June 23, 1995
Bhagavan while speaking to the kitchen in charge…
Swami : Aaj lunch Ko Kya Diya? (What did you serve for lunch today?)
K. Inch : Paratha, Bread….
Swami : Do they give bread slices for lunch?
K. Inch : No Swami I am telling the breakfast items.
Swami : (Repeating…) Parotha, bread, potato curry, Ragi and coffee. Breakfast is over what is for lunch?
K. Inch : Cabbage curry, Thotakura dal….
Swami : More Thotakura and less dal. Have you given Ghee?
K. Inch : We gave, Swami.
Swami : How many spoons?
K. Inch : One spoon Swami
Swami : One spoon of ghee contains 100 calories. Did you use brinjal and potatoes?
K. Inch : Swami, tonight brinjal curry.
Swami smiled and went away. I MBA and MFM (Masters of Financial Management) students were praying to Swami.
Students : Please talk to us, Swami.
Swami : Yes, I am talking to you
Students : Please talk to us, Swami!!
Swami : How are your subjects?
Students : Nice Swami
Swami : Which subject?
Students : All subjects, Swami.
Swami : Talk, talk and talk…
Saying so He went inside the interview room. At about 5 pm Swami came out of the interview room and pointed at a welding work in progress and asked…
Swami : Is it laser.
Student : No Swami,
Swami : How can you tell that? Don’t look at it.
Student: Please talk to us Swami
Swami : What is your name?
Student: Siva Kumar Moorthy, Swami.
Swami : Where do you come from?
Student: Bombay, Swami.
Swami : What is your name?
Student: Vamsee Krishna
Swami : What is the meaning of Vamsee?
Student : Flute, Swami
Swami : It is not flute. Vamsee means a bush of Bamboos.
Swami walked past and returned after sometime. As Swami mentioned that Vamsee means a bush of bamboos the student had a doubt…
Student : Swami Krishna is also called as Vamsee Dhara, which means a person with a flute.
Swami : What is the origin of the flute.
Student : Bamboo, Swami.
Swami : That’s why Vamsee means bush of bamboos.
Student : Swami who is great, Prahlada or Kanappa?
Swami : Greatness can’t be measured. Both are equally great.
Student : Who is a great devotee, Swami?
Swami : I told you earlier only that we cannot measure the greatness. If asked who is great Rama or Krishna, can you tell? Rama killed Ravana and Krishna killed Kamsa. Rama could not have killed Kamsa and Krishna could not have killed Ravana. Both are great in their own Yugas. Both are the forms of Narayana.
He walked a few steps and turned back and continued…
Swami : Prahalada had sacrificed his whole life.
Student : Kannappa also gave one eye of his, Swami.
Swami : Yes, but it is temporary. Anyways, nobody can measure the greatness.
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