Peace-maker of human hearts

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Namami Sankaraachaaryam, sarvalokaika Poojitham

 

With permission blessings and grace from HH Swamy Vijeyendra

Saraswathi garu of Shri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham Paramacharya and

miracles

 

Peace-maker of human hearts

V. Subramanian

 

It is with great reverence and earnest humility that I write this

note to share some of the momentous experiences my wife and I had

when we visited Kanchipuram to have darsan of Paramacharya.

 

My family members like many others in the country are traditional

worshippers of Sri Sankaracharya Swamigal. Especially in the past few

years, my wife Jaya has been an ardent and staunch devotee of

Paramacharya and she has been going to Kanchi on a fortnightly

routine to seek His darshan and blessings On every such occasion she

used to take sandal wood garlands prepared with here own hands for

the three Acharyas, the Paramacharya, the Nadu Periyaval and Bala

Periyaval. Her daily ritual in the morning consists of loud singing

verses in His praise that can be heard by neighbours. Not a day

passes without her mentioning to some one or other, whoever it may

be, the greatness of Paramacharya, His love and concern for the

people, with anecdotes taken from the volumes of " Deivattin Kural. "

Her first memorable exalted experience was on the 9th June 1989 when

she had gone to Kanchi with a new pair of specially prepared wooden

sandals which she wanted to worship after obtaining the blessings of

the Paramacharya. She was standing in the usual crowd at the Sankara

Math to get her turn to have a close darshan and His disciples were

already introducing some of the people gathered there to the

Paramacharya. But the Paramacharya noticed my wife in the gathering

and without paying any attention to what the disciples were saying,

He summoned one of them to get the pair of sandals from her. He wore

them, paced a few steps up and down, blessed them and returned them

to my wife. Her joy knew no bounds and people around took the

opportunity to worship the sandals worn by him. In fact a couple of

persons even accompanied my wife back to Madras to worship them again

at our house.

 

This event turned out to be a new leaf in our lives and her life-

style changed enormously for the between with more time devoted to

changing His name, singing His praise and reading the books that

contains His teachings.

 

A month later in July `89 we met with another amazing but pleasant

incident. We were looking for a good alliance for our boy Chi.

Laxminarayan but the was not showing any interest in getting married.

In fact, on a couple occasions he was sore that we were not allowing

to get established in his professional career. However, an alliance

from Mannargudi was put forward to us and we were told that it had

the blessings of the Paramacharya. The girl, Padma, was from a poor

but good and religious family. We ourselves belonged to the middle

class but the material expectations from our side were rather high

and my wife, notwithstanding her being a staunch devotee of the

Paramacharya, could not easily ignore the temptations of receiving as

much gold jewelry and silverware from the bride's parents as

possible.

 

The girl's parents were a little dejected but continued their efforts

in securing the alliance as they had the blessings of the

Paramacharya for the sam. Our boy who had all along been refusing to

get married, suddenly showed interest in marriage after seeing the

girl. Still my wife was a little uncompromising in her demands and

the alliance was nearly called off.

On the 9th July, Sri Balu, the close disciple of Paramacharya, came

to our place with fruits, flowers and dress for the couple brought

from Sri Sankara Math of Kanchi with His blessings. This inspired me

and I strictly told wife not to press the demands and to obey His

orders. At once she totally abandoned her earlier position and never

again asked for anything but His blessing. The betrothal ceremony was

conducted on 14.7.'89 again under Anusha-lagnam with His divine

blessings.