Srirangam Madapalli Fame Lakshmi Narasimhan enters Sainthood

Just under three years after he gave up a high paying job in a MNC and took up service at the Madapalli at the Ranganathaswamy temple in Srirangam, Lakshmi Narasimhan, in his 40s, has given up family life and taken up Sainthood. He will now be referred to as Dhanurudhasa Ramanuja Jeer.

This section had in July 2018 written about his transformational services at the Srirangam Madapalli (https://prtraveller.blogspot.com/2018/07/srirangam-madapalli-transformation.html). However, his stint at the madapalli was shortlived with constant detractors making it difficult for him to pursue the large scale transformation that he was attempting at the madapalli. Following the death of the Jeer of the Ranganathaswamy temple, Lakshmi Narasimhan had indicated his interest for that post and was willing to quickly learn the Nalayira Divya Prabhandham in its entirety. But the temple authorities did not act in his favour with several opposition to him being nominated for the post. Shortly after, he quit the temple initially indicating a temporary leave for physical health issues relating to carrying heavy vessels at the madapalli. But he never returned again to the temple and the madapalli. His mentee of the time, another former IT professional Srivathsan continues to serve at the madapalli in Srirangam.

The next year,  in June 2019, this section tracked him at 5am on the Nava Tirupathi Garuda Seva day at Azhvaar Tirunagari Divya carrying sacred water from the Tamaraibarani for the day's utsavam(https://prtraveller.blogspot.com/2019/06/nava-tirupathi-garuda-sevai.html). He had performed selfless service through the Ramanuja Utsavam in the summer of 2019 at Azhvaar Tirunagari Divya Desam. He was also involved in propogating the traditional way of life to the priests in the region. Priests had told this writer in 2019 as to how he would present verses from the scriptures and initiate the thought process of following the traditional ways at the Divya Desam temples even in these modern times. However, his stint there too was shortlived as his traditional ways and getting everyone to follow his way did not find favour with the temple authorities. He moved on from the temple leaving indication to very few people there on his whereabouts. 

And then, this section spotted him at the Avathara Sthalam of Ananthazhvaan at Kirangur, near Srirangapatna(https://prtraveller.blogspot.com/2019/08/ananthazhvaar-kirangur.html). He had spent some time at Melkote, most of the nights sleeping on the banks of the Theertham before joining hands in service with the now 88 year old Ananthacharya  at Kirangur. Over the last year, he has been at the madapalli at Kirangur much to the delight of Octogenerian Ananrhacharya, who  told this writer that he feels blessed to have someone like Lakshmi Narasimhan joining him out of nowhere.

And earlier today, he officially renounced his family way of life at Melkote and assumed the status of Jeer (https://prtraveller.blogspot.com/2019/09/melkote-araiyar-sri-rama-sharma.html).

In the few months that this writer had known him in Srirangam, he had always indicated dedicating himself to a life of service to God. Even at that time, he had let go of his family and was living a life surviving on very minimal food and clothing. While the Srirangam Temple authorities were not inclined on making him the Jeer of the temple, he has two years on chosen his own path and renounced materialistic interests in life and will now pursue sainthood.

He is now taking up a round tour of Kanchipuram ( Kooram), Srirangam and Thirumalai.

It is likely he will return to Kirangur and continue to reside at the Avathara Sthalam of Ananthaazhvaan.