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Saturday, December 21, 2019

Satyavrita Kshetra

Kanchi is also called as Satyavrita Kshetra. 
  1. The Goddess worshipped Lord Siva by creating a mud idol in Kanchi. 
  2. At that moment, Lord Siva incarnated as Kamba River and with high tides tested the worship of the goddess. 
  3. The goddess grasped the idol closely with her two hands from eroding in the tides. This prevented the idol from getting eroded in the floods. 
  4. The goddess also performed Pooja by sitting in a needle tip surrounded by “Panchakagni”(surrounded by 5 fires) to free herself from the interest of livelihood. 
  5. The Lord Shiva became happy and married the goddess.

Sunday, August 18, 2019

Anatasaras

Tank gets fed primarily with rainwater collected from
  1. ‘Giri Pragaram’ (precinct), 
  2. ‘Anantha Alwar Pragaram’ and 
  3. ‘Alwar Pragaram’ of the temple.
Apart from the rainwater, the tank had two wells named ‘Varaha Theertham’ and ‘Sarkarai Theertham’ and three natural springs near the Athi Varadar mandapam area. Stating that the tank had never dried up and that it held water even during the worst of the droughts faced by the State, the lawyers said the three natural springs were called in Tamil as ‘Vatradha Ootru.’ .The term ‘Anatasaras’ means a peaceful resting place and the deity is kept in ‘Egantha Kolam’ (resting posture) inside it for 40 years 


Saturday, August 17, 2019

Padma Giri

This deity was hid underwater to protect it from Mughal Invaders. After sometime when the temple authorities searched for the idol they could not find it. But, they found a stone deity (Devaraja Swamy) which resembles Athi Varadar in a mountain called Padma Giri. So the temple authorities installed Devaraja Swamy as the moolamurthy inside the temple.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Padma+Giri
https://www.google.com/search?q=Devarajaswami


But in the year 1709, Athi Varadar appeared out of the water, after 40 years. So, the temple management decided that it was Swamy’s will to appear once every 40 years and give darshan for 48 days. Athi Varadar appeared on July 12 1939 and again on July 2 1979.

https://6kan.blogspot.com/search/label/Athi

Elephant

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=elephant+Kanchipuram

As per another legend, Saraswathi cursed the king of celestial deities, Indra, to become an elephant and roam around the place. He was relived off the curse with the divine power of Vishnu, who appeared as the mount, Hastagiri. Attagiri indicates a mount in the form of elephant.

Athi

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4 Brahma Kararchita Varadaraja moorthies



1 Sri Bho Samaetha Varadharaja
   this is yegnotbhava moorthi and the main deity varadharaja
   Barghavi
   Barghavi came from the putra kamaesti yaga of Sri Brigu maharishi. refer here for more details

http://usju.blogspot.com/search/label/Bhrigu

2 Stana Moorthi Atthivaradha

made of Atthi wood . Darshan only for 48 days, once in 40 years
​for more details on atthi varadha

https://6kan.blogspot.com/search/label/Athi

3 Nithya Abhiseka Moorthi, Pranatarthi Varadha (Rajataprathima)
   made out of silver. used for nithya abhisheka

4  Boga Moorthi (Tambra Prathima) made out of copper

Friday, August 9, 2019

Stalker


Railway

If you are looking to travel to Kanchipuram from elsewhere, some of the nearest railway stations are:

  1. Kanchipuram Railway Station
  2. Arakkonam Railway Station
  3. Chengalpattu Railway Station
  4. Tiruvallur Railway Station

Sunday, May 19, 2019

Ariyakudi

In June 1961, Paramacharya was camping at Devakottai (in Pudukkottai district of Tamil Nadu). He was in deep penance for several weeks, not talking or even communicating by gesture. One could not know if he even heard the devotees' words.

One morning, some people from nearby Ariyakkudi (‘Nagarathar’) had their darshan of Him, and in the course of their talks, it came out that Ariyakkudi Ramanuja Iyengar, the famous carnatic musician, and known simply as ‘Ariyakkudi’, was currently in Karaikkudi. To the surprise of every one, Paramacharya signalled to them, asking if they can bring Ariyakkudi over to meet Him. They agreed and left.

That afternoon by three o'clock, Ariyakkudi was at the camp. He was so excited and tense, as Paramacharya had asked to meet him in the midst of his 'kashta mounam' (vow of rigorous silence).

