“Velvi” in Tamil language means Penance. Through ages, in India, it has been a classical example for the process of “Materialization of Intentions”. Indian sub-continent is the foremost to discover that thoughts can be materialized if they are given intensity. The sages of ancient India devised numerous methodologies by with one can intensify the thoughts that are wanted to be materialized.

For the sake of Universal welfare and Universal Peace, Gurumahan undergoes Holy Penance called ‘Velvi’ in the month of Dec.-Jan for 21 days every year by adopting himself into deep meditation inside the Pranava Alayam (Holy Pyramid) abstaining from food and from vicinity of the public. So far 26 Holy Penances have been performed till these 26 years.

In December 1991 first time Gurumahan undertook a 21 days Holy Penance for the upliftment of the spiritual values of the people. He was in deep Meditation in ‘Deiveeham’, his house in Bhavani, letting himself locked in a room without food, water, speech and seeing none. He emerged after 21 days of deep meditation, on 07/01/1992, which was Gnanavallal Paranjothi Mahan’s Samadhi day. This 1st penance was consecrated to the element Earth.

Thereafter the next year, from 16.12.1992 to 10.01.1993, the velvi or Holy Penance for 24 days was held at Bhavani in a thatched pyramid shelter on a rock on the confluence of the rivers Bhavani, Kaveri and Amutha. This penance was for water. After completion of this Penance he was affectionately named as “Jagatguru Maha Maharishi Paranjothiar by all disciples.