Devagiri Amma’s husband returns, enters the house, and sees his wife lying on the floor. She has swooned. He calls out to her .

G.B: Devamma, …..Devamma.

D.AMMA: Where are they? …….The Gods Parvathi and Parameshwara, Whom I worship everyday, appeared before me!

G.B: What are you trying to say? Were you dreaming?

D.AMMA: No, no; it is not a dream; it is true! Perhaps it is due to the merit gained in many previous births. Parvathi and Parameshwara gave me Darshan here, right here!

G.B: What?! You mean to say that the very Lord and His Consort gave you Darshan? ……….It is all your imagination!

D.AMMA: You call it imagination, a dream?! …. Please, why don’t you believe what I say?

G.B: Some things can be believed. But if Saints and Rishis who did penance for years and years could not get a vision of the Lord, how am to I believe that you, an ordinary housewife, were fortunate to have His Darshan?

D.AMMA: Yes indeed! Goddess Parvathi Herself blessed that we would have a son and a daughter.

G.B: You are crazy! You are constantly praying that you be blessed with children, and that feeling has promoted this illusion!

D.AMMA: No, no! This is really true! You have so far heard only about the boon that Parvathi granted.

G.B: Oh I see! I suppose Lord Parameshwara also granted you a boon!

G.B: Devamma, is this true? I know you always speak the truth and that there is none so good and noble like you. Yet, I have a doubt about what you are now saying. Even great devotees of the Lord don’t get such a boon; how then can we ordinary persons enjoy such Grace? ………. The great devotee Ramdas struggled so hard to have the vision of Lord Rama. Are we better than Ramdas?…….. Saint Tyagaraja was ceaselessly chanting the name of Rama and contemplating about Him. But did Rama grant the Saint Darshan so easily? These people were immersed in single-pointed devotion, totally detached from the world…… Devamma, how am I to believe that you got so easily the Darshan that these people could not, in spite of so much effort?

Years pass. The couple already have a son and a  daughter. Once again, Devagiri Amma is in the  family way. One day, Devagiri Amma’s husband is  performing his daily worship. He is chanting hymns  addressed to Lord Siva.

He hears voices from the adjacent room, where his son and daughter are having an argument.

A brother is going to be born.
No it is going to be a sister.
No it is going to be a brother.
I say it will be a brother.
I say it will be a sister
………………….…….
Let us ask mother.

The boy and the girl go to their mother and start asking her questions.

Son: Mother, are we going to have a brother or a sister?

D.AMMA: A brother will be born. That is the boon granted by the Lord Himself.

Son: Did you hear? Mother also says that a brother is going to be born.

Devagiri Amma’s husband hears all this and  suddenly he leaves the house. The lady is  surprised and upset.

D.AMMA: [to husband] Why have you suddenly stopped the worship? ……. What is all this? What has happened? Why are you looking agitated? …..…..Where are you going?

G.B: It is true that Parvathi and Parameshwara granted you Darshan. It is also true that they granted you a boon. But you alone received the Grace of that Darshan. I did not believe you then, but I realise now that I am the one who was mistaken. I now want to see what you saw. I too want to have that Divine Darshan! Only then would my life be fulfilled.

D.AMMA: Oh no! What is all this? Please calm down! ………… Why this grim determination? Why this adamant attitude and vehemence? Just because you go in search, do you believe you can get the Darshan of the Lord? Please think calmly!

G.B: Devagiri Amma! My mind is made up. I AM going in search of God!

D.AMMA: Please,……, please, …. For heaven’s sake please listen to me. God is going to be born in our house as a child. See that child and have the Darshan of Siva.

HUSBAND: I am not interested in seeing Siva as a child. I want to see Him verily as Parameshwara, the Lord of the Universe.

D.AMMA: Please, please, …….…..please calm down!

HUSBAND: Om Namah Sivayah, Om Namah Sivayah, ……….

The husband leaves home constantly chanting   the name of he Lord, without looking back even   once. He is determined to go to the forest,   meditate, have the Lord’s Darshan, and merge in   Him. The children are bewildered and start crying.  Devagiri Amma is confused and torn between two  minds. On the one hand she wants to follow her   husband. On the other hand she is drawn towards  her children.

She decides that she will leave her children to the care of someone else and go behind her husband, despite the advanced stage of her pregnancy. She goes to the house of a neighbour and knocks on the door.