Sreepada Sreevallabha Charitaamrutam - 39

Chapter– 39  

Meeting with Nagendra Sastry

We received the diamond of kaala naagu and continued our journey. Our eagerness to visit Sri Pithikapuram was increasing.

The shape of ‘Kaala Naagus’ 

 

We took hospitality in the house of a brahmin. His name was Nagendra Sastry. He knew mantra saastra. Many cobras were moving in his house but, they were not harming anyone. He was looking after the cobras like his own children. They were freely moving on his body. Divine serpents have a crest gem. He worshipped serpents for many years. He prayed to naaga devata for gem of kaala naagu for the purpose of worship.

The efficacy of Naagamani (gem of serpent)

Nagendra Sastry said, “Dear ones! Today is a very good day. I went to Pithikapur when Sri Sreepada was a boy of 15 years. I visited Paadagaya kshetra. I saw a kaala naagu around the neck of Swayam-bhoo Datta. There was a gem on its hoods. Serpents which control time are called kaala naagus. Definitely, they will have a gem. During night that gem emits divine light. They have kundalini power. They remain always in yogic meditation like great sages. Different stages are there not only for humans, but also for serpents. Generally kaala naagus do not come into the view of men. The naaga mani on the hood of the kaala naagu has the power to ward off the inauspicious vibrations from the planet Mars. Those inauspicious vibrations merge in the naaga mani and auspicious vibrations emanate from it. Those auspicious vibrations grant auspicious results to those afflicted by planet Mars. If the planet Mars is not properly placed in the horoscope, fighting conditions beset life. Unfavourable circumstances surround the individual. They are: enmity with inmates of the house, enmity with relatives and friends, debt difficulties, non-marriage of girls at the proper age, such girls remaining as old virgins throughout life, those even after marriage not getting children, failure in all enterprises notwithstanding great capacity and efficiency. The desire to acquire the gem of the kaala naagu intensified after I visited self manifested Datta. The ambition that I would register extraordinary progress in all stages of my life if I get that gem had immensely increased.” 

 

The efficacy of the Paadukas of Sri Sreepada; Regulations for remedying the naaga dosha

I was going near the house of Sri Narasimha Varma. Sri Sreepada Guru Saarvabhowma was pouring water in the trees in that premises. Sri Narasimha Varma was making small channels for watering the trees. There was an audumbara in the compound of their house. Sri Narasimha Varma was making channels for water to percolate profusely at the bottom of the tree. Then copper sandals with the foot prints of Sri Sreepada came into the hands of Sri Varma. Those sandals were the measurements of a sixteen year old boy. A

call was heard, “Nagendra Sastree! Come hither.” With wonder I went to His presence. Sri Varma washed those sandals with coconut water. They were placed before the Lotus Feet of Sri Sreepada. Sri Varma thought that they would be given to him for worship but, the intention of Sri Sreepada was in some other way. Sri Sreepada kindly gave those sandals to me. He said, “Nagendra Sastree! You establish a ‘Nagendra Peetha’ and worship these Paadukas. You are wishing from a long time to have the gem of kaala naagus. I am pleased with you. I am that very Maha Swamy who is worshipped always by kaala naagus with their divine gems and whose divine lotus feet they always adore! These Divine Paadukas are Mine only! You worship them. People suffering from chronic diseases approach you. When you worship these Paadukas and give them theertha(holy water) their diseases will be cured. All sorts of naaga doshas are removed. When dakshinas are offered at the time of assuaging naaga dosha it should be noted that the stipulation must be strictly adhered to, that some amount belonging to wife, or husband or their parents should be associated. When a man offers donation for assuaging his naaga dosha he should receive some money from his brothers-in-law or father-in-law i.e., from the birth-home of his wife, and mix that money with his offering. When the female gives money offering for pacifying her naaga dosha she should collect some money from the close relations of her husband and mix it with the money offered by her. When both husband and wife donate money for assuaging their naaga dosha they should mix the money collected from birth-homes of both of them with their own money and make an offering. Husband should give it from his self-earned money, and wife should give it from her stree-dhan(money given to a lady by her parents at the time of her marriage). These amounts should be mixed and offered. In case an unmarried girl donates money for removal of naaga dosha she should mix some money from her father with the money from one related as a maternal uncle and donate. In this way naaga dosha will be completely eradicated. I have laid down a stipulation that for anyone naaga dosha will not be completely remedied unless money from their birth-home is mixed. My child! Nagendra Sastree! Follow these words of Mine meticulously. Utilize your proficiency in the naaga saastra for the well being of the world.

