Siva’s mount Kailas in Kopay
Today we received wonderful news from Kopay Kottam in Sri Lanka. This is the place where Gurudeva established the Shanthi Lingam back in the 80s and where the two Innersearches visited in 2018 and 2019. Here is the letter from Thondunathan that tells the tale.
Greetings:
A few months ago, I received a phone call from a lady in the United States who told me that she obtained my phone number from my friend who is a Buddhist monk. She introduced herself as a Sinhalese Buddhist originally from Sri Lanka and now living in the USA. Recently, she had a dream in which she saw a meditating Siva sitting next to a waterfall. She now had this desire to install a Siva statue in the hill country of Sri Lanka and she asked my help to find a Sthapati who can create the statue for her out of cement.
I approached Purushothaman Sthapati who is a well-known sthapati from India and has been building temples in Sri Lanka for the past 15 years. He agreed to create the statue, and within two weeks he made a beautiful, 6-foot tall statue. Because of the COVID-19 lockdown, we couldn't transport the statue right away to the hill country, so Sthapati brought it to our Sri Subramuniya Kottam for temporary housing. We sent pictures to the lady from USA who had ordered the statue.
A month ago, I received a phone call from her telling me that she now feels that the Siva statue should remain gracefully in our Sri Subramuniya Kottam and this is a gift from her to the Kottam. Everyone, especially our Kottam boys, are overjoyed with this generous gift.
We decided to build a rock mountain (Kailas) on which to place the Siva statue. During the mountain construction, Sthapati suggested that traditionally, when you build a meditative Siva statue, you also install four meditating sages in front of the Siva statue.
I suggested that instead of making the four sages, we could make statues of four of the gurus in our lineage--Kadaitswami, Chellappaswami, Yogaswami and Gurudeva--and place them in front of Siva.
Sthapati and his team successfully completed building the rock mountain and the statues, on July 24th, the auspicious Guru Purnima Day. We ceremoniously installed the statues on the rock mountain.
We never planned to have a Rock Mountain and Siva statue at our Kottam. Truly, it feels like this was Siva's will.
May God Siva and the Kailasa Paramparai Gurus grace flow through Siva's Mount Kailas in Kopay.
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July 28th, 2021 at 6:53 pm
Wonderful!
Such a great blessing indeed.
AUM SIVAYA
July 29th, 2021 at 4:24 am
“AUM NAMA SIVAYA”!.
July 29th, 2021 at 5:35 am
Wonderful story! … Beautiful artifact(s)! … The Grace of all the Gurus!
July 29th, 2021 at 4:04 pm
Aum Sivaya – what a lovely gift and story.
July 29th, 2021 at 8:04 pm
AUM SIVAYA
Beautiful uplifting story
July 30th, 2021 at 1:29 am
Jai Paramparai! Four murthi Satgurus and, lucky for us, one in an easily accessible body of flesh.
August 2nd, 2021 at 4:21 am
A beautiful MOUNT KAILASH in Kopai. Thank you for your hard work. Blessings from our Guru paramparai will be with you & guiding you
August 3rd, 2021 at 4:25 am
Great and good news! One and all can now see and pray the Kailasa paramparai.
Mahalo for the donor and thoughtful accomplishment by Rishi and Kottam youth.
August 6th, 2021 at 9:10 am
Jai Jai Shree Maha Ganesh
Amazing story! Thanks to the donor and Rishi for this great accomplishment. Siva’s Mount Kailas in Kopay melts my heart and the choice of four Gurus by Rishi is wonderful indeed.
Aum Namasivaya
February 2nd, 2022 at 3:28 am
Rishi Thondunatha ! Aum.