Panayur Shankaranarayan and Dakshinamoorthi swamigal samadhi
Panayur is a Guru adhistanam in Thirunelveli and one of the must see
for spiritual aspirants. Garivallam is a place between Rajapalyam and
Sankaran koil on the NH. From Garivallam it takes 60 Rupees for a 7km
travel to reach Panayur's Guru adhistanam in auto. The place is serene and has niyamam's similar to mantralayam being Adhistanam. There
are 2 samadhi's of father and son in this place that is worshipped by
all villages near by. The temple has a lingam as moolavar however the
real entrance is a manhole on the left corner in the sanctum. Not more
than 2 persons can get in to see the Samadhis thro the manhole.I've made
a small effort of putting/rewriting few incidents that happened during
these Mahan's period from a life history book received in Tamil. It will definitely interest spiritual aspirants
Shankaranarayan and his guru
Shankaranarayan during one of his school days heard a strange voice
calling his name. He took his teacher's permission and came out to see
where the voice came from. He found an old sage in that direction and
immediately bowed down to his feet and took his blessings. The sage took
him towards the temple tank outside the village. The sage asked him to
wait and went to the tank to take a dip. Since the sage didn't come out
for quite some time SN was confused and thought of going to his
house now. The sage immediately came out of water, called SN and started
giving him gnana updesam. After that the sage walked in direction of
podigai and disappeared. The sage was called as Ramagiri and was
considered to be one of the siddhas. From then SN stopped going to
school and instead started meditating for long hours. His parents
started worrying to see if SN will ever get married now. One day
ramagiri appeared again and this time SN's parents met the sage and
asked him to convince their son. Ramagiri called SN and asked him to get
arried and also practice meditation. SN had a few doubts and asked his
guru, "O guru will samasara bandham dilute me from gnana". The guru said
no my son. He asked SN to deal good and bad with same mentality.
Analyze clearly and be focused so that Pancha bootham can be easily
controlled. After that he taught SN the technique of creating Talisman
using aksharams and said this will help you feed your family. After that
the sage said SN you will have 4 sons and one daughter. The 4rth son
will be gnani by birth itself. After this incident SN got married to
thavasimuthammal. For a long time they didn't have kids. The sage came
back to the village where SN meet him and requested to come to his
house. His wife TM cooked food for the sage and her husband. The sage
blessed SN and said you will surely be in illaram (family life) and then
also practice meditation. He emphasized his sisyan to be clear and
calm. After this incident TM conceived and delivered 4 male kids and
1 female kid. The 4rth kid was named as dakshinamoorthy. SN was guru
for all his kids be teaching them medicine, silambam etc. After few
years TM passed away.
Coming to Panayur
SN found his
4rth son to be a gnani at younger age. This son spent most of his time
with his father. One day SN was tempted to see his guru and hence
decided to go to Podigai malai. In podigai malai SN was caught in dark
due to the dense forests. Ramagiri made a small jyothi to come in front
of SN in the forest. The jyothi led him to a cave in the dense forest of
podigai where his guru Ramagiri was sitting with complete aura. SN
couldn't resist his love toward the guru and fell down on Ramagiri's
feet.Ramagiri told SN "I will come out to you going forward without you
trying to reach me so far". The sage told SN to move out of thenkasi
village and create a small kudil in Panayur.
SN calling out his Samadhi date
SN in the Year of 1835 (karthigai month 24th day) called up his son and
other important ppl and said that he will go into the state of Samadhi
by tomorrow early morning. His Samadhi happened as per directions and
location his guru had instructed. Guru Dakshinamoorthi and his neduveli
uncle (SN"s brother) spoke out this location to Jameen and got his
permission to the Samadhi. SN had 2 brothers and both of them also have
taken Samadhi. One brother in Neduveli and other in Ilanchi. SN's son Dakshinamoorthi continued to serve people by doing Talisman work that SN was doing before.
Dakshinamoorthi swamigal's Gnanam
Swamigal while talking with other ppl in Paniyur at time use to say
don't make food today. After that it will be found that food will be
reaching Paniyur from different village. Mostly the food from outside
was by Punnaivanthamal who had tremendous inclination towards
Dakshinamoothi. In those day there was a person called Michael in
Thirunelveli who was a father in one of the churches there. Once
Michael had come to a Goldsmith's shop near panayur and gave a copper
coin with half of it converted to Gold. He sent that coin to DM thro'
another person. DM smiled at the person who gave the coin and asked "Did
Michael give
this coin to you". After saying that he put the coin
into his mouth and the entire coin change into pattarimaathu thangam
(high gold content piece). He smiled and gave that coin to
punnaivanthammal. She asked DM to do Rakshai and guard her family. DM
said so shall it happen and you can do the annadhaman in guru poojai
(chitrai 20th the day Ramagiri came back from Podigai to Paniyur as
promised to SN which is celebrated as a function in Panayur). Since then
her family members are doing the annadhanam for 153 years…
Maangani kaatha Mahan
Once another lady devotee of DM was carrying mangoes and was late. She
stopped by a village as it was late. In the house she stayed, she asked
the house members to take care of mangoes from rats as it was to be
given to DM. A small boy said then DM will take care of it the whole
night. The next day when the devotee reached Panayur with her mangoes DM
smiled and said "Rathriyellam eli otta vachiteengle amma". The devotee
was stunned at DM' gnanam.
