Sri Swamiji has been rendering ‘Upanyãs’ (discourses), in Tamizh, in Premika Bhavanam. This is being brought to you here.

There may appear to be variations in the ‘tense’ of the language. This is due to the fact that great effort has been taken to maintain the original style of the ‘Upanyãsam’. Therefore, we request you to keep this in mind while reading the translated ‘words’ of Sri Swamiji.

Sri Swamiji,

"HARE RÃMA HARE RÃMA RÃMA RÃMA HARE HARE
HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE"

" Sri Sridhara Ayyãvãl was born in and lived in Karnataka. He was born in a family of Siva Bhaktas. He was also a great Siva bhakta and was ever chanting Siva Nãma.

Sridhara Ayyãvãl later moved to Tamizh Nadu. He first came to Tiruchirãpalli, where he stayed at Thãyumãnavaswamy sannidhi in Rockfort . At that time, a little boy used to come to the temple everyday and worship the Lord here with utmost sincerity. Sri Sridhara Ayyãvãl was greatly attracted by the boy’s ‘shraddha’ (faith and sincerity) and bhakti. One day, this boy failed to turn up. Deeply worried, Sri Sridhara Ayyãvãl went out in search of the boy. He found his dead body. A snake had bitten him. Sri Sridhara Ayyãvãl chanted a ‘stuthi’ on the Lord and the boy came back to life. This resulted in people troubling him with worldly prayers. He, therefore, moved to Thiruvisanallur on the banks of Cauvery. Thiruvisanallur is the birthplace of Sri Sadãsiva Brahmendra and Sadguru Swami. Sri Sridhara Ayyãvãl first met his contemporary Sri Bodendra Swami in the Mahãlingaswamy temple in Thiruvisanallur.

Once, on Krithika amãvãsya (New moon in the Tamizh month of Kãrthika) Sri Sridhara Ayyãvãl performed shraddha ceremony for his mother. He had invited Brahmins for the conduct of the ceremony. A variety of dishes had been prepared for offering. Some poor men who had not eaten for days passed by his door. Sri Sridhara Ayyãvãl’s heart melted on seeing hunger writ upon their faces. He fed them all sumptuously with the dishes that had been prepared for the ceremony. The Brahmins condemned this act of Ayyãvãl and told him that the only ‘prãyaschittha’ (atonement) was Ganga ‘snãna’ (Dip in the Holy Ganges). Sri Ayyãvãl chanted a ‘stuthi’ and Ganga gushed in full force from the well in his house!

Sri Sridhara Ayyãvãl finally merged with Mahãlingaswamy in the form of a Jyoti, just as Mira had merged with Dwãrakãdiisha! "

"GOPIKÃ JEEVANASMARANAM
GOVINDA! GOVINDA!"

NOTE: Any discrepancy/lapse in the translated version of the Upanyãs is the sole responsibility of the person/s who translated the work from Tamizh into English.

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