Icons of worship🔗

Paramahamsa ardently worshipped deities as live symbols of Existence. These above 5 deities, he carried with him everywhere he went and worshipped them.

Seen here are puja items, and parts of deity forms. Paramahamsa built deities with wet earth and these parts of deities. He decorated and worshipped them with great fervour and adoration.

Paramahamsa would offer food to this Ganesha deity everyday. He would plead and sometimes threaten the deity to eat the served food. One day, he heard a story from Indian mythology, of a young boy who offered food to a deity that actually ate it. Determined to make his Ganesha eat too, Paramahamsa resolved not to threaten him anymore, but simply abstain from eating himself until his Ganesha ate the food that was served.

At the end of the third day of keeping his resolve, the served food disappeared! Overjoyed with tremendous gratitude, tears streamed down his cheeks. He felt the power of devotion and faith with a strong conviction.

The Ganesha deity that ate the food served to it (part of the archives in the Bangalore ashram today)

At the age of 12, while at the altar of Goddess Parvati at the Arunachaleshwara temple one day, Paramahamsa suddenly had a vision of a golden colored figure. The figure made such an impression on him that he felt impelled to draw it immediately. He got himself a copper sheet and a nail and started etching it from memory.

Sri Chakra

It was the sacred Sri Chakra believed to be a representation of the Cosmos. When asked how he managed to carve with such ease, the complex diagram that baffles even skilled artists today, he explained, 'It is just nine triangles placed at different angles to each other. Once you understand the concept it becomes easy!'

IT'S HERE! Paramahamsa locates the exact rock upon which he had his first spiritual experience (satori) at the age of twelve.

Place: Pavalakkundru, Tiruvannamalai