about periyava

 From  Moments of a lifetime published by Shri H G Rangan Goud.

From the article Mahaaswamibhyo Chandrasekarendrasaraswateeyathivarebhyo Namo Nama

S.A. Ramakrishnan Salem

                                                        

Periyava avoided them

It has always been the case, that, we have never returned from the darshan of Mahaperiayval  without enquiring about me and my family. Invariably, he would always enquire about the performance of ‘nitya pooja’ at the Sri Adhisthanam of Sri Deekshitar located at Chinnatirupati,Salem. The adherence to ‘suddha acharam’ while performing the nitya pooja was discussed many times in different perspectives and he has asked us many times as to how we can adhere to it.

 Once, while we had been to Kanchipuram in the eighties, along with the son of Sri Tambu Deekshitar (my first cousin),who is a “ghanapaati’ ,Sri Mahaperiyaval ordered him to come near him and asked him to recite an ‘anuvakam’ from Sri Rudram in ‘ghanam’ format. (Nama:Somaya). But to our disappointment , Sri Mahaperiyaval never turned to our side, and did not even pay notice when he was told that the son of Shri Deekshitar had come with his family. We were all very much disappointed and my wife started crying, sayting that we have committed some sin/mistake which must be the reason for Sri Mahaperiyaval ignoring us. Though having not come prepapred to stay overnight , we took a room in a nearby lodge and returned to Sri Mutt to have his darsan in the early hours next morning. The treatment and reaction of Sri Mahaperiyaval did not change.

 With very heary hearts,we all returned to Salem in the  evening. Our relatives informed us that my uncle Sri Anjaneya Deekshitar,(younger brother of Sri Anantarama Deekshitar) had passed the previous day. Only then did we realize that we had ‘assoucham’(pollution) just when we entred Sri Mutt and that was why Sri Mahaperiyaval avoided us. But Periyava talked to my cousin’s son, who had no such ‘aasoucham’ as he was a ‘brahmachaari”.