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Subject: Glory of the Divine Names of Sri Sathya Sai - OM SRI SAI PARTHI GRÄM UDBHAVÄYA NAMAH - (17)
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OM SRI SAI PARTHI GRÄM UDBHAVÄYA NAMAH - (17) Salutations to Sri Sai, Who was born in a village called Puttaparthi.
Sri Kondamma Raju, a pious soul residing in the remote village of Puttaparthi in Andhra Pradesh, once had an extraordinary dream. It was divine and wondrous. He saw a deity of divine effulgence, who however seemed distressed. She was Devi Sathyabhama, waiting for her Sri Krishna who had gone away, to bring her some 'Parijat' flowers. Day after day passed, but there was no sign of Sri Krishna. She was distressed and tears were flowing from her eyes. It started raining heavily, but Sathyabhama continued to wait, getting completely drenched. When Kondamma Raju noticed her, she asked him to give her some shelter where she could continue her wait for Sri Krishna. The dream ended and Sri Kondamma Raju made a resolve to build a temple for the Devi. Accordingly he constructed a mandir, but due to shortage of funds, a stone was erected, in place of the idol. In this way, the commitment to Devi Sathybhama was fulfilled by Sri Kondamma Raju. Puttaparthi became an abode of the Devi and therefore, Bhagawan Sri Krishna had to incarnate again in the village of 'Parthi', to meet Sathyabhama, who had been awaiting His arrival.
Puttaparthi was formerly known as "Gollapalli", meaning thereby, 'the village of cowherds'. Many cowherds along with their wealth of cattle lived in this remote village. One day a strange occurrence took place. One cowherd noticed that one of his cows returned home in the evening after grazing, with an empty udder. When this became an everyday feature, he set out to find the reason behind it and he followed the cow. What he witnessed was unimaginable. A snake came out of a snake hill, rolled itself around the cow's hind legs and began to drink milk from the udder. The cowherd lost his temper and he picked up a heavy stone, hurled it at the snake and killed it.
Ever since this incident, the cowherd families of Gollapalli gradually declined in numbers and snake hills proliferated all over. People believed it to be a curse of that dying snake. This is how Gollapalli came to be called 'Puttavardhini' , a village of growing snake hills. In times to come it was abbreviated to 'Puttaparthi'. When the second incarnation of Sai took birth in this village, in no time Puttaparthi was transformed into not only 'Gokulam' but a heavenly paradise. Today this village has a prominent place on the world-map and it is a place of pilgrimage for millions of people around the world.
OM SRI SATHYA SAINATH ARPANAM ASTU
With pranams at the lotus feet of our dear Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai baba,
Devotional Wing, SSSGC USA