Down; but not out
That day Saraswati, fondly called akka by thousands, was low in spirits. She and her team members Pakshi Shivarajan, Rajarajan, Kadhiresan, the temple guard Rama and the auto driver Muthu Ramalingam, despite all the hard work for two days,could find nothingresembling a water body in the Ramakrishna puram village, in the forest areain Dhanuskoti Block, that was just 8 km away from the world famous Rameswaram Temple in the Ramanathapuram District of Tamil Nadu, India.
Difference between Bhakti and Belief
But, akka was convinced about the existence of Sarva Roga Nivarana Thirtham. Because it was mentioned by Sage Ved Vyas in the Skand Purana. And Ved Vyas is the person Lord Krishna has spoken about as “among the munis (Sages) I am Ved Vyas” (Bhagavat Gita X-37).Akka had bhakti (a Sanskrit term that can’t be translatedas belief or faith) on her Lord that naturally made her take the writings in the Skand Purana as nothing but absolute truth.