Belief, Miracle, Superstition...You name it,.

This is a reported story told to me by a very good friend of mine from Bengaluru, India about his own experience when he had visited this temple in Thiruvananthapuram (hereafter 'Trvandrum'). And I have all reasons to believe whatever he said  is true. Statutory Warning for aethists because this post is for the believers.

The Attukaal temple in Trivandrum 

After marriage one's divine inclination normally tends to rise. All right,. I'm not married yet. But ya once married, I know things for any family man changes. Thats common.

I don't know whether it was this change that prompted my friend to visit temples. In spite of having absolutely no malayalee connection he happened to visit the Attukaal Devi (Goddess) temple in Trivandrum. He visited this temple with his wife. Not knowing what and how things work in this temple, both of them  were standing, quite confused. Seeing this,..an old lady came up and told them how to make lamps out of cut lemon, and some other temple procedures in Malayalam which was obviously Chinese for the Tamil speaking couple. They still managed to partially understand whatever she told them. (Few words in Tamil are quite similar to Malayalam). 

They proceeded to the temple, prayed, and came out regardless of the fact that it was crowded. But as they came out, they noticed that every person who came out carried the prasad (material substance that is first offered to a deity in Hinduism and then consumed). Thus leading to the confused state again thinking why they didn't get it. Now coming all the way from Banglore to Trivandrum, and going back without the divine and sacred prasad is just not done. Going through this thick crowd again into the temple just to get prasad would be impractical. As they stand there with not much change in the previously mentioned state, the old lady comes again out of nowhere, to them. Asked them whether they got the prasad. They shook their head signalling 'No'. The old lady immediately hands them a bag with the perfect amount of prasad they wished to take with them. 

Now, I forgot to mention this fact that the wife, was on her 6th month. The bump on her stomach was evident. The old lady as she was handing over the prasad, noticed this and said that the couple would have a healthy handsome boy. My friend looked into the bag, and as he raised his head to thank the lady,.. she was gone. Nowhere to be seen, vanished. Strange but true. Practically thinking, an old lady like her can't just run away. But, thats what happened "puff"...she was gone!...

The wife gave birth to a boy exactly as the old lady had predicted and he is doing perfectly well. The couple named him Avyay - The Constant,. Unique.. a name for Lord Vishnu.