JAI SRI RAM, JAI VIKRAMAN SWAMIJI

Dear Swamiji,

BEFORE I START SHARING MY OWN EXPERIENCES, I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND TO ONE AND ALL THAT VIKRAMAN SWAMIJI IS NONE OTHER THAN LORD HANUMAN HIMSELF.  IN RAMAYANA,  AFTER THE WAR WITH SEVERAL YEARS OF LIVING IN AYODHYA, THE LORD FELT THAT THE TIME HAS COME TO DEPART FOR THE HEAVENLY ABODE AND MANY JOINED THE LORD TO DEPART, HOWEVER HANUMAN REQUESTED TO REMAIN ON EARTH AS LONG AS THE LORD’S NAME WAS VENERATED BY THE PEOPLE.  LORDESS ACCORDED THAT DESIRE AND GRANTED THE BOON WHICH IS WELL WITNESSED BY VIKRAM SWAMIJI’S PRESENCE AMONGST US.

I MET YOU FIRST IN AUGUST 2010 IN SHARJAH AS I CAME TO MEET YOU WITHOUT ANY SORTS OF INTEREST BUT ONLY TO JUST FULFILL MY WIFE LAKSHMI’S WISH.  AS THE TIME WAS FLYING AND RAHUL STARTED TROUBLING HUGE, MY ANXIETY LEVEL WENT TOO HIGH AND LOST THE INTEREST IN MEETING YOU AND WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE AFTER SHOWING A HARD FACE TO LAKSHMI, THAT YOU TAKE HIS BLESSING, I AM LEAVING ALONG WITH RAHUL AND WHEN STARTED MOVING, YOU CALLED ME WITH A SMILE SWAMIJI.   FIRST & FOREMOST, WHEN LORD SRIRAM FROM THE RAGHAVAN DYNASTY MET LORD HANUMAN, HE SAID THIS BRAHMIN CANNOT BE AN ORDINARY PERSON, EVEN AN ENEMY  WITH HIS SWORD DRAWN WOULD BE MOVED BY HIS SPEECH.  LIKEWISE WHEN I WAS SO ANGRY, YOUR DIVINE SMILE PULLED ME TOWARDS YOU .  WHEN LORD SRIRAM GOT PULLED BY YOUR KIND WORDS, WHY NOT ME, AN ORDINARY & SIMPLE HUMAN BEING, SWAMIJI.  THE SECOND THING IS A SONG SUNG BY ONE OF YOUR DEVOTEE IN CHENNAI (VIKRAMA SWAMI PUNNAGAI ORU PON NAGAI), YEAH THE SAME SMILE WHICH GLITTERS LIKE GOLD STILL APPEARS IN FRONT OF ME LIKE A FLASH.  I HAVE LEARNT ONE THING FROM MY IMPATIENCE SWAMIJI.  WHEN THE LORD ASKED HANUMAN TO BRING A SIVA LING FROM HIMALAYAS, IT GOT DELAYED AND THE LORD MADE HIS OWN SIVALING. WHEN HANUMAN CAME BACK, HE WAS UPSET AND ANGRY, WHERE THE LORD ASKED HIM TO MOVE THE SIVALING AND INSTALL THE ONE BROUGHT BY HIM, HE WAS UNABLE TO MOVE IT AND I DEEPLY FELT THAT’S HOW MY DEVOTION SHOULD BE TOWARDS YOU MY LIVING GOD. 

I ALWAYS WONDER WHY IS THAT KERALA BEING CALLED AS GOD’S OWN COUNTRY BEFORE MEETING YOU. BUT AFTER MEETING YOU, I HAVE REALIZED THAT KERALA SHOULD BE CALLED AS GOD’S OWN COUNTRY WHICH MARKS YOUR BIRTH.  WHEN YOU MIGRATED FROM KERALA TO CHENNAI (NANGANALLUR), YOU HAVE ALSO GOT ALONGSIDE YOU THE GOD OF GURUVAYUR (MY GURU WHO HAS THE VAYU POWER IN HIM) AND THE GOD OF THE SABARI HILLS TO NANGANALLUR  AND YOUR IDOL STILL STANDS TALL AT 32 FEET IN RAM NAGAR AND JUST BECAUSE LORD HANUMAN BEING CALLED THE DESTROYER OF THE RIVER GANGA, THE 32 FEET HANUMAN HAS PLACED THE 5 FEET LIVING HANUMAN IN YOUR ROOP AT THILLAI GANGA NAGAR. 

LAST YEAR DURING THE HANUMAN JAYANTHY CELEBERATIONS, YOU WERE TAKEN ON A CHARIOT. WHEN WE PASSED TOWARDS RAM NAGAR ANJANEYAR TEMPLE, SAW A HUGE CROWD WAITING TO SEE THE 32 FEET ANJANEYAR.  THE NEXT DAY WHEN I CAME TO MEET YOU (THE THILLAI GANGA NAGAR ANJANEYAR), THE CROWD WAS ALMOST EQUAL WHICH REMINDS ME THAT WHEN LORD SHIVA WANTED TO TAKE AN OTHER AVATAR IN THE FORM OF HANUMAN, LORDESS PARVATHY WAS GIVEN THE PRIVELEGE OF ACCOMPANYING HIM IN THAT COURSE BY LORD SHIVA. 

