User:Kondaiyanantha Swamigal

Born in Virinchipuram to Chandramouli and Meenakshiammal a devout couple from the family of Sri Vidhya Upasakas in the year 1861. Sathguru Sri Kondaiyanantha Swamigal was the gift of Goddess "Maragathambigai."

At the Age of three in their way to worship Margabandheeswarar temple in virinchipuram the little boy runs up to a poultry and kept kumkum on the Egg. Then he said "everything will go fine" to that poultry Housekeeper Kalidasan. He was well known to Chandramouli and Meenakshiammal. His wife was suffering due to Paralatic attack for the few years. Kalidasan carried the egg to his home on which the little boy kept kumkum and kept in the Shelf. Suddenly the egg felt down and the kumkum over the Egg spreaded over the body of Kalidasan's wife. At that moment itself she was free from Paralytic problem and had complete movement on her hand and legs. Kalidasan and his wife rushed to see that little boy and his parents Chandramouli and Meenakshiammal. They expressed the miracle happened to them infront of everyone. "Deiva Kuzhandai" said the man as he prostrated before the child the next day.

Re-occurence with such incidents the young boy grew into the young sage of supreme and infinite realisation, disappearing from house when his relatives forced him to do the family duties, showing again the greatness of his spiritual powers. He journeyed to Tiruvannamalai where he remained for 46 years until his Maha Samadhi. Guru, Advisor, Wellwisher and master to thousands of devotees and disciples who made their way to him in pain only to find support in his presence.

A Guru of Self realisation and illumination, the Sathguru lived a life with God. He felt that his blessing be made to his heartfelt disciples. He is a Compassionate Guru. He remains available and accesible to the sincere hunter a sanctuary of tranquility in the barren region of human existance.

Sri Vidhya-Supreme Tradition:

Sri Vidhya is the knowledge of Sri, the Goddess, the Knowledge that mattered or the real acquaintance, that leads to deliverance, or the path or teaching that lead to the ultimate Truth. This convoluted tradition guides the contender through the adoration of several Gods and Goddesses to the central point which represents the Mother Goddess. The Sri Chakram or, in its eminent form the Maha Meru, is envoy of this succession.

In the Sri Vidya practice, the Sri Chakra is the yantra (illustrative symbol) for worship. When the Sri Chakra is elevated the Meru is formed. The Maha Meru is identical in structure to the Sri Chakra. If the Meru is viewed from the top or is dense it takes the profile of the Sri Chakra. The structure of the Sri Chakra is intricate. The Sri Chakra is made up a of sequence of nine triangles around the central point or Bindu. In the Sri Chakra, the journey is from the outer Bhupura to the central Bindu, the path investigative of ones own journey to the eventual God head, step by step. This form of ritualistic devotion is called the Navavarana Pooja, Aavarana meaning mask. In reality the process resembles the removal of the mask of ignorance stage by stage until the devotee merges with the Bindu or the ultimate Mother. Each level or Aavarana is committed to a certain deity and offering worship, the contender is eminent to the next plane. Each stage or Chakra has its own presiding deities and Mudras.

The voyage of the contender from the external Bhupura to the internal Bindu is recognized with the wakening of elemental energy in man, the intensifying of the Kundalini in the Mooladhara and its voyage to convene the Brahman in the Sahasradala Padmam in mysterious union. The Sri Vidya worship of the Sri Chakra or the Maha Meru, the Navavarana Pooja in its premier form turns the body itself into the Sripuram, the house of the goddess and the rituals, into the voyage of self-realization or illumination. The upasakar transforms his body into the consign of worship, burns it in the sacrificial fire and reclaims it by the refinement of Shiva and Shakti. The upasakar, in wisdom, imagines him as a female form, submitting devotion to the Divine Goddess. The path traced by the vigor from the Mooladhara to its point of union is indistinguishable to the evolution through the pooja, from the external charkas of the Sri Chakra to the internal triangle and then to the center point, the Bindu, the Goddess Ambika with her consort Parameswaran. The Sri Vidya ritual to which Vedachala Maharishi belonged was handed down to the Sathguru (Para Para Guru) and from him to Vilakshanananda Natha Swamigal (Parameshti Guru). Sri Seetharama Iyer (Paramaguru) his follower handed down the tradition to Shri Kumaraswamy (Guru) and from him to his son Shri Kannan Kumaraswamy. The guru paramparai was thus uninterrupted.

And thus the Sri Vidhya Peeta Brindavanam is evolving, the only temple in the Sri Vidya practice with Sathguru Sri Kondaiyanantha Swamigal as the Para Para Guru, the practice enduring through his direct follower. The Sri Vidhya Peeta Brindavanam is going to have as its central point the eventual Goddess in her form as the Maha Meru in lieu of man's gradient to the Supreme God head. Beneath the Meru is the Sri Chakra. The eight siddhis are present in the Meru, the expression of the extraterrestrial power. Neighboring the Goddess is the Thithi Nithya Devi’s of illumination, who are close to Parapattarika who helps in exultation of  the senses to fuse in the ultimate Truth. A superficial corporal expression of values the world desires to understand, a values that goes ahead of the holy to spiritual realms, available to every true follower and contender.

Sathguru Brindavanam