THIS IS BIRTH OF FIRST DATTATREYA( shiridi sai is 5 th avatar of dattatreya) AVATAR SREEPADA SREEVALLABHA- I STRONGLY FEEL EXTREMELY FORTUNATE AND BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO READ THIS ONE - BIRTH OF SREEPADA SREEVALLABHA A Brahmin couple Appala Raju Sharma and Sumathi, were devotees of Lord Datta.They had many children of whom only two survived. One was lame and the other was blind. They worshipped Lord Datta and never failed to offer food to mendicants and monks. They looked upon on all such as the very forms of Lord Datta. One day, they were performing the annual ceremony in their house and many Brahmins were invited as guests for the feast. Tradition holds that none should eat on that day before these guests partake their food. At that time Lord Dattatreya appeared at their threshold in the form of a renunciate sadhu (saint), bearing the staff and the water-vessel (Kamandalu) and asked for food. The housewife, with immense faith that the visitor was none other than the Lord to whom the whole annual ceremony was being offered, gave Him food even before the Brahmin guests were fed! Her faith touched the Lords heart and He at once granted her a vision of his true form. His glorious form had three heads, clad in a tigers skin and his body besmeared with sacred ash (vibhuti), he looked like a silver mountain in moonlight. The blessed housewife drank the divine glory of the Lords from and felt that the highest object of her birth was fulfilled. The Lord said, Mother, I am pleased with your devotion. Even before you fed the Brahmin guests, you have given me food with the full faith that this is the Lord in the guise of a holy mendicant. Now, ask me for anything you wish and it shall be granted. The sight blessed her eyes and now her ears were sanctified by His sweet words. Lord, she said, Lord! You addressed me as mother, please let your word be turned into reality Lord replied Tathastu (so be it) and disappeared. Lord Dattatreya, in order to bless his devotees and the righteous ones, wanders about in the guise of a random guest at the lunch hour. Thats why it is said that a random guest has to be treated as the very embodiment of Lord Dattaterya. Then Sumathi told her husaband of the Divine vision the Lord had bestowed on her and of his granting her wish for a divine son. Not long after, Sumathi conceived and delivered a male child at the proper time on Bhadrapada suddha Chavithi (Ganesh Chaturthi). She gave birth to one who is indeed birth-less. There was no birth in the normal sense, the Lord just manifested Himself as a child in this house. As the child has all the Divine features with celestial radiance, he was fittingly named as Sripada. This was the first incarnation of Lord Dattatreya. MIRACLE AT THE TIME OF BIRTH ( Sreepada was not born out of physical union of parents. Yogic lights emerged from the eysy of Appalaraj Sharma and mother sumati who were in deep meditation. These lights combined and stayed in the womb of mother sumati. ) Sripada was born in the early hours of Ganesh Chathurdhi in Chitra star, in Simha (Leo) Lagna and Tula (Libra) raasi. About Sreepada it was mentioned that He was an incarnation of Sree Datta, and as His Feet were marked with all auspicious features, He bears a worthy name as Sreepada Sreevallabha. It was further noted that His horoscope should not be given to anyone and that it will reach in course of time through Akshya Kumar of Tripura belonging to Jain religion. All that would happen according to divine plan and it would reach Pithapuram as a part of divine play. When Sreepada Sreevallabha was born, a cobra with three hoods was holding its hoods as an umbrella where ever He was kept for 18 days. Sripada Srivallabha came out of the mothers womb as a dazzling illumi nation. Sumati Maharani fainted immediately after he was born. Auspicious musical notes from musical instruments were heard from the labour room. After some time an invisible voice warned all people to leave the room. Four vedas, eighteen puraanas, great persons arrived in the shape of brilliant lights to Great Sreepada. Sacred vedic mantras were heard outside the room. Silence spread after sometime. Sripada finished his studies of Vedas, shastras etc. by the age of Seven and after his Upanayan (Thread Ceremony) he started lecturing on these. When he reached age of 16, his parents thought of getting him married. However he said that I am married to only one woman Vairagya-stree (Vairagya means Dispassion, stree means woman) and All women in this world are like my mother. My mission is to give initiation and guidance to sadhus (holy men). and thus he should be called Shriya-Vallabh. Thus the name Sripada SriVallabha. Speaking thus he sought permission from his parents to become a sannyasi and to leave the house. The parents were loathe to forego such a son. Apart from this the other two children were dumb, deaf and blind. If Sripada left his parents, who will look after them in their old age. Sripada understood their anxiety. He called these blind and lame brothers, his heart, melting with compassion at the sight of the tears in his parents, Sripada touched his brothers and made them whole in a moment! What is impossible for the Almighty and the lord of the universe? Then the Lord granted them the vision of His real Divine form. The handsome, tender lad at once appeared radiant like a million suns and pleasing as myriad moons. His blissful nature seemed to enliven every atom of existence. With their permission, He renounced all worldly ties and trekked to several Holy places like Dwaraka, Brindavan, Mathura, and Badrinath. After wandering there for sometime, He marched down to the Holy Gokarna in order to bless the spiritual seekers. Sripada lived for three years in Gokarna. Having uplifted several seekers there spiritually, the Lord went to Kurvapur and settled down there. His Karmabhoomi is Pithapuram and His Tapobhoomi is Kuruvapuram, His incarnation is started in Pithapuram and completed in Kuruvapuram. Sripada Srivallabha is an embodiment of all Deities. He also narrated that, “People of all countries in the world; people from all races and all traditions; will come to Pitthapuram in any birth, on any day and have the darshan of Sri Sripada. Great personages, great yogis and people of all countries come to My Darbaar to have My darshan, like rows of ants. The moment I give permission all due tasks will be done atonce. If, necessary, I throw the people whom I consider as My own, in Pithikapuram by dragging them with their hair, however rich he might be or however great yogi he might be. This is confirmed and true. All of you remain in your positions following My intention only. I can make a beggar as a king and I can change a king into a begger also. I will grant whatever a devotee dependant on Me requests. I will examine before granting, whether that devotee can retain so much superior power and whether he will use his capacity and power for the welfare of the world or not. Plenty of virtue is required to step into my birth place and to participate in any event, activity, occation or programme of Mine in the Samstan. Very much fotune is required to make financial assistance to My Samstan.”
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