Thought of the day !
A Copy and Paste from WhatsAPP
Humble tribute to the life of Easwaramma
A pundit once asked our beloved Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba whether His was an Immaculate Conception or a normal birth like any other human birth. Swami then turned to his mother, who was also present, and asked her to comment. Easwaramma explained that she had been told by her mother-in-law not to be frightened if something happened to her through the will of God. Swami's mother was then quoted as saying, "That morning I was at the well drawing water, a big ball of blue light came rolling towards me and I fainted and fell. I felt it glided into me."
Swami turned to Rama Sarma, the pundit, with a smile and said: "There you have the answer! I was not begotten. It was Pravesa, spiritual birth entrance, not Prasava, biological conception." Prior to the birth of the child, a very significant incident took place. Puttaparthi was then a tiny hamlet. In the centre was a well from which people would draw water. One day Easwaramma was fetching water from the well.
All of a sudden, she saw a white luminous light, emerging like lightning from the sky, entering her womb. There was a sudden gust of wind. Subbamma, who came out of her house at that time, saw the light entering the womb of Easwaramma. Till this day, I have not revealed this to anyone.
I am disclosing this today so that you may understand the significance associated with the advent of the Avatar. A day prior to this, as Pedda Venkama Raju was passing in front of Subbamma's house, she called him inside and told him, "Venkama Raju, tomorrow when the child is born, name him as Sathyanarayana." But he brushed her advice aside saying, it was her foolish imagination.
At 3 o'clock in the morning, at an auspicious moment, the child was born. It is natural for any child to cry when it is born. But this child did not cry at all. The midwife and the people in the
household were anxious that the child might be stillborn. Easwaramma was also very much worried. Without anybody noticing her, she pinched the child to make it cry. On the contrary, to her utter surprise, the baby started smiling. Everyone was mystified to see the newborn babe smiling.
Photograph Insert :
Bhagwan's Parents