Congratulations echo from all directions 2

There is another incident in which an old sanyasi stood for one and a half hours at the doorstep. Taiji was worried and walked out of the house and asked the sadhu why he was casting an evil eye on the child and what harm the child had done to him. On hearing this, the sadhu clarified that he had not come to do anything evil to the child and that he had come to just see him. He said that, I got feeling that a great soul from the Himalayas has taken birth in your house. So, I have just come to see the child. Let me just take a short glance at him and I will go away. The mother abided by Sanyasi's wishes and showed him the child. She also clarified that she will not show the child to any Sadhu from then on and that no one should come to their house with such a request.

She then went to her room and sat in front of Lord Krishna and kept crying for a long time. The mother was confused and alarmed at the various terms like Soul from the Himalayas, Siddha Purush etc and was worried if she would be separated from her child in the future and if he would become a mendicant  of some kind. it is possible that the mother would have prayed to her revered deity that she be never separated  from her child and that he always stayed with her. What the devotee asked her Lord is completely a private conversation. But the visible result was that saint and mendicants stopped visiting their house after that day.

The initial 3-4 years were spent with parents enjoying their child learning to walk and utter his first words. Three years after the birth of Shriram, one more girl child entered the family. She was named Kiran Devi. One more sister was born in due course and she was named Ram Devi. After the birth of his sisters, Taiji's attention got divided among her three kids. Until then she used to shoulder the entire responsibility of the house right from cooking food to hosting the guests. While doing all her household work, her eyes were always on Shriram. She rarely left her son under the care of any family members or even his father. The words uttered by mendicants regarding Shriram kept echoing in her mind. She was always tormented by this lurking fear that some sadhu or sanyasi might cast a spell on her son. After the birth of Kiran Devi, Taiji had to leave Shriram under the care of others, mostly under the care of only his father. She tried to take full care of both Shriram and Kiran Devi. When Panditji was not at home, she made Shriram sleep along with the new-born and when his father was at home, she would leave him to his care.