INDeco Hotels as a group is committed to Ecology,Heritage
and Conservation. An uncompromising mission.Nevertheless,until this day, this
Heritage Hotel Chain remains India’s only winner of the Global Eco Tourism
Award.INDeco creates hotels to protect and conserve heritage.The estate that
currently houses INDeco Hotels
Swamimalai is a divine acquision. This Unique Heritage Hotel,near Tanjore in
Tamilnadu,in its former avatar as the home of Shri.Srinivasan,has played host
to the great hindu pontiff, Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami,the 68th
jagadhguru of the Kanchi Kamakodi peedam.
This Kanchi Paramacharya’s choice to stay here was a mystery to many
but until now,his energies swell here,not only in the space where he
rested but in the entire environs.
A rivulete of the river Cauvery,lead by a naga, flowed here to serve
him.
A mysterious naga,chose to stay here to protect this estate so graciously and died soon after the demise
of the Kanchi Saint when the property was acquired by Steve Borgia.
The nagalinga tree, near this space unusually bloomed in thousands
during the presence of Sankaracharya here,spreading its aroma all over the
estate.
The Sankaracharya of Kanchi connected with many elements here….this
estate,the 1896 Tanjore Bangla,the mud wall,the durga painting,the rivulet of
river Cauvery,the naga,the nagalinga blooms,the neem,vilvam
,maghudam,manoranchitham trees and the very divine words of Paramacharya.They all
dwell here in divine harmony unlike the old naga that chose to die soon after
the death of the saint.
The sanctity continued…in 1996 when we were restoring the old 1896
house,we laid our hands on an old yellow trunk containing some rare photos of
the paramacharya and some documents. They have been carefully restored and
exhibited here. Pictures though. They speak volumes while the vilvam,magidam,manoranchitham
and the neem planted by him sway his aroma.
INDeco recognizes these energies and devotedly respects every
reminiscence of the saint. This part of the hotel remains vegetarian and a non
smoking zone. The walls that compounded him are left undisturbed for we feel
his energies in them even now….oh we can go on and on. For the benefit of the
devotees of the Saint of Kanchi all over the world,INDeco has exhibited most of
the element mentioned above in a manner as humble as him.
