Pilinja village in Dakshina Kannada Tiger stories:
When Swami was young there was very thick forest near His house Dambethar. The surrounding area was called as Pilinja. This means the birthplace of Tiger. A Number of Tigers were staying in these villages. They were coming near the houses in the dark nights for catching dog’s, human beings etc. One can see in many houses the Tiger’s nail marks of scratching on the walls of the houses. Now and then they were coming to the cow sheds and take away calves and other cattle’s. The Villagers say a lot of stories about the fights between the people and the Tigers.
Birth Place:
Swami took birth in a small house called Dambethar house. It is a small village called Pilinja (Tigers Birth Place) which is in Bantwal Taluk, South Kendra District of Karnataka State of India. His Father and Mother were Sri Narayan Nayak & Smt. Laxmi who are no more now.
Swami’s former name was D Govinda Nayak. He studied in different schools and colleges, they are as follows below:-
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Kundadka Primary School (1951-57).
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Pariyalthadka Middle School (1957-60).
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Vittal High School (1960-63).
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St. Philomena’s College Puttur (PUC, 1963-64).
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St. Aloysius College, Mangalore (B.Sc, 1964-67).
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Government B.Ed College, Mangalore (B.Ed, 1971-72).
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Sardar Vallabhai Patel University, Gujarat (M.Sc, 1972-74).
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IIT-Mumbai (PhD, 1974-78).
Swami served in the following Institutions St Philomena’s High School, Puttur (1968-71) as Teacher, Sharada High School, Pane Mangalore (1972) as Teacher, St. Agnees Technical School, Bandra Mumbai (1974) as Teacher, IIT-Mumbai (1978-79) as Research Associate. Sri Sathya Sai Loka Seva Institution, Muddenahalli (1979-2000) as Teacher where Swami did FREE SERVICES for 20 years. Swami was a student for outside look but really He was a meditator in day and night which is unknown to the people from His childhood. Now, Swami is totally engaged in meditation and penance during the last many years. Since 1990 Swami lives on raw vegetarian foods only, continuing His meditation by doing penance for day and night in Panchavati nearby Dhyanagiri Hill. Recently Swami is coming down from the hill daily for 2-3 hours to give discourse on Veda, Upanishad, Bible, Quran, etc. in a temporary hut like prayer hall constructed by His devotees. Swami meditates rest of the time on the Hill. There are Registered Trusts, about 1000 Service Volunteers (Seva Dals), and Bhajan groups of devotees all being engaged in many service activities for the human upliftment under the guidance of Swami.
An enlightening story of Swami begins & grows from a place called Dambethar in this universe of God with extraordinary Qualities of being Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omnisense, Omni subtle & Omniglorius. Sri Narayan Nayak father of Theertha was a Spiritual oriented person & Smt. Laxmi was a big Devotee of God. Both of them were ardent devotees of the lord and both possessed very attractive personality with the Religious & Spiritual Knowledge. They were fervent Devotees of the Lord Subramanya of Kukke of South Canara District. Father had an ambition to have a son like Lord Subramanya. Smt. Laxmi too was having the same ambition. The couples were not only the Devotee of Lord Subramanya but also too many other God’s like Durga Parmeshwari, Shiva, Vishnu, and Ganapathi etc for the sake of having a son like THEERTHA. Hence their parents owe the credit of THEERTHA to Lord Subramanya.
When Swami was in the womb of His mother, they experienced phenomenal changes in their life as the disagreement which were occurring earlier in between the couple Sri Narayan Nayak and Smt. Laxmi gradually ended. The rules and regulations of the British Government at that time got softened. The number of cattle in Dambethar house went on increasing they had enough supply of food. The crops began to grow healthy. The epidemic diseases reduced in people of the village. The ambience became pleasant and beautiful. At the time of the Birth of Swami there was a highly Devotional space created among the villagers.