . HE showered His blessings for fruition of all the Mahathma s efforts . 1932 - Kumbhabhishekam for the Kanchi Sri Kamakshi Amman Temple . HE also spent 3 months at Madras & conducted discourses . 1933 - Mahamaham at Kumbakonam . HE started His Kasi Yatra in September . 25th july 1934 - HE had His holy bath at the Thriveni Sangamam . 3rd October 1934 - Ceremonious Welcome at Kasi . The Raja of Benares , Pandit Madan Mohan Malavia , several prominent leaders & citizens gathered in large numbers to welcome HIM . 9th February 1935 - Pandit Madan Mohan Malavia invites Him to the Benares Hindu University .

13th July 1935 - Vist to Calcutta . 1936 - Vijaya Yatra continues . 1938 - Karagpur , Tatanagar , Cuttack , Puri- Jegannath , Ahobhilam , Nellore, Thiruppathi . 1939 - Thirutthani , Kanchipuram , Chidambaram , Rameswaram & completed the Kasi Yatra . 4th June, 1941 - Kumbhabhishekam of Sri Bhangaru Kamakshi Temple . 1950 - An elaborate Thiruvembavai Thiruppavai Conference at Thiruvidaimarudur . 22nd March , 1954 - Blesses Brahmmacahari Subramanyam son of Sri Mahadeva iyer of Irul neekki village in Tanjore district with sanyasa dheeksha & appoints him as His successor Pudup periyava Sri Jayendra Saraswathy Swamigal . 1956 - Meeting with Sri Acharya Vinobha Bhave . 7th September 1957 - Silver Jubilee celebrationof His Peetarohana . Pudup periyava Sri Jayendra Saraswathy Swamigal performs Kanakabhishekam for His Guru The paramacharya . 28th April 1963 - HE installs the statues of Sri Adi Sankara & His 4 disciples in a Vimana Mantapa at the Agni Theertha , in Rameswaram & performs the Kumbhabhishekam . 6th February 1966 HE held a conference of all the Matadhipathis . 29th May 1983 - Annoits Sri Sankaran , son of Sri Krishnamurthy Sathrigal of Thandalam village near Ponneri , as the 70th Pontiff , of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam Bala Periyava Sri Sankara Vijayendra Saraswathy Swamigal . 1988 - He performed an abhishekam with Ganges water for the sivalingam at Gangai Konda Chozhapuram followed by Annabhishekam . This is continueing every year according to His wishes . 7th may 1993 - HIS 100th Birth Day Jayanthi is celebrated . 26th May 1993 - Pudu periyava Sri Jayendra Saraswathy Swamigal & Bala Periyava Sri Sankara Vijayendra Saraswathy Swamigal perform Kanakabhishekam for the Mahaperiyava . 8th January 1994 - Our Yuga Purusha Sri Paramacharya MOVES HIS PRESENCE TO THE ADHISHTANAM . HE CONTINUES TO BLESS HIS DEVOTEES FROM HIS BRINDAVANAM installed just opposite the place , where HE was giving HIS dharshan , till HE moved over to the brindavanam , at the Kanchi Sri Kamakoti Peetam Sri Kanchipuram . Regular Poojas are performed to HIM . OUR YUGA PURUSHA SRI MAHAPERIYAVA HAS CHANGED HIS PLACE OF DHARSHAN ONLY IN THE SRI KANCHI KAMAKOTI MUTT . AND, HE IS REGULARLY BLESSING , CHATING , ADVISING , SMILING , LAUGHING etc; AS USUAL ALWAYS , WHENEVER WE GO THERE TO SUBMIT OUR PRANAMS & WORRIES AT HIS LOTUS FEET ! HE WILL BE THERE FOREVER , BECAUSE HE IS A YUGA PURUSHA ! AND WHAT ELSE TO SAY DEAR FRIENDS ? JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA !

Mahaperiyava : VYASA POOJAS PERFORMED BY THE YUGA PURUSHA YEAR PLACE 1907 KUMBAKONAM 1908 THIRUVANAIKKA 1909 KUMBAKONAM 1910 1911 THIRUVANAIKKA 1912 MAHENDRAMANGALAM 1913 1914 THIRUVANAIKKA 1915 KUMBAKONAM 1916 1917 1918 1919 VEPPATHUR

THE PARAMACHARYA OF SRIKAANCHI .

1920 MAYAVARAM 1921 KADIRAMANGALAM 1922 ASHADAIYARKOIL 1923 THIUVANAIKKA 1924 THIRUVIYARU 1925 ILAIYATTHANKUDI 1926 KATTUMANNARKOIL 1927 KANJIKODU 1928 MANALURPETTAI 1929 POSAMALAIKKUPPAM 1930 CHITTOOR 1931 PUKKAI 1932 THANJAVUR 1933 PRAYAGAI 1934 CALCUTTA 1936 BERHAMPUR 1937 BALAKOL 1938 GUNTUR 1939 KUMBAKONAM 1940 THIRUVARAMKURUCCHI 1941 NAGAPPATTINAM 1942 NATHAM 1943 THIRUVANAIKKA 1944 THIRUVISAINALLUR 1945 THIRUKAUKAVUR 1946 KUMBAKONAM 1947 VASANTHA KRISHNAPURAM 1948 VENKATADRI AGARAM 1949 THIRUVIDAIMARUDUR 1950 THIRUVISAINALLUR 1951 MUDIKONDAN 1952 SAATTHANUR 1953 KANSHIPURAM 1954 1955 1956 1958 MADRAS 1959 VAANAGARAM 1960 KAMANAYAKKANPALAYAM 1961 ILAYATTHANKUDI 1962 1963 NARAYANAPURAM 1964 KANCHIPURAM 1965 THIRUKKATTUPPALLI 1966 KALAHASTHI 1967 RAJHMUNDRY 1968 SECUNDRABAD 1969 KANCHIPURAM MUKTHI MANTAPAM 1970 CHINNA KANCHPURAM 1971 KARVET NAGAR 1972 KANCHI SHIVASTHANAM 1973 KANCHI SHIVASTHANAM & RISHIKESH ANDHRA ASHRAM

1974 KANCHI SHIVASTHANAM & BINDUPUR & JAMSHEDPUR 1975 KALAVAI 1976 KANCHI KAMAKSHI AMMAN TEMPLE 1977 KANCHI SHIVASTHANAM & SALEM 1978 AGURI & KANCHIPURAM 1979 BELGAUM & SECUNDRABAD 1980 UGAR & AHMEDABAD 1981 SATARA & GURUVAYUR 1982 SHOLAPUR VYASA POOJAS PERFORMED BY SRI MAHA PERIYAVA & SRI JAYENDRA SARAS WATHI SWAMIGAL & SRI VIJAYENDRA SARASWATHU SWAMIGAL . YEAR PLACE 1983 KARNOOL 1984 KANCHIPURAM 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! PARAMPARA : 71 GENERATIONS OF LORD SRI KRISHNA : 1. Brahma 2. Daksha 3. Vivasvat ...4. Manu 5. Chandra 6. Pururava 7. Aayu 8. Nahush 9. Yayati 10. Yadu 11. Kroshtu 12. Vrujjinvanta 13. Swahi 14. Swati 15. Rasadu 16. Chitrarath 17. Shashabindu 18. Pruthusravas 19. Antar 20. Suyajna 21. Ushanas 22. Shineyu 23. Maruta 24. Kambalbarhis 25. Rukmakavach

