Sri Karunamayi, pronouncement by Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Dear Friends,

 

I would like to continue posting a little from "SRI KARUNAMAYI, A

Biography." Amma's mother was told by Ramana Maharshi that she would

give birth to a divine soul.

 

Here is an excerpt from the chapter entitled, 'The Mother About Her

Daughter':

 

"Thinking back with awe about the miraculous pronouncement by Sri

Ramana Maharshi that she would give birth to the Mother of the

Universe, Smt. Annapurnamba remarked, 'The day and moment in which

that merciful Bhagavan Ramana spoke to me will never come again in

life. Only out of divine love and everlasting devotion can one get

the grace of Bhagavan and not through any other penance."

 

As Smt. Annapurnamba reminisced about the past, her implicit faith in

her _Guru_ was apparent. "Soon after the gractous words of Bhagavan

Ramana, the sad news of His earthly departrue was heard. After that

I visited the Ramana _ashram_ only twice. Is not Sri Ramana

eternal? It is my firm belief that Ramana Maharshi, who cast off His

mortal body just as one discards old clothes, remains alive to me

forever."

 

With reference to her daughter, Smt. Annapurnamba also recalled many

loving and miraculous incidents. Her mother fondly remembered how

little Vijayeswari (Karunamayi) loved butter, cheese and milk.

Especially, she recalled the pleasure she felt when she fed the baby

with rice mixed with cream. One of the first of a series of miracles

occurred during the tonsure ceremony, or shaving of the head, when

Vijayeswari was only three years old. On this astrologically

auspicious day, the family and some close relatives and friends had

gone to the famed temple at Tirupati. After bathing, the group

walked around the northern side of the _mandir_ where the baby had

been sleeping. To their great surprise and anxiety, they espied a

large cobra shielding the child with it's hood. However, after

offering prostrations, the king of snakes contracted its hood and

slowly moved away from the child. Her mother thankfully took the

sleeping girl into her arms, but the priest of the temple, who had

witnessed the whole event, informed the gatherthng that the child was

divine.

 

A second miraculous event occurred in the year l96l, when Vijayeswari

was only three years old. It was the month of _Margashira_

(December/January) and after reading Her songs in the _Thiruppavai_,

the women worshipped Andal, the 9th centurey _bhakta_ who had married

and merged into the temple idol of Krishna. During the afternoon of

that recitation, Her mother was anointing the head of Vijayeswari and

applying _kajal_ to Her eyes. Suddenly, Smt. Annapurnamba was

blinded by the dazzling lights of the sun and the moon in the gaze of

her daughter. Speaking of that experience, the mother recalls: "I

closed my eyes. I felt my body sinking in amazement. After that I

was even afraid to touch my own child." (p. l9-20)

 

Note: Amma's mother has departed this world. I believe this book

was reprinted/revised in l999 but the lst edition was originally

written in l992.

 

 

Blessings,

 

Kathy

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