Karpaga tree

Karpaga tree and God

Story told by Bhagwan Sri Ramakrishna

A gipsy who roams around place to place, on a day of scorching sun and in a forest, feeling exhausted, wanted to rest for some time. He found a tree nearby and sat under it. The cool air under the tree made him feel good and he thought how it will be, if only, he could get a mat or a bed. Even before the thought disappeared from his mind, he could find a good light bed. Quite surprised and not knowing how it came, he wanted to take rest and thus slept on the bed. He does not know that he is resting under a Karpaga tree which gives anything asked for. Now he started thinking how it would be, if two young girls were present to massage his tired legs. Thus immediately appeared two young girls and he saw that they were massaging his legs and he felt the pain in his legs were reducing and he started feeling better. In such a situation, where would he have time to think, how it was all happening? Now he felt hungry and started thinking when bed and the girls appeared when he thought, definitely the best food also would come. Yes, he was right and the best food appeared with items of all the kinds of tastes. Even now, he did not think about what made all these to appear before him? Having eaten well, he rested in the bed and he started to think, whatever he wanted have all come before him.

Panguni Uthiram - Karpaga Vriksha vaganam

 Now he felt a fear in his mind that what would happen, if a tiger appeared before him being a forest? Even as he was thinking, a giant tiger came before him and killed him. Generally, all people behave like the gypsy only with full of desires in their minds and always wanting to have wealth and power. God like the Karpaga Tree is always there to give you what you want! Peoples mind always is worried about the arrival of the tiger, that is, ill health, poverty, death and what not. These fears are more dangerous than the giant tiger itself, as they will kill you on every day of your life, days without end and ultimately will wreck your peace of mind.

Hence, every individual will have to follow the code of conducts suggested in the Vedas, do Prayers and japa regularly to purify the mind. This will slowly bring one to a level of going away from desires, which is the basic requirement to lead a fearless life.

JINNARU NANNAGURU

JINNURU NANNAGURU

Born to Bhupatiraju Suryanarayana Raju and Rajayamma at Jinnuru village in West Godavari district in 1934, he studied up to SSLC. Right from his childhood, social work was his first love. When he was in elementary school, he started the mid-day meal scheme with voluntary donations collected from the villagers for the benefit of poor students. He also helped sick people.  Bhupathiraju Venkata Lakshmi Narasimha Raju, popularly known as Jinnuru Nannagaru, has taken upon himself the task of taking people to a `sorrowless' and `tension-free' state. 

In his own words -

"In 1957, the saint of Tiruvannamalai, Ramana Maharshi, appeared in my dream. He took me into his arms and kissed my hand. At that time I did not know who that old man was. Six weeks after that incident, I was reading THE HINDU. There was a small advertisement in the inside page about Ramana Maharshi. As I was reading it, I felt as though current was passing through my body. The address of the Ramana Ashram was given in the advertisement and readers were asked to read about the life of the saint through the literature published by the ashram. I immediately wrote a letter and got the literature from Tiruvannamalai. I was attracted by his teachings and decided to follow them." Ramana Maharshi attained `samadhi' in 1950. In 1959, Nannagaru visited Tiruvannamalai and from then onwards started observing his guru's jayanthi every year. Later, he started touring different districts in Andhra Pradesh and spreading the message of his guru. During 1984-85, Nannagaru built a Ramana Kshetram at Jinnuru. He also constructed three ashrams at Tiruvannamalai for the benefit of devotees visiting the Ramana Ashram. His devotees started affectionately calling him `Nannagaru', meaning father and started a trust in his name.  The present day society is only concerned about how much wealth a person has and not how he had earned it. People are now concentrating only on `artha' and `kama' leaving the other two-- `dharma' and `moksha'.  "All men want happiness, which is in one's spiritual heart. Instead of looking for it within oneself, they start searching for it elsewhere. When one is in the working state (awake), he/she is not happy and when in deep sleep, they are happy but unaware of it. Realisation is simultaneously experiencing both happiness and awareness", says Nannagaru recalling the words of his guru. 

Self Realisation key to happiness.      More details in http://www.srinannagaru.com/snrb.php 


The following video on Arunachala Siva is taken from youtube.

Namasankeertanam connected to earlier one

This one precedes the video giving in the intial post