[Chaturamnaya] His Holiness Jagadguru Sri Sacchidananda Sivabhinava Nrisimha Bharati - 8

[S Jayanarayanan]

 http://svbf.org/journal/vol8no1/2006_10_swamigal.pdf
 
 
First Independent Tour
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The Jagadguru first went to Gokarna, on the
west coast, a place sanctified by the visit of Adi
Sankara and which was in the last thoughts of the
Swami’s guru.
 
He was put up in the Sringeri matha branch
during which time occurred the festival of Maha
Sivaratri.
 
He was then invited to his capital by the
Raja of Jamkhandi, who received the Swami right
royally on September 16, 1887. He presented the
Swami with a costly diamond necklace and offered
to conduct the eighth day festivities of Maha
Navaratri at Sringeri at his expense. This is still in
force.
 
The Swami then reached Kolhapur, where
there was a branch of the matha. The Swami,
whose knowledge of Marathi was meagre, was
glad to find that a great many people here could
understand Sanskrit and he gave several lectures in
Sanskrit, which drew large audiences.
 
At Bellary, he performed the Chaturmasya.
Here K. Seshadri Aiyar, Dewan of Mysore, came
to visit the Swami. Sri Aiyar, a brilliant graduate
of Madras University, like many others, was
initially indifferent to questions of religion,
blinded by the glamour of the new education; but
his two day visit to the Swami earlier at Sringeri
along with his master, the Maharaja, was enough
to convert him. He now spared some time out of
his heavy and varied duties to the study of and
cogitation on the sacred Sastras.
 
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