His quest went on for years both within and without but he could draw no conclusion from it. He kept asking himself and every informed person he met queries about birth, death, life and rebirth about the world, its truth and untruth. Sundara Rajan’s habit of closely observing and analyzing the bitter, inevitable experiences of life had moved him towards the spiritual world even in his childhood. His tremendous spiritual charisma that attracts, influences and inspires the millions is nothing but the light of the Lord’s halo that permeates and envelops his whole being. The parents named their son Sundara Rajan, and aptly so! For by cherishing sacred thoughts, hopes and purposes as he grew up he blossomed into a beautiful personality. It was this faith of the mother that later on inspired her son to popularize ‘nama sankeertana’ among the masses, both the lay people and the learned philosophers. She firmly believed that this was the only cause of her son’s advent into the world on the auspicious day coinciding with Gita Jayanthi & Vaikuntha Ekadasi. She, by her maternal instinct perhaps, at once understood that it was the mission of her son to preach the world that ‘nama sankeertana’, or chanting the name of the Lord was the only antidote to the miseries of human life. Ranga… Hari’, that echoed through the quiet, narrow streets of the slumbering hamlet. The blessed mother was enraptured to hear the cry of her son synchronized with and tuned to the hymn of the Haridasa outside, ‘Hare. As though to awaken humanity to its forgotten goal, the newborn baby uttered his first cry at four in the morning. This is the most auspicious and fruitful time of the day for a ‘sadhaka’ or a seeker after God. In our sacred Hindu culture ‘Brahma muhurtam’ or the small hours before dawn, is the time when the Lord of the universe is awakened, or rather, invoked by hymns and prayers. That was the date, time and place which providence chose for the divinely evolved being to embody himself as the glorious flute of the Lord to play the music of divinity to mankind. His Holiness arrived into the world at four in the morning. Sri Perumbuduru is also the birthplace of Sri Ramanujacharyulu. Ranganayakamma, a devout couple of an orthodox Vaishnava family whose forefathers hailed from Sri Perumbuduru of Chengalpat district, Tamilnadu. His Holiness Swami Sundara Chaitanyanandaji is the eighth child of Sri Perumbuduru Seshacharyulu and Smt. Place of Birth: Kattubadipalem village, Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh Government, Freedom Fighters, Justice and Politics.
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