CHAPTER-4: ಶಿವ ಶರ್ಮನ ವೃತ್ತಾಂತ ;ಶ್ರೀಪಾದರ ಧ್ಯಾನದ ಫಲ

In Chapter 4 we find Yogi Palaniswamy explaining all the visions of   meditations which includes past, present and future of his time.  
[He was a tool in the hands of Sripada Srivallabha to inform Shankar Bhat as part of biography documentation needed for future generations.]
After emerging from meditation yogi Palani Swamai, Shankar bhat and Madhava shared their respective experiences during meditation. Sri PalaniSwami told the story of Shivashankar Sharma. He was very much  ashamed of having an underdeveloped son. Sripada Srivallabha granted him the boon that his son can be made as a scholar in exchange of Shivashankara Sharma's balance of  life span for which Sharma readily agrees.  Later as promised Sripada saves the life of Sharma's widow and son when they were about to commit suicide out of poverty and shame. By his grace the son became a great scholar.  His mother was given a boon that she, in her following birth would be fortunate to be the mother of Narsimha Saraswathi- the next avatar of Sripada Srivallabha.
( this part of the story is available in "Gurucharithra" of  Narsimha Saraswathi written by Sri Vasudevananda Saraswathi -which is popular as Paarayana Grantha  in Maharashtra- but with lesser details)

Later Palaniswami explains the vision of Shankara Bhat as an indication of arrival of Hindu- Muslim fakir

Saibaba and Madhava's vision as the assurance of SriPada about establishement of his Padukas at his birth place in Pitikapuram  at the appropriate time.

At the end of the session Palaniswami requests the dead body of the young man to be brought back and enters in to that body leaving his old one lifeless. While shankar Bhat and Madhava looked dumb struck Vyagreesha Sharma arrived in tiger form and lifted the lifeless body to the nearby river to dispose it off.
PalaniSwami ordered Shankar Bhat to proceed to Tirupathi and Madhava to return to Vichithrapura.

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ಅಂಬಿಕಳನ್ನು ಶೇಷ ಜೀವನವನ್ನು  ಶಿವ ಪೂಜಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಳೆಯುವಂತೆ ಆಜ್ಞಾಪಿಸಿದರು. ಶನಿವಾರದಂದು ಪ್ರದೋಷ ಸಮಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾಡುವ ಶಿವ ಪೂಜಾ ಫಲದ  ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಅವರಿಗೆ ವಿಸ್ತಾರವಾಗಿ ತಿಳಿಸಿದರು. ಮುಂದಿನ ಜನ್ಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಂಬಿಕಳಿಗೆ ತಮಗೆ ಸರಿಸಮಾನನಾದ ಮಗ ಹುಟ್ಟುವನೆಂದು ನುಡಿದರು. ಆದರೆ  ತಮಗೆ ಸರಿಸಮಾನನಾದ ವರು ಮೂರು ಲೋಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಇಲ್ಲದಿರುವುದಿಂದ ತಾವೆ ಆಕೆಗೆ ಮಗನಾಗಿ ಜನಿಸಲು ನಿಶ್ಚಯಿಸಿದರು.