Born With a Smile
 "The baby looked at me with a penetrating
gaze and a benevolent smile on her tiny face" says Amma's mother
Damayanthi, talking on Amma's birth. Amma took birth in
a small poor fishing village, Parayakadavu in the Quilon district
of Kerala. She was born to simple and pious parents Sugunanandan
and Damayanthi. Before Amma's birth, Damayanthi had two normal pregnancies,
during which her body would begin to swell during the ninth month.
The swelling was a sign that her body was preparing to deliver.
But, when she gave birth to Amma on September 27th, 1953, the entire
birth was silent and felt almost nothing. Damayanthi looked at the
baby's face and was amazed to see the baby's dark eyes looking directly
into hers with a sweet smile.
Later talking on her birth Amma had said that she had no feelings
of strangeness when she came into this world. Everything was so
utterly familiar to her, and when one knows everything about the
world one can only smile.
"When one beholds the entire universe as a play of Consciousness,
what else can one do but smile?" Amma explains.
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