Vishnudattuni Story

From Swami Samaratha leelamruthamu Chapter 7, narrated by "Sri Sri Sri Vittal Babaji" we come to Know how Vishnu Datta a pure and innocent devotee of Lord Dattatreya, with the help of a Brahama Rakshasa gets Swami's Darshan and His blessings after undergoing many challenges and tests.

When Datta Swami asks him to express any wish, being a pure soul and not knowing what to ask, Vishnu Datta asks Swami to attend the annual death ceremony of his parent the next day and accept food at his home.The next day Datta Swami attends the ceremony and  after all the rituals are done, while leaving Vishnu Datta's house DATTA Swami bestows Vishnu Datta a mantram and advises him to use it for the welfare of the man kind.

Vishnu Datta humbly accepts Datta Swami's advice.With the mantra power, he helps many people around him by showing them the right path.Rather, we can put it this way- Datta Swami used Vishnu Datta, a pure soul, as an instrument to guide and pull people out of suffering.The detailed stories of people who were benefited by Vishnu Datta is given in the holy book 'DATTA DARSHANAM' written by "SRI SRI SRI GANAPATHY SACHITANANDA SWAMIJI".

Few stories from the book Datta Darshanam:

    1) Knowing that Vishnu Datta is curing and helping people who are in need, a family approaches him with a problem.The parents had a boy, who never cared for anything and always  behaved weird. Vishnu Datta listens to them patiently and asks the parents to leave and says he wants to talk with the boy all alone!When asked the boy the reason for his weird behavior, the  boy then speaks as a very wise man(here the soul is aware of its previous births) and humbly accepts before Vishnu Datta that he doesn't  want to get trapped in the cycle of attachments. Vishnu Datta explains the boy how to Love everyone, but, still be detached.The boy understands this truth and agrees to behave and be normal.The parents thank Vishnu Datta and leave happily.

       

      2) Vishnu Datta saves a girl from a ghost, who lives with her and troubles her (in the absence of her husband) taking the form of her husband.

    Just two stories from the book are mentioned in brief, so that all of you may develop interest to read the divine book and get benefited and understand Datta Swami's grace and love for his children. Once we read the book we will be left with immense happiness.Vishnu Datta, as per Datta Swami's advice helped many people in many ways.This is the Guru Seva he has done to Datta Swami. As it is said -Service to mind kind is service to the Almighty and also Service rendered to the  disciples/devotees of Guru is  Service rendered to Guru.

The one who does pure and selfless seva/service to others will always have the blessings and grace of DATTA Swami. Due to the purity in thought and action and the seva they provided to people around them, the couple Vishnu Datta and Susheela Amma take re-birth as Appala Raju Sharma and Sumangali Sumathi Maharani. In this birth, the couple had been blessed with two boys, of which, one was lame and the other blind, as per their Karmic account .In spite of begin blessed with disabled children the couple never left the righteous path and never were disheartened, but they completely surrender themselves to God.

This is a beautiful moral that we all  have to learn from this: What ever challenges we are facing in our day to day let us leave it at the feet of Datta Swami and let us surrender ourselves completely at His Lotus feet and let us do our part of role perfectly with honesty and love.

According to their past karma and the service they rendered as Vishnu Datta And Susheela Amma and present life karma, Datta Swami chooses them as His parents for his 2nd incarnation as Sreepada Sreevallabha. After the birth of Sreepada Swami, the couple thoroughly enjoy their parenthood till Sreepada Swami reaches the age of 16.

One thing that we must understand here is that, due to some karmic account they were first blessed with disabled children. But, the couple never complained nor lost trust in God.Also, the strength to face and accept disabled children could also be due to the great self less service they provided in their previous birth and due to the selfless service they provided in their previous birth, Lord Himself chose them as His parents and gives them beautiful memories of His childhood and immense Happiness. 

