OHM SHRI GURUBHYO NAMAHA

GNANANANDA GNANANANDA SADGURU GNANANANDA

WET RICE

The Ganapadigal, who had completed Vedha Adhyayanam, came to Thapovanam.Swami did not ask him anything. The office staff were instructed to take care of the Ganapadigal with madi aakaram. After three days Gurunathar called the Ganapadigal and enquired about what is worrying him (Enna kurai ungalukku). The Ganapadigal said to Swami “i belong to a family who  traditionally did Vedha Adhyayanam. A Mirasdar in our village had donated some agricultural lands for our living. Because of this Maha Periyava of Kanchi asked us to do adhyayanam only and  not to go for sastrigal profession. Once there was a function at the Mirasdar’s house (who donated the lands) and my ancestors were asked to attend as sastrigal. To honour the words  of Paramacharya my ancestors refused to do so. Angered by this the Mirasdar took back the lands. This act lead to our poverty. I am having a daughter to be married. Don’t know what to do. So i came here to tell you my problems.” The Ganapadigal was literally weeping when telling this to Gurunathar.

On hearing him, Gurunathar told him “ Oh come over here let us go to Anjaneyar Sannadhi and chant Sri Rudhram three times”. The Ganapadigal followed the advise of Gurunathar and started chanting Sri Rudhram in the Hanumar Sannathi.

That evening, in a big car, a Mirasdar came with some big bags. Gurunathar told the thapovanam officials “ How big bags these are? Ask him what he wants and tell the Mirasdar to come in”. The Mirasdar came in and told Gurunathar “Swami I heard that annadhanam is going on here and i brought the rice cultivated in our land to donate for that purpose”. Gurunathar replied “ Oh appadiya” and asked him to open the bags and pour the rice on the floor. This was done. Gurunathar took some rice in his hands and indicated that the rice is wet and asked the Mirasdar “ Why don’t you bring the rice dried. You have brought wet rice? How can you do this? You should have brought good rice”. The Mirasdar replied “ Swami i brought  dried and cleaned rice only”. Then Gurunathar replied “ No No the rice is wet. There must be some reason for this?. Then Gurunathar called the Ganapadigal  and asked him to tellgurunathar to which village the Ganapadigal belongs to?. The Ganapadigal replied with the name of the village.

Then Gurunathar looked at the Mirasdar and asked him “ You also belong to that village. You have taken over the agri lands given to that Brahmin family. To reduce that sin you have brought this rice to the swami”. The Mirasdar was shocked and perplexed.

Gurunathar showed the Ganapadigal to the Mirasdar and told  “ this man belongs to that family and you take care of his worries”. The Ganapadigal told his worries to the Mirasdar. Then the Mirasdar drew a cheque for a big amount and presented it to Gurunathar. Gurunathar immediately told him “ why are you giving it to me? Want to put that sin at my feet? That is not permitted hand over the cheque to the Ganapadigal”. Accordingly the cheque was handed over to the Ganapadigal thereby alleviating the poverty of the Ganapadigal and showing a way to the Mirasdar to redeem from his sin.

SADGURUNATH MAHARAJ KI JAI

MAGIZHVITHU MAGIZH

Courtesy: translated from an article in Gnana oli June 2014 issue.

I tried my level best to translate it. Please forgive me if this is not as much interesting as published in Gnana Oli