28 May 2025
Showing Brahma Tejas
[Sri Lakshmi, Bhaskar]
We are very happy that Swami Himself installed the Shri Datta Piitham on the third floor of our house in Krishna Lanka, Vijayawada. Swami calls this His root place (Mūlasthānam). Every night, we used to arrange a flower bed for Lord Datta in that Piitha and serve Him. Swami used to sleep on that bed at night. My eldest daughter-in-law, Smt. Sri Lakshmi, used to consider Swami as her Guru. But she did not like the idea of a mere human being (i.e. our Swami) moving with feet and sleeping on the flower bed laid out for Shri Datta Bhagavan. One day Swami had strictly ordered us, "Wherever I may be physically, but I will sleep on this bed every night. So, after the doors of this temple are closed, no one should try to look inside through the door or through the narrow openings of the window". We followed Swami’s order. But once Smt. Sri Lakshmi tried to violate that order.
It was the month of Kartika. On one Monday night of Kartika, Sri Lakshmi lit the Kartika lamp at Tulasikoṭa (holy basil plant grown in a big pot). Since the doors of the temple were closed as per Swami’s order, she wanted to pay her salutations to the shrine and so saw inside through the narrow opening of the window
That is so wonderful! That was a wonderful vision (darshan). Lord Datta appeared with greatest radiance on the bed in camphor like white body, in the lie down posture!
She was shocked with surprise, astonished with extreme joy, ran downstairs in great fear. However, she did not reveal the real story until the next day.
Swami came the next day. Sri Lakshmi explained everything that had happened to her in detail. Then, Swami said, "You are the blessed one! You had the darshan of the radiance of Brahma (Brahmatejas). That vision is the fruit of the penance of many of your births." Her joy had no bounds when Swami said this.
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