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🌹   Sripada Srivallabha Charithamrutham - 269   🌹

✍️ Satya prasad
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

Chapter 33
🌻. Sripada Himself performs the marriage of Ramani and Narasimha Raya - 1 🌻

We took permission from Sripada. Sripada said “My Dear! From here you go to Sri Peethikapuram.

My auspicious blessings will be with you as companion.” In accordance with the order of Sri Maha Guru, I and Sri Dharma Gupta reached this side of Krishna. We saw Sricharana’s foot imprints on a stone. Sripada used to do Surya namaskaras standing on that rock. Seeing Sricharana’s foot imprints on the rock, we were surprised and happy. We reached a village called Panchadev Pahad.

We were going along a narrow path made in the jowar crop. The owner of that crop welcomed us with honours. He gave us sweet fruits to eat. He also gave sweet butter milk to drink. His name was Narasimha Raya. He built a house in the crop field itself.

He requested us to rest in his house for one day and accept his hospitality. We agreed. He started telling Sricharana’s leelas like this. “Sir! My name is Narasimha Raya. I used to be a weak fellow and a coward in childhood. My parents died in my young age.

I grew up in my maternal uncle’s house. My aunt was an arrogant woman. I had to do a lot of work in the house. The work in the fields was also very heavy. My uncle had a daughter by name Ramani. In beauty she was much better than all the girls of our caste in our village.

Moreover, she had all good qualities and she also had devotion towards God. She used to worship Sri Krishna. She could not tolerate when her mother was giving me stale food.

I would get meager food and no respect, but I had to do a lot of work. Without her mother seeing, Ramani used to give me sweet fruits and hot food. If my aunt saw it, she would be receiving beatings and scoldings from her.

Though my uncle was good, he was useless and could not say anything to his wife. Sometimes, my aunt used to hire young Kapu people to beat me. By nature I was weak.

With these beatings I became weaker. I was a coward. So, the neighbors also used to look down upon me. People younger than me also used to ridicule me.

As our Ramani was beautiful, the young Kapu people in our village used to have a desire to marry her. But Ramani had a desire to marry me. I had no lands. My body was weak. Moreover, I was a coward. My uncle was a rich man and had lands.

Though he was good, he was fond of money. My aunt, though arrogant, had the nature of getting deceived by flatterers. My ramani used to pray Krishna Bhagawan that I should become her husband come what may.

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06.Sep.2020