SRI VADIRAJA'S TEERTHA PRABANDHA - STEP 7

SRI VADIRAJA’S TEERTHA PRABANDHA – STEP 7     

ಶ್ರೀ ವಾದಿರಾಜ ವಿರಚಿತ “ತೀರ್ಥ ಪ್ರಬಂಧ”        

(Some miraculous instances where Sri Vadirajaru unintentionally showed to the world that he was divine are collected from various sources and given in English here. Please read, comment and share. SDN)

Sri Vadirajaru travelled far and wide. A large number of people used to follow him, wherever he went. Many people wanted him to bless their children, bless those getting married, boys for whom thread ceremony was being performed and so on. Some people were so fortunate that Sri Vadirajaru was present only to save the family from an imminent catastrophe or save the life of a bridegroom or retrieve the life of a dead person and so on.

1.   Once, a bridegroom was bitten to death by a serpent that was hiding in the turban he was wearing. Luckily, Sri Vadirajaru was there. He chanted his own composition Sri Lakshmi Shobhana and with the grace of Sri Lakshmi and Sri Narayana, the groom got a second life.

2.   A childless landlord appealed to Sri Vadirajaru to bless them with a child. With his mystic vision, Sri Vadirajaru learnt that the landlord had no chance of begetting a child. The truth was pronounced by him to the landlord. Later, the landlord met an enchanter and with the power of black magic, the landlord got a son. After about five years, Sri Vadirajaru visited the same place and came to know what had happened. Sri Vadirajaru summoned the landlord along with his son. When Sri Vadirajaru sprinkled some holy water on the boy, he turned into a devil. The devil said that it had been instructed to live with the landlord for six years, kill the landlord at the end and return. After revealing this secret, the devil disappeared. The landlord thanked Sri Vadirajaru for saving him and his family.

3.   A son of a Muslim king had passed away. Sri Vadirajaru placed the box in which he was carrying the idols of deities for offering his routine Puja on a place where the corpse of Muslim king’s son had been buried. The burial ground was on the outskirts of the city. The security guards and people living around the place told Sri Vadirajaru that the place was inauspicious and unsuitable for persons of his nature. Sri Vadirajaru got the body exhumed, sprinkled the holy water from his Kamandal (differently shaped water jar) and the boy became alive. Highly impressed and pleased king presented Sri Vadirajaru with a large quantity of wealth that was actually brought on camel back. Being an ascetic, Sri Vadirajaru poured all that wealth into Ganga. The riches presented by the same king for the second time was buried by Sri Vadirajaru at Udupi and on that place shrines dedicated to Sri Subrahmanya and Bhutarajaru were constructed.

There are several instances which have come down to us from words of mouth but not found in any document or in the written form. A question may arise as to why some divine beings display miracles. Display of miracles is not the intention behind such acts and that is why they cannot be termed as miracles. It appears to the ordinary people that some miracle is happening or being displayed. They perceive some obstacle or defect or fallacy in the previous birth of persons concerned.