This is my first post in the blog in the new year 2012 .it is quite surprising to me (and quite a relief possibly to my followers of the blog who are small in number!!) that despite the time available at my disposal,in the post retirement saga , i had not posted a blog for the last 26 days.
Then it struck me that there is a time for every thing. And only when it strikes the chord in you, you tend to execute a thing,though thoughts and plans may be in the mind for quite some time.
And the time has come now, after visiting my native place(In quick succession , twice in a fortnight-on 7th JANUARY earlier and again on 26th JANUARY(yesterday)to pst this blog.
Kodavasal,(also referred to as Kudavasal)a place which is supposed to me my native as per records(as is true to many whose roots are now shifted far away)
enteases me when ever i go there(Whether it be in short intervals or after a lond time).May be the genes within me, or may be the beauty of the lord Srinivasa there, may be the still green paddy fields which are a treat and comfort to the eyes which got exhausted after years of living in Concrete jungles, or may be a combinaton of all these factors propel me to this palce like a Magnet which attracts the Iron.
The place has a sthala purana which is quite impressive and intersting at the same time.The sthalapurana has all the box office ingredients of a present cinema/Only difference is that one is real and the other is fantasy/
Lord Srinivasa is blessing his devotees with his consorts Boodevi and Sridevi in this temple which is sitauted just behind the Kodavasal bus stand, hardly 3 minutes walk away.Kodavasal itself is well connected from Kumbakonam with buses plying to Thiruvarur/NAGAPATNAM every once in 30 minutes or so,Besides there are buses from Kumbalonam via oppikiappan koil too.
Lord Srinivasa is facing north to bless Guberan(Lord of wealth )at this temple/Cutting details short the purana is as under. Lord srinivasa, in order to perform his marriage was in need of money(it proves that in those days it is the male who has to spend to win the hands of female!)and he has borrowed the same from Lord Guberan.Guberan had a passing doubt as to whether Lord Srinivasa will be able to repay his debts.(One may recall that Lord Srinivasa at Thirumala is still only paying interest in debt and principal repayment is yet to start!!!). Here is where lord Srinivasa at Kodavasal acts smartly and differently.He ensures the copious repayments of money i all its forms on a continuous basis and Lord Gubera finds it even difficul to account or store them.Then he relaises his mistake and prays to Lord to bless him.Sice the direction of Kubera is north, Lord Srinivasa in this temple faces North and bless him.Lord is in Kalyana thirukkolam(Marriage attire)and so also his godesses.Since the lord and his wifes are in Kalyana thirukkolam all those who come to this temple with a prayer for marriage will be blessed accordingly by Lord Srinivasa.Since Lord has given this boon, Goddess Boomadevi on her part has blessed devotees with DhanyaM/Nilam ,thereby meaning that those who pray for well being,shelter and food will be blessed with accordingly.Seeing this Goddess Sridevi has woved to bless her devotees to this sthala with SANTHANA Bhagyam,(Blessings for child birth).
Thus this sthala fulfills all prayers leading to a happy married life with wealth, and good children.
I had been to this place in 2009 during samprokshnam when the whole temple got a face lift with contributions from all devotees (Including us who belong to Rayar family, a family title bestowed on our ancestors by King Krishnadevarayar who was instrumental in fulfilling dreams of a brahmin in whose dream Lord Srinivasa appeared and directed for building a temple herein).the place Kudavasal also had another great trait, in the sence that this represents the mouth of the pot in which the Amirtham (FROM PARKADAL)was kept which spilled to this place.In 2010 I was accompanied by my brothers and sisters.IT WAS an occasion filled with great memories ,love and affection and above all a great sence of oneness with the lord.2010 , EXACTLY AFTER AN YEAR my brother left the earth to join the heavenly abode.In 2011 i had been alone to this temple to pray for the marriage of my daughter which went along with grace and beauty in June 2011 .In the first week of January 2012, self and wife went along with a friend;s family to pay our prayers to the lord and yesterday we had been to the temple along with my daughter and son in law/sambandhis to pray for the next auspicious event to take place in the home smoothly.
Trip was exactly for a day and it was hectic. Due to tight office shedulef my daughter the trip was planned for 26th Jna, a declared public holiday which even MNCs can not deny to Indian citizens.We reached Koyambedu, to board a bus at 10 pm (after some anxious moments of traffic jam which enabled us to reach only at 9.50 pm despite ourleaving home 2 hrs in advance)and reached Kumbakonam at 6am.thanks to our earlier visit in first week of January 2012, during which itself i have blocked the rooms at Andavar ASHRAM and also booked a car, right from landing at KMU till departing by Rockfort express at 7.55pm, everey thing went as meticulously as possible with grace of God.In the morning we had also finished dharshan at Lord oppiliappan koil(Where we initially planned to perform the marriage of my daughter which was later shifted to CHENNAI due to exigencies),Thirunageswaram and Garba rashambigai temple.
