The hymn was written 2500 years before by Adi Sankara, a revered Hindu
philosopher. Sankara took Sanyasa (renunciation) at the age of eight. One day,
as a young boy, he was begging for alms to prepare his lunch and he went to the
house of a very poor Brahmin lady to beg. The lady was upset because there was
nothing edible in the house. After searching the house once again she found one
amla(Amalak, gooseberry) fruit. She hesitantly offered it to Sankara. He was
moved after seeing the plight of the woman and sang 21 hymns praising Goddess
Lakshmi. The Goddess was so pleased that she appeared before him and asked him
why he has remembered her. He asked the Goddess to grant riches to the poor
woman. The Goddess first refused to do so because the lady had not done any work
for charity in her previous birth and it is not possible to change one's fate.
Sankara told the Goddess that she is the only one who is capable of changing the
fate of someone by erasing or changing the writings of the future made by Lord
Brahma. The Goddess was so pleased that she instantly showered the Brahmin
lady's house with goose berries made of pure gold...................
Complete
Sanskrit text with meaning in English & Gujarati by Sri Swami Adhyatmanandaji
Maharaj
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