Is not Paramacharya known for His simplicity? So His accommodation at the camp was very simple. His room was on the garden side of a small house. Devotees had to have His darshan through a small window, after passing through dirt and bushes. May be that was His way of admonishing those of us who have grown used to the luxuries of life.

On being informed that Ariyakkudi had arrived, Paramacharya signaled to bring him to the rear window. He came, and paid obeisance by falling full stretch at His feet. That was it. To every one's joy, Paramacharya opened His mouth and started talking in a torrent!

"Heard of your receiving the Rashtrapathi award. You would have walked on a red carpet, and been honored in a gathering of eminent persons. But me, I have made you walk on stones and bush and made you sit in a dinghy room. "Why I called you is, I long have had a desire to listen to 'Shri Subrahmanyaya namasthe' rendered perfectly. On hearing you are around, the desire has re-surfaced. Perfect rendition means both the music and the lyrics (sangeetham and sahityam). Many people disfigure the words of Sanskrit and Telugu kirtanas to the extent that we wish they never sang. "The music part (swaras), the rhythm part and the 'sahitya chandas' – what is called 'chandam' in Tamil - would be given for most songs.

"In my Dharbar there is only stones and bushes. There is no accompaniment, not even Sruti. But please do sing that kriti for me, in spite of all these.", said Swamigal.

When Paramacharya stopped his torrent, Ariyakkudi was in tears. He prostrated once again, and said, "There is no other prestige for me than to be asked by Periyava to sing, and singing for Periyava. I have no words to express the magnanimity of Periyava considering me as somebody and giving me this chance. Periyava's grace has to fill in for the Sruti and accompaniment and enable me to sing to the level I am expected to", and readied himself to begin the song!

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Today May 19th is the 126th birthday of Carnatic Music Maestro Ariyakudi Ramanaja Iyengar! He was born in the year 1890.

This is an Immortal painting of Them Two by ShriKeshav Venkataraghavan!

A Blessed Guruvaram to Everyone.

Shankara.

Monday, April 15, 2019

Golu

It was a time when the construction work of Uttara Sri Nataraja temple was going on in accordance with Kanchi Paramacharyal’s orders in the Satara town of Maharashtra. People thronged daily to have darshan of Sri Maha Periyava who was camping in the town.

It was three o’ clock in the afternoon on a Sunday. A 30-year-old youth prostrated before Periyava and got up. Tears were seen in his eyes. Noticing it, Periyava asked him with affection, “Enpa, Who are you? Where are you from? Why are your eyes watery?” Without replying, he started crying. People nearby consoled him and made him sit before Periyava.

“Where are you from Appa?” Periyava asked him.

“Palakkad, Periyava.”

“You are coming all the way from Palakkad?” asked Periyava immediately.

“Yes Periyava. I am coming all the way from there.”

“Alright. What is your name?”

“Harihara Subramanian.”

“Besh* (well) a good name. Right, what’s your Thagapanar (father) doing?”

“My father is not in jeeva dasha (living condition) now, Periyava. He was practicing Ayurveda in Palakkad. His name was Dr.Harihara Narayanan”

Before he finished, Periyava with kutuhala (interest) said, “Ada (I see), you are the son of Palakkad Ayurvedic doctor Narayanan? Very glad. In that case, tell me, you are the grandson of Dr.Harihara Raghavan! All of them earned very good name in Ayurveda!” Periyava looked at him keenly, raising his eyebrows.

The youth said, “Yes, Periyava.”

Smiling, Periyava said, “Besh! A lofty Vaidhya parampara (medical lineage). That is alright. You have not added any doctor title before your name?”

“I did not study for that Periyava. My father did not prepare me in that way,” said the youth, without any interest.

“You should not say that way! Did your father not prepare you, or you did not have the shraddha (sincere faith) in getting prepared in that way?”

There was no reply. “Taking birth in that Vaidhya parampara, you missed the chance to know things? Right, up to which class you have studied?”

“Up to ninth, Periyava.”

“Why? You had no wish to study further?”

“Somehow I did not have the wish Periyava. I feel for it now!”

“Your vivaham (marriage) is done?”

“Done Periyava. I have a daughter who is seven years old.”

“Right, what do you do now?”

Tears fell down from his eyes. “Since I had no proper education, I could not get any high jobs, Periyava. I am doing the work of a supervisor in a local rice mill. The salary is seven hundred rupees. My family is running only on that amount.”

“Oho… Is that so? Right. You have your own gruham (house) left for you by the Periyavaals (ancestors)?” Periyava asked him.

