History

Sri Mayandi Swamigal visited an elderly couple and prophesied that a child would be born and it was so. Mayandi Swamigal visited the couple again and told them to name the child  Subramanya and said that the child was not for them but for the world.

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The child was very sharp and  brilliant and learnt the Vedas at a young age. He received Dhiksha from Sri Mayandi Swamigal and started in search of his guru. Subramanya covered the entire length and breadth of the country by Pada yathra and joined the freedom struggle of Mahatma Gandhi for which he was imprisoned for some time. On his release he restarted his search for his Guru.  He reached Junagadh at the foothills of Girnar in Gujarat and he wanted to have a darshan of Sri Datta Paduga at the top of Girnar hills for which one has to climb 10000 steps. He did so and he was helped by a sanyasi who told him   “ you have come all the way to have a darshan of Datta Paduga while he is waiting with your Guru at your place ( South India ) at Sendamangalam.”

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Subramanya reached Sendamangalam, a small town near Namakkal and immediately recognised H.H.Sri Swayamprakasa Bramhendra Saraswatavathootha Swamigal as his Guru for he had seen him many times in visions and in dreams.  His acceptance as a disciple was not easy and he had to undergo tough tests and trails before he was accepted as a disciple. Even after that he was put to a severe test for ten long years throughout the period of which he was to live on alms without revealing his identity or purpose and he was not supposed to stay in one place for more than three days at a stretch. It was during this time that he covered the length and breadth of the country by walk and faced many trials and tribulations.  He successfully completed the test and came back to his Guru at Sendamangalam where he received his Diksha and was given the name Santhananda Swamigal and  he was asked by his guru to restore the Adistanam of his Guru H.H.Judge Swamigal at Pudukkottai.

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Sri.Santhananda Swamigal went to Pudukkottai and found the Samadhi of Judge Swamigal and sat there in meditation. Soon people came to know of the young sanyasi and they learnt the purpose of his stay and slowly the restoration work started gathering pace. He installed Sri Bhuvaneswari Devi  at the adistanam and people started calling him Bhuvaneswari Swamigal.

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After finishing his assignment at Pudukottai he came back to Sendamangalam and built a 16 pillared mandapam for his Guru who attained Samadhi and went back to Pudukkottai and in 1965 he had a dream in which Lord Muruga told him that he is in a valley surrounded by 4 hills with a stream running close by it and heard a divine voice saying come there, build me a temple.

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The very next day he was visited by two revenue officials of Salem and when he told them of his dream and enquired if such a place exists they had no idea. They came back to Salem did a survey and then identified the place. Swamigal got the place in 1967 and started work on the temple with the help of the locals and the villagers of udayapatti who willingly donated their lands for the formation of the road leading to the ashramam.

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In 1970 the stone statue of Lord Muruga was installed followed by the installation of the panchaloga idol of Sri Mahalakshmi Durga Parameshwari.  They face each other.  Lord Muruga is surrounded by the Navagrahas with their consorts.

 

The four Veda murthis , Vedavyasa and Adi Shankara adorn the hall on either side of Durga Parameshwari.

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On either side of Sri Durga Parameshwari are the statues of his Guru Sri Swayamprakasa Bramhendra Saraswathavathootha Swamigal and his parama Guru Sri Judge Swamigal.

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Magnificently huge deities of Panchamuka Heramba Ganapathi, Sri Dattatreya , Sri Pancha muka Anjaneya, Sri Dhanvantri bagavan, Sri Swarnaakarshana bhairavar and Sankatahara Ganapathi were consecrated along with Idumban  establishing the tenets of Sri Adi Shankara who broadly classified worship of deities into six namely  1.Ganapathyam, 2. Vaishnavam, 3.Shaivam, 4. Koumaram, 5.Shouram and 6. Saktham. All six disciplines are consecrated here without any differences.

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A Veda Pada shala was established.     A Goshala was established.

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