Building Guru Raghavendra Mrithika Brindavanam: Experiences

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...