[Chaturamnaya] His Holiness Jagadguru Sri Sacchidananda Sivabhinava Nrisimha Bharati - 20

[S Jayanarayanan]

 http://svbf.org/journal/vol8no1/2006_10_swamigal.pdf
 
 
On Way to Kalady
----------------
 
The Swami reached Bangalore in May 1907.
V. P. Madhava Rao had left Travancore and was
now Dewan of Mysore. At the request of the
Dewan, the Swami stayed at his residence in
Bangalore. Madhava Rao, A. Ramachandra Aiyar
and other influential gentlemen of the place
requested that a shrine for the great master
Sankara and a matha, where the Swami could stay
for a month or two every year and preach vaidika
dharma to the people, should be built in
Bangalore.
 
Ramachandra Aiyar had offered to place
his own mansion at the disposal of the Swami. He
now backed up the request of the Dewan and
offered Rs. 20,000 as his contribution.
 
Between Chamarajapura and Basavangudi
lay an extensive plot, overgrown with trees and
shrubs and harbouring reptiles. The plot was
acquired and speedily cleared for the proposed
shrine and matha. The installation was celebrated
in due form.
 
The Swami now left for Mysore, where the
Maharaja was awaiting his arrival. As he had
already spent more time at Bangalore than he had
originally arranged he had to leave Mysore within
a fortnight.
 
He then came to Gobichettipalayam in
Coimbatore district, where he had to stop for
some months to celebrate that year’s Chaturmasya
and the Navaratri festivals.
 
Here came Chidambaram Chettiar of
Kanadukathan, who was renovating the celebrated
temple of Jambukesvara in Tiruchi on a grand
scale and who requested the Swami to grace the
occasion of the Kumbhabhi-shekam. To this the
Swami agreed. Seeing how skillfully the temple
had been renovated, the Swami asked
Chidambaram Chettiar to supervise and complete
the improvement which the Swami had
inaugurated in the shrine of Sharadamba at
Sringeri, which commission Chettiar gladly
accepted.
 
Then he stopped for a day in the adjoining
town of Srirangam, putting up in the mansion of
his devoted disciple, T. K. Balasubrahmanya Aiyar
and worshipped at the shrine of Sri Ranganatha.
After a short halt at Tiruchi the Swami left for
Koilur, where the priest had rebuilt and renovated
the Siva temple of the place at an enormous cost.
The priest prayed that the Swami should bless the
occasion of the consecration of the temple by his
presence.
 
The Swami, agreeing to this prayer,
proceeded to Koilur, stopping for a few days at
Pudukkottai, the capital of the Tondamans, which
as the Swami declared, had been sanctified by the
footprints of Sadasiva Brahmam, who was the
Swami’s ideal of a perfect yogi.
 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: </archives/chaturamnaya/attachments/20161124/ef5d89ad/attachment.html>