Spiritual results for devotees of Datta

In future persons named Shankar Bhatt and Dharma Gupta come to you. You give My divine Paadukas to them and receive a divine gem of kaala naagus from them. There is a time for the functions of the body. There is a time for mind. There is a time for praana (life force). Soul is beyond time. Particular times exist as long as the concerned planets and stars exist. Growth and decay take place conditioned by time. Many universes originate, develop, remain for sometime and undergo dissolution.All this is the greatness of time! Such time form is under My control.Kaala Purusha always favours My devotees. Devils, ghosts, spirits and such terrible forces cannot do anything to those who adore Sree Datta. I am the strongest of all the living creatures in this creation. Living beings derive strength and develop from Me. I withdraw My strength from those who are proud and become frenzy with arrogance. Pride and arrogance are the roots of all evils. Those who worship Me always, remember Me always; live with eternal gratification and happiness.” Sri Sreepada explained thus.

Those great persons arranged meals for me in the house of Sri Narasimha Varma. Sri Varma was a lord who was making great quantities of anna daana(donation of food). Lord Datta like anna daana very much. He feels a sense of scarcity when any living being suffers with hunger. He is a well wisher of all creatures. I took permission of the Maha Swami and left that place. I constructed an

ashram in the place seen by you. I preach about varnaashrama dharmas to all those who come to me. In the meantime my wife died. I became sad. The wife of a barber died of snake bite. By employing the naaga vidya known to me I brought the snake and got the poison removed but, that barber’s wife did not like to reenter into that body. She wanted to freely roam in the praanamaya jagat and possess people. She intended to enjoy when those people feel distressed. The barber requested to bring back his wife to life. Then I told him that I would introduce the soul of my wife into that body and that he should treat her as his own mother. He agreed. The soul of my dead wife was introduced into the body of that barber’s wife. It meant that my wife became alive again. The wife of that barber was a very bad one. As she was a shrew all the nerves in her body were defective. My wife was feeling agitated to reside in that defective body. She was having burning sensation all over her body. She had extreme pain. She was repeatedly requesting to allow her to leave the body. In the village where I lived news spread that, one brahmin by name Nagendra Sastry brought back to life the wife of a barber and he was having illicit contact with her and doing lot of injustice to the barber. Therefore, the caste chiefs of the barber decreed that the above misdeeds must be made known to the brahmins living in the neighbourhood and that I should be banished from my caste, and out of the money earned through mantras and tantras three-fourths of the amount should be given to the barber as compensation and only one-fourth of the amount should be given to me (the Nagendra Sastry). My position was very troublesome. No one was there to listen to me even when I wanted to explain the matter. The dead wife of the barber used to possess some ladies and was telling that she was the dead wife of Sastry and that she was the ghost who left body and that it was the duty of head man of the barber caste to stop the misdeeds of her husband. All of them were excited with rage and threatened to murder me and the barber woman. I sought the refuge of Sri Sreepa

da. Then Sri Sreepada averred, “Simply, because you are the husband, it is not proper to order your wife to enter into the body of the wife of barber. Not only that. You should serve the sufferers with your knowledge of mantra saastra without expecting any reward of remuneration. You should not hanker for money. You should accept whatever they give happily.” I obeyed the commands of Sri Sreepada. Afterwards the soul of my wife left that body. That body was cremated. 

Victory Victory unto Sri Sreepada Sreevallabha!