Melpathur's transformation

Then, somewhere in beginning of day, just he could close the eyes, then Lord Krishna's soft voice heard,"why what happened Bhattathiri, can't sleep or what?  He started crying after he heard the voice, and started search for Lord,. and in desperate voice, he pleaded " Please help me Lord, i cannot move, and sleep due the pain, help me to continue compose the Narayaneeyam".  Lord replied, " How can I help you, since you have hurt my best devotee Poonthanam, I am helpless.   He is also not slept due to mental agony, for which you must go and apologize. Then, may be you can come out of your trauma."



The Bhattathiri regret for what happend, and with great difficult got up from his bed. Hurriedly done morning rituals, ran to the temple where Poonthanam sat. He asked for Poonthanam's apology for what he had done the previous day and helped him to compose the "Jnanapana".  Jnanapana went on to become more popular later on.

Then Bhattathiri recovered from the pain.
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Poonthanam Namboodiri become a poet

After reading and explaining the Bhagavatham for so long, he got blessings from godess Saraswathi and Ganesh that he started compose poems and tuned it himself and sung in front of the Bhagavatham Audience.  They also enjoyed as those were in simple language, and started learn and sing the same.  This made other Sanskrit Pandits annoy, and they started ignore him.  One day, he completed one book (those days they wrote in the Coconut leaves!) and wanted to correct it from one of his favourite sanskrit Pandit and poet Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri.

But being a jealous Bhattathiri did not want to help him and and instead he said he don't have time to see the "regional language poem" , which made Poonthanam hurt.   He went with a down face, because his ego got hurt as he said publicly.

That night Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri could not sleep, he reumatic pain came back with double force, and it was intolerable.  He came to Guruvayur for  a bhajan  to cure this by doing bhajan.  It was being under control after a few days of Bhajan and in gesture of gratitude, he was working on Bhagavatham's short form called " Narayaneeyam".

Then happened this episode of Poonthanam's request for correction and rest of the story....

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Poonthanam Namboodiri

The Poonthanam Namboodiri got married very late when compare with his fellow folk. The couple waited for a long period to get blessed with a baby. At last, the Antharjanam (wife of Namboodiri) gave birth to a baby boy. This made the whole village happy. Poonthanam Namboodiri being a devotee of Guruvayurappan, used to pray that when he gets a baby, he can give the lord’s name to his baby.


They invited all their relatives to the naming ceremony. The house is full of relatives, Namboodiri’s wife fed the baby full and made him sleep in the corner of the room and busy with the guests . Due to non availability of light in the room, whoever comes in, left their *angavastram in the same corner. After sometime, every one searching for the baby, found that he died of suffocation in the corner.

After the tragedy, Poonthanam become more and more devotee of his lord, Guruvayurappan. He thought when lord himself is playing in my mind, why should I need a baby! Thus he consoled himself and started giving **Sri Bhagavatham lectures in and around the village temples. People used to gather in huge numbers to hear his lecture because he used to explain Sri Bhagavatham in a simple language so that everybody can understand.



*in olden days, ladies of upper caste use to wear one Shawl that cover their chest is called the angavastra.

** The holy book of the Hindu

Guruvayurappan stories

I want to say something about lord krishna Temple, Guruvayur in Kerala. This temple is in Thrissur District,Kerala State, is attracting the attention of millions of people every year.




In Ithihya Mahathmyam.. it is mentioned that the krishna Idol was worshipped by Devaki Devi in Dwapara yuga, washed away when the Pralaya happend subsequently, and recovered in Kali yuga by Guru Bruhaspathi. He done the "Prathishta" with the help of Vayu deva in the place where we found him today... Thus got the name Guruvayur.



Here we can found him in Bala kishora bhavam. So here millions of people will offer small cradles to get a baby boy. Everyones wishes comes true, when they offer it with a clear heart.









There are many stories relates to this. One among is Poonthanam Nambudiri's story.



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