Mahapurusha darsanam

I started on my fourth trip to Sringeri on June 13, 2009. (First trip was in 2005; next in December 2006; next in December 2008.)

I was accompanying my father, elder brother (second eldest) & family (incl. sister-in-law, nephew and niece. Another nephew is in Mumbai, he didn't come.)

Nothing sacred about the trip being 4th or 44th. Other aspects of the trip are definitely interesting and uplifting.

This is the first time I was taking my daughter along with me - while my wife stayed back at home in Bangalore. Though she is over 3.5 years old I never took her out of station without her mother. I was a little excited about it.

We were going on a suddenly planned trip (I decided to accompany them just few hours before the journey.) My nephew is going for higher - truly higher - studies in Sringeri. We were going to drop him, have holy darshan-s and return. As it was night journey I did not drive all the way to Sringeri.

It was a fairly dry day and a heavily wet evening/night. We drove to the bus stand in deep waters and potholed roads; visibility dropped dangerously with heavy rain and power cut.

There was no rain at Sringeri - unnatural, as this season is supposedly rainy.
We had good darSanam of VidyaSankara, Sarada ammavaru, and Mahasannidhanam. Mahasannidhanam were particularly beaming and jovial. He spoke with my father and remembered happenings as old as those of 1960-61.

Mahati enjoyed the trip thoroughly. She was never fussy, didn't bother me with anything except that she did not drink "white" milk; she wanted only 'pink' milk (milk with complan.)

It was a dream-like trip.