Swami Rajagopala's story

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Dear Srividya worshippers,

 

It is my endevaour to post whatever little I know to all. And

especially of my Gurunatha.

 

Swami Rajagopala was born to orthodox Srivaishnava family in Chennai.

He was not the first son but his mother went to one Sorrakai swami

(who was a great Narasimha yogi) and also his Reddy disciple yogi.

Both were not brahmins but were high level yogis and commanded the

respect of brahmins and especially this pious and innocent lady. She

ventured to Him and used to pay her respects. He immidieately got

pleased at her devotion and showed her Lord Rama and Narasimha in his

Chest. She was dumbfounded and her devotion grew in intensity. And he

said to her one day, " Mother! a divine child will be born to you.

Please take care "

 

This then was the rishimoola of Rajagopala swami.

 

The boy grew up as a normal kid. At the age of 5 one yogi came to

Chennai in those days. He was very tall and had 'bhasma' smeared all

over his body. He was none other than Lord Dattareya Himself. But the

people did not know and one family accomodated him in a big building

next to Swami's humble dwelling. Being a child and curious to know

who this strange man was he kept going into the house everynow and

then.

 

The yogi called him. But the kid(swami) would run away in shyness.

This happened many times. Then the yogi got up and caught hold of the

kid and took him to a well and poured a bucket of water on his head

and then wrote a mantra on a piece of paper and also correctly spelt

it in his ears and also made the young kid spell the mantra.

 

The boy spelt it. Then he looked into his eyes and said, " will you do

this mantra? " . The boy replied meekly, " Yes " . The yogi then

said, " Good! Devi will walk seven steps behind you always after this " .

And the yogi was nowhere to be seen.

 

The boy who was dazed had the piece of paper in his wet hands and

memorised it and told this incident to none.

 

Little did he realze that the mantra was the powerful and original

MAHASHODASI MANTRA!!!!Which is said to be hard to get even for Devas

and also highly secretive. Even Shodasi is said to be of lesser

significance than MAHASHODASI!

 

......................To be continued in next posting..................

 

-------Subodha