Shri Vasudevanand Saraswati Tembe Swami Maharaj

A compact Biography.

• Pinakini
  In the hot summer of 1907 AD, while he was travelling along the banks of Pinakini, a small river in Tamilnadu, the full moon of supernumerary Chaitra month approached. The river was so dried up that it was not possible to take a dip in her stream after the mandatory tonsure. The local Brahmins discerning the difficulty of Shri Maharaj promised to make a hole in the riverbed deep enough for a dip. After the tonsure, even as Shri Maharaj approached the river, the waters started rising and came up to the chest of Shri Maharaj, thus enabling him to immerse himself in the river water and complete the bath. Following verse spontaneously issued forth from the mouth of Shri Maharaj: 
  
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  “ She who from her small form due to extra month of Chaitra
  In a moment, augmented her stream, for the bath of my tonsured self
  Pinakini ought to be worshipped by all.”