Today morning, my wife and I decided to visit the famous Kapaleeswarar temple at Mylapore, Chennai. Enroute, there is an Anjaneya temple. My wife and I had a Darshan at Anjaneya temple. There is an Ambal temple opposite to the Anjaneya temple. While crossing the street, a man who appeared to me as mentally deranged came in front of me. I was attracted to him for some reason. I gave him a 5 rupee coin. He immediately gave me a small Ganesha Idol. The idol which had been worshipped appeared stunning to me and I never expected this. I was a bit frozen and didn’t know what to do, my wife watching all this was equally stunned. I asked her for some money and she had Rs 20 change. I gave it to him and he smiled, a smile I will never forget. As I was entering the Ambal temple, I turned back and he was still smiling at me. My heart just stops even as I write this and I cannot express the feeling I had seeing him with a smile. On returning back after having Ambal Darshan in 5 minutes, I looked around but couldn’t see him. I had to travel further to Kapaleeswarar temple and I didn’t see him anywhere on the way.

Me and my wife are pretty convinced this is not an ordinary incident and I am very happy that I have received the idol from Lord Ganesha himself. For the last 4 months I have been chanting “Vakrathundaya…” sloka around 10 times each day. The Ganesha idol received today is very special. While i don’t want to link my chanting to what happened today but everything happens with a  purpose and reason.

om gam ganapataye namaha