A pleasant remembrance

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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

 

A pleasant remembrance

Mrs Seetha Chidambaram

My mother Mrs. M.S. Chidambaram and her mother visited Paramacharya

of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham in 1952 at a Siva temple in Mambalam to

ask and receive His benign blessing before Sri M.A. Chidambaram

started to build the Adyar House at Kotturpuram, Madras. the

Paramacharyal greeted the proposal heartily. He recalled His stay

many times at the residence of Mrs. Chidambaram's father in Konapet

in Chettinad and reminisced His carrying her as a baby.

At this meeting, His Holiness was seated under the Nelli tree.

Suddenly Nelli fruit got dislodged and fell on the ground. Hid

Holiness asked my mother eat the fruit remarking that it would taste

the sweet.

Then He blessed her and granted her wish. He said that the house to

be built at Kotturpuram will be prosperous ad joyous. He added that

the entire neighborhood would develop specially into a fine and

affluent colony. It should be kept in mind that at the time

Paramacharya said this Kotturpam was just a wilderness and

godforsaken woods where poisonous reptiles had their free habitation.

But one who visits Kotturpuram today will marvel at the rate of

growth with planned and palatial houses all around and with its hum

of human activity.

Paramacharya's words never fail. My mother, Mrs. Chidambaram's family

are happy because of His blessings. She remembers this incident as

distinctly as on the day of receiving His blessings. May his grace

continue to project us all.