TIRUVANANTHAPURAM

But one day-a fortunate day for the world, as it were, the child taking the sacred saligramam put into his mouth and started, babbling and stammering loudly. Seeing him desecrating the sacred object, the sage lost his temper and chastised him mildly. Taking the mild scolding for wild lashing, he ran away saying, "You broke the promise. So I cannot remain with you. If you want to see me, you can come to Anantakadu". 

Realizing the folly, and unable to bear the separation, this disconsolate sage went in search of that Ananthakadu. For days and nights sans food and water, the penitent Muni searched and searched. At long last, he neared the sea shore and found his darling boy beside a big free. In his ecstatic rapture, he ran to grab that gold mine. Alas! the child vanished into the tree. No sooner did he reach it, than the tree fell down and assumed the shape of recumbent Mahavishnu. 

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