LORD Sri Dattatreya and Ambaa

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Namaste Ganapathyji.

 

Your mention of Lord Sri Dattatreya and other avadhutAs prompts me to

narrate this incident which occurred during my recent visit to

Kanyakumari.

 

After having darshan of our Kumari and marvelling at the glittering

stud on her nose at Kanyakumari temple, I sauntered

over to a ramshackle KAli temple at almost land's end from where

Malayalam kIrtans of Chottanikkara dEvi were emanating. An old

Malayali priest worshipping a fierce idol of KAli MA greeted me.

When I rose after prostrating before the idol and took prasad, my

eyes fell on the photograph of an old woman on the wall and enquired

with the priest who it was. He said she was a still-living avadhUti,

about 235 years old, with whom he had spent about thirtyfive years.

She is fondly called Mayamma. He gave me a photograph of the lady

after performing pUja, which showed her almost naked surrounded by

several dogs. I asked him where I could meet her. He said he didn't

know her present whereabouts but I could make her out anywhere as she

is always surrounded by a herd of dogs.

 

I am now told that Lord Sri Dattatreya is also accompanied by dogs

and that they are the vEdAs.

 

Do you know anything about this avadhUti? Do the stories you have

referred to mention this avadhUti mA? Is it true that the dogs

represent vEdAs? Any information in this regard, I am sure, will be

of utmost interest to most of us

 

PraNAms.

 

Madathil Nair

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, ganapathy = = vijaya

<srividya101> wrote:

 

......> HH Shanthananda Swamyji of Skandashram at Salem belonging to

the Avadhutha Parampara Sanyasins has narrated how Lord D appeared

before him as a avadhuta sanyasin and gave him a fruit when he was

left with No Energy to climb the Girnar Mountain. after taking the

friut he was re energised like a teenager to climb the mountain

heights, for a dharshan of Lord D paduka peetam.

>

> One can read the books on the life history of these great Avadhutas

and variuos miracles done by HH Swamyam Prakasha swamygal, the pujya

gurudev of HH Shanta nanada, when he was at

Salem. ....................