Ambika Mata Story Part-1

Jaigurudatta. Jai Vittalananda.
In Sreepada Leelavaibavam, Sri Sri Sri Vittal Babaji had narrated the incident of Ambika Mata.

In her life, she was blessed with a boy child after many years of her marriage.She had traveled on pilgrimages to many Holy Lands in want of a child.But, the boy Anjaneya Sharma, grows with a brain not developed completely.

Both the parents were in very much pain looking at his only son who is not developed mentally .The boy's father dies in this suffering and pain.After her husband's death they had to face many many problems and insults in their life .Not able to face insults any more in their day to day life, they had decided to end up their life.

When they were about to jump into the Krishna river, Sreepada Swami who was there on the banks of river, calls them to Him, Consoles them and blesses Anjaneya Sharma with wisdom and Knowledge. Sreepada Swami blesses mother and son abundantly and advises Ambika Mata to pass the rest of her life in worship of lord Shiva.

In her upcoming birth, Ambika Mata gets a pious life and as she obeyed Sreepada Swami's words she had been blessed with Narashima Saraswathi Swami as her Child!In this life of her's she is named as Amba and even in this birth she gives birth to a child after 16 years of her marriage.In spite of being blessed by Sreepada Swami in her previous birth, Swami gave her an assurance that, He Himself will be born to her in her next life and she obeying as per the Lord advised_she had no children for 16 years.

One's life runs as per their Karam .Even Guru can not interfere in the law of karma.But, holding on to Him with steady faith will give us immense strength to face any kind of situation that we encounter in our life.We have to face our karma and it can not be erased by Guru either..

As told in Sreepada leelavaibhavam, Ambika Mata was a Queen and second wife to the King in one of her previous births. Her thoughts were filled with envy, jealousy, selfishness towards the King's First wife(her sister).When the King's first wife delivers a child, the 2nd wife(Ambika mata) out of jealousy manipulates the King's mind and makes it sure that the mother and baby were thrown out of the kingdom. Ambika mata also had to face and faced the same amount of pain and suffering the child and mother had faced in deep dense forest in Mata's upcoming births.

When she took birth as Ambika, she was in deep sorrow :she had no children, when the child was born he was dull headed and she also had to loose her husband..and she became all alone begging for food with the child, facing all the sorrow and pain the first wife of the king had to face in her previous birth.
And, because of her few good deeds she meets Sreepada Swami and passes the rest of life meditating on God.Even then, the karma which she was carrying from her previous birth was so strong that, even when born as Amba she had to face the sorrow of not having Narashima Saraswathi Swami as her child for 16 years!It is the Lord that has to be born through her, even then karma plays a vital role.After suffering for so long and continuously taking the name of God in her suffering her karma gets erased..and finally attains liberation.

If we think in deep , from this beautiful story we will understand that there is nothing we have to worry about and wasting time thinking of the materialistic challenges we are facing .Let us use this time by continuously repeating the name of God/Guru.
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