Important Days & Miracles of Guru

Maruthua Malai

          Maruthua Malai is a sacred hill expecially for Guru Narayana and other ancient sages like  Agasthyar, Paramartha lingeshwar etc. and there on the top of this hill have a cave  known as Pillathadam where Guru Narayana used to meditation for many years. At that time the hill was covered with trees having thorn and animals like leopord and strong poisoned snakes. When Guru was discoverd  with such animals the peoples of plain were amazed with him and he said to them as advice that “animals will not attack you if you have no fear or anger towards them or any inclination to hurt them.” The people living in the plains are mainly farmers who depend up on agriculture and livestock for their living. During the period of that age  Guru was filled with absolute knowledge of  wisdom and bliss of Brahma from Super Soul and also believed that the lord Siva appeared before Guru Narayana and then he was converted to one of the greatest sage of the world. Srimat.Chattampi Swami and Guru Narayana were friends and living together here for some years. The hill is also reffered to  Budhist sages who belonged to the period of Asoka as having medicinal and spiritual  heritage



         
       According to tradition, the Maruthuva Malai is a fragment of the Sanjeevi Mountain, a piece of which fell down here, and it was carried by Hanuman from Mahendragiri to Lanka for healing the fatal wounds of Lakshmana, the brother of Rama, the epic hero. It stretches for more than a km, reaching a height of 800 feet at the highest point. It is about 2 km from Swamithoppe and 11 km from Nagercoil on the way of Kanyakumari.

Important Days JANUARY 1 – SIVAGIRI THEERTHADANA SAMAPANAM – ANNIVERSARY OF THE INSTALLATION OF GURU’S IDOL IN SAMATI MANDIRAM AT SIVAGIRI(1969) 2 – BIRTHDAY OF SWAMY ANNANTHA THEERTHA (GURU’S LAST DISCIPLE). 3 – DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF ARATTUPUZHA VELAYUDHA PANIKER(CRUSIDER AGANIST SOCIAL DISCRIMINATIONS IN      KERALA BEFOR GURU). 7 – CONSTITUTION OF SREE NARAYANA DHARAMA PARIPALANA YOGAM(SNDP YOGAM) (1903) 8 – SAMADHI OF SIVALINGADASA SWAMIKAL.(GURU’S FIRST DISCIPLE) 9 – CONSTITUTION OF SREE NARAYANA DHARMA SANGOM TRUST(1928). 12 – DEATH ANIVESORY OF SANKARANANDA SWAMI(LAST MATTATHIPATHI OF  SIVAGIRI MUTTOM) 16 – DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF MAHA KAVI KUMARAN ASAN. 22 – BREATH DAY OF BODHANANDA SWAMIKAL(NEXT HEIR TO SREE NARAYANA GURU) 25 – DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF DR.PALPU.(FIRST VICE PRESIENT OF SNDP YOGAM). 26 – SAMADHI OF MANAGALANDA SWAMIKAL, INDIAN REPUBLIC DAY. 28 – INAUGURATION OF SIVAGIRI BRAMMAVIDYALAYAM. 30 – SAMADHI OF KUMARA SWAMI, DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF MAHATMA GANDHI. FEBRUARY 19 – BIRTH DAY OF NATARAJA GURU.(GURU’S DISCIPLE) 25 – DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF MANNATH PATHMANABHAN.(FOUNDER OF NAIR SERVICE SOCIETY). 26 – BIRTH DAY OF SATHYAVRUTH SWAMIKAL.(GURU’S DISCIPLE) MARCH 6 – DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF SAHODARAN AYYAPPAN.(GURU’S DISCIPLE &  FOUNDER OF SAHODARA SANGOM). 10 – BIRTH DAY OF SARASA KAVI MOOLOOR.(GURU’S DISCIPLE) 19 – SAMADHI OF NATARAJA GURU.(GURU’S DISCIPLE & FOUNDER OF NARAYANA GURUKULAM AT VARKALA-1923) 21 – DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF MOOLOOR.(GURU’S DISCIPLE) 24 – SAMADHI OF GEETHANDA SWAMI.(PREVIOUS PRESIDENT OF SREE NARAYANA DHARMA SANGOM TRUST, FOUNDER OF     GAYATHRI ASRAM ,CHALAKKUDI) 27 – BIRTH DAY OF CHAITHANYA SWAMIKAL.(GURU’S DISCIPLE) APRIL 10 – DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF C.V.KUNJURAMAN.(GURU’S DISCIPLE) 20 – BIRTH DAY OF MAHA KAVI KUMARAN ASAN.(GURU’S DISCIPLE) 24 – BIRTH DAY OF KUMARASWAMI SANYASI.(GURU’S DISCIPLE) 27 – DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF T.K.MADHAVAN.(GURU’S DISCIPLE) 30 – BIRTH DAY OF R.SANKAR(FOUNDER OF SREE NARAYANA TRUST, CHIEF MINISTER OF KERALA) MAY  6 – BIRTH DAY OF DHARAMA THEERTHAR.(GURU’S DISCIPLE) 9 – BIRTH DAY OF SRI SANKARA ACHARYA(PROPOUNDER OF ADWAITHA PHILOSPHY). 14 – SAMADHI OF GURU NITHYA CHAITHANYA YATHI.(NARAJA GURU’S DISCIPLE) 23 – BIRTH DAY OF C.KESAVAN.(GURU’S DISCIPLE) JUNE 9 – BIRTH DAY OF MOORKOTHU KUMARAN.(GURU’S DISCIPLE) 11 – BIRTH DAY OF MITHAVATI C.KRISHNAN.(GURU’S DISCIPLE) 15 – DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF AYYANKALI 25 – DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF MOORKOTHU KUMARAN.(GURU’S DISCIPLE) 26 – BIRTH DAY OF GEETHANADA SWAMI(PREVIOUS PRESIDENT OF SREE NARAYANA DHARMA SANGOM TRUST  FOUNDER OF     GAYATHRI ASRAM ,CHALAKKUDI) JULY – SAMADHI OF SASWATHIKANANDA SWAMIKAL((PREVIOUS PRESIDENT OF SREE NARAYANA DHARMA SANGOM TRUST). – DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF C.KESAVAN. 22 – SAMADHI OF SANAKARANDA SWAMIKAL. 31 – BIRTH DAY OF SIVALINGADASA SWAMI AUGUST 22 – BIRTH DAY OF SAHODARAN AYYAPPAN. SAMADHI OF CHIDROOPANADA SWAMI, SEPTEMBER 2 – BIRTH DAY OF T.K.MADHAVAN. 12 – BIRTH DAY OF AYYANKALI. 17 – SAMADHI OF SATHYAVRUTHA SWAMI. 18 – DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF K.SUKUMARAN(EDITOR KERALA KAUMUDI). 24 – SAMADHI OF BODHANANDA SWAMI. OCTOBER 2 – BIRTH DAY OF MAHATMA GANDHI. NOVEMBER 2 – BIRTH DAY OF DR.PALPU 6 – DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF C.R.KESAVAN VAIDYAR(GURU’S DISCIPLE). 7 – DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF R.SANKAR. 29 –  DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF MITHAVATI C.KRISHNAN. DECEMBER 2 – DEATH ANIVERSARY OF CHAITHANYA SWAMIKAL. 3 – DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF DR.B.R.AMBEDKAR.(CHAIRMAN OF INDAIN CONSTITUTION DRAFTING COMMITTEE). 11 – BIRTH DAY OF SREE NARAYANA THEERTHAR SWAMI(GURU’S DISCIPLE). 13 – SAMADHI OF GOVINDANADA SWAMI (PREVIOUS MADATHIPATHI OF SREE NARAYANA DHARMA SANGOM TRUST). 17 – SAMADHI OF KUMARA SWAMI SANNYASI 30 – FIRST DAY OF SIVAGIRI THEERTHADANAM. 31 – SECOND DAY OF  SIVAGIRI THEERTHADANAM & PROCESSION.

