A submission on this auspicious occasion of the Aradhana of Sri ॑# Vadiraja Tirtharu - श्री वादिराज गुरुभ्यॊ नमः
(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.
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