Experiences of Maha Periyava: The Ashta Lakshmi temple
The portion where there was a shankhu (conch) carved in the Kanchipuram Varadaraja Perumal temple's Utsavar Thirumeni (holy body of the processional deity) was completely worn out. But then this came to be noticed only suddenly. Immediately, Srinivasan, the Executive officer of the temple and Seema Bhattar (a priest) immediately went for darshan of Sri Maha Periyava and apprised him of the dosha in Sri Varadhar's Utsava Thirumeni. Realising the urgency of the situation, Sri Maha Periyava ordered contacting Devasenapathi, the sthapati (sculptor) at Swamimalai over phone, told the matter himself to the sculptor and asked the man to come over to Kanchipuram immediately. Observing great acharam (religious purity), the sculptor repaired Sri Varadhar's Thirumeni and restored it back to its previous glory. Ordinarily, works of this kind cannot be completed with such ease and urgency. Realising that this was possible only because of Sri Maha Periyava's special efforts and anugraha balam (strength of grace), everyone was surprised and happy.
The Ashta Lakshmi temple at Besant Nagar, Chennai came to a stage of completion due to the efforts of Mukkur Lakshmi Narasimhacharya. He came for Sri Periyava's darshan and appraised the Sage of the completion of the temple works. Sri Maha Periyava asked him, "Has the pratistha (installation) of the Perumal vigraha been done?" Mukkur Swamy replied that no Perumal vigraha was installed in the temple. Sri Periyava immediately ordered for sculpting a Perumal idol for the temple. After the Perumal idol was ready, Mukkur Swamy took it and showed it to Sri Maha Periyava. The Sage had a glance of the idol. He then pointed Justice Kailasam and his wife Saundara Kailasam who had come for his darshan to Mukkur Swamy by way of introducing them and said, "This man is going to be a Supreme Court Judge next week". Sri Periyava also asked the Judge to have a keen darshan of the idol.
The Judge and his wife took what Periyava said suddenly as his words of grace and considered it their bhagyam, without giving any more importance to it.
As foretold by Sri Maha Periyava, the very next week Justice Kailasam received orders appointing him as a Supreme Court Judge! Saundara Kailasam happily talked about Sri Maha Periyava's jnana drishti (divine foresight) to everyone she met. The Perumal idol was also installed in the Ashta Lakshmi temple.
Author: Seema Bhattar, Kanchipuram
Source: Maha Periyaval - Darisana Anubhavangal vol. 1, pages 257-263
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