In plain words
Then a wind like a mist of white colour blew. Seeing it, Subbamma too, who was in her house, came out and said, “Somehow it looked to me as if a light from the sky entered Easwaramma's womb.” Till this day I have told this to no one. Today I am making it known so that all may know it. On the evening before this event Venkamaraju was walking past Subbamma's house. Then Subbamma called him inside: “Venkamaraju! Name the son to be born to you tomorrow night ‘Satyanārāyaṇa’,” she said. But he scoffed, “All this is the foolish stubbornness of women.” All right! The next day, at the auspicious hour of three before dawn, the son was born. To cry the moment it is born is the mark of every child. But this child did not cry in the least. Seeing that, the women around were alarmed that the child had been born as if lifeless; hearing all their words, Easwaramma too grew afraid. Without telling anyone she pinched the baby hard: if there is life, he will cry, after all. Instead of crying, that child laughed. The newborn was not yet even an hour old. How astonishing, to laugh at such a time! At once Karaṇam Subbamma came to their house: “Amma! I heard that your son was born within the auspicious hour. I have come to see him,” she said. Being a brahmin woman, she would not touch a woman just delivered. So Easwaramma placed the baby on a cloth and put it at a distance, for her to see the baby. In those days brahmin women kept strict ritual purity and observance. If they touched a newborn baby, their habit was to bathe. Meanwhile Easwaramma's mother-in-law came there: “What is this, Easwaramma! When she has come to see the son, you are putting the baby so far away from her; hand him to her,” she said. To that Easwaramma: “Mother-in-law! Subbamma's firmness is very great. Subbamma has proved herself an example even to the ancient ṛṣis. She does not touch any of our children,” she said.
This child kept growing day by day. But the child's ways were somewhat strange. He would not speak with anyone. Sparing in speech, sparing in food: as time went on in this way, the mother Easwaramma kept wondering greatly. Usually every child that is born craves for food. This child would not let things like fish and meat even come near him. If such unclean foods were cooked in anyone's house, he would not go even to that house. Easwaramma recognised that, since he had come of the prasāda of God, he did not like such foods. The elder daughter Venkamma kept the beat for Easwaramma. Easwaramma and Venkamma would draw the boy close and sing songs of God all the time. The child grew up with this practice. Meanwhile the elder brother Seshama Raju, saying there would be no schooling at all in this village, took him to Uravakonda. Seshama Raju's friend Rama Raju, wishing in the holidays to take the boy to the holy place of Hampi near Bellary and give him the darśan of God, took him to the Virūpākṣa temple. The abhiṣeka was going on in the Virūpākṣa temple at that time. At the time of the abhiṣeka no one could see the form of Virūpākṣa. This boy was seen moving about in that sanctum. Seshama Raju, seeing that, grew angry. “It is surely not proper for this boy to appear like this in the place of God in the temple's sanctum!