[Chaturamnaya] His Holiness Jagadguru Sri Sacchidananda Sivabhinava Nrisimha Bharati - 18

[S Jayanarayanan]

 http://svbf.org/journal/vol8no1/2006_10_swamigal.pdf
 
 
Outpouring Grace
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Once in the course of his tour through the
then Travancore state, a brahmin poet of a village
called Asrama approached him with the prayer
that his dumb boy should be cured. The Swami
felt pity for the poor boy and asked the brahmin
to visit him with the boy at Suchindram, his next
camp. There he taught a certain mantra to the
brahmin and ordered him to magnetise a vessel of
water with the intense repetition of the mantra
every day for three months and sprinkle it on the
boy and make him to drink a spoonful with faith.
This the brahmin did; the boy’s dumbness
gradually decreased; he began to speak a few
words and in course of time got cured.
 
The Swami himself gives expression to his
feelings on such occasions in a hymn composed in
praise of the Mother. It says:
"O Mother, people from long distances come to
me for relief from deafness,dumbness, obsession, etc.,
in the belief that I can cure them. What shall I do? I
know nothing of mantra, yantra or other methods of
treatment-nothing except a particle of devotion to
your lotus feet."
 
He had unbounded faith in the power of the
Mother of the Universe and of his guru and he
simply prayed to them and sent away those that
came to him with holy ash or some consecrated
water in the name of the Mother or guru.
Hanumantayya, an Amildar in Mysore
Province, had no issues; he married a second time
in the hope of progeny. But he got none. He now
wished to bequeath what he had to the Sringeri
matha, wrote a will to that effect and prayed to the
Swami to accept his bequest for the matha.
 
The Swami sent him back saying, "Mother
does not want your fortune; She prefers that you
should bequeath your fortune to your children. So
please take the will and go back to your place."
 
The gentleman, instead of taking back the
will as directed, simply added a codicil that if he
should get issues, his properties might go to them;
otherwise they should go to the matha, and it was
for the authorities of the matha to do whatever was
necessary with it.
 
The man afterwards got three sons and three
daughters and died at 80, full of years and full of
faith.
 
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