HOW SHRI SAI BABA SAVED US FROM AN ACCIDENT (November 1986)
For a long time my daughters had been wanting to go to Shirdi to pay their
respects at the lotus feet of our God Shri Sai Baba. There is a daily ST.
Bus service from Baroda to Shirdi. I am very old and do not keep well; so I
thought it would not be comfortable for me to make the journey to Shirdi by
this service. There are however luxury buses also which run on some fixed
days and one of them leaves on every Friday night at 11 o clock. I prefered
this & fixed the programme. We were eight i.e. myself, my three daughters
Lila, Renu, Rajani, two grand daughters Jayu, Kinnu, one son-in-law Shri
Hasmukhbhai & our neighbour & friend Mr Pawan Kumar Jain.
On the morning of Thursday the 13th June,'85 my son - in - law & daughter
Renu went to the office of that bus owner & after paying some advance got
eight seats reserved for the Friday trip and told him that they would come
in the evening to pay the balance fare. Baba was watching our activities
with a smile. He knew that a fatal motor accident is awaiting us on that ill
omened night & so for one reason or another, He got this trip cancelled.
When in the evening my daughter went to pay the balance fare she was told
that this trip is cancelled and so she came back dejected, not knowing that
it was the LEELA of our Sai Baba. This was an indirect suggestion for us to
postpone our tour to some other day, but like children bent on doing a
particular thing we did not pay heed to it. Mr. Pawan Kumar being in
transport business know many truck & tempo owners. He went to the market &
got one tempo fixed for Friday, the 14th June, 85, for Shirdi, Nasik,
Saputara & back and accordingly we commenced our journey at 12 'O'Clock on
that night of Friday. Mr. Pawan kumar being a jolly fellow by nature kept us
all in a happy mood till our wrist watches showed the hour of 1.30 a.m, when
abruptly the driver dozed off. The vehicle was in speed; the wheels began
jumping and we all were frightened. Delay of even few seconds would have
been fatal - the vehicle would have turned topsyturvy and all of us would
have landed in a Hospital. But our Saviour Lord Shri Sai Baba came running
faster than the fastest runner and through the hands of the man who was
sitting by the side of the driver got the situation controlled. We breathed
an air of relief and offered our hearty prayer to Baba for saving us.
Drivers never confess their fault & our driver also like his ilk complained
about the faulty air pressure in the wheels. We told him, to keep awake and
drive carefully. Naturally for some time we had discussions regarding
horrors of such accidents and meanwhile Mr. Pawan entertained us with his
anecdotes and innocent jokes, but the calamities were not yet over.
Unfortunately at 3 a.m. the driver was again overcome by sleep and the tempo
suddenly swerved to the left. Thank God that there was no ditch or a big
tree on the side; the vehicle otherwise would have been smashed. Again the
man sitting next to the driver got hold of the steering wheel and saved us.
We offered lacs of pranams to Sai Baba again for His timely help. Now we
realized that we were travelling under the shadow of a dark cloud.
Hence we decided to break our journey then & there, and so we drove slowly
up to Kim & rested there till morning.
On Saturday the 15th June we started from Kim in the morning after taking tea
etc. At one place the driver misled by a passer-by took a wrong route and we
had to travel about 80 K.M. extra. Any way we reached shirdi at about 7.30
p.m. & occupied one room in the Guest House just opposite Chawdi. All the
members went for a wash but I, taking my youngest daughter Rajani, first
went to Dwarkamai & then to Samadhi Mandir. I remained there and sent Rajani
back for a wash. Afterwards I again went to Dwarkamai and stood near the
Chula, a cooking place of Shri Sai Baba,charmed and spell-bound. Here I
stayed for two days on the 50th punyatithi of Baba in 1968. In the night I
used to sleep just by the side of this Chula. On the first night when I woke
up at about 12 'O'clock I saw that the whole Dwarkamai was thronged with
beggars, who were sleeping there soundly. I naturally uttered "Oh! all the
beggars are happy here and who was I ? Was I not a beggar ? Yes, thousand
times yes, but I should be called an occasional civilised beggar, who was at
that time (1968) enjoying a heartfelt pleasure, in the Dwarkamai an abode of
Baba, a place of inexhaustible treasure of blessings from Him. Who ever
stepped in it, when Saibaba was in the mortal frame, became happy and even
to day who-so-ever steps into it becomes happy. The whole Dwarkamai is
nicely rennovated. The beautiful marble setting is very much pleasing to the
eye.
As I was standing in a dreamy mood in the Dwarkamai, my daughters came with
flower garlands and Prasad to offer to Shri Sai Baba and asked me to
accompany them. After finishing our prayer, we came back to the Guest House
for a night's rest. On the morning of 16th June we again had His Darshan and
then we drove to Nasik and Saputara and while coming back had halted for the
night at Kim and returned to Baroda in the morning of Monday, the 17th June,
'85. Thus Baba saved us and brought us home safely.
May He Bless us all.
