Anyone who had read the life story of Guru Raghavendra Swamy, would ask why Guru had choosed Manchale ( Now called Mantralayam ) as a place to attain Brindavan and live their for next 700 years. Why this place is so special.
This question comes to everyone's mind because, Guru Raghavendra Swamy born in Bhuvanagiri, Tamilnadu ( as history says ), stayed in Kanchi ( again Tamilnadu ), got his education in Vidya Mutt at Kumbakonnam ( in Tamilnadu ) and obtained Sanyasa at Tanjore ( in Tamilnadu ).
The answer to all these questions are 'YES, there is an importance for selecting Manchale as a place for Bridavan prevesham'. As everyone who travelled to Mantralayam knows that this place is very rocky even today and can imagine how it would have been 300 years back.
Manchale ( Mantralayam ) is a very special place and it holds great history and holiness in it.
Our Guru has selected this place for this very own reason.
In those days, Manchale was under the control of Nawab of Adoni Siddi Masud Khan and governed by Diwan Venkanna ( I will share another post about Venkanna ). Venkanna returned his favor to our Guru Raghavendra Swamy by providing the place Manchale to our Guru.
One day, while going with our Guru Raghavendra Swamy, Diwan Venkanna asked our Guru " Dear Guru, there were so many holy places that you visited during your travel and what is so special of Manchale. You could have asked several places even in my limit which are Green and wealthy where as Manchale has only rocks ? ".
For this question, our Guru did not reply right away, instead Guru took Venkanna along with him to a place and requested him to plough a particular place. Venkanna was bit confused but he just obeyed the order of our Guru. After digging few mins, by his suprise, he found a "Homakunda". ( This is exactly the same place where our Guru's lives for 700 years )
"Dear Diwan Venkanna, Manchale is a very holy place and that is the reason I picked this place for my Brindavan pravesham. This homakunda has long history. During krithya yuga, in my earlier birth as Prahalad, I had done several homas in this very holy place and "Manchallamma" was our Kula Devatha."
"The powerful vedas and mantras were recited at this very holy place which makes it very special".
" Dear Diwan Venkanna, Even before I requested this place to you, I prayed to my Kula Devatha "Manchallamma" to grant me a permission to make a brindavan prevesham in this place and "Manchallamma" happily agreed to it. Hence Diwan Venkanna, who ever comes to visit my Brindavan should definitely visit Manchallamma first before seeing me" ( This is still in practice today )
" Not only that, During Dwapara Yuga, Anusalva and Arjuna were fighting during the Aswamedha Yagam.
Arjuna could not defeat Anusalva as his chariot was on the Homakunda. On seeing this Lord Sri Krishna made Arjuna to move a little backward when Anusalva's chariot too left the point and
become vulnerable and Arjuna defeated him. Such was the importance of the place."
"This is also the same place where Lord Rama took a rest while in search of Sita Devi "
Diwan Venkanna was so happy to hear the importance of Manchale ( Mantralayam ) and also to hear about the previous birth of our Guru Raghavendra Swamy. He was also sad since he came to know that Guru Raghavendra Swamy is going to do a Brindavan Prevesham shortly.
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