03 Jun 2025
Swami is Lord Shri Rama
[Shri Venkateswara Rao, Smt. Saritha]
March 12th was Shivaratri that year. We went to Shri Ganapathi Sacchidananda Swamiji's Ashram in Mysore for the Shivaratri celebrations. As soon as the celebrations were over, Swamiji gave the order. "The Shivaratri initiation is complete. All of you should immediately go to your respective houses. Everybody should reach their respective places by the morning of the 15th," He ordered. What! Why did Swamiji give such an order! We thought. When we read the newspapers, we learned that efforts were underway to lay the foundation stone of the Ram temple in Ayodhya on the 15th. As per Swamiji's orders, we started our return journey and reached Vijayawada.
March 15th arrived. That day was the foundation stone to be laid for the Ram temple. Gujarat was boiling with riots. That afternoon, Swami came to Shri Venkateswara Rao's house in Krishna Lanka at 2 pm and accepted bhiksha. Then I said, “Swami! Today is the foundation stone laying ceremony in Ayodhya. What kind of disturbances are going on, we don’t know”. Having listened to this, Swami explained, “Ayodhya means the place where there is no war.” At exactly 3 pm, Swami sang bhajans praising Lord Rama and Lord Hanuman. It was 4 pm then. While the bhajans being sung, Swami was waving His hands as if He were shooting arrows with both hands, so that there would be no disturbances. “Watch on TV in the evening, I shot arrows of protection,” Swami said. Phani immediately asked, “Swami! They say that the muhūrta is fixed at 2.15! You said you started the bhajan at 3 pm and shot the protective arrows? What is this, Swami?” Then, Swami gave Phani divine vision and showed him the foundation stone ceremony in Ayodhya. Due to some unavoidable reasons, the foundation stone laying ceremony was delayed by 1.15 hrs and it took place at 3.30 pm. He has also seen many many groups of monkeys in Ayodhya.
By the will of Swami, it appeared to Seetamma garu that Hanuman was protecting Ayodhya. Swami ordered, “Tell them what you saw,” and Seetamma garu narrated what she saw in the divine vision. Swami told Phani at 4:00 pm that the foundation stone laying ceremony had taken place in the middle of our bhajans. Swami said that “He used all the divine arrows He received from Vishwamitra” that day. That evening, what we watched in the TV is the truth that the laying of the foundation stone took place at 3.30 pm only. This miracle is a great proof to say that Swami is truly Shri Rama.
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