SWAMI SRI VEERABRAHMENDRA

A Monograph on Pothuluru Veerabrahmendra Swamy

Vemana also entered Jeeva Samadhi and continued his meditation for the people around, as also for his OWN redemption from this gross world.

Like pious swans, the two saint-poets sang the eternal song of impersonal monism.

While concluding this chapter, I should like to refer to a couple of poems of Veera Kalikamba Satakam of Veerabrahmam which surprisingly establish the fact that Brahmam was watchful about Vemana’s progress in the fields of social reformance and yogic practices started by Brahmam himself. Brahmam comments Vemana thus :

“Oh Valorous mother, Kali! Vemana is the only warrior who can drive away the three passions of wealth, women and wine. He can divulge and bring Him out from the length and breadth of the heaven and earth”. (Poem No. 348)

“Listen to me brother! This wise Vemana knows fully well the mind of mine and yours. It was he who wandered about untiringly and daringly broke away the three wild passions, Is he not divinity in plenty ?” (Poem No, 380)

These encomiums should have been passed by Brahmam when he was in his late eighties, by which time Vemana must have been actively participating in the noble service of social reformance and yogic practice.

The above two poems*1 reveal that Brahmam was extremely happy about Vemana’s successfully carrying the mission, which he (Brahmam) himself started.

*1. Dr. N. Gopi identifies 382 poems of Brahmam’s Veerakalikamba Satakam of which the scholar of which the scholar opines about ten poems of of Vemana, must have been mixed with this satakam. (Vide: Dr. N. Gopi’s article entitled “Brahmamgari Sampradayamlo Vemana” published in Cuddapah District writer’s conference volume. December 1984). But I am of the opinion that the poems No. 348 and 380 were written by Veerabrahmam.