Great Devotees of Lord Siva 70

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Om Namah Sivaya Satguru Kadaitswami Kadaitswami was a judge in the Bangalore area of India before he renounced the world, and was ordained by the Rishi from the Himalayas and sent to Sri Lanka where he performed tapas. Then he performed many miracles and spread the message of Saivism to a community that was under a lot of pressure from the Christian influences of the colonial powers that held Sri Lanka in their grip at that time. One afternoon sometime in the mid-1800s a white-haired man happened into a tea shop near Bangalore in West-Central India. He was a stranger, probably from the Himalayan crown of India. He sat at a

wooden table and took his tea. When the time came for the shop to close, the owner found the man had entered a state of contemplation so complete that he could not be aroused. Besides, it is considered improper to disturb a meditator. So he was left alone. Opening the shop early the next day, the shopkeeper discovered the yogi seated in perfect stillness, filling the room with a palpable sanctity. He did not move from that spot for seven years, nor did he speak. The shop closed. Villagers turned it into a shrine frequented by the crowds who wanted darshana, or "sight," of this remarkable being. Many came with problems, the kind people everywhere have--a new job, grandmother's health, daughter's marriage. To their amazement, answers always came. Sometimes in dreams. Sometimes a piece of paper would materialize in the air above the saint and float gently to the ground. On it would be

written exactly what they needed. One day, as suddenly as he had come, the rishi emerged from his divine state, got up and left the shop, never to return. He was the first modern-day satguru in Kailasa Parampara lineage and is known as the "Rishi from the Himalayas." A few years later, farther south , a high court judge sat at the end of a trial, faced with the duty to pass a sentence of death on a convicted murderer. The man was guilty, but the judge refused to fatally condemn a fellow human being. Instead, he left the bench, quit the law and renounced the world. He became a wandering monk. In time he met the Rishi and was initiated into the inner teachings. Eventually he settled in Sri Lanka's port city of Jaffna. It was around 1860. He had no home, no ashrama or yoga school. He could be found walking in the marketplace, speaking of man's oneness with God Siva and

taking his meals with common folks. The people called him Kadaitswami, the "Marketplace Swami." One day Kadaitswami was invited for lunch at the home of a devout but poor family. With little food in the house and not wanting to offend a great soul, the wife did the unthinkable--she sold her cherished gold wedding necklace to buy provisions. When the meal was finished, the swami asked her to bring a piece of iron. A rusty old rod was found. Kadaitswami took it aside, spat on it and handed it back. It had turned to gold! Today this is a wealthy coconut oil family, though it is said they never sold the golden rod. Kadaitswami was a dynamic Satguru who revived Saivism in Catholic-dominated Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in the

1800s. Kadaitswami was a powerful siddha, standing two meters tall, whose fiery marketplace talks converted thousands back to Saivism. Sivaya

Namah

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