Blessed Lockets - A memory

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It was during one summer in the early 1990's when Swami was at

Brindavan that I noticed Swami was blessing more than the usual

number of silver sweet platters.

 

One particularly happy afternoon I watched with interest two ladies

seated on the aisle, holding their bright silver platters high while

waiting for his attention. Swami came to darshan, walking from side

to side in his usual fashion, but eventually stopped in front of the

ladies then blessed their platters, which contained, not only

toffees but also photos, vibuthi and lockets. I sat thinking to

myself, I wish I too, had a silver platter to hold high for such a

blessing.

 

Before darshan the following morning, I plucked up enough courage to

buy a silver platter, a huge bag of sweets (mango Melodies), and

three packets of little golden lockets, each one with a small

picture of Swami with his hand held in the 'Abhaya Mudra - (`The Why

Fear, I Am Here' blessing.) and one yellow rose. I wasn't quite sure

how to prepare my platter nor did I know where to place the lockets.

After some thought I placed them under the toffees and then placed

the rose on top. Ah, it looked pretty, I felt sure that Swami would

bless my offering.

 

But Swami did not bless the dish on my first attempt and by the

second day I lost confidence and gave the dish to an Australian

colleague to offer, but Swami would not bless the sweets. On the

third attempt, I was happy to be seated on the carpet's edge of

block two where Swami always walked. He stopped, looked, and blessed

the sweets forcefully. I 'd felt Him taking a large swipe of the

contents into his hand then he threw them, showering what seemed

like a good portion of devotees. I could hear loud whoops of joy as

the sweets were thrown. Puzzled, I wondered why.

 

After Swami had passed by I glanced at my platter for the 3 packets

of lockets, but only one remained. Apparently Swami had thrown two

packets of lockets with the toffees! No wonder there had been such

loud whoops of joy from devotees in block two.

 

A few days later I learned that the lockets had been thrown without

the clear plastic wrapper. In fact they had been dispersed

individually with no trace of the clear wrapper anywhere. One of

the lockets had fallen to a lady with cancer and two others had gone

to another lady with a serious illness! What I do know is the

lockets made a lot of people very happy.

 

Swami had allowed me to keep just one packet of lockets. I was more

than grateful that he had chosen just the right people to receive

the others. Thank you Swamiji, your wisdom is wonderful indeed.