Post by saidevo on Oct 9, 2012 8:39:18 GMT 5.5
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He found PeriyavaaL reading a book with the help of the light from a handheld torch! It became intelligible to him that it was the Vishnu Puranam book. What he did not understand was why this change in the time table and the sage reading the book in the early morning!
Later on SriCharaNar himself made it understood. In the unusual rush of the previous days' tasks, he was obliged to skip this Purana paTaNam (reading). As an 'imposition' for that our Yati who is the very form of niyama (discipline), though he went to sleep far later in that night, got up earlier than usual the next morning, silently finished his 'koTTAi' (washroom) danta dhAvana (cleaning up teeth), and compensated the omission by an additional time of paTaNam!
Our AcharyaaL is the residence of the three Shastras: Sruti-Smriti-Puranam. After the sRutiyukta (spoken by Sruti) karmAnuSTAnam (daily practices) and puja are over, it was only appropriate reading the Gita that our AcharyaaL considered Smriti and the Vishnu Purana used heavily among the Puranas by him in his quotes!
After this is over, if it is not a day of upavAsa (fast), our Gurunathan will partake his simple food. In the beginning years of his ascending the PiTham, he used to partake tiruvamudu (sacred, cooked rice meal) once a day, avoiding the tastes of saltiness, sourness and hotness in the meal. He took a small quantity of milk and fruit at night. But then as days went by, he extremely reduced his AhAram (food). Though he was not in a state that required to melt his bodily oon (meat) in order to brighten his uLLoLi (inner light), for whatever reason he started such an experiment! Though it was not necessary to take bitter things in order to develop the jnAnam (knowledge, wisdom), there was a time when he took only such things as tender neem leaves and bhilva leaves. He has spent a few years eating only three fistfuls of annam (cooked rice). Then he started accepting some nelpori (parched paddy grains) soaked in buttermilk, but then even that he skipped on many days. There was also a time when he stopped taking the fruit and milk. It is a wonder that can't be understood as to how it was possible for him to perform puja from three in the morning until twelve at night without any sign of fatigue, or walk miles together with the very little, saltless food he consumed. Beyond all that, even after taking through his hears to his heart the different kinds of supplications and suferings of his bhaktAs, he remained fresh without any signs of withering!
Though it was all restless work that took in ceaseless supplications of sufferings, how much he remains as a vEDikkai vinodan (one who sports and amuses)! He is a unique player of pranks, a role that generally doesn't seem to go well with a man of his vayas (age), Ashramam (stage), and sthAnam (standing, status)! Saying it this way does not mean that we cannot see tIvra gana (intense weight) in him. For one who has all the mAnuda guNa gaNa mahimAs (greatness of human character and association), he would also make us stand at a distance and pay our respects to him, becoming a man with dIrgha chintanam (high thinking)!
After the bhikSA, mostly our Gurunathan himself will distribute the tIrtham (holy water) that was used in Swami abhiShekam (ablution). (Immediately after the puja is over, after his tIrtha prAchanam (consuming water with a mantra), he would go for his tiruvamudu only after distributing tIrtham to ascetics, vidvans, AchAra shreSTas (best in religious conduct) and such other people). The bhaktAs who are waiting to receive tIrtham from the hands of Periyavar, even if the time is twelve noon or one or even two o' clock, would receive that holy water mixed with abhiSheka sandal paste. We should have done bhAgyam to receive that tIrtham given by that amRuta karam (ambrosial hand) which it gives with parama karuNa in a large uttaraNi (spoon) that can termed a small ladle! That the tIrtham is capable of giving sakala kSema (all prosperity), of removing sakala dosha (all deficiencies), there are abundant proofs.
Glossary:
dIrgha - long (in space and time), lofty, high, tall; deep
tIvra a. strong, violent, intense, fierce
uttaraNi - a small spoon used for taking water
He found PeriyavaaL reading a book with the help of the light from a handheld torch! It became intelligible to him that it was the Vishnu Puranam book. What he did not understand was why this change in the time table and the sage reading the book in the early morning!
Later on SriCharaNar himself made it understood. In the unusual rush of the previous days' tasks, he was obliged to skip this Purana paTaNam (reading). As an 'imposition' for that our Yati who is the very form of niyama (discipline), though he went to sleep far later in that night, got up earlier than usual the next morning, silently finished his 'koTTAi' (washroom) danta dhAvana (cleaning up teeth), and compensated the omission by an additional time of paTaNam!
Our AcharyaaL is the residence of the three Shastras: Sruti-Smriti-Puranam. After the sRutiyukta (spoken by Sruti) karmAnuSTAnam (daily practices) and puja are over, it was only appropriate reading the Gita that our AcharyaaL considered Smriti and the Vishnu Purana used heavily among the Puranas by him in his quotes!
After this is over, if it is not a day of upavAsa (fast), our Gurunathan will partake his simple food. In the beginning years of his ascending the PiTham, he used to partake tiruvamudu (sacred, cooked rice meal) once a day, avoiding the tastes of saltiness, sourness and hotness in the meal. He took a small quantity of milk and fruit at night. But then as days went by, he extremely reduced his AhAram (food). Though he was not in a state that required to melt his bodily oon (meat) in order to brighten his uLLoLi (inner light), for whatever reason he started such an experiment! Though it was not necessary to take bitter things in order to develop the jnAnam (knowledge, wisdom), there was a time when he took only such things as tender neem leaves and bhilva leaves. He has spent a few years eating only three fistfuls of annam (cooked rice). Then he started accepting some nelpori (parched paddy grains) soaked in buttermilk, but then even that he skipped on many days. There was also a time when he stopped taking the fruit and milk. It is a wonder that can't be understood as to how it was possible for him to perform puja from three in the morning until twelve at night without any sign of fatigue, or walk miles together with the very little, saltless food he consumed. Beyond all that, even after taking through his hears to his heart the different kinds of supplications and suferings of his bhaktAs, he remained fresh without any signs of withering!
Though it was all restless work that took in ceaseless supplications of sufferings, how much he remains as a vEDikkai vinodan (one who sports and amuses)! He is a unique player of pranks, a role that generally doesn't seem to go well with a man of his vayas (age), Ashramam (stage), and sthAnam (standing, status)! Saying it this way does not mean that we cannot see tIvra gana (intense weight) in him. For one who has all the mAnuda guNa gaNa mahimAs (greatness of human character and association), he would also make us stand at a distance and pay our respects to him, becoming a man with dIrgha chintanam (high thinking)!
After the bhikSA, mostly our Gurunathan himself will distribute the tIrtham (holy water) that was used in Swami abhiShekam (ablution). (Immediately after the puja is over, after his tIrtha prAchanam (consuming water with a mantra), he would go for his tiruvamudu only after distributing tIrtham to ascetics, vidvans, AchAra shreSTas (best in religious conduct) and such other people). The bhaktAs who are waiting to receive tIrtham from the hands of Periyavar, even if the time is twelve noon or one or even two o' clock, would receive that holy water mixed with abhiSheka sandal paste. We should have done bhAgyam to receive that tIrtham given by that amRuta karam (ambrosial hand) which it gives with parama karuNa in a large uttaraNi (spoon) that can termed a small ladle! That the tIrtham is capable of giving sakala kSema (all prosperity), of removing sakala dosha (all deficiencies), there are abundant proofs.
Glossary:
dIrgha - long (in space and time), lofty, high, tall; deep
tIvra a. strong, violent, intense, fierce
uttaraNi - a small spoon used for taking water