Rayaru Comes Alive!!!!!

This happened on 16th April 2006. me and my family usually visit mantralayam regularly, but after a long gap of 6 years we visited it on 15th of April 2006. This gap was due to important schooling years and college days for me and my younger sister.

DAY 15th April 2006:

Mumbai mail reached mantralayam rd by 11:45 and we rushed for a van trip to mantrayalam. Immediately we booked a room as told by the van driver. My dad was little insouciant about the amenities provided in the room and was lured by the air conditioning there. But i was vehement to stay in a devastanam cottege. As usual i had some wangles with my dad, but could not succeed as his claims that a room without air conditioning in the summer would be very hard to cope up with. Though i was not satisfied i agreed with him.

It was 12:30pm and got ready after a not so refreshing bath. We reached the temple by 12:45. It was time in the temple to wind up, so we rushed to the darshan. We had a very great darshan indeed. Then we were directed to the hastodaka. There the halls though capacious, were full as it was the summer vacation and there were so many people. But to our astonishment we were welcomed by a old man! he took each one of us to a different empty places here and there. We all had the most delicious lunch ever! I mean it. It was so balmy that i am addicted to the lunch provided there.

That night at 1:30am to my astonishment the air conditioner in our room started to give out balls of fire! i was sleeping next to it! i somehow with the help of rayaru escaped for those electric spelters! Then my vehemency rose to a higher level. That was the first time we had stayed in a place other than the devastanam cottege, and this time it was deadly! My stubbornness in changing the room felt some offences from my dad, but at last i managed to tackle him and started in that lull hours, intrepid in search of a room!

Time past, it was 2:00 am and we knocked the srinivasa lodge for availability, bathos he nodded no even for the royal suite! But a small lad, called himself as the janitor of the devestanam room approached us and told us one of the rooms of a temple priest was free, in spite of the fact that all the 100 room were booked. It was a boon to us, he charged the same as the devastanam does. I got a sigh of relief and a strong claim that my dad cant put me down even at 3 am in the night! Where did this guy come from and how did the temple priest leave the room free? These question can only be answered as "Rayaru sent him and Rayaru wanted us to stay in his home and not elsewhere! My family moved in that wee hours to that room amidst the lull and was pretty safe there!

MORNING OF 16TH APRIL 2006: THE REAL MIRACLE

We visited the Tunga banks for "prokshnam" It was Tamil new years day for us and we missed all the holy deed we used to
do if we were in our home.

As it was hot and dry summer in mantrayalam the Tunga had abated to its cardinal areas. we had to go through small knolls to get to reach the water. In the way a old man asked us in Tamil if he could help us do all the good rituals that we did on
Tamil new years day. my mom was persistent for that and he helped us doing all the prokshanam and the Ganga snayanam. We were totally amazed as he told that he lived in the same street as ours in Chennai 25 years back! He gave some nuggets which were thought provoking! they are:

lord yararu has brought him from Chennai and made mantrayalam his home town. He also informes us that lord rayaru full of clemency that he gives not only whatever we ask him but also till we feel we are satisfied! He told us that he was experiencing that act of rayaru!

All was over and he wished us with great words in Sanskrit and blessed our family too! at last we started moving to towards the temple and our family and that man got scattered in the path! But to the amusement he appeared once again to us and told us that he was the same old man who helped us find a place for lunch yesterday though we came at the twelfth hour!
we felt our deep gratitude to him. At last he told that he works in the Mutt kitchen his name was the same name as that of lord Krishna that rayaru worships! Then disappeared again!!

Then we went to the prayer and to the luncheon, we enquired about that old man there and asked for him, i was enchanted to know that nobody like that person existed there! Then how did he help us to get lunch?? Then who is he?? Why did he come and wish us? Why did he tell that his name was the same name as that of the lord Krishna?? why did he disappear?why did he tell all myths about Rayaru's benevolence? why and how did he speak Tamil? How did he make four places in a jam packed lunch hall at the last few seconds before the lunch?

Me and my Mom deeply feel that it was Rayaru who came and helped us! though some may go against this, we firmly believe that it was Lord Raghavendra who was with us! Many more this are happening in my life as miracles like passing an exam where i wrote only for two pages and more!I feel my whole life is shaping out just as miracles happen every day in my life! I am not able to analytically reason out anything that's happening to me. So i call them miracles and owe every deed to My God RAGHVENDRA I will be writing about these in my next write up

yours Truly

V.Raghavendran