Building Guru Raghavendra Mrithika Brindavanam: Experiences

Yesterday, turned out to be a mix of frustration and satisfaction with different turn of events. By afternoon, the property promoter was supposed to give a call to me which never happened. In a desperate and a frustrated attempt, I tried to reach him only to be told that the registration date of the rayar's selected property has not been still finalized. I banged the phone down after giving him a piece of my mind. The pressure and frustration rose to such an extent that I had started interacting with HIM in a subconscious level asking him to decide of whether he is still interested in me going ahead with a Brindavanam for him or if he is not interested to let me know through some means. With this frustration, when I went to one of HIS brindavanams yesterday evening, I was blessed with a vision to see his nithya aradhana closure for the day yesterday. I was conversing with HIM telling him that these blessings are accepted but was questioning HIM of what use are these for if answers ...

Now that the seal of approval has come from Rayar, negotiations started in right earnest with the promoter for arriving at the final price for the property. The whole property was for around little bit more than an acre.... After arriving at the final price, the first set of installments were paid off by April 1st, 2009 after which a communication issue happened with the promoter. The promoter started saying the rate as something that was never discussed and at a higher rate that was accepted by him. After a prolonged discussion in which both parties refused to accept the others standpoint, today we arrived at an intermediate price point between the two prices. This entire episode which lasted for 3 weeks approximately left a lot of bitterness in our mouths.... We are not sure of the reasons behind this leela by Guru Raghavendra... Was this because of any abacharam that was commited by us in this project till now? Was this delay and torture a test of our strongness in this project to b...

There are a lot of confusions going around in my mind - The property owner had repeatedly called and followed up with me and most of the times I was in front of the Mylapore raghavendra mutt or in front of the Triplicane raghavendra mutt temple. While I could take these as 'invisible' seals of approval from Rayar, there were enough confusions going in my mind that the distance and accessibility to this selected property is not conducive for this to be selected. I was losing sleep over this decision to be taken and after a prolonged time, as always, I was given a flash of thought by rayar to get a formal seal of approval (what we call - uttharuvu - in Tamil). So, today being the day in which Guru Raghavendra attained the peedathipathi post after taking sanyasam, I was adviced by a very well known elderly person to get Rayar's seal of approval in the Mylapore Brindavanam. The process was started. Both HIS holy manthraksadai and flower were covered, kept in a plate in front of...

With a serious hunt started for looking at various properties, on this date, it turned out the property promoter in Kanchipuram was also equally interested in ensuring that I get to see the place. It so happened that the promoter was already travelling around 20 kms away from the city when I called him up on the phone on looking at the advertisement in the paper. He stopped in the middle of the route, sent a person to pick me up from the residence and dropped at the place where he was temporarily waiting. On reaching the property, my first impression on the positive side was that this place looked very similar to the place of IrayaMangalam - place where there is mrithika brindavanam near to Tiruvallur in Chennai. Apart from the looks of the place, there were other similarities as compared to IrayaMangalam that were pointed out by my BIL - Like the Irayamangalam place is very close to Hindustan Motors factory in Tiruvallur, this place was very close to a very similar factory of the same...

I have been the fortunate recipient of Guru Raghavendra's benevolance for more than a couple of decades. The number of times that he has helped me overcome obstacles and guided me in his own characteristic 'invisible' manner are too many to be elucidated in a single blog post. I also was fortunate in he making himself visible once when I was in Mantralayam on the banks of Tungabadra river. I will mention about it in one of the blog posts. Sometime back, my wife and myself had decided that we need to contribute to the society in such a way that more and more (un)fortunate people get to know about him in this world and seek his benevolance. Along these lines, we decided that possibly the best way for us to do this is to see if we can go ahead, identify a rural place which does not have his Mrithika Brindavanam and construct a temple for him. Along with this, we also wanted to explore the possibility of having an old age home to take care of senior citizens and give them a ver...