Mooka Sankaraachaarya

గురు బ్రహ్మ గురుర్ విష్ణుః గురుర్ దేవో మహేశ్వరః

గురు స్సాక్షాత్ పరబ్రహ్మ తస్మై శ్రీ గురవే నమః

శుక్లాం బరధరం విష్ణుం శశివర్ణం చతుర్భుజం

ప్రసన్న వదనం ధ్యాయేత్ సర్వ విఘ్నోప శాంతయే

శ్రుతి స్మృతి పురాణానాం ఆలయం కరుణాలయం

నమామి భగవత్ పాదం శంకరం లోక శంకరం

ఓం నమః శివాయ

Once upon a time there lived a congenital deaf-mute person, by name Mooka Sankara. But this person was a great devotee of mother goddess. He used to spend most of the time praying the goddess in a temple. In the same village there used to be another bhaktha as well and he also used to spend lot of his time praying mother goddess.

One day both these persons were sitting in the temple praying mother goddess silently with their eyes closed. After sometime mother goddess walked upto the normal person. She took out the remnants of betel leaves (taamboolam pidacha) from her mouth and gave it to him. He refused that (very surprisingly). Mooka Sankara kept his mouth wide open and the goddess dropped that in his mouth. Mooka Sankara immediately regained his voice and hearing power.

Right after that he recited pancha sati on mother goddess. A collection of 500 slokas across 5 satis, each sati containing 100 slokas.

Arya Satakam

Stuthi Satakam

Paadaaravinda Satakam

Kataaksha Satakam

Mandasmita Satakam

Goddess was so pleased with those, she told him to ask for a boon. He immediately told mother goddess to get rid off his voice again. Surprised with this strange boon, she asked him for the reason.

నిన్ను స్తుతించిన ఈ నోటితో ఇంకేమి పలకకూడదు

Don’t want to use my voice/mouth to utter anything else after the slokas about you. Mother goddess immediately made him dumb.

He became the 20^th Aacharya of Kanchi peetham and was known as “Sri Muka Sankarendra Sarawathi”

All the aacharyas of Kanchi peetham take up Sanyaasa aasramam directly from Brahmacharya aasramam.

సర్వే జనాః సుఖినో భవంతు

PS: There could be typos and other mistakes in telugu and english, kindly pardon me with big hearts.