26. Paravrushta 27. Jayamadh 28. Vidarbh 29. Kray 30. Kunti 31. Dhashti 32. Nivrutti 33. Dashai 34. Vyom 35. Jimut 36. Vikruti 37. Bhimrath 38. Rathvar 39. Navrath 40. Dashrath 41. Ekadashrath 42. Shakuni 43. Kurambhi 44. Devrat 45. Devkshetra 46. Devan 47. Madhu 48. Puruvash 49. Puruhotra 50. Anshu 51. Satvat 52. Bhim 53. Bhajman 54. Chitrarath 55. Vidurath 56. Shoor 57. Sharman 58. Pratikshatra 59. Swayambhoj 60. Hridik 61. Devbhithush 62. Shoor 63. Vasudev 64. KRISHNA 65. Pradyumna 66. Aniruddha 67. Vajranabha 68. Pratibahu 69. Subahu 70. Shantasen 71. Shatasen

BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI THULA SNANAM A devotee asked me one day No dirt for Atham ; Athma won t get wet ; so say our shasthras ! if it is so , then why should we take bath daily ! ? Won t it be sufficient , if our mind is pure ?

We go to the Bazar ; At a place , due to is stagnant of water it is muddy too ; Heaps of the fleshy oranges & bananas are kept there ; When a cow comesthere to eat the left overs , just rubs them & some fruits fall down on the mud ; Even if it is given at free of cost , nobody would accept it for the Naivedhya of Swami . Nor else , we wouldn t accept them , even if they are washed before our eyes & given free . When it is the state of the fruits & vegetables , if this body doesn t bathe , won t it stink ? is it alright to make the other devotees of the temple to flinch ? Shall we buy the skinless banana ? Half of the Peerkkankai ( Ridge Gourd/turia - a vegetable used to prepare a very tasty chutney in South India ) is of its skin alone . Even then , we buy it & cook ! However pure may be the Athma ; others won t even come near if the skin is dirty ! When the people bathe cleanly & wear the Vibhoothi on the forehead & walk , a sort of respect is created . The auspicious/sumangl Kumkum , creates pleasure in our minds . Even the rationalists, who don t care for the omens shakuna will certainly feel satisfied inwardly ! Whether we see the Gods or don t , we believe , that the Gods must see us & bless us . we wouldn t know as to when they would see us & bless us ; Shouldn t we be clean neatly bathed & be shining , whenever they se us ? Atleast , for that reason , one should bathe daily . Won t the Bhagvan b every much pleased , if our body TOO is pure along with the Athma ? In bathing too , the Thula Snanam is a very special one . The Sun , is the eye ( right ) of the Bhagvan . In the Tamil month of Aippasi ( Mid Oct mid nov ) , Sun becomes weak . ( he is debilitated in the zodiac sign Thula ) So , Bhagvan closes his right eye . To increase the strength of Sun , we all should perform the Sandhyavandhan . The Sun is very much pleased , when we get up early in the morning & bathe in the river Cauvery . He ensures us all the bhagyas ( prosperity ) of life . A physically handicapped person , started from his place to reach Cauvery & bathe in it the whole of Thula month , finally came their only the next day after that holy Aippasi month over ( on the first day of the next Karthikai month . When he was informed that Thula snanam was over the previous day itself he ctied aloud Oh ! Cauvery Matha ! Oh Lord ! What a great sin I have done not to have this Thula Snanam ! Immediately an Asareeri , ( a Heavenly voice echoed loudly Hereafter , from this date , Thula Snana punyam is available on this day , the first day of Karthikai month too , every year . You can do the Tula snanam & obtain the punya phalan of Thula Snanam ) There will be heavy rush on the banks of Cauvery on that day too , in the name of MUdavan Muzhukku . ( Handicapped one s bath ) The handicapped got the Thula Snana punya phalan ! ( result/punya ). If our intention is good , the good result too will follow automatically . There was a Mahan namely Thiruvisanallur Aiyaval . His original name is Sridhara Venkateswara . He was so popular that , if the name of His nativity is uttered , He was known . He lived 300 hundred years ago . He was in the same period of Sri Bodhendral . ( HE was the Seer of the Sri Kanchi Mutt. ) When there was no rain in Thiruvisanallur , both of them did Bhajans & it rained heavily there ! Sridhara Aiyaval , served food on the day of sraddham in His hom e, to a panchaman ( Low caste ). Therefore , the prohiths of that village said that , the sin of untouchability would be gone , only when HE dips in the River Ganges . ( How far is Ganges , in North India ? He was in South India in a small village of TN . & no flights were there 300 hundred years ago ! ) . It was the Day of Karthik Amavas ( New moon ) , & the Ganges came up like a flood from the well of His home ! ( That scene is described that even the Mangal things which were offered in Ganges there , like the black colur bangles , the turmeric etc; too came up ! ) Till date , thousands of people are bathing in that home s well water on the day of Karthik Amavas ! It is their faith that they will get punya of the Ganga Snanam . If any other water is saved in a vessel , worms will be created in it . But , if the Ganges water is saved in a vessel even for years together , nothing of that sort will happen . I don t say this ! Our Puranas say this . ( Some years ago , a Captain of an European ship said in his interview which was published in The Hindu English daily & in others too . We fill up the water from many Ports of the World during our long sea journey . The water becomes spoiled stinking , even before we reach the next Port . But , when we fill up the Ganges water in Calcutta , amazingly , remains as fresh as it was filled in six months ago ! ) If you pray Her honestly , Ganges will come in your home s tap too . I don t say this ! Puranas say this . Such a Ganges , is present in the early morning of Diwali , to Pure the

