The Sigificance of the Parnasala flows from Navajyothi SreeKarunakara Guru,s Life and Realization for the world. The Guru took birth on Thursday, 1st September ,1927, at Chandiroor, a small village in Alappuzha district of Kerala. Guru was very quiet in his childhod. He felt inside him a ' Light-' an effulgence- prompted by which he spoke occassionally. He was privately tutored by a local school teacher, at the age of eight. When he was 13, he approached his teacher and told him about his desire to lead the life of an ascetic. Guru thus reached Aluva Advaita Ashram in 1940. He lived in Sivgiri Mutt and its branch ashrams for 17 years. He required the guidence of a spiritual master to clarify his childhood visionary experience of the ' Light'. Being born with an inherent spiritual mission, he struggled in the absence of a spiritual guide. But soon the Master he was waiting for came into his life. Qureshia Fakhir, a wandering Sufi Saint, sensed the glitter of Guru's Soul and embraced him exclaiming three times, " You are the Heir, You are the Heir, You are the Heir". Guru accepted Qureshia Fakir, known also as Pattani Swami, as his spiritual guide for self- attainment. Several years went by with extreme sacrifices, pain and difficulties. At the end of it all, he came to Pothencode, near Thiruvananthapuram, and established Santhigiri Ashram in the year 1964.
He built a 'Parnasala' a single thatched room with four wooden poles supporting it. That was the nascent form of the parnasala . In the year 1969, it was tiled with permission from Guru. It was here that Guru sat and discoursed to disciples. The spiritual attainment of Guru took place in the year 1973 after several ordeals and sacrifies that were beyond human endurance. A revelation came from the supreme Effulgence of Brahmam that It (Brahman) desired for ages had now been fulfilled through Guru. Along with it came the corrections to age -old spiritual errors. Guru revealed that the misfortunes and difficulties suffered by human beings are due to ' Karmic ' errors. By his spiritual completion, Guru was ordained to perform spiritual purification of the souls, to free them of all karmic impurities. A large community of disciples who recognised Guru's Supreme spiritual ascendancy, came into existence at Santhigiri.More about Ashram, visit our web : http://www.santhigiriashram.org/
