OHM GURUBYO NAMAHA

SADGURUNATH MAHARAJ KI JAI

I am starting this posting with my personal experience and how i became a devotee of Gurunathar. (hereafter i will refer Sadguru Swami Gnanananda Giri Swamigal as Gurunathar as some more swamikals name will appear in this post when it was needed).

In the year1981 i was working in Sirkali and was residing in the house of Sri M.S.Balasubramanian,( Balu mama) whose family was ardent devotee of Gurunathar and nothing absolutely nothing will be done without consulting Gurunathar before his attaining his Samadhi and praying to Gurunathar after his Samadhi.

I was invited to Chennai to attend the marriage of the brother in law of Sri  Balu mama. I attended the marriage with my wife and son. There is a custom in Balu mama’s house that nuptials will be celebrated only after the newly married couple perform Pada Pooja to Gurunathar at thapovanam. So the newly married couple started for thapovanam. As the car had more space i was asked to accompany the couple to thapovanam and from there proceed to Sirkali. We proceeded to thapovanam and i experienced a kind of inner peace when i stayed there in thapovanam. I also performed Padha Pooja and returned back to Sirkali.

After few months, i felt an urge to go to thapovanam. I sought the help of Balu mama and he also accompanied me with his wife. It was late night when we reached Thapovanam and was around midnight when we went to bed. Then Balu mama asked me why i intend to perform a Padha Pooja? Have i sought any favour from Gurunathar. I replied that i have no prayers and feel that performing a pooja with a request is like offering bribery to god so i am simply performing the pooja without any prayers. Please note it was around midnight and there were no other person in our room except our family.

Next day morning we got up and performed the pooja had our lunch and started back to Sirkali. When we boarded the car one Swamigal came and asked us whether we are going to Tiruvannamalai. Balu mama immediately replied yes though we had no intention of going to Tiruvannamalai. The the swamigal requested us to drop him at Tiruvannamalai and if we are interested we can have the dharshan of Yogi Ramsurathkumar where he was going. WE said yes and he boarded the car. The car moved and after asking about us he started a small discourse. The following is swamikal’s words.

“ Some people think that performing poojas to Sadgurunathar after praying him for some benefit as offering bribary. I will ask a simple question. Will you answer me?. We are dropping our hand kerchief. Somebody picks it and hands it over to us and we are thanking him. How many possibilities are there. 1. We ourselves can bend and pick it up. 2. We can ask the driver to do that 3. We can simply ignore  it and move away.  It is a simple thing with three possibilities. And we are thanking a person for an act which has three simple possibilities. In such case how we are going to thank god who does impossible things for us . One way of showing our gratitude is by performing poojas, homams and singing songs in praise of him. So please erase from your mind the thought of bribing Sadgurunathar.”

I felt like being hit by a boulder. How does he know what i had told to Balu mama?  Which made balu mama to say yes when we had no intention of going to Tiruvannamalai? What made him approach our car when there are more number of cars which are parked in the direction of Tiruvaannamalai? With his knowledge he could have chosen so many subjects to lecture us and why he chose this particular subject? I asked all these questions and the swamikal replied. Our Sadguru is omnipresent every where. Though he shed his mortal body he is still with us in the spiritual rupa. We had dharshan of Yogi Ramsuratkumar and returned back to Sirkali.

From that day onwards Gurunathar took me as his devotee and with us guiding us in every single thing and takes care of us like a devoted mother takes care of his child.

        SADGURUNATH MAHARAJ KI JAI