Just wanted to share one of my divine experience during the recently concluded Yateendragiri Venkateswara Brahmotsavam.
After conclusion of Choorna Utsavam, in the evening, perumal was giving "Shukla Vastara Sevai" – ie adorning a pure white vastram (cloth).
Having never seen Perumal (moolavar) in this kolam splendidly displaying his "Sowlabyam (Elimai)" (as contrary to His "Parathvam(Maenmai)") and only with a very few people around that time, I was saying to myself that many of our devotees are missing this sevai and I can't capture with my camera as He is the "Moolavar". ( I will never take any Moolavar photo to prevent the sanctity (pavithram)). Seems Perumal just heard what I was saying to myself.
When He was having His purappadu on "Surya Prabhai" someone touched my shoulders and asked me "takkunu oru photo edungolle"... Didn't look back who it was and why he said so. Just took a snap of the quickly moving Urchavar in His Suryaprabhai Vahanam as is, without changing the camera angle/setting/adjust focussing as the crowd was coming towards me..
After coming home when I looked at the photo, I was stunned !!! The moolavar was perfectly posing for us in the background, in the same white vastaram sevai (which I wanted to capture, but couldn't do so because of moolavar) with both the thayaars joining Him. One can see distinctly His sevai but at the same time He is too far and small to analyse for finer details or blow up as a big picture – perfectly striking a balance between what He wanted to show and still maintaining his Moolavar sanctity.
What the beauty is, even though there were quite a few bhaktaas during that time, everyone was well below His Thiruvadi level and nothing was in between the three Moolavars and the dwajasthambam (where I was standing while taking the photo) obstructing the Moolavar sevais !!
En kangal kanda amudinai, matra adiyaargalum kandu paruguga !!
By,
Ramesh Raghuraman