My experience with His holiness - Silpi

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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

 

My experience with His holiness

Silpi

Once my wife Padmavati teased me saying that more than anything else I, as a

drawing artist, should draw a picture of Kanchi Paramacharyal so that she could

spend the rest of her lifetime by constantly looking at the picture without

stirring out of the Paramacharyal.

I wrote at once to the Sri Matham Kanchi and quick came the order to go over

there. After I offered my homage to His Holiness, He said, " So, you are going to

draw my figure. You are the disciple of Mali. Do you think that I will be netted

by you in the picture? "

After some days, however, He permitted me to draw. But it was a hot midday. He

asked me to sit at a distance from Him, right in the open space in the hot sun.

I was writhing in pain. I could not sit steadily as the ground was getting

extremely warm. The Paramacharyal saw my predicament. There was an expression of

grace in His eyes. The next moment the situation took a sudden change. The place

became instantly cool and even pleasant.

Still His divine sport continued. However much I tried I could not get His

figure and personality exactly in the picture.

Finally, after a good deal of repeated and concentrated effort, I finished the

portrait somehow and placed it at the holy feet of the Paramacharya. My wife and

I were sobbing all the time. We pleaded for His acceptance of the portrait

granting that it resembled him. If it were not blessed by him, we said in

bravado that He Himself could keep it with Him and that we did not want it.

At once He took the picture, held it close to His chest, closed His eyes in

meditation and turned His glance towards the temple of Varadarajaswami(This

incident took place in Little Kanchipuram). His eyes were full of tears; the

temple bell chimed at the same instant.

He took the Bilva and Tulasi garland from His body and placed them on the

picture, sprinkled akshata and sugarcandy on it and raising both His hands

blessed us fully twice.

Jagadguru Sri Jayendra Sarasvathi Swamigal was watching the scene from a

distance. He later fold me that I had received the grace in full measure from

the Paramacharyal and was looking at the picture in great joy.