Human beings , without being called for , by getting mingled in the water . Even before HER , Goddess Sri Mahalakshmi is present , by mingling in the Gingili oil ! Immediately after the Sun rise , both of them will move to their places . So , it is best advised to take the oil bath before the Sun rise . ( Sri Periyava had already said in another special interview on a Diwali several years ago It is totally forbidden by our shasthras to take oil bath before the Sunrise ; but , it is an exception on the night of the Diwali alone .) Along with all the rare & wonderful things , Sri Mahalkshmi too came up from the Holy Milk ocean , when it was stirred . ( By the Devas & asurs , to get the Nectar ) Everybody desired Her attracted by Her beauty , So , She ran away & hid Herself . It was Perumal , who went in search of Her & brought her back . In During the hasty search of Perumal , the gingili plants were crushed 7 spoiled by the Lotus feet of Perumal . And Sri Mahalkshmi assured Every year I will be in this oil ( gingili ) on this Day ; I grant boon & bless the people , whoever applies this on their bodies , according to their status ! ( Poorva punya ) . And , there is a story like this too about Diwali . Allover North India , they perform Lakshmi Kubera pooja . Whatever it is , there is NO DOUBT to anybody that Sri Mahalakshmi will surely bless us all ! The one , Who made Vishnu loiter around , is coming in search of everybody s home . Only to greet Her , we fire the crackers ; and we are wearing the new cloths & look graciously ( Mangalakarama ) We prepare the sweets & eat them ; The mother is over whelmed with joy , only when her children are happy . Isn t it ! [ How excellently Periyava Is connecting the Tula Snanam of the whole month of Aippasi & the Diwali festival taking place in the same month , leading us by catching hold of our hands , to gain punya & bless us all ! ] JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! OCT 29 POSTINGS THE DIVINE DOCTOR In Calcutta , Mukkoor Sri Lakshmi Nrusimhacharya s discourse was going on . A Marvadi millionaire was attending it regularly with his Tamilian secretary . He would keep him posted well in Hindi of the discourse . And, both would leave the place quietly after the discourse was over . One day , Mukkoor spoke about our Sri Mahaperiyava of Sri Kanchi , describing some of His miracles enacted to the devotees too . And, that night , The Marvadi , after the discourse was over , came to Mukkoor and asked him That Mahan cum Sage , you described , will He solve my problem too for sure ? Without the slightest hesitation , Mukkoor replied fast fefinitely He will do it & no doubt about it ! Then , the Marvadi said calmly I have a whale of a lot of money . I have also built a Sri Vaikuntanath Temple too here ,fully in Marbles . But , even a drop of water can pass through my mouth . I had been to the States too to get the treatment . They created a hole on my neck & connecting it with a tube to the Gall bladder , because , the food passage from my throat to the Gall Bladder is shrunk . hence , I can only have the liquid food all along my life . Will that walking Deity of Sri Kanchi , rectify this , my . great problem ! Mukkoor was startled to hear this , but Told him assuring Yes ! Once , my discourse is over hear , I shall certainly go over to Him & request Him on your behalf & will let you know whatever He tells me ! As promised , Mukkoor , went straight ti Sri Kanchi , on his return to Madras & when he went to Him for dharshan , He greeted him with a question So , you had promised him on my behalf , in Calcutta ! Mukkoor was taken aback by this welcome . He just did a namaskaram & briefed Him about the Marvadi . Sri Periyava was silent for a few minutes & said finally Hmmmm ! You have played the ball at my court & made me responsible for this straight away ! Mukkoor said Sri periyava Kshamikkanum . ( Forgive me ). On the strength of my cent % faith on Periyava , I had given a him a word on your behalf . hmmm . Ok ! Tell him to print out the 18 Puranas in his language & distribute them to the people visiting him at free of cost . You write up & send him the Puranas one by one . Kamakshi is there & she

knows what to do to him ! Mukkoor felt very glad by this reply , for , he sensed that the Marvadi would be saved anyhow properly . He immediately called him over the Trunk call & explained all thses & the Marvadi accepted to do as per the instruction of Sri Periyava . Mukkoor kept on sending him his write ups of Puranas . like this 4 Puranas were over . The fifth one , Skandham was printed & kept ready for distribution near the table of the Marvadi at Calcutta . H was busy talking to some of his visitors & in the midst of the discussion , he ordered his servants to serve snacks & tea to them . When the servants brought the tea , casually , he took a cup of tea & drank it through his mouth & wasn t aware of his action . But the sevants were looking at him with an open mouth in astonishment . The Marvadi , ordered them to serve tea to the rest of the guests & noted that they were all just staring at him . He asked them Hey !t happened to you all ? why keep staring at me like that ? As the other visitors didn t know his defect , they were wondering what was going on there . One of the servants said Saab ! You have drunk the tea now He sshot back sharply So what if I have drunk a cup already ? Give me one more cup . Suddenly he felt the meaning of his own words & jumped out of his chair & sprang upon the tea tray & drank a cup of tea hurriedly ! It was going through the food passage like butter & not a drop fell on him wastefully . he uumped out of extreme joy & plucked some snakes & ate them too to believe himself ! Tears rolled down his cheeks constantly & he simply fell on the floor towards the direction of Sri Kanchi ! What more to say of this case of plain & pure MIRACLE , which was washed off , by the Doctors of the States . Sri Periyava IS a divine Doctor . isn t it ? This miracle was firstly published in the Tamil weekly Idhayam Pesugiradhu ( The heart speaks ) in its issue of 67 . And I was in Calcutta then , in 67 ! 30th Oct SRADDHAM The Puranas say that the dead ones are reborn , to enjoy their wealth ( left by them ) , sins & punyas ! Oned devotee asked in that case , why to perform sraddham ? I have been performing it for the last 50 years . should it be continued further ? Millions of us are bathing ; packing in small & big vessels too & bring it home ; But the Ganges keep on running aplenty ! We can t decide on certain matters . We have the responsibility/duty to protect our parents , if they live 100 years , isn t it ? Parasuraman too was the avthara of Perumal ; Srirama also was the amsa of Perumal ; Didn t Parasurama live till Srirama got married ? Yudhishtir asked such a question to his Grand father , when he was on the bed of arrows . Bhishmapithamah said Yudhishtir ! You have asked me the same question , what I asked the Sage Markandeya . Markandeya told me , what he learnt from Sanathkumara . I will tell you now . I scratched the earth & established my father to do Pithru Avahanam . My father stretched out his hand demanded me the Pinda . I kept the Pinda on the Dharppa grass & didn t give it in his hand ! He took it from the dharppa grass & blessed m etoo . The sons of Adhideva & the Sraddha devas created by Brahma , are satisfied by performing the sraddhas . It is most important to perform the Pithrukarmas by saying the names of the Pithru gothras , in whichever Varnasrama , one is born ! Wherever one s Pithrus are , let it be hell or heaven , they will be benefitted by it . so said Bhishma Pithamah . I will tell you what Markandeya said , too : When Markandeya was doing penance in the Meru Mountain , a very bright viman ( plane ) came there , from the sky . In it , there was somebody , to the size of the thumb , unable to decide whether he was agni or Sun or a mixture of both . When Markandeya asked him who he was he said I am the Manasa Puthra ( born by the sankalp ) of Brahma , Sanathkumara . I have come to give you boon . Ask me , whatever you want ! Markandeya said I widh to know about the Pithru Devas !

