Venkaiah swamy biography of mahatma

CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE OF SWAMY

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Bhagavan Sri Sri Sri Venkaiah Swamys year of birth is an unsolved mystery. But, responding to His devotees whole-hearted appeals, Gurudeva, the Creator, Himself disclosed through a Srishti Cheeti about His birth. Since the Srishti Karta (Gurudeva, the Trikala Jnani, is well aware of the past, present and future) the Creator, Himself narrates the matter and ensures that the same written on a Cheeti (paper slip), it is called a Srishti Cheeti.

SRISHTI CHEETI

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Conduct of Avadhuta

In this chapter you shall read about life style of Sri Swamy, his dispassion and how closely he follows the principles of Avadhuta.

At the age of 20 he had a title "mad Venkaiah". He was with a worn dhovathi above his knees and a torn shirt on his body, and an earthen pot(muntha) in his hand and a "Y" shaped stick in the other hand. He used to wander in the lonely places. He would run away from the sight of young women like a cow runs away at the sight of tiger. He used to run in the streets crying aloud "Dhobiyogam, Barber yogam, Dubtuck, Dubtuck". He disappeared from his village for a period of 5 yrs. During this period he became a Swamy. After that, for some time he wandered on the banks of the river Pennar near Somasila and Penna Badvel with a torn dhothi on his waist above his knees and a piece of fire lit rope in one hand and muntha and "Y" shaped stick in the other hand. He carried a bundle of old rope bits on his head. He used to wander in the lonely places.

After some time when Chalamanaidu came into his service he put up a hut on the hillock near Penna Badwel. He put an oil lamp in it and Sri Swamy went on playing his Yekatara (single stringed instrument) day and night. Chalamanaidu used to bring him biksha from the near by villages. The farmers from those villages approached Sri Swamy for the relief of their diseases and also the diseases of the cattle. By Swamyji's blessings and the sacred thread and Udhi given by Sri Swamyji, they were relieved of all such suffereings. He used to tell the people the ways of getting out of their troubles and solving their problems, and the method of relief to their unuttered problems(prasnas) also. But the method was very peculiar. If we approach Sri Swamy while seeking alliance to our children, Sri Swamy asks to keep a stone for each alliance. If we keep three or four stones in a row, he will tell us the third stone from the right side is good and you can decide." At times all of them may

AVADHUTHA SRI VENKAIAH SWAMY: ORIGIN BY BHAGAVAN SRI BHARADWAJA.

Long time back, Sri Venkaiah Swamy was born to pious couple Penchalayya and Pichamma in a village Nagavellaturu, Ravuru taluk  in Nellore district.  

Little is known about his childhood. As a kid, he is lover of loneliness, so used to meditate in shrubs,staying away from crowd . He never had any community restrictions, so used to eat at anyone’s house. People called him mad Venkaiah, as he would wander shouting malolla lokam, jangam lokam, yanadi lokam, dubukku dubukku.

  He did penance with his  head downwards and his legs twisted around the beam of the well called Kapila. Sri Sai met his Guru in a forest who gave him similar sadhana(spiritual practice).        

  Like this, Sri Swamy stayed at one village for some time and  then went to so many villages like Kotitirtham, pennabadwelu, Golagamudi, Talupuru, Kalichedu and saved  so many devotees.

  Sri Swamy had a strange attire. Continuous exposure to sacred Dhuni, made his skin complexion like a burnt copper vessel. Sri Swamy used to wear fibre cord around the waist, He had jute sacks or old clothes, date leaves mat, some old clothes, blanket, two pillows ,Ekatara (Stringed music instrument made of gourd), an eating vessel (hollowed out of Palmyra Stump) .This simplicity and his strange acts reminds us Sri Sai.

Sri Swamy used to wander at night times with  a fire torch (thick rope lit at the end).

He would write in cryptic language using words like crores,maunds, hood of snake etc on small papers, put His thumb impression on small papers, and sometimes give woollen threads to devotees ,who came for His darshan. When there were serious diseases like cholera, or diseases in cattle ,Sri Swamy would give incense to the devotees. Sri Swamy never cherished on the taste of food and would eat mixing sweet and spicy food. He never went to an