Tirvannamalai Experiences: People who are doing the walking in the eighteen kilometer path around the hillock during the full moon day will have certain spiritual experiences. One of my friend when he leaves the road for a nature call and steps in the rocks some other field other than the natural one is around him all on a sudden. There is some light without any particular source as if though it is twilight during sun set but the brightness is more than normal. (But the actual time is night eight o clock.) There is a big water tank and around it there are more than two hundred huts and in the entrance some hermits are doing meditation. One of them signal him to come near and ask him: CAN YOU BE HERE? Our friend argues that he is having a mother and three sisters and his father is no more and he will have to look after the family. The hermit says that no body is depending upon anybody. Friend argues that without the permission of parents one must not become a sanyasi. (renouncing the worldly life).(it is the Hindu tradition.) The hermit laughs at him and give some medicine to eat. Friend eats and the field become normal. Everything disappears and the area is now the original with sand, rocks and thorns. But he cannot find out the main road and wanders for some time. Suddenly a woodcutter comes in the way and says Oh poor brahmin you must not be here and pushes him away with his sickle. Friend is in the road now. Now the time is early morning four o clock. Nine hours have been passed. Later he approaches a mutt and ask what is this. They said that you have missed a golden opportunity for enlightenment for which all these people are doing penances for years together but in vain. One of the manifestation of Lord Siva is woodcutter they told. He is a bank officer and about prayers he is doing the santhya vanthanam (meaning twilight prayer) every day five times without leaving it after his upanayanam (holy ceremony). The year was 1996. Now every month he is going there and do the ritual but the experience is not coming again.
Another friend when goes around the hillock he also leaves the road and goes some fifty foot in the hillocks the same field appears and the hermit asks the same question. CAN YOU BE HERE ? Unlike the first friend he is not arguing but due to fear he cries. Everything disappears and he is in the road now. He is a doctor. The year was 2003. In the cinema Baba actor
Rajnikanth describes a similar scene in which
a beggar pulls Rajnikanth towards a narrow lane and suddenly a snowy field appears as if though it is himalayas and Baba sitting under tree asks him: CAN YOU BE HERE ? Rajnikanth hesitates and then he gets some seven boons and returns to his house. We can come to a conclusion that there are certain extraordinary spiritual fields in this earth itself. If the individuals are having some boon they have the vision. But who accepts the offer will not come to his native world, we presume. If there are any other experiences by readers they can write to me.