Some of Our Less Known Saints
There are are two saints whose wives sold themselves to other people
to serve Prasaad to their Guru.
Raamaanuj's Disciple's Wife
One was Raamaanuj's one disciple's wife Raamaanuj's
disciple's wife was saved by offering him the remnants of Raamaanuj's food Prasaad,
Kabeer's Wife
Another one was Kabeers wife who sold herself to
serve Raamaanand and his disciples to a grocery man for some flour and Ghee.
Kabeer's wife was saved by sudden appearance of Police.
Chiruthondaa
Chiruththondaa cooked his less than
5-year old child for his guest who was none other than Shiv.
Karaikakal Ammaiyar
There are 63 Nayanmars in Shaiv. One of them only, happens to be a woman.
She is Punithavathiyar who became Karaikakal Ammaiyar afterwards after she
attained liberation and now worshiped as one of the 63 Nayanmars. She was
a Grahasth or Grihinee and while she was feeding Lord Shiv who came in
disguise as a Saadhu and in His Thiruvilaiyadal, that is, Bhagwaan used to
test his followers, she was blessed by him. On realizing her, as God's
blessed soul, her husband who was a rich trader, prostrated before her and
took her as his Guru. In her end, Karaikakal Ammaiyar went by foot literally,
to Himalaya like Appar Adigal, but Shiv asked her to go back to Thiruvalankadu
near Chennai where she got Mukti.
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