NAME THE DAUGHTERS GAYATRI-SANDHYA-SAVITRI! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A vellala (farmer) devotee asked, Can I chant the Gayatri Mantra? A question that creates dharma sankatam (embarrassment to do what is right)! Either of the two replies yes or no is bound to bring up criticism. SriMaThams work is to foster and preserve the Sanatana dharmas. The confrontations that Bharat had in the last thousand years are numerous. The Bharata samudAya (public) has always had the skills to preserve its roots, withstanding the attacks, bending like reeds when a hurricane blows and then raising its head once again after storm passes. But then should SriMaTham intervene in every change? What is its share? Todays thinking becomes obsolete tomorrow and cast away. Though no one can control the gush of floods after it broke the dam, a day has to come when the floods will recede and the flow is streamlined in the river? Nobody has any knowledge if Periyavaal had such thoughts. But he had the unique ability to ease a delicate situation and leave it to its natural course. Peiyavaal did not give a direct reply to the devotee. How many children you have? he asked. A surprising reply came from him. By your grace I have been bestowed with three girls: one five years old, another three and the last six months... Periyavaa said: Name one girl as Gayatri, another as Sandhya and the third as Savitri. Call the three girls by those names. Not as Baby--Lily--Billy! If you thus repeatedly say the names Gayatri--Sandhya--Savitri, you would get the punya (fruits) of Gayatri Mantra chanting. The devotees face displayed his happiness. Periyavaa had given him his anugraha of clarity of thought, when he was hesitating to take up an act that was against the sampradAya (tradition). He went happily, receiving prasadam from Periyavaal. author: Sri MaTham Balu Mama compiler: T.S. Kothandarama Sarma book: Maha PeriyavaL - Darisana AnubhavangaL vol. 2, pages 177-187 translation: Saidevo publisher:.. Vanathi Padhippaham (May 2005 Edition)
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