1) Of the 4 vedas, the number of practioners of Atharva veda had dwindled significantly in Bharata

Desa over time. MahaPeriyava selected two patashala students Seetharaman and Balamani to
learn Atharva veda from an exisiting Atharva vedi in Gujarat. As per dharma, a person not born
into the Atharva veda lineage is allowed to learn it only after finishing adhyayanam of his
swasakhaa, therefore MahaPeriyava arranged for these students to learn Atharva veda after
completing their own veda shaaka and subsequently enabled them to impart this knowledge to
subsequent generations of students, thus preventing its extinction. In a similar vein, Sri
MahaPeriyava instituted the Veda Rakshana Nidhi Trust to support and encourage the
traditional Vedic gurukula system. He has also been responsible in ensuring continued operation
of many patashalas through financial difficulties, such as the renowned Raja patashala of
Kumbakonam.
2) MahaPeriyava instructed Dr. Subramanian Swamy to work on maintaining smooth and cordial
relations with two nations in particular, Israel and China. Over the long-term it was these two
nations that will matter to India’s interests was MahaPeriyava’s divine foresight. On one such
diplomatic activity Dr. Swamy took the blessing of Sri MahaPeriyava and requested the Chinese
government to re-open the Kailash and Manasarovar route to enable Hindus to revive this
ancient pilgrimage. Throughout the course of this activity, Dr. Swamy constantly received
guidance and anugrahams of Sri MahaPeriyava to tide over difficulties
3) Dr. Nagaswamy, the founder-director of Tamil Nadu’s archaeology department was responsible
in recovering a stolen Nataraja murti from Viswanathaswmy temple at a village called Pathur. To
recover this statue, he had to testify before an international court in London to establish the
authenticity of the Nataraja murti and its origin. Sri Nagaswamy acknowledges that but for the
guidance and teachings which Sri MahaPeriyava with his Dheerga Dhrishti, imparted on the
various agamic principles of preserving and restoring murtis, he would not have been in a
position to answer the challenging questions posed by the court. He also further attributes the
subsequent recovery of multiple stolen murtis to the knowledge imparted by Sri MahaPeriyava
4) Sri MahaPeriyava organized the Agama Veda Vyaja Vidwath Sadas for 15 days at Ilayathangudi
inviting sculptors, artists, and other practitioners of traditional arts to discuss the knowledge of
their respective fields. He honored each of these artists for the first time ever, to further
encourage them in pursuit of this ancient traditional art. Also invited were expert historians
from various East Asian countries such as Cambodia to present evidence of practice of
Sanathana Dharma in various parts of the globe.
5) A team of renowned Indian astronomers spent over 6 months to prepare a document which
stated that the wobbling of the axis of the earth (known as ayana chalana) was not accounted
for in Indic astronomy texts. They presented this to MahaPeriyava. MahaPeriyava in a matter of
minutes dismissed their arguments by quoting the exact verse in Surya Siddhantha that
accounted for this, by applying the appropriate pada prayogam.
6) A group of foreign mathematicians who studied the Thanjavur Brihadeeswarar temple’s unique
property of not having the shadow of the gopura fall on the ground, claimed that such an
occurrence was a coincidental accident and that the architect had not intended for this feature
to occur at the temple through mathematical principles. When Indian mathematicians failed to
provide any counter arguments, MahaPeriya Himself went to a place called Vellam near
Chengalpet to some temple ruins, which had inscriptions on it claiming that this temple was a
precursor to the Brihadeeswarar temple. MahaPeriyava then demonstrated that the model
 gopuram of that temple also had the feature of not casting a shadow on the ground which
therefore showed that it must have been based on a sound mathematical principle.
7) In the early 90s, MahaPeriyava instructed the Chief Election Commissioner (TN Seshan) to visit
the village of Uttaramerur, where at the 1000+ year old village assembly were carved
inscriptions of the constitution, division of the village into wards, electoral process, qualification
and disqualification norms for a thriving democracy. This served as the guiding principle for the
electoral reforms implemented by the Chief Election Commissioner across India.
8) Sri MahaPeriyava established the Veda Dharma Sastra Paripalana Sabha in 1942 with an intent
of countering a decline in interest and practice of Vedas and Dharma Sastras and supporting
financial needs of traditional teachers and students of the Vedic studies.
