Hari OM
Sounds-day is for listening/viewing a variety of
devotional items from and for all ages and traditions.
Adi Shankara became a monk at a very young age. The story goes that
one day, he went begging for his food as was the custom, and arrived at the hut of a very poor Brahmin woman.
The woman had no food at home except an Amla fruit (gooseberry), and she gave
this to Adi Shankara. He was so overwhelmed by her generosity and so moved by
her poverty that he extemporaneously composed and sang the Kanakadhara Stotram
in front of the woman's hut. This prayer instantly invoked the Goddess Mahalakshmi, who rained
down a shower of gold for the woman. Each piece of gold was shaped like a
gooseberry.