The next day morning had my wife complaining of food poisoning and MIL complaining indigestion...! With His Blessings, my Mom was pretty normal...! He had ensured that my worst fears were fully addressed, which is of my Mom not being comfortable in the journey. Mom was fine and also advised what medication can each one have (my Father was a Pharmacist...!)
Again the day started at 6:30, when the piping hot coffee came, but we were no mood to jump in for the same, due to stomach problems. Sekar Sastrigal came in later to inform the day's itinerary. Seeing our situation, he became extremely concerned. He told that food would come from his home from now on and not from the identified cook. It looked like he strongly felt that food was the trigger. Looks like he was right, since the time food started coming from his home, we were alright.
It was Hiranya Srardham, Punyaka Vachanam and other rituals on Day 2 at Kasi. This happened at Sekar Sastrigal's residence. It was a nice place with a blend of old and new style, and was claimed to be a century old home. With stomach upset, I sat in the function with lots of worry, but with the belief that He would do whatever was right to me. We completed the rituals safely and went back to Ashram where we had our lunch. I took some medicine, which I always wanted to do as the last resort, but this time there were not many options.
After around 2 hours of sleep we got up and dressed in semi-formal attire (Veshti / Podavai) to the temples. It is surprising that such famous temples are in small 'gallis' / narrow roads. Mom also was there to have darshan of Anna Poorneswari (she also had some bigger good things in store for us later...!). We had a good darshan of all other deities around Anna Poorneswari. From there we reached Kasi Viswanathar temple.
Here was Kasi Viswanathar, we were waiting to have a Darshan all along...! The one, entire World is waiting to see...! What a place, what a crowd and what a simplicity of The Lord. He stands in the corner as a small structure, misleading people to be a simple soul, but in fact being the Saviour of many...! He only brought in Ganga Matha here...! He only made this place as His Place...! Shiva Parvathi first put their foot in Kasi, seeing this place to be very peaceful and for its beauty.
We were able to embrace Him and convey our respects and affection. I never thought I can bend so much, for my paunch...! He made it possible...! My Mom and MIL had the bhagyam of doing abisekham for Him...! What an opportunity..! All this amidst tight police supervision. Police were everywhere, bit rude bit harsh but doing their duty.
We also had the Darshan of Dundi Ganapathy, before getting into all these Darshan. From Kasi Viswanathar, we went to have a Darshan of Kasi Visalakshi. There were people from some madam singing tamil hymns. All of them looked to be Sanyasis. The Darshan of Kasi Visalakshi also looked to be a dream...! Suddenly it looked like having a darshan of Karpagambal at Mylai. Did Karpagambal come to Kasi or have been seeing Visalakshi at Mylai...! It was a beautiful experience...!
Later after a good dinner, we went into good sleep. We were to travel to Gaya the next day by early noon. Ganga Matha had plans to excite us the next day morning...! Next day morning we set off again to Shivala Ghat for some more exciting experience...!
(To be continued...!)
Pranams
Ram
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