Rayar's seal of approval....

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 his brindavanam and I was asked to parallely choose in my mind either of these. Since the Manthraksadai has been the one which has been giving me solace through all the tough times in the last 2 decades, I had selected that in my mind. When one of the other rayar devotees was asked to select from among the two items and hand it over to me, to my pleasant surprise, it turned out to be the same manthraksadai that I had thought of...

We were pleased to have got this approval from Rayar as well since it gave me immense satisfaction in HE approving one of the places that we had selected for him. Like the icing on the cake, my pleasure was immense that this was given by HIM on this holy day in which he had taken sanyasam and became the peedathipathi of the mutt! Was this a mere coincidence or was it a signal from him that this is going to be one of his favorite residences for him....

Only time will tell.... Whatever it is, it gave a total satisfaction and relief for having got his approval for the project to start....