Sripada Rajam Saranam Prapadhye.
Jai Guru Deva Datta.
Hello everyone, I am S. Abhishek from Bangalore. I want to post my experience of Lord Datta's grace. Actually I happened to visit Datta Temple accidentally near my office. The temple had a beautiful Audumbara Vriksha. I circumambulated the tree 11 times and went back to my office. This was on 08th Nov 2016. I suddenly developed devotion to Lord Datta and started chanting the Datta Stavam everyday. After that I visited my home town in less than 2 weeks for my cousins pre marriage ceremony
(Naandi). There I happened to meet some of my close relatives. On one such occasion I was told by the relative of mine that there exists a Lord Datta Temple in my hometown itself and it should be around 200 years old. He invited me to that temple for a pooja. That was a divine call I guess. That is the same temple my grandfather and his brothers used to visit for pooja. They used to visit the temple by walk as there was no other modes of transport back then. My grandfather is no more and nobody in my family knew about this Temple. On enquiry my grandfather's younger brother who is now 77 yrs and the lone elderly member (surviving among 9 siblings) told me that they all used to visit the Datta mandir regularly. I decided to visit the temple after sometime and kept quiet. But as days passed my inner desire to see Lord Datta only grew. I happened to visit my home town again after a few weeks and this relative of mine suddenly asked me to accompany him to Datta Mandir as Guru Padukas are arriving there. I visited along with him and i was lucky that I happened to touch the new silver padukas which had just arrived for the pooja. I happened to wash the new silver padukas and give it to the temple priest ( who was my relative). After that I have been visiting this Datta Mandir regularly and on 3 such occasions I happened to personally perform Pooja to Lord Dattaterya by entering the garbha gudi and touching the main idol. I performed arati and touched Lord Datta's feet. This showed the Lord's blessing on me. I am now a devotee of Lord Datta. Advice everyone to regularly chant the Siddhamangala Stotra, Datta Stavam and Ghorakashtoddarana Stotra of Lord Datta. Actually I was jobless for 2 months last year between July 2016 to Sep 2016 and after reading the Guru Charitra, exactly on the last day of parayan I got my current job offer from the organisation.
Jai Guru Deva Datta.