Wiping his tears, Harihara Subramanian said, “There is a house Periyava, built by my grandfather. The very purpose of my coming here is to ask Periyava about it. Many years ago, since her husband passed away, my father’s sister came over to Palakkad bringing her two daughters. During a Navaratri festival time, my father mortgaged the house to a local person, took twenty five thousand rupees from him, conducted the marriage of the two daughters of my aunt, and then suddenly passed away. My aunt too passed away.

“My grievance, Periyava, is that during the festival time of Navaratri my father mortgaged the house that was Lakshmikaram (prosperous, Lakshmi-given) and passed away. The amount has now come to forty five thousand rupees including the interest. It seems the house is going to sink!”

Periyava went into contemplation for a while. His silence ended and he said smilingly, “Alright, now you celebrate the Navaratri festival at home, keeping a Golu (an assembly of dolls) every year?”

“No, Periyava. I stopped the custom of keeping a Golu which my father used to observe after he passed away.”

Periyava promptly interrupted him and said, “You should never talk so disrespectfully of Aathu periyaval (family ancestors). They are all very great people. I know it well! They have all gone after doing excellent things! Keeping something in mind, your stopping the custom of celebrating Navaratri with a Golu every year is wrong! Navaratri starts in a week from now. You revive the custom of keeping a Golu in Palakkad from this year. All your afflictions will be solved and your will get prosperity!” Blessing the youth and giving him prasadam, Periyava bade him farewell.

Twenty days passed. It was a Sunday. There was a large crowd in Satara to have darshan of Periyava.

An assistant of the Matham made way parting people in the queue and brought a respectable man of 60 to 65 years of age, wearing a saffron jibba (tunic) over a panchakacham (tucked in dhoti), a number of tulsi and rudraksha garlands on his neck before Periyava. He prostrated to Acharyal and started conversing in Hindi. Periyava also conversed with him in Hindi and then asked the gentleman to go and sit on the stage opposite him.

After some time, Palakkad Harihara Subramanian came and prostrated before Maha Periyava. He had a small trunk box in hand.

With Artha Pushti, (wealth of meaning) Periyava looked at the youth and his trunk box. The youth opened the box slowly. Inside the box, wrapped in a silk cloth were ancient palm leaf scripts numbering 10 to 15. The Parabrahmam looked at him knowingly, yet as if he did not know.

The youth said innocently, “You gave me the orders to revive the custom of Golu from this year. When I climbed up the loft to retrieve the Golu dolls, I found this box there. I have not seen it so far Periyava! I checked its contents and found these scripts whose letters were incomprehensible to me. So I brought them straight here.”

Periyava laughed and beckoned to the gentleman in saffron tunic who was sitting on the stage opposite him. To the gentleman he said in Hindi, “The apoorva vastu (rare article) you asked me about only a little while ago has come here, look!”

The gentleman immediately sat down on the floor, took the palm leaves and started having a glance at their grantha letters using a lens he had with him. His face blossomed. Lifting those scripts and keeping them over his head, he grinned happily and said, “O Parama Acharya Purusha! I have been searching for this apoorva ayurveda grantha for many years. You are the Pratyaksha deivam (God present before the eyes)! Within half an hour you have brought before my eyes what I prayed to you for!” He prostrated to Periyava with happiness.

Harihara Subramanian stood amazed looking at all this. Periyava called him near and said, “This gentleman is a great Ayurveda Siddha research scholar of Pandaripuram. Only half an hour back he told me about his searching for such an apoorva suvadi (rare palm leaves). Something struck my mind, I told him to sit and wait for some time. And now you here and stand before me with this trunk box!” Periyava ordered the youth, “All these will be very useful to him. Thinking of your father and grandfather, you give all these things to that gentleman with your own hands.”

The youth did as he was told. There were tears of joy in the face of the gentleman who received the contents.

The gentleman looked at him and said, “I have come to possess an apoorva grantha by your grace! It would not be dharma to receive them without paying a kanikkai (an amount given as a token of gratitude).” Then he placed fifty thousand rupees along with some fruits in a plate and gave them politely to Harihara Subramanian. The youth looked at Periyava, who smiled and asked him to receive the money. Hands trembling, the youth received those fifty thousand rupees!

