Venkatanaatha goes to Kaveripatnam

Soon news comes that Saraswati is matured. So V and Saraswati spend their first night together. ST gives opinion to Gururaja to allow V to take care of a vidyapeeta after Gururaja himself declares unfit for such a role but Gururaja tells ST that V too is unfit although V agrees. ST indicates that family issues might arise due to family now being big but Gururaja does not think so.

One day Gururaja asks V to take care of a field work. But seeing 2 disciples running away from Vidya peeta, V is way laid and in turn starts helping them out with their studies. Gururaja comes to the field and does not see V anywhere. He is extremely angered and scolds V at end of day in front of all family members. Gururaja’s wife is not happy about Gururaja’s anger.

V’s wife is sad about the humiliation. She suggests staying apart. V tells her about ST’s offer of staying in Kaveripatnam. V’s wife likes the idea. Eavesdropping this, V’s mom tells Gururaja about dissecting the family into two homes. Gururaja is shocked but is unable to convince. So, V, his wife and his mom move to Kaveripatnam.

In Kaveripatnam, the current residents still remember Kanakachala Bhatt and his son Thimmanna Bhat who is V’s father. They speak highly of the two. Nostalgia makes V and his mom sad. They are given a place of shelter – same as the place where Kanakachala Bhat stayed. V and his wife clean the house and make themselves home.

Due to V’s policy of not taking any gifts from others, he is soon bereft of money and food and hunger strikes the family. V is unable to make enough from Vidya Peeta. Seeing this, Gururaja sends stuff. V rejects. V’s rich in-laws send stuff. V rejects. The in-laws complain to V’s brother-in-law and sister who visit V to convince him that accepting stuff is not wrong esp when a family of wife and mother is dependent on him. After hours of debate, V is finally convinced that what he is doing is wrong and hence accepts the stuff from his brother. After a long duration, V’s wife and mom have a nice dinner.

Venkatanaatha excels in Studies

One Achyutha is not happy about the progress V is making in terms of education and knowledge. He is jealous. When ST asks some tough questions, A is unable to answer but V answers. So one day when V is studying hard at night in creating some scriptures, A visits V slyly and the moment V sleeps, steals the scriptures. He catches V off guard the next day about the scriptures. But Naani who had witnessed the whole incident slyly comes to V’s rescue and gives V the scriptures which V had created. This makes A twitch in anger.

Another day when a complicated topic is taught by Surendra Theertha Swamy, V notices that none in the class has understood. When after class he informs all to teach the same, no one responds enthusiastically and all go to sleep. However, V continues to study till wee hours of night outside under a bonfire. Seeing this, ST realizes that V is none other than his Master’s Master re-birth. So, he places his own shawl on V to save him from cold.

Next day when A sees this, he thinks V has stolen ST’s shawl and complains accordingly. But ST informs him the truth and tells all the V was working on writing a summary for Jaya Theertha’s Sudha Paata which is supposed to be extremely tough in understanding. Apparently V’s Summary is very easy to understand and seeing this, Vijayandra Theertha Swamy confer on V the name of ‘Parimala’ and also name V’s book as ‘Parimala Sudha’. VT is very happy with V.

Venkatanaatha Marries

Needless to say, Venkatanaatha wins the battle. It is a high strung battle of wisdom and knowledge. The debate goes on for hours but ultimately Venkatanaatha wins. The King of Madurai is much honored to have him in his city and honours him and asks him to sing a song for him. Venkatanaatha obliges.

Meanwhile, there is much talk of V’s wedding. V keeps saying no but his family keeps insisting him. Then one day, Surendra Theertha Swamy comes in V’s dream and asks him why he is saying no to wedding. To this, V says that V knows he is destined to become a Swami one day, renouncing life- so why to waste a girl’s life. To this, S says that it is but fate for the young lady to let go of her husband and it is also destined for V to marry in this life and overcome the lust of marriage. V once more pleads that it is not right for him to marry a girl despite knowing his future but S says that V is becoming self centric and egoistic to solve all of world’s problems. This shames V. He suddenly wakes up to feel a change in him. As a surprise to all, he agrees to see the girl. Very soon, his marriage takes place but since the girl Saraswati is a minor, she is asked to stay in her mom’s place and V is asked to learn higher Vedic concepts under the tutelage of Surendra Theertha Swamy.