Raman Savithiri - 908. Avataar Aanandamayi -02- Surprising childhood! 110708

Months six over!
No crawling, no gurgling,
No toddling, no stumbling.
To everyone’s surprise,
Straight away, one fine day,
Sudhamani walked swiftly!
She talked Malayalam slickly!

Not even her age was two.
She started singing,
Devotional songs too,
Apart from saying,
Krishna’s names all the time!

She began by age four
Composing divine songs
With devotional fervour
In front of Krishna picture!

By age five
Like Radha of Madhura
Like Meera of Mevaar
Like Aandaal of Tamizhagam
Sudhamani longed and flushed
To see Krishna in the flesh

The little Krishna snap
Which she had tucked in top
Was drenched by tears rivulet
And was dried by burning heart

While other children
Were engaged in childhood playoffs
Sudhamani would be found engrossed
Inwardly motionless, many a times.

What she was looking into
The backwaters’ tiny waves?
What she was searching
By her stare in endless skies?
What she was seeing within
By sitting still with closed eyes?
As a star of brood
She astounded village crowd! 110708

Raman Savithiri

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