Miracle-20 Once the Guru was talking to Cahithanya Swamy at Aluva Ashram and for a short spell the Guru was silent. After the silence the Guru told Chaithany Swamy that he had been Aruvippuram to bless a woamn devotee. Chaithanya Swamy could not make out the Guru’s point. After few days Chaithanya Swamy happened to go to Aruvippuram. Then he came to know of an incident which took place on the same day exactly at the same time when the Guru observed silence for a few minutes during the course of his conversation at Aluva. A blind woman devotee was one of the participants in the prayer meeting held at Aruvippuram. While all the participants were chanting prayer, all of a sudden the blind woman devotee out of ommense happiness shouted to announce that she got her eye sight by the grace of a Swamy who opened her eyes and restored her sight. Then the devotees near her asked to identify the Swamy among the Swamies present there, she said none of them was the Swamy who restored her eye sight. Then one devotee brought and showed the photo of Sree narayana Guru to the woman. The moment the woman saw the photo she said that this was the Swamy who restored her eye sught. This is an incident which shows the Guru was also omnipresent lke Lord Krishna.

Miracle -19 When Sree Narayana Guru was taking rest at Madhavan’s house in Pulimudu in Thiruvanathapuram, one person brought a bunch of plantains and offered it to the Guru. He had secretly inserted a needle in one of the plantains in the bunch. The accepted it and randomly picked one fruit from the bunch and offered to the donor. This was the same fruit in which the needle was secretly inserted by the donor. He was frightened at this and hastily left the spot.

