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Mother Sai
Swami Himself is our Divine Mother.
Swami often tells us that He is showering the Love of thousands of
mothers. His compassion towards His children is all encompassing.
Swami’s word
from “Sai Vaani” (here is an extract)
It was said
that I have taken upon this form in answer to the prayers of
Sadhus and others. There are some mothers who feed only when
the child starts crying. The more considerate and loving mother
knows when the baby is hungry. She need not be called to its side
by a loud wail. This Mother Sai is that type of Mother. I
have come because I felt I had to come. I resolved upon this.
There is no need now for tears and despair, either among the
repositories of the Vedic wisdom or among the good that suffer
from Adharma.
Eswaramba
(The Chosen Mother):
All of us would
have read many articles and books on Mother Eswaramba. However, it
will be interesting to know an episode as told by Swami Himself
during His conversations with the students. I am reproducing
extracts from the intimate talks Swami had with them, during the
Trayee Sessions at Brindavan on 22nd February 1999.
Swami:
Sometime back, a tamasha (fun) occurred. Sreenivasan,
Patle, Sainath were there. That evening, the malthadu (a
black thick thread worn around one’s hip) which I wear for holding
the pancham (dhothi), broke. It was old. Hence I asked them
for one. They did not have one. I asked, “Do any one of you have a
belt?” It should not have buckles because it will be seen. But,
they got a thread That was gunny bag thread. It will break in two
days.. In the room, gruha-ammayee (Mother Easwamma) came
She had left
her body here in Brindavan.
(Some years
ago) It was summer class time. One day,I asked her, “What do
you want?” She told, “I do not want anything. If you are
fine, that is enough for me.” That time I gave her a thick
golden chain. She had told Ramabrahmam, “Do not remove the chain
from my body. Do my samadhi with the chain around my neck.”
The day she
came, she brought the chain. These boys got up wondering, what is
that Swami is talking? Fearing that something happened to Swami,
they pushed Sathyajit inside. He did not see her before. He
was thinking, “There is only one door and no other way. How did
she come inside?” Only for people in this world day and night
exist. For those who have left the body there is no day and night.
She gave the chain to me.
Warden:
Swami, did others see her?
Swami:
No, she disappeared. It fit correctly around my stomach. But, it
was gold. I told the boys, “I will throw this. Whoever catches it,
can take it!” I threw it and Sathyajit caught it. She came again
for the second time. She told, “I gave it for you, not for them.
You heart is broad so you gave it off. Your heart is broad, mine
is small”.
Warden:
Swami, did they all know she did not like this?
Swami:
Aha! They were listening to all these conversation. They got tape
recorder also for recording the voice. But I sent it back to her.
The sound went back to her.
MOTHER
YASODHA:
Now I shall
explain in my own words, some details as Swami had told during
some group discussions. These would have been recorded somewhere,
but I do not know, except that I had heard them personally. During
Janmashtami day (The Birthday of Lord Krishna) it is
the custom in our homes to put Kolams (designs by rice
flour). This day the designs will be in form of tiny footprints,
each pair of them originating from the doorsteps up to the Pooja
room inside the house. We only knew that this indicates the
arrival of Lord Krishnan to our Home, but not the exact
implications of such a custom, till Swami explained it. The story
goes like this;
On receiving
big complaints from the ladies of Bridavanam, Mother Yasodha
wanted to catch Krishna and beat Him. Holding a stick on her
hands, she was calling out for Him and went in search of Him all
over the village. But she could not succeed in locating the Divine
child. Even after an extended period of search, she could not
find Krishna. She was very tired, and she could not walk further.
She pleaded with Krishna, shouting aloud, that she is very tired
and He could make Himself available for receiving the punishment!
The Little
Krishna, took pity on His mother, and wanted to help her to locate
Him. Krishna planted His little Divine Feet in the pot containing
curd, and allowed His prints appear on the floor.
Yashoda thought that she would now be able to catch him. The tiny
footprints, led her to a hiding place where Krishna was seen
sitting smiling at her.
MOTHER
KAUSALYA:
Let us now
dwell upon another aspect of Divine Mother as mentioned by
Bhagavan:
Immediately
on setting His Divine Body on the earth, Lord Sri Rama, had
revealed to Mother Kausalya the Divine Advent of Lord Vishnu as
her child, and had given her the vision. Kausalya had cherished
the Divine Vision of Lord Vishnu and had realized from the very
beginning that Her child is incarnation of Lord. On the physical
level, she always considered the child as her son, and was unable
to offer worship as God. As such, after putting the child to
sleep, she would touch the Divine Lotus Feet of Lord Sri Rama,
reverently, and keep her head on them.
She was
continuing with this practice even while the Child was steadily
growing as a boy and then to adulthood. It was the day when Sri
Rama married Mother Sita, that she realized that she will not be
able to touch the Divine Lotus Feet thereafter. She knew very well
that this privilege of worshipping the Lotus Feet, will now be
available only to Sita Devi.
From that day
Mother Kausalya started worshipping the Lord in mental level
meditating on the Lotus Feet.!
Sai Ram
Courtesy: Bombay Srinivasan
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