GREAT EXPERIENCES WITH SRINGERI JAGADGURUS:

GREAT EXPERIENCES WITH SRINGERI JAGADGURUS :

There is a Shloka in praise of Sri Sri Vidyaranya Mahaswamiji, the 12th  Jagadguru Shankaracharya of Sringeri Sarada Peetham, which says, 'He is capable of making a dumb person a good orator and a talkative person dumb'. 

Sri Narasimha Murthy of Bangalore personally experienced the truth of this statement. In 1945, Murthy had suffered huge financial losses and went to Sringeri to seek Mahaswamiji's blessings. It was a Navaratra and Mahaswamiji was in Samadhi. Murthy stayed back in Sringeri and began to wait for Mahaswamigal to come out from Samadhi. Sri Abhinava Vidya Tirtha Mahaswamiji, who was coming out of Saradambal's temple after Darshan, saw Murthy in the queue one day and stopped suddenly. He asked, 'Do you know Sanskrit?' Murthy explained that he did not have a good command over Sanskrit. Immediately Vidya Tirtha Mahaswamiji  said, 'Don't worry! Saradambal will bless you with the knowledge of Sanskrit. Come and see me tomorrow morning'. 

The next day, Murthy went to see Sri Abhinava Vidya Tirtha Mahaswamiji.  His holiness  gave him the Upadesha of the supreme Srividya Mahamantra and blessed him. After returning to Bangalore, Murthy began to regularly chant the mantra with immense faith and devotion. By the power of the Mahamantra and by Guru's grace, Murthy got the inspiration to write a poem in Sanskrit. He composed a poem on the Sringeri Guru Parampara, starting with the name of his own guru, Sri Abhinava Vidya Tirtha Mahaswamiji. He named the poem of 116 Shlokas, 'Sri Deshikendra Tarangini'. He visited Sringeri again in 1946 during Navaratra. By then, all his financial problems had been solved. 

With Tripurasundari's grace, is there something impossible? He also brought along two copies of his poem as an offering to the holy feet of his Guru. But he thought in his mind, 'I am not a Sanskrit scholar and hence my poem may have lot of grammatical errors. If Mahaswamiji  reads my poem, he may notice the errors and feel unhappy with me'. With this thought, he did not show his poem to Mahaswamiji . One evening, Murthy was prostrating before the Adhishthana of Sri Narasimha Bharati Mahaswamigal in Narasimha Vana. All of a sudden, Sri Chandrashekhara Bharati Mahaswamiji  came there and stood before Murthy. Unable to control his emotions, Murthy's eyes became wet with happiness and fell at the feet of Mahaswamiji. 

Mahaswamiji  smiled at him and asked, 'So, where is your poem? You never showed it to me!' Murthy was shocked at Mahaswamiji's  question and surprised beyond words. With great hesitation, he handed a copy of his poem to Mahaswamiji. 

Mahaswamiji  sat down right in that place and said, 'You read the poem and I will listen to it'. Mahaswamiji  sat leaning against a pillar and began to listen to te poem. By then, it was 5pm  and Abhinava Vidya Tirtha Mahaswamiji  came there to accompany Mahaswamiji  to the shrine of Kalabhairava. Sri Chandrashekhara Bharati Mahaswamiji  looked at him and said, 'Murthy has written a poem. I will listen to it completely. You may proceed to the temple of Kalabhairava' and continued to listen to the poem. 

At a certain juncture, Mahaswamiji  stopped him and asked, 'In your poem, the 104^th Shloka says: 

EtadyAnekadeSheshu pratyakShIkR^itadeshikA. nR^isimhapAdashobhAbhyA mUrdhni tiShThatu pAdukA. 

You have mentioned that Sri Narasimha Bharati Mahaswamiji appeared in different places at the same time. What is the proof you have for this?' 

Murthy began to narrate an incident with great humility: 'B.V. Kameshwara Iyer was travelling from Rameshwaram to Dhanukshkoti, along with a friend, in a boat. Suddenly there was a huge storm and the boat began to drown. Kameshwara Iyer began to pray to his Guru Sri Narasimha Bharati Mahaswamiji  to save them. Immediately Narasimha Bharati Mahaswamiji  appeared on the shore and began to wave his Uttariya. The storm receded all of a sudden and the boat reached the shore safely. But the Guru was not to be see anywhere on the shore'.

 Sri Chandrashekhara Bharati Mahaswamiji  was very happy with Murthy's explanation and instructed to get his poem printed.  

OHM SHIVAYA GURAVE NAMAHA !!!