The kAnchi maTham case [was Mrityunjaya Sahasranama]

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, "shankar_mallampalli"

<shankar.mallampalli@g...> wrote:

>

>

> , "Balakrishnan Shankar"

> <balakrishnan_sh@h...> wrote:

> > Yes .. the whole thing is disgusting ...

>

> YES, It is disgusting to be aware of the events currently happening

> in a place that once hosted innumerable magnanimous saints,

bhaktas,

> avatara purushas, yogis, kavis. sAkshat

> parameshvara svaroopa sri. Adi shankara described this kamakshi

> peetham in soundarya lahari. Kamakoti peetham is a "Moksha Puri"

> (where kama (desires) come to koti (dissolve)) and a shakthi

> peetham. Many swamis engaged in extreme devotion to our

> mother 'Kamakshi' and many more with their divine services to hindu

> religion made this peetham a splendid center of Hindu Sanatana

> dharma. Tamilnadu, a state that once lead saiva siddanta, a place

> that gave shelter to sages like agustya, mooka kavi, sankara, a

> place from where innumerable kaavyas, grandhas were born, is now

> treating brahmins and that too seventy year old peethathi pathi

like

> dirt.

 

namaste Shankar:

 

Contrary to that, such trials bring best out of our religion. It is

not the first time these things are happening. Saiva nAyAnmArs, had to

battle Jains so much in the past. Just to quote one case, under the

influence of Jains, the king put the Saint thirunAvukkarasar through

different trials and in one he was placed in a burning calcium slurry

-- from there the Sage sang out that even such a hardship is like

being near a pond with flowers that are full of nectar and with bees

humming around them, with full moon shining and a gentle cool breeze

hugging the body -- as long as the heart takes refuge in the feet of

Lord shiva. (mAsil vINaiyum ...)

 

It was through such struggles of nAyAnmArs like thirunavukkarasar,

thirujnAnasambhandar, the kings under the spell of Jains woke up and

Tamil Nadu became a fertile ground for vedic religion.

 

Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati SwamigaL reigned through the peak of

anti-hindu, anti-brahmanical, and anti-vedic movement of Tamil Nadu.

None could come near him, accuse of him of anything. And under his

reign, mAtha and its noble activities grew from strength to strength.

We should ask and

understand why and how that was possible. I think therein lies the

key.

 

I can only think of Sri Valluvar's maxim under the section sannyAsa

(thuRavu) the verse "yAthanin yAthanin nIngiyAn nOthal athanin athanin

ilan" -- From what all a renunciant stays away from; from that all he

shall not be troubled by (a crude translation - this verse also has a

hidden humour that the two lips will not touch while saying this verse

-- that is they stay away from each other).

 

 

Ravi