Kanakadasa and Udupi
Varali pointed out that she felt sad for Kanakadasa mentioned in the story about Jon Higgins and the Udupi Krishna temple I mentioned here. I agree with her-it is something that has been playing at the back of my mind. Wikipedia (in a note that needs to be edited) says:
Kanakadasa has special association with Udupi and as he was the follower of Sri Vyasaraja Swamiji. On the advice of Vyasaraja Swamiji he had come to Udupi. But it a time when the discrimination based on the caste was at its peak in the society. The Brahmin fundamentalists did not let him enter the temple as he was from a lower cadre of the society. He stood outside the temple and was lost in his prayers to Lord Krishna by singing songs in praise of the Lord. Owing to the call of his devotee Lord Krishna gave darshan to Kanaka through a window.The idol of Lord Krisha turned around and a crack appeared in the western granite wall of the temple, making it possible for Kanadadasa to have a glimpse of the Lord.
The crack in the wall was replaced with a smalll window, which stands as a tribute to Kanakadasa.All devotees who visit Udupi Krishna temple take a peek at Lord Krishna throgh the small window, wishing to relive the ecstasy of Kanakadasa. It is also a memorial to Kanakadasa and a testimony to the eclectic Hindu belief that devotion, poetry and sainthood are above caste and creed and certainty above orthodoxy.In all Hindu temples the deity and the main door of the temple face the east, but in Udupi the deity faces the west which is not along the lines of the Hindu vasthu shastra of temple architecture.Which gives credence to the belief that something strange and unexplainable happened here which caused the main deity to face west.
Now I wonder why. with this sort of history, they still weren’t letting people in, when it came to Higgins.
Is the same with a lot of other singers ….. one more example i can think of is Yesudas not being allowed into the Guruvaayur temple in Kerala till date.
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Reminds me of Nandanar and the Chidambaram temple
WA is right. The Kanakadasa story closely resembles Nandanar’s tory which is very popular in Tamil Nadu. Here is the wiki link:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandanar
Sadly, there are many such stories, what of those ordinary people whoa ren’t great singers or can’t perform great miracles-but just want to enter
Ya, there are many such stories. I know in Jagannath Temple, there is a legend that Salbaig, a Sufi saint was the Lord’s devotee, and he was not allowed into the temple. During the Rath Puja, when the deity is taken around in His chariot, the chariot stopped right in front of Salbaig’s house and would refuse to budge! Only after Salbaig came out and have the Darshan, did the chariot move.
And yet the temple authorities till today do not let non Hindus enter the precincts. I sometimes wonder if they indeed have anything to do with love for the deity who they claim to worship.
Best wishes,
Anjali