Mathurbhai A. Patel
Vadodara,
The experiences of Devotees as published in Shri Sai Leela Magazine, can be
read at www.saileelas.org/magazines/SAILEELA/exp.htm
For a long time my daughters had been wanting to go to Shirdi to pay their
respects at the lotus feet of our God Shri Sai Baba. There is a daily ST.
Bus service from Baroda to Shirdi. I am very old and do not keep well; so I
thought it would not be comfortable for me to make the journey to Shirdi by
this service. There are however luxury buses also which run on some fixed
days and one of them leaves on every Friday night at 11 o clock. I prefered
this & fixed the programme. We were eight i.e. myself, my three daughters
Lila, Renu, Rajani, two grand daughters Jayu, Kinnu, one son-in-law Shri
Hasmukhbhai & our neighbour & friend Mr Pawan Kumar Jain.
On the morning of Thursday the 13th June,'85 my son - in - law & daughter
Renu went to the office of that bus owner & after paying some advance got
eight seats reserved for the Friday trip and told him that they would come
in the evening to pay the balance fare. Baba was watching our activities
with a smile. He knew that a fatal motor accident is awaiting us on that ill
omened night & so for one reason or another, He got this trip cancelled.
When in the evening my daughter went to pay the balance fare she was told
that this trip is cancelled and so she came back dejected, not knowing that
it was the LEELA of our Sai Baba. This was an indirect suggestion for us to
postpone our tour to some other day, but like children bent on doing a
particular thing we did not pay heed to it. Mr. Pawan Kumar being in
transport business know many truck & tempo owners. He went to the market &
got one tempo fixed for Friday, the 14th June, 85, for Shirdi, Nasik,
Saputara & back and accordingly we commenced our journey at 12 'O'Clock on
that night of Friday. Mr. Pawan kumar being a jolly fellow by nature kept us
all in a happy mood till our wrist watches showed the hour of 1.30 a.m, when
abruptly the driver dozed off. The vehicle was in speed; the wheels began
jumping and we all were frightened. Delay of even few seconds would have
been fatal - the vehicle would have turned topsyturvy and all of us would
have landed in a Hospital. But our Saviour Lord Shri Sai Baba came running
faster than the fastest runner and through the hands of the man who was
sitting by the side of the driver got the situation controlled. We breathed
an air of relief and offered our hearty prayer to Baba for saving us.
Drivers never confess their fault & our driver also like his ilk complained
about the faulty air pressure in the wheels. We told him, to keep awake and
drive carefully. Naturally for some time we had discussions regarding
horrors of such accidents and meanwhile Mr. Pawan entertained us with his
anecdotes and innocent jokes, but the calamities were not yet over.
Unfortunately at 3 a.m. the driver was again overcome by sleep and the tempo
suddenly swerved to the left. Thank God that there was no ditch or a big
tree on the side; the vehicle otherwise would have been smashed. Again the
man sitting next to the driver got hold of the steering wheel and saved us.
We offered lacs of pranams to Sai Baba again for His timely help. Now we
realized that we were travelling under the shadow of a dark cloud.
Hence we decided to break our journey then & there, and so we drove slowly
up to Kim & rested there till morning.
On Saturday the 15th June we started from Kim in the morning after taking tea
etc. At one place the driver misled by a passer-by took a wrong route and we
had to travel about 80 K.M. extra. Any way we reached shirdi at about 7.30
p.m. & occupied one room in the Guest House just opposite Chawdi. All the
members went for a wash but I, taking my youngest daughter Rajani, first
went to Dwarkamai & then to Samadhi Mandir. I remained there and sent Rajani
back for a wash. Afterwards I again went to Dwarkamai and stood near the
Chula, a cooking place of Shri Sai Baba,charmed and spell-bound. Here I
stayed for two days on the 50th punyatithi of Baba in 1968. In the night I
used to sleep just by the side of this Chula. On the first night when I woke
up at about 12 'O'clock I saw that the whole Dwarkamai was thronged with
beggars, who were sleeping there soundly. I naturally uttered "Oh! all the
beggars are happy here and who was I ? Was I not a beggar ? Yes, thousand
times yes, but I should be called an occasional civilised beggar, who was at
that time (1968) enjoying a heartfelt pleasure, in the Dwarkamai an abode of
Baba, a place of inexhaustible treasure of blessings from Him. Who ever
stepped in it, when Saibaba was in the mortal frame, became happy and even
to day who-so-ever steps into it becomes happy. The whole Dwarkamai is
nicely rennovated. The beautiful marble setting is very much pleasing to the
eye.
As I was standing in a dreamy mood in the Dwarkamai, my daughters came with
flower garlands and Prasad to offer to Shri Sai Baba and asked me to
accompany them. After finishing our prayer, we came back to the Guest House
for a night's rest. On the morning of 16th June we again had His Darshan and
then we drove to Nasik and Saputara and while coming back had halted for the
night at Kim and returned to Baroda in the morning of Monday, the 17th June,
'85. Thus Baba saved us and brought us home safely.
May He Bless us all.
Mathurbhai A. Patel
Vadodara,
The experiences of Devotees as published in Shri Sai Leela Magazine, can be
read at www.saileelas.org/magazines/SAILEELA/exp.htm
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