Calling him near, that walking God said, “What did I tell you when you spoke out your grievance about your family ancestors? I said they were all great people, they would have gone only after doing excellent things. It somehow struck my mind. You saw the excellent thing your people had done, on the loft where the Golu dolls were kept. You said your house mortgage loan had increased to forty five thousand rupees in principal and interest! Now Sri ChandraMouleeswara has given his anugraham for this. Get back to Palakkad with happiness. Let the money be safe with you!” and bid him farewell after blessing him.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Golu

Sunday, January 13, 2019

Fire


" I am saying that I am the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one

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(na... who said that there is no one to come to the house? I have come!... (" in the walk of pūrṇāhuti, one person is in the blaze of the height - maha periyava)

) grandmas maha - in the head-today go grandma

Mahaperiava - A Legend
Compiled & penned by gowri sukumar
(the collection of many books)
With Permission-Varakūrāṉ Narayanan

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A Violinist Grandma. Periyava is the devotion that does not have any limit.

As a sātāraṇamāka, the time when the people who call himself go home and get natives, even without getting it, it is the time that they have been published in their homes!.

So that the grandma and the homam that walk in his house kindly come in time and wish to argue with you!

" for the homam that is going to happen in the middle, kindly come in the truth and do the argument.... so much....!

" what is it? Coming to niścayamā "

Hōmat didn't have the same for her grandma. ' I will come now, I will come to know that I will come now, I have also completed the pūrṇāhuti in shop.

Periyava didn't come!

The sorrow of grandma is not very bear. But will the brewery and the devotion go?

Took the homam and the tīrttattai and went to sri maṭattu. In the face of sri śōkam, who was in the middle of the house, died in the face.

He said to the periyava for his ah.

" kindly tell me that you are the only one who has done wrong?.....

Laughed pretty.....

" na... who said that there is no one to come to homam? I have come!..."

" Sri Sri...! Kindly come? Don't understand anything for this foolishness!"

" did anyone take a photo of homam?"

"have you taken.... kindly"

" Print it and see it. Do you think... na... if you come, you will be the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who

."

Keep smiling and gave the prasā.

If you see the print...! It is real..!

In the happens walk, the blaze is a good man wakes up! And that blaze, periyava was burnt like standing with the rails!

So, if you see the angle of the angle, if you see this angle-in-law, you will not be able to see any kind of guessing, if you see it, you will be able to get a lot of people who have been able to get a lot of people who have been able to get a lot of people who have been able to do so. The eye of Even the one who knows!

The Photo is today and in the "Maha Periyava Kruhattil" in Salem.

Will Lord the the word that is given to the devotees?

That Tējōmayamāṉa Anthony outward is always giving kākṣi in us. Kindly let us surrender to our feet!

Kindly go to one of their millions of atyanta devotees. Breath, talk everything is periyava!

Amazing show in her young age!...

Kindly camp in Hyderabad. Go and her dad sky kindly stay in the house of relatives for tarśaṉattukkāka.

As a rich house girl, she would have worn a lot of jewellery in her childhood.

To Buy some sāmāṉ for a day sri maṭattukkāka, a relationship with a relationship girl went to the street street.

It's been a while since I finished all the jobs. A horse boarded the vehicle and went to Sri Lanka.

In the same samayam camp, periyava, who was sitting in the middle of the house, he searched for the without to go to the meeting.

To the barrister who was on the side...

" Amanda.. Go to us? "

"to buy a zaman for a fool, to go to the shop street kindly"

" what is this?... what do you do in the town which does not know the language?... you do something. Take the vehicle (BULLOCK CART) and take a look at it. "

" here.... going..."

" you... don't go through the main road! Go to the cross of the cross!"

His voice is the voice of mother and salak

"belated periyava"

Pāriṣatar departed samayam, driving from the shop street, suddenly entered the side cross of the main road!

" why are you going to be in this dark lane?.."

The Pet and the relatives were looking at the santēhattuṭaṉ.

The man who stopped the vehicle in the place where he was not even a little bit, he was the one who was jumping down! His sight is not as easy as it is. The jewels that were competing with his eyes were marked up.

" why don't you stop the vehicle?"

To hold the fear, mind.... Periyava has been captured by the pa.!

The Vatsalaṉāccē who ran away in the kūppiṭāmalēyē!

As a result of saying, when sri maṭattu came to the cross, the driver ran away from the vehicle and ran away in the dark!

" darling.... can this page come alone? Come on, both of them are in the vehicle! Kindly be very worried and send me.."

Āpatsahāya Perumal... sent by pāriṣatarai, saved to go from ah and that girl

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