WHEN I HEARD THE SONG BY ONE OF YOUR DEVOTEE (VIKRAMA SWAMY MANAMEY ORU MUTHU MALAI CHARAMEY), IT REMINDS ME OF ONE MORE THING SWAMIJI.  DURING THE CORONATION OF THE LORD IN AYODHYA THE LORD GIFTED EVERYONE WITH JEWELS AND OTHER VALUABLES.  HE GAVE THE LORDESS WITH AN EXCELLENT STRING OF PEARL NECKLACE AND QUOTED DEAR SEETHA, PLEASE GIVE THIS NECKLACE TO A PERSON WITH WHOM YOU ARE PLEASED AND IN WHOM YOU FIND THE QUALITIES OF SHARPNESS, FIRMNESS, RENOWN, DEXTERITY, COMPETENCE, MODESTY, PRUDENCE, VIRILITY, PROWESS & INTELLIGENCE ARE EVER PRESENT. THIS WAS GIVEN BY THE LORDESS TO HANUMAN WHOM WE SEE IN YOU.

LAST YEAR DURING THE HANUMAN JAYANTHY CELEBERATIONS, I SAW A LOT OF DEVOTEES FROM DUBAI ALONGSIDE ME FROM THE OVER SEAS SIDE KEEPING ASIDE THE LOCAL CROWD. AS YOU ARE AWARE SWAMIJI, DUBAI IS BADLY HIT BY THE GLOBAL TURN DOWN, BUT STILL WE AS DEVOTEES MADE IT IN HUGE NUMBERS   DESPITE THE GLOBAL TURN DOWN, OUR BELOVED SWAMIJI HAS BLESSED US WITH NEW JOBS, PROMOTIONS AND INCREAMENTS AND WHAT NOT. THIS REMINDS ME OF HANUMAN DEVOTEES HAVING NO EFFECT OR VERY MILD EFFECTS OF SATURN, THE FIRST VERSION IS HANUMAN IS SAID TO HAVE RESCUED SATURN FROM RAVANA AND IN RETURN SATURN PROMISED THAT ANYONE PRAYING TO HANUMAN WOULD BE RESCUED FROM THE PAINFUL EFFECTS OF SATURN AND THE OTHER VERSION IS BETWEEN THE ENCOUNTER OF HANUMAN AND SATURN, THE LATTER CLIMBED ON HANUMAN’S SHOULDERS WHERE HE WAS CAUGHT BY HANUMAN BETWEEN HIS SHOULDERS PAINFULLY.  AS THE PAIN WAS UNBEARABLE, SATURN REQUESTED HANUMAN TO RELEASE HIM PROMISING THAT HIS MALEFIC EFFECTS WOULD HAVE A VERY MODERATE INFLUENCE ON PEOPLE PRAYING TO HANUMAN. THIS SHOWS THAT YOUR DEVOTEES ARE ALWAYS SAFER DESPITE ANY PROBLEMS WHICH POSES A THREAT.  WE DON’T FEAR WHEN YOU ARE THERE.

I HAVE WITNESSED MANY QUALITIES / SIMILARITIES SWAMIJI WITH THAT OF HANUMAN, DURING THE LAST  JAYANTHY CELEBERATIONS AND AS WELL AS IN MANY BHAJANS, YOU SIT AND STAND TIRELESSLY ALL THROUGH OUT TO COUNSEL YOUR DEVOTEES.  IT REMINDS ME WHEN HANUMAN CARRIED THE SANJEEVANI MOUNTAIN IN HIS HANDS AND WHILE CROSSING, AYODHYA, BHARATH MISTOOK HIM FOR A DEMON CARRYING A MOUNTAIN AND MISSILED HIS ARROW WHERE HANUMAN DID N’T STOP IT AS IT HAD HIS LORD’S NAME ON THAT WHICH HIT HANUMAN’S LEGS. HANUMAN LANDED DOWN AND EXPLAINED TO BHARAT THAT IT IS TO SAVE HIS BROTHER LAKSHMAN’S LIFE AND PROCEEDED WITH HIS INJURED LEGS. SO AS YOU ARE WITHOUT FEELING YOUR PERSONAL PAINS YOU STOOD ALL THROUGH OUT TIRELESSLY IN THE JAYANTHY CELEBERATIONS AND COUNSELLED ALL YOUR DEVOTEES. 

SWAMIJI, YOU ARE EVERYTHING TO ME AND MY FAMILY, WE LOVE YOU A LOT AS ALWAYS.  WHENEVER I SEE YOU, IT REMINDS ME ONE THING, WITH LOTS & LOTS OF LOVE & AFFECTION

FROM RAGHAVAN, LAKSHMI, RAHUL & KARAN.

DUBAI