Parvathamalai Darisanam - Part 3

After the kadapparai malai is the stairs made from rail tracks...! How would one have brought the rail tracks up here...! It is learnt that Saint Ramagiri was the person instrumental in this. His jeeva samadhi is near the rly station as told by Shri Krishnan sir. The body just keeps moving after a point, there is no thought of what is right what is wrong, every move is expected to be right...! You are now very near to His Kingdom and you ought to be right...!

 

When I finished it and came up, my people who were already on the top cheered me...! I thot there is nothing to my credit, it is all His Doing...! We went into the MounaGuru Ashramam. Many of us were hungry, some reason I was not that hungry...! so I told we will go to the temple in the same tempo and complete our Abisekham. Others were not for it really...! I told fine and got into the Ashramam and requested for food. They informed that food will be ready by 7:30 PM, i.e. atleast two hours later...! Now, there was no choice to go to the temple...! It was His Wish...!

 

We went to the temple and started our Abisekhams. We did Panneer abisekham, Thaen Abisekham, Santhana Abisekham, Nei Abisekham, Elumichai Abisekham and finally Vibuthi Abisekhham...! We started our Bhajans and were lost in it. PSL Narayanan and Nagarajan were expert singers of Bhajans and I only did a chorus for them. All the thots on getting up getting down staying in the night has vanished. It looked like only thing in the world at the moment was doing Bhajans. We were all so immersed that we sensed we had taken more than an hour for the same and people were waiting outisde.

 

After completing the Abisekham of Mallikarjueswarar we went and had a Darshan of Piramarambigai. What a beauty this Deity is, She looked so Graceful and with some much love on Her Face...! Her Smile was so infectious, you start feeling that This Lady will take care of all your life's problems...! Then there is statue of Saint Agasthiar opposite to Her in a corner. We felt it was a real 'bagiyam' to have come to this place, where Shri Agasthiar had also been...!

 

Now, it was more than 8 PM, and when we came out after having Darshan of Lord Muruga, the sky was lit with too many stars. It looked like if you can jump a bit, you could pluck few stars and put it in your pocket, they were bright and there so many...! We understood why we were able to see so many stars, when we saw clouds sweeping our legs...! Yes, clouds are below us and that's why so much of visibility to the starts - a lesson for life...!

 

Being pitch dark I was hesitant to climb down fm the temple to the Ashramam. I informed that I will sleep in the temple and get down next day morning. HP Narayanan sounded very concerned since I didn't have my dinner, which was actually not a concern for me...! Then came these people from nowhere. One showed a bright torch fm the front and another fm behind. Suddenly pitch dark became damn bright and I climbed down i a jiffy and was wondering 'Have we really reached the Ashramam...!'.

 

The night stay was planned after the advice of Shri Krishnan Sir. We stayed in the Ashramam where we were guided for doing meditation and later offered a good dinner. We slept comfortably and started climbing down at 5 AM on Sunday 21st Dec 2008. Actually, I had various visions during the sleep like climbing down and bit shaken because of the same. Now, here was the instruction fm PSL Narayanan 'Sit and climb down'. I took this as vedha-vaaku in all testing times. All the steep climbdowns I sat and got down. Now is our favorite Kadapparai Malai, which I was adviced to climb down the same way I climbed up...! Again I just did what PSL Narayanan told me...! When I got down on flat surface and when PSL Narayanan announced me that I've crossed 'Kadapparai Malai' I was not able to believe myself...! He Did it again..!

 

Then on the descent was very comfortable and was a 'Suganubhavam'. I had 'more', 'ilani', 'lime soda' and herbal water as I came down...! I even slept for around 10 minutes on the side of the steps. What an experience...! On reaching Veerabadhra Swamy temple our Noi-kanji with keerai vadai and pickles was waiting for us...! Wow, what an experience...! Fulfilling the soul and body too...! Only He can give this Darshan..!

 

The best part of this, on reaching down, everyone looked more charged than they were when climbing up...! My younger brothers were asking me 'What next Anna?' I was happy and not surprised...! That's the way He Treats people..! We took a mini-van and reached another village fm where we got a bus to Thiruvannamalai. All of us wanted to convey our Pranams to Annamalaiar. We saw Annamalaiar even before we started entering Thiruvannamalai and we started our Thanks Giving...! From Thiruvannamalai we boarded the bus to Chennai and reached home safely and Happily...! His Mission is Accomplished...!

 

I wish all of you who have not been to Parvathamalai visit the place. Go as a small crowd to share your Happiness...! Leave it to Him...! When He guides a 100+ Kg weighing man like me, He will do for you too...!

Namaskarams

Ram