Story of the Greedy Priest

Another story: The wife of a priest is greedy about a gold chain on the deity. She somehow wants this. She steals this one night and later on suffers to her misdeeds and looses her speech, husband loses his job and son is severely sick. Ultimately she rushes to Gurugalu who saves her and her family. 

One brhamana (visihtadvaitha) by name Ranganatha and his wife are living happily in their village. One night Lord Vishnu comes in his dream and tells him to donate to the people of the village lberally. From that day onwards he starts donating whatever he had to the locals. His wife also co operates with him. Once when all things are exhausted and has nothing to donate, they decide to leave the village early next morning before anybody approaches them for rheir needs. That night Lord once again comes i his dream and tells him to continue to donate. Since he has no more left with him he is told by Lord that next day morning a bikshuka will come to their house. Hold his hand and take him inside your house and then he will have enough cash to start donating.

As told by Lord in his dream a sanyasi comes to his house in the morning. He holds the sanyasees hand and he immedaitely vanishes leaving behind heaps of gold and silver coins. Once they are rich with the coins, they change their mind. Instead of donating they decide to retain the wealth to their needs and refuses to people who come to them. To teach them a lesson, Lord sees to it that the riches are stolen from them that night. When they get up next morning and comes to know that it is missing, they decide to leave the village in search of some food and shelter. They keep walking but are unable to find food and shelter. Ranganatha is exhausted and collapses. Wife is desperate and helpless. She cant even find some water to feed him. At this point of time Gurugalu is on his way to Bijapur comes across this couple. By his Divyadarshan he can see what all had happened to this couple and the reason for the misery.

Rayaru explains to the wife the reason. They did not obey Lords orders to continue giving arms to the needy and that they were greedy to have all the wealth to themselves. However for the daana they had already given, Lord will pardon them due to their prayaschitha. The wife then agrees to lead a life akin to brahman, to live and let live and would continue to donate to the needy. 

He then asks for water but his followers say that the water is exhausted and there is no water nearby. He chants a sloka and from the rocks comes a fountain of water. Sprinkling of this water Ranganatha wakes up, and comes to know that none other than Sri Raghavendra Swamigalu gave him a rebirth. He then decides to go back to his house and lead a good life and requests Rayaru to go to his house for his seva. That night after every one is asleep the stolen coins are back into the same place and seeing that the wealth is back Rayaru and his team leaves the place without informing  Ranganatha and his wife. The couple is surprised in the morning seeing the coins but repents they could not do any seva to Gurugalu.

Later Swamigalu enters Bijapur then ruled by Shivaji. He comes to know about this. Shivaji performs Pada pooja to yathigalu and takes a vow that he will gaurd the Mysore state and that all religions live in harmony.