OHM SHRI GURUBHYO NAMAHA

GNANANANDA GNANANANDA SADGURU GNANANANDA

BHAKTHA VATSALYAN

A simple introduction before starting this episode. I am posting this in certain groups in face book where people who don’t know about gurunathar exists. When reading about gurunathar, as i am not mentioning the name of Gurunathar, they are asking who is this swamiji and where he is. So from this post i intend to write Gnanananda Gnanananda Sadguru Gnanananda in every post hereafter.

When talking about Gurunathar this title Bhaktha Vatsalyan can be given to any episode i am posting as all of them are related to how Gurunathar treated us and helped us. But as i intend to post two are three small incidents in every post i have captioned as such.

To start this small episodes i was thinking where to start. Then it struck me to start with a person whom Gurunathar has selected for propagating his pet theme of Namasangeerthanam through out the world and who followed Gurunathar’s instructions  dutifully to the dot.  Yes he is none other than “Guruji” Swami Haridoss Giri. I am starting this episode with an incident related to him.

As per the instruction of Gurunathar, Guruji used to visit so many places and conduct Nama sangeerthanam bhajans. On one such trip he went to Madurai and for three days the Nama Sangeerthanam was celebrated. There was heavy rush for the function and some leaders of Saurashtra community were also attending the bhajan and enjoyed Guruji’s singing. On the third day they approached and requested Guruji to conduct a discourse on His Holiness Natana Gopala Nayaki Swamigal (H H Natanagopala nayaki swamigal is a revered saint and was held in high esteem by the saurashtra community to which he belonged). Guruji replied as he did not know anything about Nayaki swamigal he will be obliged if the community people give guruji some books about Nayaki swamigal. They handed over some books. Guruji responded that he will visit thapovanam from Madurai and come back in a day or two to conduct the discourse. Then Guruji returned to Thapovanam and after completion of usual formalities he informed Gurunathar about the request of Saurashtra people and prayed that Gurunathar should help him in the discourse as he did not know anything about Nayaki Swamigal. Gurunathar blessed him ‘ Madurai poi upanyaasam seyvom. Swami koodave irukku”. Satisfied Guruji returned back to Madurai and the discourse was started. It went on for more hours than originally scheduled and the crowd listened to him with rapt attention. On completion of discourse the saurashtrian people approached and thanked him for a wonderful discourse and one of them asked Guruji “ swami the other day you told us that you don’t know anything about our Nayaki Swamigal and asked for some books on him. But what today you told us is something new and they are not available in the book. How come you came to know all these details. Just we are curious to know and this is not doubting you”. Guruji replied “ Immediately on starting the discourse i went into a trance and my Gurunathar told you the history of Nayaki swamigal and only on completion i came out of the trance and still i don’t know anything about Nayaki Swamigal.”

SADGURU GNANANANDA GIRI MAHARAJ KI JAI