Leela of ARUṆAGIRI YOGĪŚVARA
I took food, play items and what not – as Offering to Him!
I still remember very clearly the experience of love in Me during that time. That was the first and I can say in a way the last experience where I experienced love in such a beautiful way towards a person, towards a being. After that, it became a different experience, kind of a radiating and connecting with the whole world. But the kind of love I experienced with him, I used to continuously feel, ‘What can I do for him? What I can give him?’ You just do not know what to do! What way you can please him? What pleases him? What satisfies him? What fulfills him? You just do not know.
Early morning I would get up to go and see him. I would look around all over the house before going to Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara. I would take one dhoti or whatever I got when I looked around. I would carry even food from the house and he would eat it!
One day I took a chalk piece and marked My parents’ portion of the house and went to ask Ragupathi yogi about it. Ragupathi Yogi would do all kinds of weight lifting. He had an amazing yogic body. I actually asked him, “Can you lift this house and bring it and give it to the Sādhu at the temple?” He laughed and asked Me, “Why did you put a mark?” I said, “I should take only My parents’ portion, not anybody else’s.”
One day, I wanted to stitch a shirt for him. I remember I took measurement with a rope to stitch a shirt. He was laughing. Finally, till the end, we were not able to take all the measurements and I was never able to give all the measurements, so it never got materialized.
– HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM
I make padukas – wooden sandals – for Him
I always had the love that I should give him at least one paduka (small holy feet). So in those days it costed nine rupees for me. I myself sat with that carpenter and helped him, assisted him. I cleaned his patrai (workshop) and did all the physical labor, supported him and did a little work along with him and took that paduka and offered at His feet and he blessed it. We still have that paduka!
– HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM
He gifts me a ‘sacred ash’ bag
This is the ‘vibhooti pai’ – sacred ash bag – that was given to Me by Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara. I used to carry it during My days of parivrajaka (spiritual wandering).
– HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM
I can still feel My ‘Third Eye dip’ that He created!
With push and pull, your Third Eye will open. You will literally hear the sound ‘flop’. That is exactly the sound when the Third Eye opens. I still have a dip on My forehead done by Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara, when he actually held My head with one hand in the rear and from the front he just pressed his thumb on My forehead to initiate. The dip is there physically. When I put the vibhuti (holy ash), every time, I can feel the dip!
– HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM