The Lord of Gunaseelam has
performed many miracles in the recent past, Is it true?
Here is an email we got to sharewithus@gunaseelam.com
Dear Gunaseelam devotees,
I am a senior citizen, living in India's capital. I cannot claim to have become truly spiritual, but would confess to have become much less ritualistically inclined after my retirement from official life.
My older sister Madurai V. Kamakshi lived only for 23 years on this earth (1930-1953), yet she has left behind a truly rich spiritual heritage for me--and members of my present family---to cherish. Thanks to our almost below-the level-poverty line existence during those years, she could be educated only upto the fifth standard, and attend music classes just for six months.
Maybe, it is the tragedy of the times, or my own lack of spiritual strength: I could not fully comprehend my sister's nobility, while she lived.
Initially, I am talking about the more than 300 devotion-cum-deep emotion-filled lyrics that she wrote in the Tamil language--between her twelfth and twenty-third years of age. Her first composition ANANDA KRISHNAN PARAMANANDA KRISHNAN has 108 verses of two lines each. Thanks to our almost below-the-poverty-line life, during those years, she could be educated only upto the fifth standard, and attend music classes for about six months.
About six months back, we could get 37 lyrics of Kamakshi's tuned and rendered, as of Keertanams by two Carnatic music vidwans--in an album containing two discs. The album was released at the Gunaseelam temple and a sizeable number of albums were donated on the spot to the Trustee of the temple. The sale proceeds of the remaining albums are also being donated to it, from time to time.
It was all possible only due to the most sincere efforts a couple of devoted Gunaseelam devotees--my relations settled in Chennai. I cannot chide myself adequately for not trying hard enough to bring my sister's songs to light, for more than five decades after her passing away.
Our links with the Gunaseelam began in the 1920s--when my twelve-year-old mother, already married, and somewhat ill mentally, got totally cured of her illness the moment she saw the Gopuram of the Gunaseelam temple from a distance. My maternal uncle (who brought my mother first to Gunaseelam) developed intense belief in the Lord's powers, and contributed a percentage of his income to the temple during his entire working life. His children also continue with the affinity to the God.
As for me, when I visited the temple in 1949, i instantly recognised it as one coming in my dreams repeatedly. When I then stood in the sanctum sanctum facing the deity, my legs started trembling. I felt I was gripped by some higher Power. This experience was there during some of my later visits also.
It was also Kamakshi's first visit there, even though she was a great devotee of Srinivasa-Venkatesa and, to a much greater extent (till then) of Krishna. She had started writing devotional lyrics on all the three (of course representing the same God) deities many before that period.
It was around that time, I think, Kamakshi started getting into a trance frequently, and the periods between such states was devoted to writing lyrics mostly on Krishna, the Gunaseelam lord, Balaji (Venkateswara of Tirupati), Devi Meenakshi of our native Madurai--and many other gods and goddesses. She used to live in her own world, even while doing household chores.
There was one religious group active in Madurai those days--called PADMALAYAM-.. The aged lady in charge there took Kamakshi there, with my mother's permission, and encouraged her to participate in Bhajans etc. While there, she used to write lyrics and also sing many of her own lyrics, setting them to music on the spot.
She was a simple girl who loved everybody she came across, never had any expectations or grievance in life, and had resentment against none, whatever be others' attitude towards her. Only Lord Krishna mattered to her. She considered Him her constant companion, and would seek to show Him to her playmates (in her childhood and pre-teen years)--dancing, doing pranks and hiding. She felt she had in a sense been wedded to Lord Krishna, and composed songs pertaining to post-marriage religious rituals with Him. Of course, she prayed to Him, chided and conversed with Him. Some of her songs narrate Him addressing her and promising her relief from her illness and the poverty of the family. Many of her lyrics were also a cry from the heart. It is a fact that when I first stood before the deity, my legs started sort of trembling, and I was not stable. For a while, I had a sense of my being under the influence of a higher Power.
Poverty made it impossible for us, beyond a point, to give her good medical treatment. There came a time when we thought that Kamakshi would be cured if she stayed in Gunaseelam. We took her there. She passed away there after a couple of months. The last more than half an hour of her life was spent in conversing with Lord Srinivasa of Gunaseelam in the presence of my mother, and other inmates of the Dharmashala attached to the temple. Since I was away working in Chennai then, my sister Kamakshi's last rites were performed by the then Trustee of the temple.
