Bulletin January 2006: Arutperunjothi in Jothi hills
Tarugavanam is
a place found in the Himalayan Range at the banks of Ganges river
near the famous temple
Badari Nath. It is
surrounded with hill slopes and fertile green pastures. Rishies and Munies have
built huts to perform their austerities to God- head. Being confident of their austerity in
merging with the eternal bliss, they showed less importance to meditation and
total dedication to God. On one occasion Lord Siva had flushed the reign of Maya
upon the Rishi padminies, who were induced to Kama
and they followed behind Siva. The Rishies and Munies who noticed this waged a
war against the Lord. They created an elephant monster through their ritual yagna
and cast it against the Lord. The Lord ripped its skin and used it as a
shawl. Again they sent a ferocious tiger; the Lord killed it and used its skin
as a waist band. The Lord than appeared in the form of Jothi and blessed those,
who surrendered unto him. From there on this place is known as Jothi Hills or Tarugavanam. This story
is found in one of the eighteenth Siva Puranam.
In
Vedanta, true immortality means eternal existence in the past as well as in the
future. Pre-existence and immortality are so closely related to each other that
if we deny one, we cannot accept the other, for logically we shall be correct.
.If we believe that we shall continue to exist after death, we shall have to
admit that we existed in the past too. Otherwise, we cannot have immortal life
in future. With this understanding, we could accept that Arutt Prakasha
Vallalar could have had a wish to build a temple in this spiritually elevated
place.
Therefore
he chose Swami Nganantha who runs an Ashram in Shanai Nagar in Chennai. Swami
Nganantha had the inclination to tour the Himalayas
with 50 of his Ashram members. About this time Vallalar appeared in his dream
and instructed him to build a temple in banks of the Ganges
River in the Himalayas.
Probably, Vallalar felt that there were many subjective hindrance and so wanted
to spread his knowledge of merging with the eternal bliss all over India. The
greatest hindrance was his inadequate members in distributing his knowledge of
compassion for the suffering fellow- beings. The saint was keen in upholding
vegetarianism and was bent on feeding the poor, irrespective of cast or creed.
The Saint started the Sathiya Darma Salai at Vadaloor, which still to-date
distributes food. The universal outlook as preached by him, when it is spread
over the whole world would find humanity in perfect peace and amity. Universal
brother hood will be gradually understood and it will once and for all set the
human free from obsession of war, created by racial, religious and political
reasons and by differences in economic and social ideologies.
Swami Ngnantha
traveled from Haridwar to Rishikesh. He halted in Badarinath for a darshan
of Lord Vishnu and pondered for a suitable place along the banks of Ganges. He came across a village called
“Hart” here he met a paralyzed farmer bed ridden for eight years.
By regular nursing through Ayurvedic medicine Mukesh Hartwal was recovered from
his illness. Being grateful to Swami Ngnantha, he brought Swamiji to a stream
near a waterfall called Jothi hills, which holds puranic heritage. Subsequently
Swamiji made plans to build a temple with the help of the villagers. A small
temple was built and Thiru Arutt pa is recited everyday.
Saint Arutt
Prakasha Bhramanandha Jothi Ramalingam appeared early in the morning on the 22nd
of August 2001. The Saint appeared in Jothi form within which Vallalar rendered
his darshan
to three young girls and a youth in the village called “Hart”.
This village lies in the District of Maya poor. Where is this Maya poor? It is
in-between a mountain range stretching from east to west of India, dividing India
from China.
It is 80 kilometers off the famous Vaishnavite temple called Badari Nath.
The echo of ARUTTPERUNJOTHI AGAWAL will illuminate the entire Himalayas.
