Devotees experiences with Maha Periyava

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  1. PushpavalliSrinivasan

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    Devotees experiences with Maha Periyava


    .Once the people of a village came to Paramacharyal to receive His blessings for the renovation of a temple. Paramacharyal somehow sensed that there are two groups in the assembly. Each group thought that it was superior to the other. Paramacharyal felt that unless there was unity among them, the renovation work will not be smooth and satisfactory. He asked those assembled to go and have their meals and then come for a discussion.


    Meals over, the people assembled again before Paramacharyal. His Holiness then asked what items they had for the meals. They said, in a chorus, "Kuzhambu and Rasam, Payasam and Curry, appalam and Chips" and so on. Then His Holiness put a question, :"What is the difference between Kuzhambu and Rasam? Kazhambu contains vegetable, Rasam has no vegetables. Vegetables are called in Tamil "Thaan" (Ego).

    Then His Holiness quipped, "Oh! I see". when there is no Thaan", that ("Ego") in Kuzhambu, it becomes rasamayam, full of Brahman Bliss. The death of ego is deliverance. Thus by a simple analogy, punning on the Tamil word `Thaan' he made the villagers shed their egoism. They realised that egoism divided them and felt that disunity is dangerous and disastrous and that it would harm the common cause. Paramacharyal felt that the people had realised their mistake. He blessed them, offered Prasadam and wished the function all success. No wonder the renovation went off very well.
     
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    Lovely post Mam. It is Mahaswami's own style of sorting out things. May be only he could handle everything this way non-controversially!

    I have read many such incidents in a forward received.

    Thanks for sharing this post.
     
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    Thank you Pushpavalli mam for enlightening us with one more anecdote of Maha Periyava.
    He is indeed a very great soul and it is our blessing that we could have a glimpse of him in our this birth.
    Shanta
     
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    Wow what a theory and juggle of words.

    Alas he not there with us now to sort out various issues in our country especially Ayodhya.

    Thanks for bringing this to us mami.
     
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    dear mam,

    thank u so much. felt very happy to read even the title of the thread.
     
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    Dear Pushpa Mami

    Thank you so much mami. What a nice way of making the people understand.

    love
    viji
     
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    Dear Mallika,
    Swamigal had a flair for solving problems with his pun filled talk without hurting any one's feelings.
    It is a pleasure to share these anecdotes of the devotees which are highly enjoyable.
    Love,
    PS
     
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    Dear Shanta,
    Thanks for dropping in and deriving pleasure from Acharya Swamigal's ingenious method of solving problems amicably among his devotees.
    Love,
    PS
     
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    Really great.My late father used to tell us that Kanchi Perivar had a divinity in him and has solved many problems in people's lives.I was very happy to read your post.How rightly he has solved a major problem with such a simple example.Thanks once again.
     
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    Dear Lalitha,
    Though we all feel that Swamigal could have solved the Ayodhya problem amicably, there is an iota of doubt also because of the politics played by different group of people. As they could not play dirty politics some people do not like problems get solved.

    Love,
    PS
     

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