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srImathE rAmAnujAya namaha:
 
Continuing on Jyoteeshkudi:
                                             After taking darshan of perumAL and AchAryan, adiyEn decided to explore the place. The locals told that the place where the "munivar" resides is a found on the hill, a little higher some 50 feet walk from the temple (on its back side). So walked along the rough stairs (made out of the rocks) and reached the place. This place is higher and gives a nice view of the temple/pushkarini (except for hindrances of the trees). Much to adiyEn's shock, the place where the "munivar" resides was adorned with vibhuti/kumkum and some strange stones (shape of lingam) were kept there. adiyEn suspect that this place is the place where they could have done samskara of our AchAryan. However, this has to be confirmed by scholars. But the present day locals call our AchAryan as a great "munivar". Anyway, the details about this place is to be confirmed by scholars.
 
There is a nice pushkarini just opposite the sannidhi. Our AchAryan is protecting ("rakshitthu kondu irukkirar) this pushkarini so nicely, that there are hundreds of lotuses in that pushkarini. An awesome sight. Leaving the spiritual high and inner peace jyoteeshkudi gives, one must visit the place just to have a look at the great natural beauty of the place. Am out of words. adiyEn got the idea of taking a few flowers from the pushkarini to the Lordships of tirumAlirunsOlai and tirukkoodal which adiyEn was to visit later in the evening. So paid my obeisances to the pushkarini and kept my foot in the water. Leg went deep inside the water to a dept of around 1 to 2 feet. Just could not move the leg, leave alone moving forward. The place is full of slushy mud and its not possible to take the lotuses that easily. So gave up on this idea.
 
Later went to explore the well that the priest was talking about. Took water from that well and drank it. God, never have I drunk such sweet water in my life. The closest in sweetness is the water in tirukkurungudi (falls near "malai mEl nambi" sannidhi). The water was divine, pristine, uncorrupted by so-called civilization. It is surely god's gift. Took that water in the vessel (sombu) adiyEn had taken for nithya karmas and had Lunch. Then did a few pradakshinams of AchAryan sannidhi and the pushkarini (exploring if there is any nearest lotus that can be plucked easily - no way!). Then chanted upadesa ratina malai. After that, left the place after taking the pics. The pics are already online in pbase for you all to enjoy:
 
http://www.pbase.com/svami/thiruvarasujyothishkudi
 
Request all of you to take some time from your busy life and spend some time with our AchAryan. You can feel his presence there. It looks like such a dry area. But the place near our AchAryan's tiruvarasu is full of water and lush green plants and lotuses. Awesome!
This temple is to be renovated and it needs support. This service is done by Tirumogur Lakshmi narasimhan Aptan group. adiyEn will try to get the exact address to which contributions can be sent and let everyone know!
 
(CONCLUDED)
 
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