Azagiyasinger's visit

[Guest guest]

Dear members of the bhakti group,

I moved to madras and immediately had the gracious blessings of HH

Azagiyasinger. In my humble words I intend to bring some of the moments we

had here.

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Azagiayasinger's trip was successfull. That was evident from the fact that

during his upanasiyam HH indicated that HH is very much thrilled and happy

to the turn of devotees and that HH wishes to stay more. Next time HH

wants to stay here for about 3 to 4 days. It is indeed wonderful to note

that as they were getting the malolan ready for dharshan there was a heavy

downpour. The rain in no way caused any obstacle to the proceedings. By

the aradanam and theertham was over it was around 8pm and the pongal

prasadam was too wonderful to put it into words. After the ghosti malolan

was away for a few dolais and ponnadi. Jeeyar on the next day remarked

that is was past midnight when malolan rested.

The next day started pretty late and by the time abigamanam was over it

was well past 10am. During the ghosti, jeeyar had a small upanasiyam. The

topic was one of great interest to you. HH is extolling the fact why

sriman naraynan is the supreme being. HH indicated that sriman narayanan

is the supreme being and there is no need to worship other dieties, but

this does not mean that we have to quarrel or have a fight. HH was given

a variety of examples.

Intially HH started with the one saying that a pathivrathi will wait to

get the phospam from her bartha. She will wait with the determination that

her bartha will give it to her and give it only to her. That is the

devotion one should have. We should be of the firm opinion that only

sriman narayanan will give and he will give it only to us. HH then went on

to say that no pathivratha will accept phospum or anyother kind from

somebody unknown or not related, except her bartha. However, this excludes

mamanar, machinar etc who are related. Moreover for a pathivratha she

understands that there is only one bartha. Thus we should also have a firm

determination in sriman narayanana.

As the next example HH went on to explain a scene from ramayanan. Though

sita pirati was mahalakshmi why did the lord desert her. HH points out the

fact that this was because of the fact that pirati during vanavasham got

fooled by a golden deer. She then called on rama and told him that this

golden deer has captivated her heart. HH highlites that sita used the term

"abiramam" . This thinking on the part of human being like avatar of the

supreme diety was the cause of her trouble. Since she had wavered from her

dedication and belief and with ramam around her she was abiramam about

something was was not worthy of. Hence the lesson.

HH then concluded saying that just mere surrender in the form of

samashanam or baryanasam is not enough but one should have supreme faith

only in lord narayana and strictly adhere to the principles.

It was indeed a nice piece of narration to indicate the supreme nature of

narayanana.

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Madhavan Sridharan

15, Srinivasa Raghavan St., Srinivasa Nagar, Perungalathur Madras 600 063.