MANTRALAYA MAHAKSHETRA

DARSAN TO SIR THOMAS MUNRO

Another! This great miracle is recorded in the government archives. During the British days, foreigner, unable to assimilate the Indian way of life, and its sanctity ordered the resumption of endowment made during the time of the Nawab of Adoni. The temple authority, then prayed for retention of Jagir, as it was the only means helping them to conducting prayer services and feeding the visiting devotees. With a view to examining, Sir Thomas Munro, an official was sent by the company. Being a god-minded man, he entered the precincts removing his shoes and hat. As he stood near the Brindavan, he found a saint emerging from it and explained the position if the jagir were to be resumed, neither prayers, nor feeding would be conducted there onwards. The explanation and presentation of solicitation was too convincing, that Munro immediately quashed the proposal for resumption. He narrated all that went between them to the people gathered there and showed the Akshatas he received from him. The listening people bent down their heads all at once, and praised him for the fortune seeing the Swamiji. This happened in 1916 and the Madras District Gazette embodies this in all details. Thus His Holiness, not only built a grand and sublime edifice, but also retained the Jagir for public benefit living in the holy Brindavan. All these and many more reported, or yet to be reported have become responsible for peoples' unshaken faith in His omni-compassion. And this faith unprecedented is steadily raising the glory of the sublime Brindavan to be on par with centuries-old shrines, for construction of which billions of millions were spent both by mighty rulers and great philanthropists. A visit remains an unforgettable experience, and its memory sends thrills in the spines of the visitors, when it flashes across their minds.

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