Rajarajeshvari or Lalitha

[Guest guest]

Namaste:

 

I thank one and all for the prompt response to my question.

Aparajit-Bala, Ganapthy- Vijaya, Kothandaraman Ganesh,

Vishvanathan Krishnamurthy, Aravind, Shri Ganesh, KS

Ramachandran, Satish, Sankara Menon, and Ravi. To all of

you my gratitude.

>From all these I understand that the murti lakshana does

not fit any of the standard prescriptions. There is no

chandra-prabhai on the head. There is no sugarcane and no

pushpa bana.

 

But I go with the following thoughts expressed by some of

you. Irrespective of the murtilakshana, in whatever name

She has been worshipped for four (probably more)

generatrions now, that is Her name. So I settle on the

traditional name handed over to me, namely Shri Raja

Rajeshvari.

 

I am sending a photo of the silver vigraha to Ravi’s

personal e-mail. I do not know how to put it on the web. If

he thinks it alright to put it on the web for you all to

see you may have a darshan by yourself. I must confess,

that, not being a good photographer, my photo has not

turned out to be a good one.

 

And now, to wind it all, here is another story about the

vigraha, which I am sure you would love to hear from me.

The vigraha, passed from my father to my elder brother in

1956, when my father left his mortal coil. Till 1983 it was

with my brother until the end of his life. After his

passing away I was not yet sure whether I should pick it up

from him and instal Her in my Puja at Pilani. Before I

could make a decision a friend from Madras visited me in

Pilani. I shall tell you his name in a personal mail if you

ask for it. He had a rare spiritual gift in him. Whatever

house he visits, if he stands before their puja-altar, by

meditating for a few minutes he is able to see the

kula-daivata or the presiding deity of that house andof the

puja there. This gift he had been having for more than two

decades and he had even told the Paramacharya about it. The

Mahaswamigal told him not to misuse it, but so long as he

used it only for satvic purposes it was alright.

 

This gentleman visited my house. I invited him into my puja

room which contained pictures of several deities After a

few minutes of concentration there, he came out and said ‘I

don’t see a Raja-Rajeshvari vigraha here in your puja, but

it is She who presented Herself before me now’. And I told

him about the story of the vigraha in our family and I told

him it is now in my brother’s family. He immediately said:

‘You bring it here. Since you say your brother is no more,

it naturally belongs here. I already see her here’.

 

Later I went to Calcutta for the first annual shraddha of

my brother and at the end of it I brought the vigraha and

kept it in my puja and was doing my usual puja as before.

 

Some years later, the same gentleman visited me once more

at Pilani and this time I took him into my puja room and

showed him the vigraha about which we had talked during his

first visit. Now he concentrated for a few minutes and then

told me: “ This is Raja-Rajeshvari in Dakshinamurti form.

That is how I see Her in my vision”. It so turned out that

just before his visit, I had performed,

ekadasa-rudrabhishekam every day for eleven consecutive

days. At the end of my puja every day I had recited the

dakshinamurti stotra and performed the namaskar for every

one of the ten shlokas there! She is

dakshiNA-mUrti-svarUpiNI !

 

Well, She is avyAja-karuNA-mUrti certainly!

 

PraNAms to all devotees of Shri MatA.

profvk

 

 

Prof. V. Krishnamurthy

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[Guest guest]

, "V. Krishnamurthy" <profvk>

wrote:

> I am sending a photo of the silver vigraha to Ravi's

> personal e-mail. I do not know how to put it on the web. If

> he thinks it alright to put it on the web for you all to

> see you may have a darshan by yourself. I must confess,

> that, not being a good photographer, my photo has not

> turned out to be a good one.

 

Dear Sir

 

I have posted it in

http://tinyurl.com/6ocvm

(which will redirect to our Photo's page).

 

Later I will add it to ambaa.org pictures area also, so that all can

see. To see in the page, you need an ID. Of the three

pictures, I have posted only one, as the others are out of focus.

 

Thank you for kindly sharing this picture and also the story of the

vigraha coming to you.

 

 

 

Ravi