This is all about Vishnu Datta and Susheela Amma and their re-births as Appala Raju Sharma and Sumathi Maharani from Sreepada Sreevallabha leelavaibhavam as per my understanding.

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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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Ambika Mata Previous Birth Story Part-2

Jaigurudatta. Jai Vittalananda.
The first wife of the King faced many troubles with the child and due to her good deeds and God's grace she was safe in a nearby kingdom and finally returned back to her husband with the help of Rishabha Maharshi. After the Queen returning back to her kingdom with the child, 2nd wife of the king (Ambika mata) was scared that everyone would come to know of her evil and cruel activities and afraid what action the King would take against her. Out of worry, she decides to take the blessings of Sage Rishaba in order to be safe and secure.

He being a Maharshi tells her that, Whatever pain and trouble you have given your sister(king's first wife) will be experienced by you in your upcoming births, and in one of your upcoming births you be fortunate to have darshan of an Avadootha (Sreepada Swami) and advises her to do good deeds, and be in devotion, to come out of the bad karma she created for herself..

The point that all of us must note and realize here is that, what ever mistakes we commit may not be noticeable by others, but, they are all being counted by the Supreme power and we will have to pay for them and face them either in this birth or the upcoming births.We must be very much careful and aware of what we speak, what we think and how we act.All this should be done irrespective of the situations(good or bad) and people around us.(even if upsetting or hurting us)

We all read previously how the queen when took birth as Ambika mata suffered with her child Anjaneya Sharma and how with the grace and blessings of Sreepada Swami their pain and sorrows came to an end. Sreepada Swami advises her to worship Lord Shiva daily in the Pardosha kalamu and blesses that, He Himself will be born to her as her son in His next avataram..She obeys Him and with extreme faith and devotion follows as Sreepada Swami said, till the last breath of her life.

In a village called Karnja she takes birth as Amba. We all read how she suffered and was in pain for 16 years having no children.From here, it is clear that the pain and hurt she gave to her sister in one of her previous births is still following her.But, the worship of Lord Shiva and Sreepada Swami darshan did no go in vain as she gave birth to the second Datta avataram Sree Nurshima Saraswathi Swamiji. And, this fortune came to her only after she had faced and suffered all the bad karma that she carried along with her from her previous birth. Sreeepada Swami was pleased with her devotion in her previous birth as Ambika but, the karma she carried had to faced by her, there is no escape for anyone from the karma we created or creating.

Here does not end her sorrow!Her karma still not erased completely.The child did not speak for 7 years after birth. The parents could never enjoy the sweet little nectar like words that a child utters while learning to speak.They were concerned whether the child would lead a righteous path or not?Many great scholars hinted and predicted that He is a Avadootha, the child Himself did many leelas which were not ordinary, but, both the parents were always worried.They were a good life by all means, but there was always some hidden pain in them as the child was not able to speak!On seeing their worry, the child, through sign language makes the parents understand that, He would speak on the day of his Thread Ceremony ( Upanayanamu).As promised He speaks to His mother first. But, He being the Sadhguru and clear on his mission of the avataram stays with his parents for only for 1 year.

Ambika Mata was blessed with children in both her lives, but she was not happy and never enjoyed the childhood of the children and they were cause of her worry ( as when she was a queen, tried to poison the elder Queen and as the consequence she delivers birth to a abnormal child).In fact, she herself is cause of her worry. One of her birth she even lost her husband and was all alone. This is the result of her act, by separating the first wife from the king out of jealousy.As she carried this kind of karma from her previous birth( as a Queen) with jealousy, hatred and envy.The principle of Karma is very very strong-- we get back what we give.Either in this birth or next births to come.

Now, we all have to realize that the cause of sorrows or troubles in one's life is due to our past karma or may be present either.The more we are in sorrow the more we must surrender and increase our faith in God/Guru as He will give us the strength and courage to face them. God is the best healer of all the pains and sorrows.The more we face challenges in life, the more we should spend time with God ( taking His name in whatever we do).

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