Swami was to give a discourse in the S.A.P. Kalyana Mandapam (marriage hall) in Chennai. Thousands of eager devotees gathered to have His darshan and to hear His inspiring words. His divine form filled them with bliss.
After Darshan, Swami spoke in Telugu. ChithoorNagayya, the celebrated actor and devotee of Swami, was standing by Swami and translating the discourse into Tamil. The audience was spellbound. They were imbibing the honey-sweet speech avidly savouring every drop of it. They forgot themselves in happiness at hearing the divine words of their beloved Swami.
Suddenly a small baby, barely a year old and lying in his other's lap, began to wail loudly. The audience was distracted. Their engrossing spell of bliss was ruined. All eyes turned towards the crying baby, who was the cause of the disturbance. A few seconds passed. Everyone saw Swami on the dais gently smiling. He extended His open palm towards the crying child in the "abhaya" mode (a gesture denoting assurance of protection), but suddenly closed it into a tight fist! That very moment the child fell silent. None could gauge the reason why the baby suddenly started wailing and why he, equally suddenly, stopped crying.
Swami extended the closed fist now towards Nagayya, opened it and said, "A small 25 paise coin got stuck in that little boy's throat and I have removed it. Here it is!" Sri Nagayya was completely overcome by emotions of surprise and happiness and immediately announced it over the microphone. The audience exploded into wild applause. Even though the little baby was right in her own lap, the poor mother did not know what had gone wrong with her child.
(From the book "Mother Sai's Miracles of Love")
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