Saturday, December 24, 2011

Rayar needed some flowers from me!

Sri Lakshmi Nrsimha Para Brahmane Namaha! Yesterday, there was a news article that appeared in the newspaper 'THE HINDU' about the construction of the new mrithika brindavana project for Sri Guru Raghavendra: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/article2739611.ece Incidentally, do not think that the material for this article was given anytime recently. It was given a few months back itself - and out of the blue, this was taken up suddenly by the paper and then published yesterday in the printed and online versions. Again, all this should be only Rayar Kripa! Since this has not been coming for some time, I also didn't follow up closely to keep continously checking to see if it has appeared or not in the daily papers. When I was going for the early morning dhanur masa visit of the Rayar mutt, I got a message from my sister stating just that the news item has come out very well - I didn't realize what news item she was talking about and when I called up, there is this news article that has come in the paper. I was very happy that this has come out through Rayar's grace and felt some how confident that the fund flows should start happening to this project enabling it to get completed. After I visited the temple and offered the flowers at the usual place to be made use of by them, I got the theertha and mantrakshathe prasadam from the assistant to the aachar in the mutt. This particular assistant always acknowledges my arrival in the mutt every time I visit by nodding his head at me when he sees me but never talks with me in all the time that I had visited the mutt. Suddenly, he comes behind me and whispers in my ear that since it is dhanur masa, the nirmaalya and alankara happens very early in the morning and said that I can give "4 mozhum" flowers tomorrow morning before around 5.30AM for it to be used in the alankara on the brindavana that day itself. Now since this came from someone who does not talk to me, I took it as a direct order from Guru Rayar itself - through this person. Immediately, I made sure that the flowers were ready for today early morning and went to the temple at around 5:45 AM early morning and gave the flowers - Co-incidentally, as if the assistants were waiting for this to come, at exactly the same time, I went inside the temple, they were taking all the flowers to inside the garbha graha for starting the alankara - For some reason, Rayar passed me a message that he needed some flowers to be given by me, and I was happy that again with HIS grace, I was able to meet the same. Sri Krishnarpanamastu Vasan