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Story: Purity in devotion makes us see the god

Once upon a time, there lived a Sri vaishnava brahmin, also an archaka named Vedavyas in the holy town of mangalagiri, Andhra pradesh. He got married and blessed with a child (Baby boy). As he is an ardent follower of Lord Narasimha, he named his son as Prahlada Varadan. When his son reached the age of 7 years, He completed thread marriage (yagnopaveetha dhaarana mahothsava) ritual to his son, made him know the importance of sandhya vandana and made him learn and adviced him to do sandya vandanam 3 times a day i.e. sunrise, noon and sunset. As his son, prahlada varadan is also very obedient, he learnt sandhya vandanam and continued it with out any mistake in the procedure as said by his father. Prahlada varadan, with great enthusiasm used to ask his father every day to teach a mantra which makes him see the god. Father used to skip every time as he thought his son is too small to experience the feeling of god. But on asking him many times, he made his son learn a mantra called 'GAR...