Brahma created 7 persons namely, Havyavaha , Anala , Soma , Yaama , Aryaman , Agnishvttha , Barhishitha ! Brahma advised the Father is the reason of the birth . So , if you worship your father , you will prosper But , they were boasting themselves with pride . Brahma cursed them May you become Gnanasoonyas ! ( Idiots buddhus) . Due to Brahma s curse , the brightness ( tejus ) left ; the brain didn t work ; always illness ! They fell at Brahma & requested him to forgive . He said go & ask Sanakadhis ( Sanaka Rushis ) for a remedy ! Whoever gives the knowledge is also a father , isn t it ? Myself & my brothers called them Sons , relieved them from their curse & did gnanopadhesh . They got back their old tejus & wisdom ! Because , we called them Puthras , they became Pithrus . They will get the power to give whatever is wished , if they are satisfied in the Sraddhas . They ARE the VISVEDEVAS ! Out of seven , 4 have shareeras ; the rest of the three don t have . Pithru pooja is more sacred than the Deuva pooja . Three are on behalf of the Devas . 4 accept the Sraddha phalann of the Bhoolokavasis . It is Sraddham , because , it is performed with Sraddha ( Care ) . If the Pirhru karma & the Yoga Nishta are wighed , Pithru karma will be heavier . The Apamruthyu is prevented in the house of a person , whoever performs the Sraddha properly & the one who doesn t feel sad while offering the pindam . further , they are blessed with the Puthra Santhanam , Tejus etc ; ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! NOV 1 BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF SRI KANCHI SRIMADH BHAGAVATHAM There was king namely Sathaka Varma . He ordered a Pandit that , he should tell him the Bhagavatham in 7 days . That Powranik was a highly learned one of all the Shasthras . He gave the discourse of Bhagavtham , after daily performing the proper poojas to Perumal daily . On the 7th day , Bhagavatha discourse was over . The king told the Powranik Why haven t I attained the eternity as Pareekshith ? You didn t do the discourse with full concentration , as the Sage Sukhabrahmam did to Pareekshith . The Pandit was taken aback by this . If he answered , it would be considered as talking against the king . If he kept quiet , it would mean that he had accepted the charge ! What to do ? The king himself continued If don t come with the proper reply , then you will be behind the bars only The Pandit didn t know , what to do . So on returning back home , he sat on the dais at the entrance . His grand daughter couldn t understand , as to why he was sitting like this with the lowered face , without playing with her , as he used to do daily . She just asked him the reason straight away . The grand dad tackled her with false reasons like headache etc; But the grand daughter was very shrewd . She said consolingly Grand dad ! didn t a little mouse freed all the birds , when they were cought in a nett ? It didn t have the wings like them , but the God has given it the teeth growing daily , isn t it ? won t I console you with my soothing words , though I haven t read like you ? She requested . The grad dad was astonished to find her intelligence . He briefed her the matter . Phew ! Is that all ? When you go the Palace tomorrow , take me also . Tell him that your grand daughter will reply to his question . You must not interfere in between , when I do the talking with the King . Now , get up & have your meals . The grand dad went in with her saying to himself The Goddess whom I am worshipping , is only speaking in her form . In Bhagavatham , she was born in Yasodha s home to save Krishna . Now , she is going to help me The next day , when they reached the palace , the king asked him Is the answer ready ? The Pandit looked at his grand dad . She asked the king looking straight at the king s face He is not well . He has just accompanied me . If he doesn t come , won t it be a disrespect ? What is your question ? The king told her . Oh king ! Tell everybody to get away from here & order to bind you & me in separate pillars . The king did so . O king ! Pareekshith had come to know that he would die in 7 days . But , your life is lengthy . That s why you didn t attain eternity . The king said it is a good answer . But , you could have said this without binding us ! The Grand daughter said with tears Then , remove my ropes .

The king replied her It is well said that you ARE a child , behaving childishly . Both of us are bound . You have told them all to go out too . Who is here now , to remove the rope ? I lost my father & mother & my grand dad is bound by the affection of bringing me up . As for you , you are bound in protecting the kingdom . How to free ourselves , when both of you are bound ? Shouldn t you leave your kingdom , build a palace in the midst of the ocean & then listen Bhagavatham !.... My grand dad will never stand infront of me TOO , without a towel in his waist . But the Sage sukhabrahmam had gone without any clothes on him , through the way , where the women were bathing . If you too listen the Bhagavatham from a person who has no clothes on , certainly you shall attain the eternity ! The king understood that , in the form of that little girl , the Goddess is teaching him gnanam ! He called the servant & ordered him to remove the ropes of both of them . He presented a lot to the Pandit & that little girl . He told the Pandit Sakshath Saraswathy , herself is born . Get her a good education . The grand dad asked the grand daughter on the way What did you tell him ma ? That s secret laughed the grand daughter ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA !

NOV 3 BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI DAILY VAIKUNTA EKADASI OF SILADHA They call Vaikunta Ekadasi as Moksha ekadasi too . Srikrishna says in Githa In the months , I am Margazhi . By observing fast on that day , we give one day s rest to our intestine , which works daily . it is good for the health . if we let it dry like this once in 15 days , no disease will catch us . Gnanam ( Knowledge ) will increase ; Yhe mind will be pure . the pithrus will get rid of the hell & bles their heirs . We shouldn t eat stomach full the previous day ( dahshami day ) because of the fast on the next day . Must take very clean , light food once in the day time & fruit & milk in the night . Likewise , the next day of Ekadasi , shouldn t give full work to the stomach . Are we able to do any big work immediately after getting up from the bed ? Our stomach too is like that . Agatthi leaves ( agatthik keerai ) will cure the ulcer . Nelli & Sundaikkai {I don t know their names in English or Hindi sorry . if anybody knows , please post them in the comment column underneath to help the others , who don t know Tamil , please .} must be added in the food on that day . It is very good , if you feed atleast one poor fellow on the Dvadasi day . You will be very much pleased to find that you too can fill one stomach ! on Ekadasi , shouldn t scold anybody . Must be calm . Must keep the tongue that utters the Bhagvan nama , under your control from uttering bad words . They say that on Big ekadasi day ( Vaikunta Ekadasi ) we shouldn t apply sandal on our body ; shouldn t taste the thambool ( Betel & nut supari ). Why ? These may spoil the minds of the other devotees . why to commit sin on a fast day ? ( vrath day ) a rich Brahmin . He did gruha dhanam . A very poor fellow from his street too accompanied him , when he was going to the Heaven . The rich fellow got wild , because he thought heaven to this dharidra ( poor fellow ) too ? He asked the people there What has he done to come to the Heaven ? they replied him A child was about to get get under the wheels of a car . He died , when he saved it . One can become a punyasali , on thebasis of the circumstances ! Garuda Purana says if one builds a house with Dharppa grass 7 gives it as a dhanam , he will have Swargga vasam . ( heaven ) . so , if a well to do fellow do so & stand at the entrance of the Heaven , it will remain closed , only . On the first day Karthik month , people going to Sabari Malai , wear the har . ( starting their vrath ). They pray Forgive all our sins done knowingly & unknowingly . What does it mean ? Will the God forgive if one prays after killing somebody I have murdered unknowingly . please forgive ? & after robbing other s property if one says forgive ? it is NOT so . We cut the vegetables ; the worms in it die too ; When the person s hand/finger cooking for us , is harmed/wounded by the fire , whoever eats , gets his share of that sin . We go in a hurry , Many ants die

