Letters from Sri Ramanasramam, by Suri Nagamma

When I asked him, ‘Where are all these from?’, he replied,
‘Swami, after having your darshan, I went out in a cart to a
village nearby as I had some work there. Another cart had
gone ahead of me laden with bags of myrobalams. One of
the bags had a hole from which these myrobalams fell out. I
picked them up and brought them here thinking that they
might be of some use. Let them be here, Swami.’ I took
about two or three viss and returned the rest to him. Such
things used to happen often. How many could we recollect!
When mother came and started cooking, she used to say
that it would be good if there was an iron ladle. I would say,
let us see. The next day or the day after that someone would
bring five or six ladles. It was the same thing with cooking
utensils. Mother would say that it would be good if we had
this or that article, and I would reply, ‘Is that so?’ and the
same day or the next, such articles, ten instead of one, used
to be received. Enough, enough of this I felt! Who is to look
after them? There were many such incidents,” said
Bhagavan.

“What about the grapes?” asked the devotee.

Bhagavan replied, “Yes, they also were being used for the
same purpose as the myrobalams. One day the stock of
grapes was exhausted. Palaniswamy wanted to know if he
could tell some one going to the shop to get them. I said
that there was no hurry, and that he should not worry
about it but should wait and see. That was all. Within a
short time, the brother of Gambhiram Seshayya came
there. There was a big packet in his hand. When asked
what it contained, he said, ‘grapes.’ ‘What! Just a little
while ago, we were saying that our stock had run out.

How did you come to know about it?’ I asked. He said,
‘How could I know about it, Swami? Before coming here,
I felt that I should not come to you with empty hands,
and so went to the bazaar. As it was Sunday, all the shops
but one were closed. ‘I am going to Bhagavan. What have
you got?’ I asked the shopkeeper. He said he had only
grapes and that too they had just arrived. So he packed
them and gave them to me. I brought them. It is only just
a while ago, Swami, that this thought occurred to me.’ On
comparing notes, it was found that the time coincided.

That was a very common experience for Ayyaswami also.

We used to think that it would be better if we had a certain
article, and at the very same hour, he used to feel that
that article should be taken to Bhagavan. If we asked him,
‘how did you know about it?’ Ayyaswami used to say,
‘Swami, how could I know? It merely occurred to me that
I should take a particular article to Bhagavan. I brought
it and that is all. You say that you were thinking of the
very same article at the time. Swami alone should know
about such strange happenings.’ Really, he used to keep
his mind pure, and so whatever we thought about here
used to mirror itself in his mind.”
Are we to be told specifically that we should keep our
minds pure and without blemish? The life of Ayyaswami itself
is an example of this, is it not?