By the time we finished our day's itineary and boarded the Rock fort , with hot tiffin purchased and packed minutes before the train departure from Krishna bhaan,(oppposite to station)ready for consumption, our hearts and minds were alreay full with peace, content and happiness.
Of course,I missed my son as it is the third or fourth occasion that me, my wife, and my daughter had been to temple but he could not accompany us, as he was earlier away in Bombay and later , now at hONGKONG.But then i firmly believe, as reiterated in the initial para of this blog, that there will be a time for every thing and we should wait for the same, leaving the rest to HIS MAJESTY.I surrender unto HIM in totality.
May the blessings of Lord Srinivasa be bestowed with out limit on every reader/non reader of this blog and their families.
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Thursday, December 2, 2010
WELCOME HOME- HAPPY JOURNEY
I have often wondered about the speed with which time flies. At times the whole world appears to be crawling at such a slow speed that you feel that it has stopped its movement all together. And at other times you see that time has passed in such a great speed that you were taken by surprise at the out come of the events at the end of the period.
LAST 2YEARS , ESPECIALLY the period between October 2008 todate (Dec 2010) stand testimony to my sttaements. I saw the time coming to a stand still and i also winessed the time galloping at a breakneck spped, alternatively in the past two years,
And when i sit back, bring back my senses to a focus and start analysing things, wisdom dawns on me that time has always flown in the same manner in which it was flowing in the past and the manner in which it is going to flow in future also.It is my emotions, anxities and fears with which i have approached the issues that made me to believe otherwise.
October 2008...Personally and officially one of the most challenging times in my life journey.In retrospect i find that this time followed exactly an year after the wonderful phase that i had, in HYDERABD in the company of my son.It was not known then what was in store in the next year to come.Every thing was great, pleasant and satisfying in 2007.It all turned topsy turvy in 2008 .Conflicts of hearts went thru by siblings, the hurt that was witnessed, the depressing moments that followed all broght the time machine to a stand still/The gravity was felt more with the office atmosphere also becoming demanding each moment, with stiff targets and still stiffer schedules .In short nothing was going right in 2008.
The dawn of 2009, spent in a train journey from Mumbai to CHENNAI along with my wife marked a new beginning. WE had been bid fare well by our son a couple of hours back at DADAR.The parting is always sad and that moment when all of us were in varying depressed moods did not benefit either.I I got up right at midnight awakened by the chantings of group of women who were proceeding to Adi sakthi beedam at Melmaruvaththur .Right at the dawn of the new year i saw the lamps being lit and slogans peing chanted right on the paltform of a station where the train had come to a halt, in praise of Goddess Parasakthi.
I had always been an ordent baktha of Lord Srinivasa(Balaji of thirumala).And ever since i spent a couple of years at kolkatta, i had become equally attracted to the prowess of Goddess Sakthi, in her many forms.So when i was awakened that midnight, i took it as a message from the goddess that the future is going to be bright and shining.My sentiments proved right. There were welcome changes in the home front, there was a much awaited break thru for betterment which happened to my son and things started returning back to normalcy . Even at this point of time the extent of change that is going to sweep thru, in the career of my son was not felt by us and it was just perceived to be a change for the better , when it happened.
We had to wait for the dawn of 2010. It again had in store some surprises(SOME POSITIVE AND SOME NEGATIVE).while 2010 witnessed the bereavement of my dear brother, it also witnessed the home coming of my beloved daughter after a hectic, tyring and rewardless career of 2years in a private sector bank.It gave the elevation in my posting as DGM of a nationalised bank,But by that time all charms in elevations /promotions have all ceased to exist.
2010 WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR ONE UNIQUE EVENT.MY SON'S ACCOMPLISHMENT IN LESS THAN 6MONTHS IN SUBMITTING A THESIS ON A SUBJECT, WHICH IS DEAR AND NEAR TO HIM.At the point of posting this blog there still seems to be some uncertainties as to whether he will have the privilege of submitting it in person or whther he will have to authorise some one to submit the same on his behalf, to fulfill the time limit prescribed for submission.It is an irony that a feat which calls for recognition and appreciation of the highest order, is getting in to the usual Bureakratic rules and not getting the desired reach.Any way that is aprt of the game .NO regrets on that.
WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS THAT A JOURNEY WHICH STARTED IN JULY 2006 IN HYDERABAD IS COMING TO A BEAUTIFUL END IN DECEMEBR 2010 AND THE SENSE OF PRIVELEGE ENJOYED AS A PROUD FATHER IS SOMETHING BEYOND DESRIPTION.WORDS FAIL ME AT THIS TIME.THEREFORE I STOP AT THIS JUNCTURE, JUST WISHING MY SON THE BEST WISHES ON HIS HOME COMING.LET HIS JOURNEY DOWN TO CHENNAI BE FULL OF HAPPINESS AND WONDERFUL MOMENTS SO THAT WHEN HE LEAVES FOR HONGKONG IN ANOTHER FORTNIGHT , TO START ANOTHER CAREER WITH PASSION AND ZEAL, ALL THESE GLORY AND HAPPINESS WILL FOLLOW HIM FOR EVER...
WELCOME HOME MY DEAR SON
FRIENDAD
LAST 2YEARS , ESPECIALLY the period between October 2008 todate (Dec 2010) stand testimony to my sttaements. I saw the time coming to a stand still and i also winessed the time galloping at a breakneck spped, alternatively in the past two years,
And when i sit back, bring back my senses to a focus and start analysing things, wisdom dawns on me that time has always flown in the same manner in which it was flowing in the past and the manner in which it is going to flow in future also.It is my emotions, anxities and fears with which i have approached the issues that made me to believe otherwise.
October 2008...Personally and officially one of the most challenging times in my life journey.In retrospect i find that this time followed exactly an year after the wonderful phase that i had, in HYDERABD in the company of my son.It was not known then what was in store in the next year to come.Every thing was great, pleasant and satisfying in 2007.It all turned topsy turvy in 2008 .Conflicts of hearts went thru by siblings, the hurt that was witnessed, the depressing moments that followed all broght the time machine to a stand still/The gravity was felt more with the office atmosphere also becoming demanding each moment, with stiff targets and still stiffer schedules .In short nothing was going right in 2008.
The dawn of 2009, spent in a train journey from Mumbai to CHENNAI along with my wife marked a new beginning. WE had been bid fare well by our son a couple of hours back at DADAR.The parting is always sad and that moment when all of us were in varying depressed moods did not benefit either.I I got up right at midnight awakened by the chantings of group of women who were proceeding to Adi sakthi beedam at Melmaruvaththur .Right at the dawn of the new year i saw the lamps being lit and slogans peing chanted right on the paltform of a station where the train had come to a halt, in praise of Goddess Parasakthi.
I had always been an ordent baktha of Lord Srinivasa(Balaji of thirumala).And ever since i spent a couple of years at kolkatta, i had become equally attracted to the prowess of Goddess Sakthi, in her many forms.So when i was awakened that midnight, i took it as a message from the goddess that the future is going to be bright and shining.My sentiments proved right. There were welcome changes in the home front, there was a much awaited break thru for betterment which happened to my son and things started returning back to normalcy . Even at this point of time the extent of change that is going to sweep thru, in the career of my son was not felt by us and it was just perceived to be a change for the better , when it happened.
We had to wait for the dawn of 2010. It again had in store some surprises(SOME POSITIVE AND SOME NEGATIVE).while 2010 witnessed the bereavement of my dear brother, it also witnessed the home coming of my beloved daughter after a hectic, tyring and rewardless career of 2years in a private sector bank.It gave the elevation in my posting as DGM of a nationalised bank,But by that time all charms in elevations /promotions have all ceased to exist.
2010 WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR ONE UNIQUE EVENT.MY SON'S ACCOMPLISHMENT IN LESS THAN 6MONTHS IN SUBMITTING A THESIS ON A SUBJECT, WHICH IS DEAR AND NEAR TO HIM.At the point of posting this blog there still seems to be some uncertainties as to whether he will have the privilege of submitting it in person or whther he will have to authorise some one to submit the same on his behalf, to fulfill the time limit prescribed for submission.It is an irony that a feat which calls for recognition and appreciation of the highest order, is getting in to the usual Bureakratic rules and not getting the desired reach.Any way that is aprt of the game .NO regrets on that.
WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS THAT A JOURNEY WHICH STARTED IN JULY 2006 IN HYDERABAD IS COMING TO A BEAUTIFUL END IN DECEMEBR 2010 AND THE SENSE OF PRIVELEGE ENJOYED AS A PROUD FATHER IS SOMETHING BEYOND DESRIPTION.WORDS FAIL ME AT THIS TIME.THEREFORE I STOP AT THIS JUNCTURE, JUST WISHING MY SON THE BEST WISHES ON HIS HOME COMING.LET HIS JOURNEY DOWN TO CHENNAI BE FULL OF HAPPINESS AND WONDERFUL MOMENTS SO THAT WHEN HE LEAVES FOR HONGKONG IN ANOTHER FORTNIGHT , TO START ANOTHER CAREER WITH PASSION AND ZEAL, ALL THESE GLORY AND HAPPINESS WILL FOLLOW HIM FOR EVER...
WELCOME HOME MY DEAR SON
FRIENDAD
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