After the passing away of my sister, our family's economic condition started improving gradually. We could say that it was a much poorer compensation. One can also say that He was in a sense making amends for having failed to keep His last promise to my sister (to bring her back to life within a few minutes after her last breath, for which my mother and others waited on that day, for a much longer time).
I AM NOW ATTACHING THE EXPERIENCE OF TWO PERSONS (MR. MAHADEVAN VENKATESWARAN, my cousin's son who deserves full credit for bringing out the album--and Mr. NEELAKANTAN SRIDHAR, the musician).
I am now wondering how to promote the onward devotional journey of my sister Kamakshi--i.e. to bring her remaining non-recorded lyrics to the notice of the devotees in India (and abroad).
From Subramanian Valmeekanatha
Here are a few experiences shared
by Mr K R Pichumani Iyengar...
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One day a boy named Sundararajan , was
brought to Gunaseelam temple by his parents. His parents were worried because
their child who was a topper from his first day at school and at a very
crucial stage of 10th Standard the boy could not do well in the exams due to
health reasons. This affected the boy in seeing a result that he had failed in
two subjects and got mentally depressed. He lost the courage to fight back and
was slowly going to mental illness.
It was 2 years since the incident had
occurred the boy had been in mental depression and some of their well-wisher
had mentioned the name of Lord Venkatesa Perumal at Gunaseelam who could make
a difference in the boy’s life and only then their parents had brought him to
submit him to the Lord.
The boy was taken for treatment and at the
end of the 48th day treatment and with the blessings of Lord Venkatesa Perumal
of Gunaseelam the boy came out of mental depression and had the hope that he
could make another try at the exam.
Guess what, the boy came out with flying
colors and today after his engineering degree, he is working in Australia as a
Software Engineer for a MNC.
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In an another incident a 12 year old boy
from Krishnagiri , with leg deformation was brought to the temple after all
the doctors their parents consulted lost hope that the boy could stand or walk
in the future after 2 years of treatment.
The boy’s mother used to carry her son and
go on rounds over the temple side daily after witnessing the daily pooja’s.
The first 12 days there was physically no difference with the boy’s health and
it is on 13th day where The Lord had decided to perform his magic.
On the 13th day of their stay at temple, the
boy’s mother did not carry him while going on rounds over the temple side due
to rush of people due to an auspicious day falling on the same. The boy who
was left alone by his mother started crying and none of the people there
lifted the boy to soothe him and the boy kept crying. When his mother had
completed one round she was amazed to see that the boy was standing and crying
catching the gate nearby and it was the first time from the birth the boy ever
stood and her mother’s heart was full of joy and thanking prayers to the Lord
Venkatesa Perumal.
Today that boy is a grown up man and runs
his own provision shop and also married.
He till date owes a part of his earning to
the Gunaseelam temple.His contact number and name can be obtained from Mr KR
Pichumani Iyengar , Managing Trustee , Gunaseelam Temple.
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A lady from Mumbai once came to Gunaseelam
temple after someone suggesting her that, this temple could be a place to get
relieved of all her problems.
She was mentally affected due to problems
within her family due to mis-understanding with her husband and in-laws.
She managed to stay in the temple for 48
days to pray The Lord of Gunaseelam to help her out to manage the problem she
was facing. After finishing the 48 days prayer at Gunaseelam and on returning
to her home she was shocked to see a very different atmosphere and happenings
at her home. She was greeted and treated well by her in-laws and husband and
today she is leading a very happy life with her children and husband and vows
all the changes in her life to the Lord of Gunaseelam.
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Science behind Miracles
Although
it is the Lord who is behind all the magic yet some people who want to believe
science more than HIM could go through the following –
There
are a number of people who have been cured for mental and physical illness and
how does that happen? A group of doctors from Germany visited the temple and
spent a few days researching on the science behind the cure. When they left
they were convinced that the following are the factors behind the cure ( of
course apart from the Lord )
1) People affected with
mental illness are taken for a dip at the nearby river early in the morning at
5 0 clock and the doctors who came , gave a theory that – an early morning dip
gave more mobility to the nerves.
2)
Rounding the temple premises after the dip gave the people a good exercise.
3) The
chant of “Om Namo Narayana” was a mentally relieving chant.
4) The
mentally affected people were involved with all functions like marriages and
other temple functions which made them involve with social life and most of
the affected could recollect their own happy experiences in the past which
enabled them to come out of mental illness at a faster pace.
5) The
holy water sprinkled on their face after pooja is inline with the shock
treatment of science.
Share with us
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experience to share with us , mail across to sharewithus@gunaseelam.com