Autobiography of The Avatar - The Surrender of Isakki Swamigal

I remember once, certain naivedyam, temple naivedyam was brought in Tiruvannamalai that always these wandering monks will come. One sadhu from Puri Jagannath brought the Maha Prasadam, that rice. And Kuppammal and Isakki Swami, Yogananda Puri, all three were sitting and that devotee brought and they were sitting in a place called Pancha Mukham in Tiruvannamalai - the hill appears as Mahasadashiva with the five face. The place is called Pancha Mukham. You will see five hillocks beautifully, Sadashiva’s five faces. So they all the three were sitting. I was collecting the small small ... thorn, thorny bush ... wood to burn because it was getting cold. It was evening, getting cold so I thought I’ll collect all the thorny bush and put the fire for them to feel comfortable.

You can see. Yes. (picture of Pancha Mukham being projected on screen) This is the Pancha Mukham, I think the photograph is showing only four. It will be actually five. If the full view is shown, it will be five. Beautifully the Sadyojata, Tatpurusha, Vamadeva, Aghora, Ishana - all the five faces. Mahadeva shows His Pancha Mukham. And … we were not sitting on the foothill, just a little up above. From our ashram, straight you can walk and there is an internal path to this place. So we were sitting, and, I was collecting all the thorny bushes to make fire. One beautiful thing is that, that hill itself is a fire, any old stone of that hill if you get and rub you will get fire, you will get the sparks. You just need to get the old stones of Tiruvannamalai which will not be like a stone colour. It’ll, it will be like a yellowish colour because it was a, the hill was embodiment of fire. So if you pick up those stones and rub them, you will get that sparks, and that’s the way used to make the fire.

And I was collecting one ehh ... devotee brought this Puri Jagannath prasad and put it at their feet, and, the way, way he presented, he was so devote with so much of devotion and love; they decided to eat and they started eating and they asked me also to eat. It was looking very hard! I said, “How can I eat this and digest?” Isakki Swami made a very beautiful statement, “If it is brought in front of you, your stomach is empowered to digest. Eat.” That kind of a surrender and floating on the surrender! Every moment, I think in his whole life he never hit a rock. The so-called what you say “disillusionment tara,” so-called reality. I think throughout his life he lived in ecstasy. Ecstasy of that surrender, where you are taken care, supported, no conflict between inner and outer space. It is very difficult for a common man to grasp that space possible. It was very powerful word. The moment he uttered, it just clicked with me. 04:50

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