under our feet . we are forced to beat the cow , when it attacks us with its horn . If the cooking person sneezes , the sneezed particles may fall into the food . The death of the ants happens under the feet or the car unknowingly . That s sin . If the milk on the stove boils with bubbles or flows out of the vessel , it is sin . Because , it is the blood of the cow . that s a sin done knowingly . Beating the cow when it eats in the garden , is a sin done knowingly . we pluck the buds along with the flowers & the too little ones , wile plucking the vegetables , both unknowingly . All these sins are erased before accumulating & become the beds under the feet instead of the stones & thorns of the Aiyyappa swamis ! A rushi namely Siladha , once dropped in a the vessel of bhiksha , when he was a too young boy . ( yachak s ). The blind beggar too ate it along with the food . That small stone had grown up into a very big stone in the Hell . He came to know of it that , after his demise , he should powder it & eat . He selected such a big stone in the bhooloka itself , powdered & drank it by & by daily . The stone in the hell too vanished . We too can erase our sins once in 15 days . Those who can t do so , can do it once in a year atleast . Isn t it ? JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! 5 NOV BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI SHANI PRADHOSHAM Pradhosha time is very sacred one . Shani pradhosham is still more greater than that . Because , to protect the Devas , to get them the Amruth ( Nectar ) Lord Shiva drank the Halahala poison on THAT Saturday . There are Markkata Nyaya & Marcchara Nyaya ! Markkata Nyaya is : the monkey s child tightly catcheshold of its mother , wherever the mother jumps ; That s Markkata Nyaya . Like the people go the temple continuously to pray Him Give me that ; give me this marchara Nyaya is : The mother cat carries its kitten in its mouth & protects it ; like Lord Shiva drank the poison deliberately to protect His devotees ! There was a small boy in a yadhava family , in Ujjain . Too poor . The name of the King of that country was Chandrasena . He was worshipping Maha Kaleswar on every Pradhosha day , without fail . The King got a Chinthamani , with the blessing of Lord Shiva . He was very much pleased with that & did more of the dhana & dharm . When the Yadhava child went to get the dhana , listened carefully observed the Pradhosha pooja done by the King & recorded in the mind . No sooner than he returned home , he dug a pit & established the broken stone grinder ( Ammik kuzhavi ) ; collected water in the mud pot & the leaves & flowers, sand in a bamboo tray , as much as he could ; he mixed the sand in the water & performed the Milk abhishek , sandal abjhishek & all sorts of abhishekas ; Did a sashtanga namaskar to that Shiv ling ! He collected water repeatedly & kept on performing the abhishekas one after another ; his mouth kept chanting nama : shivaya , Nama: shivaya . In the beginning , his mother thought that her child was just playing ; he washed , cleaned & dried the torn cloth & applied it on the Shivling as the Vasthra ; prepared the Bhilva Har with the leaves & put it on the Ling ; showed the sand & did naivedhyam ; when his mother didn t notice , brought the burning firewood & did the Karpur Harathi too !; again & again he kept on doing namaskar ! By this time , his mother had called him thrice to have meals ; because he didn t turn up , she came there in much anger & threw away the stone & scolded him heavily as she liked . The child , was stunned , the very moment she threw away his Swami & swooned at once ; it was more than two ghatis { 48 minutes } . he didn t open his eyes . The local vaidhya ( doctor ) came & signed hopelessly & went ; I just said something casually & killed my own son so thinking , she too fainted ; the neighbours too left to look after their personal works . The boy , gained his consciousness himself 7 looked around & was stunned again by scene there . The broken stone was turned into pure gold ; the leaves , flowers , bamboo tray , water vessel & whatever he used for the pooja were all turned into gold ; the scattered sand was all glittering gold ; He woke up his mother & showed them all ! She embraced him tightly & shed tears pleasure ! She did namaskar prayed aloud oh ! God ! please forgive me ! by the time this news spread allover & there no place to stand due to the heavy rush .

Lord Anjaneya was present there & said Today is Shani Pradhosham . This child performed Athmarttha Pooja , without thinking them as sand , stone etc ; From this date his name is Sridhara ! This family is going to be honoured by Sridhar s 7th parampara by NANDHA & the 8th by LORD SRI KRISHNA ! so saying , Sri Anjaneya disappeared ! KRISHNAM VANDHE JAGATH GURUM ! HARAE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA HARE HARE ! OM NAMO NARAYANAYA ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! THE PHILOSOPHY OF ASWAPATHY . In those days , Guru - Kula vasam was in practice . The place where the students were learning was called mahasala . They used to admit only 100 students in each of them . They used to admit them only by conducting the knowledge test ( the entrance exam of those days ! ) Once they didn t agree with each other s opinion .. One of them said Athma alone is heaven . No death to it . no hunger & thirst to it . Another said No . Athma is sun . If one realises athma fully , all the dirt in his mind will be burnt . The third one said I worship athma as the wind . It has no body . But , without it , we can t live . The fourth one said in an elaborate manner Athma is pread like the sky . In it , crores & crores of stars like thoughts twinkle . It is as cool as the moon sometimes ; and as bright as the sun too at times . some times , the clouds hide it . It is very far off & unreachable . We can feel that it IS there ; but can t touch it . The fifth one said All are wrong Athma is like water . It has no colour . But without the athma , a human is dead . No life can survive without water . because , all the opinions seemed acceptable , they couldn t come to a an amicable conclusion . All of them went to the son of uddhalaka maharshi , the son of Aruna maharshi . uddhalaka was great gnani & thapasvi . He knew the reason of their arrival through his gnana dhrushti . He said I can t clear your doubt . We shall g to the king of Kekaya country . he is a great philosopher ! So , he took them to him . The was very much pleased to se all the six maharshis at a time . He did all sorts of essential upacharas to them as per the shasthras . He kept six gold plates full of gold coins at their feet & did namaskarams . They didn t even look at the plates . The king felt so sad at this . Na me stheno janapathe Na katharyo na Madhya pa : Na anhithagni : na avidhya : na sviriri svirineekutaha the meaning of this poem is because all the people are rich , there is no need to lie & be fraudulent ! All are have desire to do dhanam & dharmam . You can t see even a single intoxicated person here . ( what a clean fool - proof administration & the king s confidence over it ? ) All the Brahmins perform the Agnihothram .All the people are educated . You can t see even a single dishonest fellow here . Hence , you can accept this wealth without any hesitation ! ( See , the best reasons given to accept the freebees from the king too ! And , it shouldn t have come out of the income through the liquor selling ! ) So , we come to know that , If the utthamas the most honest & straight forward people - should accept our dhanam , so many good qualities

should be there , to the host . We can understand that how a king should rule & keep his country . Each citizen s responsibility is included in it . All should do their duties honestly . Then only , the government will be on the right path . Uddhalaka Maharshi said Aswapathy ! We haven t come here to get wealth from you These five say that the Athma is heaven , sun , wind , sky & water . I am worshipping the athma as the earth Bhoomi . For , we keep all the good and bad in our minds . In it , there is anger ; dhroham ( treachery ) , love ; truth ; And the athma is enduring all of them like the Bhoomi . It is only , should clear what athma is actually ! Aswapathy beautifully explained ( A king explains the athma to the maharshis !!!) Nobody can say , where the athma is at which part of the body . If anybody questions , the mouth answers . At that moment , the athma is the brain which thinks , the talking mouth , & even your moving tongue too . When absorbing the important matters , it is the ears & brain . While seeing it is the eyes & the wind while breathing . The people who say the vision is important , think that athma is the sun . The people who say the brain is important , the athma is felt as the heaven. If the breathing is thought as important , then the athma is the wind . To the people who think this body in which the athma resides, as main , then it is the sky . If it is thought that the athma will run away from this body , when the mal , jal don t come out properly , then it is water . To the people worried abouth the digestion of the food , , it is agni the fire . The stomach , which accepts whatever is dropped in it , is the Bhoomi . If that stomach is properly & responsibly looked after , the athma stays for long in that nest .( body ) The life is spent more in sleeping & eating . We require the long age to do good . Experience is required . Therefore , we shouldn t trouble the stomach much too much . If we keep on giving the stomach wished by the tongue , the athma will certainly run away fast . The tongue is the anukoola shathru . ( the dearest enemy ) It will induce , this is so tasty ; eat it it is only the athma as good cocience will prevent it . By not staying at a particular place , the athma keeps going alright ; as light , water , earth , wind , & sky ! Likewise , the human should live in this world . And do good alone . ! ( Oh ! What a fantastic explanation to show us the athma ! Only , Maha Periyava can do it so simply & superbly too ! ) JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! Note this place ; This is what I reffered in the yesterday night's argument . " The maharshis who teach the vedha shasthras , used to meet once in once in two years atleast to sharpen their knowledge ." BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI SIVARATHRI Sivarathri is the best vratha of all the vrathas of Siva ; It comes in the Tamil month of Maasi s [ mid February mid March ] ; Krishna paksha chathurtthasi ; One s entire sins are erased , whoever does the Rudra parayan till midnight [ in that night of Sivarathri ] , with abhishekams . He should bathe after the sun-set ; and wear the washed & dried clothes only . [ Shasthras say that we shouldn t do even a sashtanga namaskaram to the God with wet cloths on ; it is allowed & a must only in Pithru karmas GNK ] In those good old days they used to make a Shivling in the clay , for each jama & performed the poojas ; and the did abhishekams too to that clay ling only & it won t dilute . It is a speciality to conduct each jama pooja differently . It can be done upto one s limit . SREEM BHAVAYA NAM : , SARVAYA NAMA : , RUDHRAYA NAMA : , PASHUPATHAYE NAMA : , MAHA DEVAYA NAMA : , BHEEMAYA NAMA : , EESANAYA NAMA : , PARAMATHMANE NAMA : :- one should

atleast chant these 8 namas & drop the flowers on the ling . h eshouldn t talk loose of others , if the pooja is finished earlier ; and , shouldn t think of other unnecessary worldly affairs ; must read the about Siva s punya stories ; one who can t read , can make others to read & listen it . Lingorbhava is one of the 64 moortthas ( Idols ) of Paramasiva . It can be seen directly behind the Garbagruaham moolasthanam sanctum sanctorum . Siva is the Jyothisvaroopa , the one without either the beginning or end . Who went in search of His head & lotus feet { Brahma & Vishnu respectively } will be seen above bottom of that Lingodbhava . Spatika (Crystal ) Linga is a very special one of all the other Lingas . When the milk & curd abhishekams are done , he will look as pure white ; and in the appropriate shades while the other abhishekams are done with honey , sandal , etc; . { One shouldn t pray anything wrongly against the rules ; such as evil things to happen to others etc; for Spatika reflects our thoughts back ; and , it will reflect on such person back again & he alone will suffer of his own prayer .} Bhagvan has no any differentiation & partiality ; HE will change Himself according to the quality of our mind ; Hence , the evil qualities like jealous , greediness etc must be uprooted & sent out of the mind there & then often ; Spatika Linga will look green & red respectively when the Archana is performed with Bilva & Arali leaves & flowers . { Note : Periyava is indicating the reflection }. We must make HIM to sit in Love form ; That very night Paramasiva stood in the form of Jyothisvaroopa { Fire } without either any origin or any end , is only MAHA SHIVARATHRI ! A hunter namely Kuruthruka plucked the bilva leaves & dropped the whole night { unknowingly on the Shivling underneath the tree } from atop a tree . Hence he attained Eternity , says Shivapurana . He only comes back as Guha in the later stage . { After how many hundreds of yugas , that great soul is sent back to Earth ! } ; and , was accepted by Srirama who came to the forest as vanacas as a brother . This must NOT be misunderstood like : - we too can kill the animals lifelong & simply can perform the pooja with th ebilva leaves on Sivarathri { to escape sins ! } . Bhagavan is just giving a chance to change one s self , whoever it is ! There are plenty of ways for the livelihood ; Why to do HIMSA of the Jeevas creatures ? This thought must arise in the minds of the readers . Bhagvan , stirred the Curdlike Kuruthraka , removed the bad quality & found out the Butter of him & gave us . Once , when kuruthraka was about to hunt a deer , it promised him that it would handover its child to somebody else & would be back soon ; Its sister deer too was caught by the hunter , when it came in search of its sister ; & that too promised him that it would come back soon & gone ; When the husband deer of them both heard of the their matter , it too came along with them to the hunter . All the three of them tell the hunter to make them his food ; This story advises that , inspite of Bhakthi { Devotion } , one should NOT give up his word . perhaps , this story might have been said with the intention that the people may read it with an exclamation that the deers spoke ! There is a neme to Lord Siva Asuthoshi ! { I remember in Calcutta there was a road with the name Asuthosh Mukerjee road I think it was known as Lansdown Road earlier GNK Please correct me if I am wrong . I am referring this from my memory of 67 , when I was there} . The person who creates poems on request on the spot , is called asukavi . Asuthoshi is the one , who erases the dhoshas & ensures pleasure , the very moment HE is accepted in the mind ! Lord Siva is the one who is easily pleased ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! { Here is another one of Periayava s lovely play with me :- I always note down the date on which I post His preaching s , near the Heading of that discourse in the book to avoid repetition. When I sat near the system , HE ordered me to post this discourse . Hence I took nearly 2 hours to translate & type this . As usual , when I was about to note down to-day s date , I find that I had already noted there the date of 3/11/11 ! When I opened it to start typing , it was not seen there at all ! Who knows the reason , of HIS sankalp ? Anyway , I POST this here again as per His order . } POSTING NOV 18 BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI BHEEMA EKADASI Vakunta Ekadasi has another name too Moksha Ekadasi . Kalava Maharshi was the son of Munipunga Maharshi . Kalav followed Ekadasi vrath very strictly , by fasting without even drinking a drop of water . Once his father Munipunga , asked him My child ! Why do you follow this vrath ?

Father ! I was the King Dharmakeerthi in my previous birth . I was too pride & proud & had too much of ego with the tought of Oh ! What a lot of punaya I have accumulated in my previous birth to get this luxurious life ? ; hence , I never respected the learned ; never cared for the justice , good , bad & all ; It was the Law , of my mind s wish & order ! I was a King of making the people to suffer , like this ! One day , I wandered in the forest with too much of hunger & thirst & reached an ashram ; The disciples were chanting Bhagavatham , since it was the Ekadasi day ! Their Guru was not to be seen ; hence I decided to wait till their chanting was over & sat in a corner ; and , as my time was over , I expired too . As per the rules of the shasthras , they cremated me on the next day of Dhvadasi . Then , I ( my Athma )was taken to the Yamaloka & produced to Yamadharma . Chithraguptha read my account He was fast on the Ekadasi day without drinking water ; was awake & listened Bhagavatham till midnight ! His sins are erased fully . let him be born in Vedhic family & attain eternity in that birth itself ! Yamadharma ordered . That s why I had the great opportunity of being born as a son to you . I am following this Ekadasi Vrath , only to attain eternity ! Sage Kalava said . Kalava applied the paste of Nellikkai ( Amla Goose Berry ) & after some it dried , bathed in the rivr . Our fathers had found out that , by doing like this , one will get the strength to bear with the hunger & courage too ! Bheema cant tolerate the hunger at all . He has another name - Vrukodhara , meaning that he has the stomache like the wolf . Even after eating stomach full , wolf s stomach will always seem to be touching its back . Bheema couldn t bear this hunger in all the Ekadsi days . Hence , he fasted on only one Ekadasi day in a year , after taking permission from the Sage Vyasa . So , that Bheema Ekadasi too gives plenty of punya Phalan! As said by Sri Krishna naikadasya : samam vrtham : - No Vrath is equivalent to Ekadasi ! This has no any partiality like caste , religion , male female etc; Ashta varshadhika : mardhya : apoorna sheethi vathsara : ! Ekadasyam upavaseth bhakshayo : api !! Says Dharma shasthra ! To whatever levelone can follow , he can do so ; Need not punish the body adamantly ! Why do they observe fast & perform penance , without even water ? One should think well of this point . There may be insets in the water too . We take the grains , only after the plants are fully matured enough & fall down ; ! If a child grows up tells the parents You gave birth to me ; fed with your milk & food ; nurtured & taught me the arts ; Likewise , I shall give you enough money to live for another 20 years ! , how many parents will tolerate it ? It is the dsame way , when one says that he gas paid for grain ! How many insets would have died , when the tiller worked in the fields ? ; his sweat too would have been the fertilizer to the fields ; We can get away from that sin , atleast a day , isn t it ? The milk is the blood of the cattle ; One should restrain himself to forget it on the days of the fast . The fruits , that fell down itself , can be eaten ; without making the plants to suffer with our nails , the ripened fruits can be eaten ; how to bifurcate them so ? Hence , the people who are on full fast , will have more divine , mental strength !One shouldn t imagine himself the scene of Heaven s gates opening to him , after eating the kicchadi fried along with the worms & insects , which escaped while filtering the Rava ! Prathigrasam asow bhungthe kingbhisham , svana vitsamam ! The shasthra is cautioning very severely . The meaning of this is : - It I said in shasthra that the ( bodily/healthily ) weak ones can eat the havis , without adding salt , tamarind & chilli . On the contrary , if the healthy , strong people TOO follow this exemption , It is like eating the sin equal to the shit of the dog with each handful of annam ! so says this stanza ! We should control the mind not to plan for , poori , adai , dosa etc ; the moment the very word Ekadasi is uttered . There may be suitcase full of money ; but there may not be the proper situation to eat at all ; If one thinks that Ekadasi day is suchan one , then it will be easy to observe fast . Upavasam means to live along with . Upavasam has the power to let us get united with Bhagvan . it is possible get united with HIM , only when the stomach is empty . Dharma shasthra says : -

