Post by anusham163 on Apr 17, 2014 20:13:46 GMT 5.5
A DAY WITH LIGHT
Part 8.
On a particular occasion, when GuruNathar was in meditation, one of His attendants came there. He was shocked to see a cobra standing in front of Him, very near His face and looking at His eyes! His eyes were also open. But His eyes didn’t blink nor moved! The attendant silently went and fetched a basket and quickly covered the cobra with it! He continued to stand there to ensure that Periava did not open the basket when He came out of the meditation.
On another occasion, SriSaranar was going from Thondaiyarpettai to Thiruvotriyoor by walk. He was walking behind the famous cycle rickshaw—shaped cart, holding on to it. While He walks slowly like Sri Ambikai, when He goes on long ‘Padha Yatra’s, He walks very fast like a king. As an example to show how fast He walks,----When He walks on Roads, He will come to know of the existence of any small temple somewhere inside, off the main road. Immmediately, SriSaranar’s feet will discard the ‘Padhuka’s and walk on barefoot. The discarded footwear will be thrown away a few feet behind Him due to the speed at which He was walking!
That day when He was walking towards Thiruvotriyoor, suddenly there was a blood—chilling noise. It took some time for others to realize what that inhuman noise was ! Some puppies got caught under the wheels of a bus which was passing that way. The noise made by them due to the pain while dying, was that chilling noise. While those who were accompanying SriSaranar somehow recovered from that shock, He was continuing to walk in the same cruising speed, without any faltering of steps, like a doll.
Some people walking with Him, were appreciating His unperturbed state, and were telling the close attendants of Periava. One of the attendants who knows Periava, replied, “He is not aware now, that we are walking on the Thiruvotriyoor highway, that a bus passed by now, and some puppies got caught under the wheels. He is in the ‘one—hour Japa’!”
We wonder how one who has lost the awareness of one’s ‘self’ can continue to walk like that!
‘May my sleep become my Penance; May all my wanderings become ‘Pradhakshanam’----thus prayed Sri AdhiSankarar; but for our Sankarar, even wandering becomes Penance/Meditation!
Even in the state of bliss when only the Atma is experienced, our Periava had the amazing capability of working the body in a mechanical manner.
Even the sense of time is somehow associated with Him during the meditation! Because, exactly at the moment of completion of one hour, He will come out of His meditation!
If the clock does not show the completion of one hour at the time He comes out of His meditation, then the clock must be defective! He, who has been in deep meditation for an hour without being aware of anything around Him, will, after coming out of it, start the conversation exactly from the point where He left off!
As we have already seen, our Acharya, is good at ‘concealing’ things ;
In spite of that, on some rare occasions, some of His amazing power has opened up its petals! When He comes out of His meditation, some puzzling words/statements will spill out of His mouth. He will babble some name of a person and his place, but no one will know who he is. But Periava will cut the thread immediately. After some time, that same person from that same place would come there for Darsan! Or a letter would come from that person!
This is not an ‘ordinary’ amazing thing, but a ‘special’ one. Because during meditation, Periava is one with the ‘Brahmam’, having completely discarded the illusory world.
But when He comes out of it and into this world, some matter connected with this world spills out of His mouth, without His being aware of it!
How true it is when it was said that others cannot understand any one thing about the Enlightened souls!
TO BE CONTINUED…………………………