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Miracles in life of Sri Thiyagarajar

Sadhguru Sri Thiyagarajar was born in Thiruvaiyaru, a small town from TamilNadu. He is revered as the first among Sangeetha Moomoorthigal. Other two being Sri Muthuswamy Dikshitar and Sri Syama Sastrigal. Sri Thiyagarajar learnt compositions of Sri Ramadasar and Sri Purandaradasar from his mother at a very small age. When he was 11 years old, he was given Raama Naama Deeskha and Raama vigraham by his father. 

From then, he started chanting Raama Naama daily and offering pooja to Raama Vigraha. He used to chant 125000 times daily and he completed chanting 9 million times when he was 38 years old. There were various miracles which happened in his life. Let’s see some of them.

Miracle 1:

Sri Thiyagarajar used to teach Carnatic songs to kids and receive rice and dal from the students. One day, he didn’t receive any food to cook and eat, so went to bed hungry. After sometime, he heard a knock in the door, when he opened, he saw a old man, his wife and a servant standing outside. 

The old man mentioned that they have walked a very long distance and they wanted to take rest for the night. Sri Thiyagarajar invited them with due respect, and offered to make dinner for them, however the old man mentioned that they have food for all of them, and his servant would prepare the same. Once, the dinner was prepared, they all ate together, and Sri Thiyagarajar spent rest of the night talking to the old couple. Next day morning, the old couple and the servant started continuing the journey. When they left Sri Thiyagarajar’s house, Sri Thiyagarajar saw that the old couple changed to Sri Rama and Seetha devi and the servant was Lakshmanar. He was very shocked and surprised that Lord Rama came all the way to meet him in person. There is a belief that when people chant Raama Naama 9 million times, they would have the vision of Lord Raama and Sri Thiyagarajar was a real time example for the same.

Miracle 2: 

Sri Thiyagarajar’s brother was unhappy that Sri Thiyagarajar spent all his lifetime on chanting Raama Naama and doing pooja to the Rama Vigraha. One day, without Sri Thiyagarajar’s knowledge, his brother threw the Raama Vigraha into the Kavery river. After realising what had happened Sri Thiyagarajar was very sad, and was in tears with no food, water and sleep chanting Raama Naama and singing songs asking why Lord Raama left him.

Unable to bear his devotee’s sorrow, Lord Raama came in Sri Thiyagarajar’s dream and mentioned the exact place of his vigraaha in Kavery river. Sri Thiyagarajar followed his instructions and successfully attained the Vigraham back, in complete joy and excitement, he sang “Thorekethava Raghuveera“ a famous composition.

Miracle 3:

Sri Thiyagarajar once travelled to Chennai and participated in various concerts and events. Event organizer gifted him a few gold coins, which Sri Thiyagarajar declined saying he didn’t do the concert for money. However, the event organizer, gave the coins to Sri Thiyagarajar’s sishyas mentioning that they could use it for Sri Rama Navami and Sri Jayanthi events. 

Sishyas took the coins and hid it in Sri Thiyagarajar’s palanquin which was keenly observed by the thieves. The thieves followed them and started throwing stones at the palanquin when they were on the way to Thiruvaiyaru. Sri Thiyagarajar was surprised by the act, and overheard Sishyas mentioning that the thieves are here for gold coins. When he enquired the sishyas, they told that the event organizer gave it for Sri Rama Navami and Sri Jayanthi. After hearing that, Sri Thiyagarajar said that then it is Lord Raama’s responsibility to safeguard his gold coins. They continued travelling and in the dawn settled to a mandapam. The thieves came running to Sri Thiyagarajar, and fell into his feet begging for forgiveness. When he enquired, the thieves mentioned that they followed the palanquin the whole night and they were unable to steal the money as there were 2 soldiers with bow and arrow guarding the palanquin. On hearing that, Sri Thiyagarajar mentioned that even though they were thieves they were very lucky to get Lord Raama’s darshanam.

This incident proves that Lord Raama was always with Sri Thiyagarajar and protecting him from all his sorrows.

 

Conclusion:

Sri Thiyagarajar was an ardent devotee of Lord Raama and has sung 24000 songs, out of which we were able to retrieve only 700 songs. Sri Thiyagarajar Aradhanai happens every year in Thiruvaiyaru, where 1000’s of musicians gather together to sing Sri Thiyagarajar’s pancharatna krithis and offer their salutations to them.

 

I would like to thank Sandhya mam for providing the opportunity to learn about this great musician. 

The original video was narrated in Tamil. For a wider audience  to understand, the video has been translated into English

Nishita Bharath Kumar

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