Greatness of Amma's Darshan - Story

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The story is from Talks by Swami Paramatmananda

 

The Greatness of the Darshan of a Mahatma (Story of

Saint Narada)

 

Once Narada, a saint, went to Vishnu and asked Vishnu

to explain the greatness of a Darshan of Mahatma.

 

Bhagavan asked Narada to go down to earth and meet

this birdie who is about to be born at such and such

forest and ask that birdie as soon as it is born the

greatness of meeting a Mahatma.

 

So, Narada flew down using his mystic powers and

reached the forest. Sure enough, the the egg was in

the nest and broke open as Narada watched. He looked

at the birdie and asked him, " What is the greatness

of meeting a Mahatma"?

 

Hearing that, Birdie looked at Narada and died right

then and there. Narada 's heart was filled with pain

and went back to Narayana and told him that he didn't

get any reply from the birdie and not only that, the

birdie died on the spot in front of him.

 

Bhagavan asked Narada to try again , this time with a

calf that was being born in such and such place. Just

like the birdie, the calf also died as soon as he saw

Narada. Narada was very upset. He told the Lord to

forget that he even asked this question. But the Lord

wanted Narada to ask this question to a baby Prince

that was being born in a kingdom. Narada had enough by

then and tried to argue, but as usual, he had no

choice but to go to the Palace.

 

Sure enough, just as the Lord had told, the baby was

born and the King gave Narada the permission to visit

the baby alone. Even though Narada was very nervous,

he still asked the baby to explain the greatness of a

Drashan of a Mahatma.

 

The baby started talking and told Narada that he was

the bird and because of the Darshan of Narada, a

Mahatma, he became a calf and then the Prince with

noble and spiritual tendencies. In this Life as a

Prince, he hopes to attain Self realization as he

again had a Darshan of Narada. And the baby Prince

concluded the greatness of Darshan.

 

AMMA Knows this: AMMA knows the value of Darshan. I

believe that is the reason AMMA wants us to put

posters and banners. It becomes our responsibility to

put as many as we can so that we can be instruments in

AMMA's divine plan.