Ekadasyam thu ksrthavyam sarvesham bhojanadhvayam ! Shuddhopavasa : prathama : sathkattha sravanam thatha : !! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! 17/Dec/2011 BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG

THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI

If you apply the ankolath thailam ( oil ) on the seed of the mango fruit & sow it in the ground , it will immediately grow up well up our ...elders ) have said so . I don t say that the tree will grow up well to that level to give you fruits , because you all won t believe it ! But , it IS the thruth ! didn t Akalika get her life immediately when Srirama s feet touched on ther when she was a stone ? there are the Chank & Chakra lines & the Ganges in the feet of the Bhagvan . The bhagavath says that not even a single green grass grow up in the surroundings of the in the river Yamuna s madu . ( a small island made of the sand in the rivers . But Sri Andal has sung in the Naacchiyar thirumozhi ( a famous Tamil script sung by Sri Andal ) poottha neel kadamberip pugap paaindhu vaaittha Kaaliyan mel nadamaadiya ._ Mr. Varagooran ! Please give your best translation here . ) Her father Periayaazhvaar asks her What my child ! You have sung that when there was/is not a single leaf in the Kadamba maram ( Kadamba tree ) , it was giggles with plenty of flowers ? It was true that the tree stood dried up in black colour like the charcoal , due to the poison of the Kaliyan ( Kalnga serpent ) ; and it was also true that it giggled with flowers ! Ask me how Sri Krishna climbs up the that tree , isn t it , to jump on sand island ? If Srirama s feet can turn a stone into a woman , won t the feet of my Srikrishna turn a charcoal-tree into a giggling one with flowers ? ( appideennaale paarkkalaam ) Vishnu chitthar ( her dad s original name ) stunned with her wonderful argument ! Appa ( dad ) You said that when the fallen fruit of the Azhinjil tree , will go back again & get pasted to its mother & (it shouldn t have been spoiled ) , if the lightning strikes it ! If you immediately pick it up & crush & boil it , an oil will come out of it . And, you say that, if you apply that oil on the mango seed & sow in the ground , it will immediately grow into a big tree & give fruits ! If JUST one lightning has this much of power & effect , my Perumal is of crores & crores of lightnings pa ! Periyazhvar keeps on pleasantly listening & enjoying Sriandal s wonderful talks ( What a great punyathma he was to have that Sakshath Sri mahalkshmi to be his daughter & breed her up brilliantly to keep on talking to him like this ?! these are my expressions , which I can t prevent from sharing with you all here . You may point out if you don t like it , please ) This Ankolath thailam ! Periyazhvar : The feet that measured the three lokas (worlds ) , the feet those kicked the thrunavartthan , the padhukas which ruled over Empire , just they had connection with His feet if I ask you , that , whether the Kadamba tree would giggle with the flowers , yes , it would have definitely done so! What you say is perfectly alright my dear child ! The Battarpiran ( the Poojaka of Sri Perumal temple ) admitted ! Sri Andal reminded him Then , you said that you would tell me the reason for the name of Srirama as Kakustha ? Not like a father and daughter , Periyazhvar & Sri Andal would discuss freely all the matters pertaining to the Bhagvan ! Periyazhvar :- There was a king namely Puranjaya in the Ikshvaku vamsa ( Srirama s Syrya vamsa ) . It was the running period of the Thretha yug . A big battle was going on between the devas & the Asurs . The side of the devas was becoming weak . Some of them appealed to Srimannarayayana ! The Bhagvan appeared in person & said I can t fight with them directly . I was born in womb of Athithi . They are born in the womb of Thithi . Ina way , they are also my brothers . So , I would enter into the body of

Puranjaya . Go & beg him to help & bring him here . Then the victory is yours . So, the devas go & beg Puranjaya to help them . He said If Indra is my vahana ( chariot ) , I am ready to fight from your side Indra thought it is only the Bhagvan going to fight from within his body ; it is a bhagya (Punya ) to lift the Bhagvan So he accepted for it & changed himself into a Rishabha ( Bull ) . Puranjaya climbed up & stood on the Bull s neck ( a short thick heap on the neck of the bull if this wrong , please somebody correct me ) & fought & won . Kakuth means rishabha ; stha means bull s neck . From that day onwards Puranjaya became Kakustha . And, Srirama ,too , who was born in such a great vamsa , is also called Kakustha . Really it was only His Tejas which got into the body of Puranjaya , isn t it ? Prahladha s grandson Bali , had given the loka as dhanam. And , the toe of the foot of that Vatapathra Sayee ( the one who was floating on the mandhara leaf ) touched the Brhmma loka ! Brhmma does abhisheka to THAT TOE only & keeps sprinkling that water on his head ! T that moment Jambhavan visited throughout this globe , beating the drum to celebrate it ! What a punya collected by that Bali , to get the touch of the Bhagvan s feet , like that Akalika ? And , you are just guessing , why did not that Jambavan cross over that sea , who could go all around this globe , isn t it , my dear child ? Jambavan gave it up to Anjaneya to get all the credit ! Further he was more aged too . There IS A pleasure too in giving one s credits for others . Do you know ? asked Periayazvara ! What a lovely last line ? Periyava only can give such lightning flashes in the end of his discourses ! None can even think to compete it ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! POSTING ON DEC 22nd. BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSHA - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI SRI RAMACHANDHRAMOORTHI We prepare murukku ,seedai , adhirsam etc ; of different kinds of eatables for the Krishna Jayanthi . Sri Rama too is Mahavishnu s avthar , isn t it ? Then , why are watery buttermilk & sweet panagam { Sweet drink } stipulated for Sri Ramanavami alone ? A devotee asked . Sri Rama was the son of a King . Even mysore pauk & laddu too could have been stipulated , if they had wished so . But , He will have to undergo the vaavasam ; furthermore , when he will be in neck deep sorrow by getting separated fro His Seethamatha , would he have liked to eat these sweet adhirsam , murukku etc ;? And, what an enormous quantity of them should be prepared to the entire Vanara Sainya { battalion of the monkeys } too ? You may question He is Bhagvan . Won t they be delivered at His sankalp ? Sri Rama had come to this Bhooloka , in disguise of the son of Dashartha . An actor should act like a beggar , as per the roll he has accepted , eventhough a house like a sea , cars etc ; If he says I am a rich fellow . I won t cup my palms ! , the people would laugh at him . Krishna was a shepherd ; He had plenty of friends with Him ; Lot of eatables & snacks were required for them all ; There was His mother Yasodha to prepare them all ; He was a rare son to them { After a lot of prayers } ; No child before & after Him to them ; further , He hwill have to kill tha rakshasas { Demons } like Bhoothana , Sakatasura , Thrunavarttha etc ; The Yadhavas should get away from him , due to the fear of thinking Him as God ; hence He had the necessity of stealing asking for the snacks , stealing the butter & all , to bring them all to a normal stage ! It was the case of Srirama ! Scorching Sun ; Dasharatha was the king who could hoist the flag of food & serve food to the people freely . To prevent the juice of the liver from getting to the head Sukku { A herbal mixed in the butter milk }; And to minimize its hot taste, the sugar like substance ( Vellam ) ; this is the secret of the sweet panagam . The watery buttermilk cools the intestines & fatless ; it will quench the thirst ; So watery milk & the sweet panagam for Rama wandering in the forest .

