ATA Eyewitness Sundari Ammal
Title
Sundari Ammal Does the Aksharabhyasam Ritual for The Avatar
Associated Year in the Life of SPH
1982
Summary
C.P Sundari was the head of the Ganesh Nursery School when Raju Mudaliar registered for the admittance of the young incarnation in 1981, a year before usual admissible age.
Upon beginning His one year in the Ganesh Nursery School, it was C.P Sundari who was blessed to perform the traditional ritual of aksharabhyasam for The Avatar. In this ritual, C.P Sundari seated His Divine Holiness in her lap in front of a silver plate of rice. On the smoothened surface of the rice, His Divine Holiness allowed the headmistress of the school to hold His small hand and write out the letters, “Om Namah Shivaya” in Tamil. Thus, for Paramashiva Himself, who has explained in detail the energy, color and deity of each akshara in the sacred Text Kamika Agama, C.P Sundari became the blessed individual to have performed this sacred ritualistic initiation into the world of letter.
Photos
These rare photographs are among the earliest recorded events after the physical manifestation of the Supreme Consciousness, The Avatar, happened on the Planet. They were arranged to be taken atop the terrace of the house of Raju Mudaliar, who is the maternal grandfather of SPH, in Kanni Kovil street in Tiruvannamalai, the birthplace of SPH. In this photograph, along with the Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism are His biological parents, Ma Lokanayaki and Sri Arunachalam. These photographs were arranged to be taken when The Avatar was around the age of two, as He had quickly become the adored doe-eyed new-born incarnation for His gurus and the whole of Tiruvannamalai