MOTHER KANAKADURGESWARI OF VIJAYAWADA

MOTHER'S MIRACLE AND ITS AFTERMATH

The story goes that a certain police officer being pompous and power-intoxicated did not allow the customary display of weapons on that day by any-local chieftain or the temple authority too though it has been practiced over centuries. Being a day set apart for Ayudapuja, his action was resented. Mediation, persuasion, solicitation all went up in smoke. People in fear put up  the humiliation in tight-lipped silence. Would the Mother Kanakadurgeswari brook defeat or relish such-intervention? Certainly not! She took the white man's intervention offensive and stopping of the celebration of Ayudapuja an insult to her. So she resorted to the demonstration of her mighty powers. Soon things moved mysteriously and as such the officer received a cable from England that he was dismissed due to abuse of powers. Forthwith, he quashed his own order of stopping the display of arms and joined the public celebration with utmost jubilation and infinite rejoicing. Well, then he received another cable from same England reinstating him to the previous post, canceling the dismissal ordered for. His cup of happiness was full. But lot the Mother s overflowed! The public drank to their hearts content the nectar of Mother's illimitable, invincible, inexhaustible, irrepressible power; Quicker the realisation of this immutable truth greater the bliss, duller the comprehension, surer the misfortune and faster its down fall too. The department realising its folly came forward to atone it by unbounded enthusiasm in participation and celebration.

Hence the hilarity. Hail Mother hail! Let they sports be enacted on and again; Let thy miracles turn so miraculous that ever, the miracles too wonder with eyes wide open at thy mysterious might and bend their heads in humility.

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