Rama did only one notorious deed . They used to make balls of clay & dry it in under the Sun . If it is used in the place of arrow in the bow , it will hit hard ! Mandhara came along with Kaikeyee . The flesh will be like a heap on her back { Hunch back } . Child Rama was very much pleased to aim & hit it without slip . The seed of Ravana Samhara is sowed then only . Otherwise , would the sense of enmity have grown in the mind of Mandhara ? Would she have taught Kaikeyee wrongly ? Would Rama , who descended to do the Dhushtanigraha { Kill the evil asurs } , would He have misbehaved to Mandhara ? His next mistake was to hit Vali with this arrow from hiding . ravana had taken away Seetha ; The world should be made to understand that , one shouldn t go a long distance without any prper company ; Dhashratha had expired too ; if he had sent message to Bharatha , wouldn t he have come with a big battalion ? ; or if He had said Vali Ravana , whom you kept under your armpit & carried him to all the four seas , had done like this , won t it be sufficient ? Ravana would have freed Seetha immediately on seeing Vali ! Ramavathar took place to reduce the weight of the Earth { Bhoobaram } & to kill asuras like Ravana ! That s why He went to Sugreeva . Because half of His strength would go tohim { According to the boon he acquired } , He hit him with his arrow from hiding . further , Vali seized Sugreeva s wife ; he drove Sugreeva without giving him a chance to explain ; even , if one had committed a blunder , his side of argument too must be listened ; if the explanation is not satisfactory to the mind , then only punishing him , is the Dharma { Justice } ; thus , plenty of holes on the side of Vali ; how much water will stay in a vessel with holes ? Thara prevents Vali Rama has come & joined your brother . Vali says Rama has come to after giving His empire to his brother . So , He won t help to separate the brothers ! Like Vali , Ravana too praises Rama . When his minister suggested him to cheat Seetha in disguise as Rama , the Lankadhipathi { King of Lanka } says I too would become a sadhu with all the good thoughts , if I take up the roll of Rama ! That much of greatness for the roll of Rama itself ! SRIRAM JAYARAM JAYARAM ! RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA ! THE PROPOSALS OF THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI Is it a possible task really ? The entire crowd stands still with the doubtful shock . infront of poraiyar Viswanathasawmi temple , temple officers , Mirazdhar , his family , the local people : everybody s face shows the No -confidence & astonishment expression excepting the face of the Mudhradhikari Veerappa pillai , which shows the ray of the hope ! The person standing infront of him says in a low tone : Will be possible . Must be possible . If the local people unite together , , it will be possible . must be started by tomorrow morning & be finished befor evening ! The firm order is given . All of that village people disburse with astonishment & with half confidence , when they all gathered again infront of the temple before 7 am next morning , HE was standing there already as the first person ! Rama , Rama , hare , hare the order is issued . The tank of 2 & half acher . It is fully covered with sand , leveled equally , plenty of plants grown up & the ground is hardened heavily . The task begun slowly , goes on faster by & by , takes its speed , speeder & speedest . The farmers , slum people , Brahmins of the Agraharam , Mirazdhar , the women who don t show up often outside their houses .. what cheri ..what agraharam .. all of them carry the apparatuses .. carry the soil .. mixing with each other . At Six in the evening .. ! A very big tank for the people & lord visvanatha too.. that too in one day ! The ONE who gave that much initiation to them all , stands at the bank , raises His hand blesses them beautifully ! ************************ no medicine , no manthras , no magic . nothing will work out for this Enough of of the treatment I shall take him to HIM .. Send Sivaramakrishnan with me.. ! That close relative said decisively . To mayavaram Sivaramakrishna Shasthri , Bhagavatham is by heart fully . Saptham , Navaham etc are degree coffee . He would describe Sri Krishna , by melting himself . His speciality is : - Whether it is a Ghanapatigal sitting in the first row , only to find mistakes ; or Sadaiyan , who is sitting in a corner there to dismantle the shamiyana for the three fourth anna ; the discourse will be clearly

understood to both of them equally & it will be too interesting too . Such a crowded fans to him in the Tanjore district ! What will happen , if the voice is broken & stops abruptly to such a talented one ? After he suffered a high fever & cured , his power of speech was gone fully ! Due to the shoch of this , he lost his mental balance too . No stone left unturned in the medical line . this is due to the shock . it is concerned with the brain . We can t do anything for this . said the doctors . Finally that relative brought him saying that HE alone is to tell us a propitiation for this & stood him infront of HIM . The very moment HE looked & touched him , Sivaramakrishnan , his brain comes back to his control ; HIS look { Sight } cools him ; his words are still more better . Now , Sivaramakrishnan could understand , WHO was standing infront of him . Sivarama , pour this vibhoothi in your mouth ; now , tell me that . Stanza of Bhagavatham HE refers to that particular stanza . Now , Sivaramakrishnan could understand still more better & could understand that the ONE standing infront of him was : It was the AdiSankara who kept HIS feet allover this Bharatham & made it into a PUNYABHOOMI & again standing there in HIS NEXT AVATHAR ! The whole body of Sivaramakrishna Shasthry shivers ; his brain shivers ; Mouth trembles ; the teras pours down his chekks like a water fall ; To fall down Or to worship .Or to cry more .. he doesn t know ! Solluda { Hey ! tell me } The thin hand of the Jagathguru slightly taps him . That s all !!! Whatever that was preventing his voice & brain , were removed by the enormous flood of his sloka rendering !!! The next .. and another .. and the next HE kept on asking & he kept on rendering with a big loud while crying aloud .! ************************** BY THE SAGE OF THE KALIYUG THE YUGA PURUSH - THE PARAMACHARYA OF KANCHI We propose something . If the God proposes something else That s our Punyam & Bhagyam only ! How to say that , what we think alone is right ? We can never say that , what the God proposes is wrong , isn t it ? Therefore , when we propose something , the God without allowing it Ok , let it go on as it is ! , if He Himself interferes with His Great Mercy , with His different proposal , and if His proposal is successfully happening . Doesn t it mean that He has done a very high beneficial one for us ? whether we understand it now or don t , by keeping low of our Sankalpam { proposal } , & if HIS sankalpam happens , No doubt at all ; It is our Bhagyam only This is the FAITH one must have ! JAYA JAYA SANKARA ; HARA HARA SANKARA !