Divine Experiences
My blog would be incomplete if I do not mention about my daughter's "Aksharabhyasa" i.e the pooja that is done before the kid starts going to a school. This is always performed by the father of the kid. He holds the hand of the baby and makes the child write the first letter. But I had wished something else for my daughter. I always wanted her Aksharabhyasa to be performed by a Yati or a Guru. I had dreamt of this when she was very young, but didn't knew how to go about with the idea. Once when my daughter was 2.5 years old, we had a visit to Udupi. Pejavara paryaya was taking place at that time. My parents requested if we could get the Aksharabhyasa done by Shri Vishveshatheertha Swamiji fondly known as Pejavarashri... To our good luck they agreed. We went to the place where Swamiji was resting after his busy schedule during the Paryaya. The person next to gurugalu asked him to perform Aksharabhyasa to my daughter. ...