[Chaturamnaya] His Holiness Jagadguru Sri Sacchidananda Sivabhinava Nrisimha Bharati - 14

[S Jayanarayanan]

 http://svbf.org/journal/vol8no1/2006_10_swamigal.pdf
 
 
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A portion of the forest to the south of the
Tunga river in Sringeri had been cleared for tapas
and was named Narasimhavana after the old guru.
The Swami ordered the Agent to put up a
temporary shed on this spot and he moved to it
on an auspicious day in 1898 with the
Chandramaulisvara linga and the utsava-murti of
Sharadamba. He performed the puja of the day in
the shed, followed by the feeding of brahmins on
a small scale.
 
In the evening he sent back the utsavamurti
of Sharadamba to the shrine on the
northern bank and slept in Narasimhavana with a
few attendants.
 
One by one, the gold and silver plates and
valuable things used in the daily service of the
deities were given up and the Swami was content
to offer his daily worship with the pure water of
the Tunga and the flowers and sacred leaves that
were to be had in the woods.
 
He himself eschewed salt, acidic and
pungent things, subsisting on sattvika food. Every
day after his daily puja, he would, like the first
great master before him, give lessons to his pupils
on the bhashyas till 11 or 12.
 
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