Sunday, August 21, 2011

Gho dhana in a Rayar mutt!!!

Hare Srinivasa!!!

I Wanted to write this post for some time but could not get down to do it till now. We wanted to perform a Go-dhana in the name of our father before atleast 3 months passed after his demise! As some of the visitors to this blog would be aware, there is a very beautiful and serene Rayar mutt established and run in a place called Hanumantapuram (very close to Chidambaram in TN). There is a famous Sri Lakshmi Narayana temple which is supposed to be a very old temple visited by SriMadwacharya on his way back from Sri Mushnam. This is also the first swarna brindavanam for Rayar was installed and consecrated in the last week of December. You can visit http://hanumanthralaya.in/ for more details on this temple.

We set off on the afternoon at around 1PM on Jul 9th to this place from Chennai since we wanted to do the gho dana on Sunday Jul 10th. On the drive down from Chennai, one of the temple trustees who was accompanying us from Chennai, mentioned that Bhuvanagiri - the birth place of our dear RAYARU is on the way and whether we would like to visit the place as well? If someone gives us sweet to eat, will it be like a sour taste to our tongue? We immediately jumped to this idea and just took a small detour to that place since I had not visited the house that RAYARU was born to save us all in this Kali yuga! When I set foot on that place, there was just a thrilling experience within myself to be in the same place as in which RAYARU was born that it cannot be expressed in words but has to be only felt!!! When we had a good darshan of RAYARU, imagine our surprise when the aachar there mentioned that he has come only that morning from MANTRALAYA and offered us the mantrakshathe - It was like RAYARU blessing us on the event of the GO DHANA saying that HE is going to accept it even before we actually did that the next day. Is there anything greater than this that one can hope for in this world!!

Next day, July 10th, Sunday was the auspicious SWATHI nakshatre - the star in which Sri Lakshmi Narasimha took his avatar to protect his very favorite bhaktha Prahalad - What other day can be more favorable for the same Prahalad (as our GURU RAYARU) to accept the Gho dhana from us? When we planned the trip, we didn't realize that it was going to be SWATHI nakshathre but wanted to do that since it was a weekly holiday on SUNDAY but HE had arranged itself to happen on a very happy auspicious day. After the gho dhana was done, we were treated to a very blissful panchamrutha abhisheka and alankara of RAYAR brindavana there. After having theertha prasadha there, we started back from that place half-heartedly since the purity and serenity of that place had mesmerized us and reached back at around 6PM back in Chennai.

On the completion of the third masik ceremony of father, we are planning to slowly re-start the construction activities of the rayar mrithika brindavanam work near Kanchipuram. Our sincere prayers to HIM to guide us in the proper direction for this activity to get completed whenever HE wishes and then come and seat there permanently!!!

Sarvam Sri Krishnarpanamastu