Miracle-18 Once Sree Narayana Guru was having a discussion with Unniasan. Then a person who was considered to be a miser came there. Seeing the stranger the Guru enquired him whether he was educating his children. He replied that since he was not having money, he was not educating his children. Then the Guru jokingly asked him as to how much he was having with him at that very moment. He replied that he was not having even a single pie. Then the Guru asked Unniasan whether he could tell the figure. Then the Guru said that the stranger told a lie that he was not having even a pie. The fact is that he started with Rs.7/- from his house, in route he spent Rs.2/- so he is having Rs.5/- with him at present. Unniasan searched the stranger and it was found that he was having Rs. 5/- with him. The stranger accepted that he told a lie.

miracle -17 In the year 1881 one moring , Sree Narayana Guru visited Govindanasan’s house at Amaravilakam. After pleasantries Govindanasan’s served lunch reverently to the Guru. Then Govindanasan’s pet cat also came and sat before the Guru. Prior to commencing taking food, the Guru placed one big morsel and two samll morsels of the food saying that the big morsel id for the cat and the other two small morsels for kittens. The Guru after finishing his launch left the house. Govindanasan and the family members were inquisitive as to why the Guru placed two more morsels specifically telling thqt it was for the kittens when there were no kittens in their house. Hence Govindanasan and family members made vigorous search of every nook and corner to find out whether there were any kitten in their house. Then surprisingly they noticed on the top of a wooden rack two kittens, which had not even opened their eyes. All the family members were puzzled with reverenc eas to how the Guru came to know about the presence of the two kittens in their house, the fact which they themselves were unaware of.

Miracles- 16 Once Sree Narayana Guru went to Vaikkom village for fund-raising for Sivagiri High School. The villagers in large number came forward to donate their mite in cash. A poor woman who had no money pawned her only valuable asset, a brass lamp which she regularly used to lit before worshipping. When she was about to handover to the Guru’s authorized person, the amount of Rs.3/- which was all she got out of the pawn the Guru instructed him not to take the amount from her and hence need not write a receipt. On hearing this poor woman was greatly disappointed and started weeping. Then the Guru consoled the woman saying that she should not have any dissatisfaction in her mind for not donating some thing and the act of sacrificing her only valuable asset at the cost of permanent inconvenience for her prayer deserves high appreceation and hence deemed as if she had donated the amount.

Miracles- 15 At that time at Aruvipuram there was only a small temple on the river bank and an Ashram also with provision for visiting pilgrims to sit. One day Sree Narayana Guru and Valiyath Krishnan Asan were discussing some issues. At that time an aged carpenter came there holding a folded umbrella. He was sceptical about the Guru’s powers and had wanted to test Him. He reverently prostrated before the Guru and sat nearer to Krishnan Asan. The Guru being omniscient, understood the purpose behind the carpenter’s visit, asked him to share the rice flakes and coconut concealed in the umbrella. with all others present there. At this the carpenter was amazed and also felt humilated at his ignorance to put the Guru to test. Then he took out the hidden eatables from the umbrella and reverently prostrated before The Guru. The Guru asked the carpenter whether he was satisfied or needed anything else further. Then the carpenter submitted that he was very much convinced and asked the Guru’s forgiveness for his foolish act.

Miracles- 11 T.K.Narayana, a permanent resideent of Cochi was an ardent devotee of Sree narayana Guru. It was an established fact to the native of Cochi that whenever Sree narayan Guru came to Cochi, he would pay a visit to T.K.Narayana’s house. He used to make elaborate arrangements with delicious eatables etc., to offer to the Divine guest and other devotees. T.K. Narayan had three friends named K.G.Thomson, JAcob and Hajee Jaffer Seth. These three friends with a view to ridicule and enjoy the fun and food, fabricated a story that Sree narayana Guru had come to come to Cochi and would be visiting the Narayanan’s house. Believing that news, as usual Narayanan made elaborate arrangements with delicious eatables to welcome the Guru along with other devotees. On completion of the arrangements by Narayanan, his friends revealed that they fibbed just to enjoy the fun and started merrymaking at the success of their plan. But to the surprise of every one there, Sree Narayana Guru walked in at that very moment. One of the Guru’s disciple Guruprasad was a witness to this incident.

Miracles- 12 Once when the Guru was at Madras he was the Guest of Moolayil Krishnan. One day the Guru and his disciple Guruprasad left the house at 3.00 a.m. for a walk to the beach and by 8.00 a.m. reached Mylapore Temple, none at that place was known to them. Therefore Guruprasad proposed for refreshing etc., to go to Circle Inspector P.T. Kannan’s house known to him. The Guru told Guruprasad that if there is faith of God, there would not be any dearth for anything and all necessities would be met on their own accord. After a while, when they were still in temple premises a Mudaliar woman came to them with fruits and milk and offered them to the Guru. She told the Guru, that on the previous night she had a dream in which she had a vision that a great Saint would be prsent in Mylapore Temple the next day morning . Then the Guru enquired about her stomach-ache. She was surprised at this enquiry as she had never met the Guru earlier, but confirmed that she had been suffering from it since years. The Guru blessed her “Hereafter you will not have stomach-ache”. Accordingly, she got relieved of the pain/ailment.