Chinna Katha - 30 (Chaitanya - Incarnation of Krishna) (Short Story: As told by Bhagavan Sri Satya Sai Baba)

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30. CHAITANYA - INCARNATION OF KRISHNA

 

Chaitanya gave indication of his being an incarnation to his mother, as a child.

Chaitanya was then a baby crawling on all fours.

 

His mother had a guest in the house, an old orthodox Brahmin, who was cooking

his own lunch from the provisions given by her.

 

He desired his food to be ceremonially pure, uncontaminated by the touch of other hands.

 

He offered to God the food he prepared to eat; that was his vow.

 

It was rather late when the offering was ready. Just when he sat before the

idol of Krishna for worship. The child toddled forward and dipped his fingers

in the vessel of food thus making it ‘impure’ as an offering to God.

 

So, provisions were given again. Food was cooked again, and very late in the

day the worship was resumed. This time, too, the child crawled in from

somewhere and contaminated the sacred food! It repeated the mischief a third

time.

 

The mother dragged the child away and threatened to thrash the prank out of its

head. But the child asked the mother, quite innocently; “He is calling on me

to eat it, but when I go near it he gets angry”. Thus did he reveal that He

was Krishna again?

 

(from the Book: "CHINNA KATHA" (Short Story, as told by Bhagavan Sri Satya Sai BABA))

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