Sivagnana swamigal as disciple for Dakshinamoorthi
Once from south direction a mother and kid came to DM for blessings. DM
gave a mantiram to the lady after which she went back with her kid. The
next time when the lady came back, DM asked her to repeat the mantra.
The lady hesitated but the kid (sivagnanam) smiled and said the
mantra very clearly. DM immediately said thavagnanam itself is born as
Sivagnanam. He blessed the kid and from then on the kid grew to become a
gnani and was called as Sivagnana swamigal. Once when sivagnana
swamigal was on deep nistai his parent mistook the state to death and
wanted to his final cremation. DM understood this and called his brother
Senathipathi and told the danger Sivagnanam is facing. DM asked his
brother to go to the spot and tell a mantra in Sivagnanam's ears.
Senathipathi literally ran to the place and seeing him there everyone
was shocked. Everyone saw SP whispering the mantra on Sivaganam's ears.
Within short period Sivagnanam came to normal to state and looked as if
he woke from the sleep. Sivagnanam understood what happened and
immediately rushed to his guru DM and said "Oh guru who saved me from
this situation". After that DM blessed his disciple. Sivagnana swamigal
after many years took Samadhi on 16th day of Margazhli. Guru pooja is
celebrated on yearly basis for Sivagnana swamigal
Subramanya temple and DM
Sangupuram is few miles from Panayur that had a Subramanya swamy temple
built there. The person who created the temple came to meet DM and said
the temple had poor visitors and lacks Saanithyam. DM gave a Vel that
was used in his pooja to the person. The person took it with humbleness
and started worshipping it keeping in the temple. After that the temple
gained recognitions, there were many festivals celebrated and poojai
done post this. This temple till now has fame and name in the nearby
locations.
Veerabhadra temple near Panayur Samadhi
Veerabhadrar was ugaram there and hence ladies who use to pass thro the
temple had lot of issues. This new came to DM thro' ppl. DM had called
the devathai and asked not to disturb commoners and villagers who pass
thro and live by. The issues stopped however started again by the
devatha after few days. When this message reached DM, he took a thread
and did a tie after which the devatha couldn't do anything. It pleaded
to DM and he was reluctant saying what is done has been done. So devatha
pleaded atleast saying "atleast during festival (Thiruvizla) times I
request to open up me for veediula". So DM blessed saying so shall it
happen but who gets Arul will fall down on earth. Only after getting
Viboothi from Samadhi and placing on forehead you will get up. This is in practice and happening nowdays also.
DM and the magician
There was a magician who uses to threaten a chettiar who had his chekku
in Panayur equipment made of wood and stone to extract oil out of dry
seeds). The magician use to get the extracts of Gingelly for his purpose
from chettiar without paying anything for it. Once an annoyed chettiar
shouted at the magician, saying henceforth there will no more extracts
given to him for free. Magician returned with anger. After few days the
wooden part of the chekku broke into two pieces which is a rare
phenomenon. He create a replacement with a nice wood and even that
broke. Chettiar was depressed and suspected magician's hand in this
breaking. After that he remembered DM and immediately met him and
explained the whole thing. DM asked him to create a new wooden piece
again and start his work. After few days the wood started to crack and
chettiar immediately thought of DM in his mind. After a while the broken
piece looked again like a single piece and chettiar was happy. He came
running to the odukkam and thanked DM. After a while the magician came
running to the odukkam (odukkam is samadhu of SN where DM lived and
served ppl). He asked DM to forgive because his hands were paining
because of DM's hand that pressed him when the magic was tried over
Chekku. DM forgives him and cautioned him not to disturb innocent ppl
who dwelled in the village.
Chelliamman temple and DM
Chelliamman temple in Panayur is the grama devatha temple for logamatha.
In full moon days after pooja timings DM use to call "chelli"….and a
small girl used to come running and take the flower ball from his hands and runaway. People have seen this jasmine ball exchange from the yogi to the goddess of the earth
DM's Samadhi
DM like his father announced his Samadhi date and time and the location
was next to his father. The year was 1890, 27th of Karthigai month ,
amavasai. Before going to Nistai he said on 40th day an ant hill will
appear near my Samadhi. Don't disturb it. After this he had taken
Samadhi. As mentioned the ant hill appeared on the day he mentioned . Om
Om Om
