Passage 8

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As soon as I came, he asked Me to sit on the bed. “Swami! The sky may break into pieces, the ocean may dry up, but Your promise will never go for nothing. You have come now for the promise You gave nineteen years ago,” he said. I smiled. “Don't deceive me with smiles. Here, take a tumbler, drink from it once and pour what is left into my mouth,” he said. He told a story. “Daśaratha performed the Putrakāmeṣṭi and begot four sons. Nārāyaṇa Himself, in person, was born as his son. Ādiśeṣa himself was born as Lakṣmaṇa. The conch and the discus themselves were born as Bharata and Śatrughna. Though they were born so, there was not one of them to pour water into his mouth. Swami! You were born in our Ratnākara line. Āpastamba sūtra, Bhāradvāja gotra. All of them are God's own. That God was born in my house. Here, grant me just this one blessing. Do not disappoint me,” he said. I told him. “That is just what I have come for,” I said. As I took the water and was about to go ahead, he said, “No, no, You must drink and then give it.” I drank a little and poured it into his mouth. “Easwaramma! Swami's glory will spread through the whole world. This very world will change greatly. People from foreign lands too will come to live here. Be careful. Do not, out of Māyā, give room to the attachment that says, ‘my son, your child.’ He belongs to everyone. Bṛndāvana belongs to everyone; Govinda surely belongs to everyone. Swami belongs to everyone. He does not belong to our family alone,” Kondamaraju said. Saying this, he placed his hands on My feet and gave up his life. He comes back now and then. “Swami, there is no more birth for me. By Your grace I am blessed. I have become the very form of amṛta”: saying this, now and then he would come back in that same body itself, and say, “Some things are going this way, some things that way in the Mandir; be careful, Swami, be careful,” and go. “No one can catch You. You have no fear of any kind. But because I am bound to this body, I am telling You; take this as my prayer,” he would say. Even now Kondamaraju and Easwaramma come now and then.