Sreepada Sreevallabha Charitaamrutam - 50

Chapter –50 

 Relief from poverty and other curses caused by abusing gurus. 

 The efficacy of chanting of Naama 

 Once Sri Sreepada Sreevallabha said to me, “Shankar Bhatt! After our agni yagna;vaayu yagna is important. I am going to start vaayu yagna also.” I do not know what was vaayu yagna. An old brahmin came to Kurungadda with stomach colic. He was suffering greatly. He said that it would be better to die by committing suicide than to endure that pain.Then Sri Sreepada said, “In your previous birth you hurt many with your wordy shafts. You injured others with your sharp and repulsive words. As a result you have this unfortunate disease.In kali yuga there is no greater cure to remove sins in speech than remembering the name of God.By this all the vaayu mandala(airy region) will be purified. I am making a beginning in this regard by starting a grand yagna called naama smarana(remembering and chanting the name of God with devotion). I am going to control in yogic level ‘paraa, pasyanti, madhyama and vaikhari’ groups of words.Whoever it may be, if he sincerely chants My name Sreepada Vallabha Digambaraa! Datta Digambaraa! ’ I will be easily accessible and bring all auspicious developments.” The name ‘Sreepada Sreevallabha Digambara’ was continuously chanted for three nights and three days as directed by Sree Charan. Sri Sreepada gave permission to stay in Kurungadda during night in those three days. The belly colic of the old brahmin was cured. Sri Sreepada said like this,“The entire ethereal region is filled today with the rubbish of verbiage wrongly used. When a person utters a word, he provokes one of the three attributes–sattwa, rajo and tamo gunas(sobriety, vigour and inertia attributes), or two attributes or three attributes. As those provoked attributes do not help for good, they exert malefic influence on earth, air, fire, water and sky. As these five elements are polluted everything is polluted and the mind, body and innerself of men are getting polluted. Thereby men are becoming sinful. Through it he becomes poor. On account of poverty he is again committing sins. As he involved in sinful acts, his mind becomes vile and he is unable to undertake virtuous deeds like giving donations etc. From that he is again condemned to poverty. Need for purity of thought, speech and action If man wants to get rid of the pangs of poverty, or get released from sinful acts, he must have purity of mind, speech and body. This is called trikarana suddhi . Whatever is thought in mind should only come in the speech and whatever is conveyed in speech should be found in action. A person who attains trikarana suddhi becomes a great person. If there is variation between thought, speech and action, it is the absence of trikarana suddhi. Then he becomes a bad person. There are many ways in this kali yuga to get salvation. Among them chanting of name is the most easy one. When the sacred name dances on the tongue a habit of speaking sacred words develops. When reciting the name, if mind is concentrated on God, mind also is sanctified. By that, encouragement to perform pious deeds is obtained.Release from karma.Once a tuberculosis patient came to Kuruvapuram. He was having sugar complaint also. He had some more ailments also. On seeing him the Supreme Lord was very angry and said, “This person was a dacoit in the previous birth. He robbed money of many innocent people and subjected them to hardships. He stole the money from a person who saved money for the marriage of his daughter. As the money was lost the father could not perform the marriage of his daughter. He was banished from his caste because he could not perform the marriage of his daughter in time. As he could not offer dowry suitable alliances were not forth coming. Only aged bridegrooms were available. Then that girl committed suicide and lost life. A life which should have run for full hundred years turned into ashes.” That tuberculosis patient sought refuge of Sree Charan with utmost wretched wails. The compassionate Sree Charan asked him to be laid to sleep in the cowshed of the durbar in Panchadev Pahaad. A lot of menace from mosquitoes was there. Gurudev ordered that drinking water also should not be given to him.That person had a dream in which ghosts were killing him by strangling his throat. In another dream a big boulder was placed on his chest. A burly wrestler was sitting on that rock. With these two dreams his karma-phala(fruits of action) fructified and he became healthy. Sri Sreepada redeemed the karma of that sufferer of T.B. by making him experience mentally in this manner that bad karma from which he would have otherwise suffered physically for many years. Victory Victory unto Sri Sreepada Sreevallabha!