04 Jun 2025
Swami is Shri Lakshmi Narasimha
Swami used to say that Shri Ajay was a priest in his previous life in Tirupati with the name ‘Yogananda Lakshmi Narasimhacharya’, around 1600 AD. One day, Shri Ajay suddenly said to his wife Smt. Lakshmi in the morning, “Prepare Pānakam (jaggery water mixed with elachi) today.” Lakshmi thought, "What is this? This typical desire, while going to the office!" However, she did not prepare the drink. That day, Swami was in Rajahmundry. He reached Vijayawada station at 9 pm. Ajay garu went to the station to bring Swami. Swami sat on the back of Ajay garu's scooter and said, "Do you know that a lion is sitting behind you now!" He started singing the bhajan of Narasimha Swami all along the way, starting with "Aho Piṅgalākṣāgni jājvalyamānā..." as the first stanza.
Upon arriving home, Swami ordered Smt. Lakshmi to “make the Pānakam drink and offer it to Me”! How strange it is! Then Ajay and Lakshmi remembered what happened that morning! Swami said that He had spoken Himself to Lakshmi through Ajay in the morning. Swami proved a Nārada Bhakti Sūtra, "Tanmayā hi te", that the God speaks through His devotees by possessing them.
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