9) During his earthly life, Sri MahaPeriyava has through his divine grace recovered many murtis of
temples, siva lingams and adhishtanams of sanyasis which had been lost or buried. One example
of this is the adhishtanam of Sri AtmaBodhendra Saraswati at Vadavambalam, the 58th Acharya
of the Kanchi Acharya Parampara, who played a significant role in the conception of the
Bhagavan Nama sampradayam. After recovery of this adhishtanam, MahaPeriyava ensured the
construction of a suitable enclosure along with regular puja for this adhishtanam. Another
example was finding of the long lost AnanthaPadmanabhaswamy murti at Sirugumani, for which
a temple was constructed afterwards under MahaPeriyava’s guidance. Similarly, a buried Siva
lingam of a temple at Manimangalam was divinely traced out by Sri MahaPeriyava after which a
temple was reconstructed along with requisite uddharana rituals.
10) In addition to restoring lost temples, Sri MahaPeriyava also directed the construction of new
temples in specific places in India. Notable among these are the construction of the Uttara
SwamiMalai temple in Delhi for Lord Muruga and the Uttara Chidambaram temple at Satara,
which recreates one of the Panchbhuta tattvas (Akasha) of the Chidambaram temple. The
construction of these two temples can be thought of as making divine structures more
accessible to people of North India, which suffered significantly due to religious invasions in the
past.
11) Other similar temples are the Skandagiri temple for Lord Muruga and the construction of
Aarupadai Veedu temples in Chennai, which is a collection of 6 Murugan temples all in one
place, to make it convenient for devotees to benefit from divine grace. Specifically, in the
construction of the latter set of temples, Sri MahaPeriyava promised to provide strength to the
devotee who he directed to build these 6 temple. He continued to guide the devotee after His
siddhi through hardships in construction of temple. Another well known temple is the
Ashtalakshmi temple at Besant Nagar, Chennai where MahaPeriyava guided a devotee at each
stage in construction of the temple.
12) Sri MahaPeriyava through His devotees started the Annabhisheka festival at Gangai Konda
Cholapuram. He also revived the practice of Ganga jalabhishekam for the Siva lingam carried out
by the then king Rajendra Chola, by requesting devotees visiting Ganga to bring back some
quantity for this abhishekam.
13) At the time of framing of the Indian Constitution, Sri MahaPeriyava instructed vaideekas to meet
the Parliamentary Delegation to raise the issue of religion being considered as a fundamental
right. This was at a time when there hardly even any appreciation of the notion of fundamental
rights, and far less extending it to the matter of religion. Under MahaPeriyava’s guidance, His
devotees went about bringing together the various heterogenous schools (mutts) of Sanathana
 Dharma across the country under one umbrella known as the “All India Maths Conference”, to
strengthen the case for considering religion as a fundamental right and obtaining constitutional
safeguards to practice one’s religion. MahaPeriyava guided further deliberations of lawyers with
the Adviser to the Constituent Assembly with his immense legal knowledge and this finally
resulted in the inclusion of Article 26 in the Indian Constitution.
14) MahaPeriyava was directly involved in protecting and reviving the dvaitic Madhva
sampradayam. He sent students of this tradition to Calcutta, where the Madhva practice had
stopped altogether, and restored its presence. MahaPeriyava also guided Madhva pandits in
creation of a patashala at Sirugumani and provided them with financial wherewithal which
resulted in training of more than a 100 Madhva Rigvedi students at Sirugumani and more than
500 Madhva vedic pandits from all over India
15) MahaPeriyava through some of His discourses (documented as Deivathin Kural) mentioned the
importance of Anaatha Pretha Samskaram, the rightful samskaras to be performed to bodies of
unclaimed deceased persons. MahaPeriyava said that a body that was a house for Bhagawan
must be given its due respect after Bhagawan leaves this body, by performing rites according to
the religious guidelines of the person. This activity was equated by Periyava to the performance
of an Aswamedha Yagna. This inspired a devotee (Sreedhar) who went to Sri Periyava to seek
His blessings to make this activity his life’s work. He has since performed this activity for more
than a 1000 anaatha prethas over 30 years.