How I met Baba at Airport - My Experiences - III

[Guest guest]

 

The year I exactly do not remember - it was 1997 or '98. I was working in

Coimbatore. Baba came to Kodaikanal and nearly for about a week rumours were

afloat that he was passing through Coimbatore on his way back to Bangalore.

Finally news came one Sunday evening that Baba would be visiting Coimbatore the

next day - Monday - visiting someone's house at 10am, give darshan in a

marriage hall on the way to airport at 12 noon and take the Indian Airlines

flight to Bangalore at 1.30pm alongwith his entourage of nearly

50-70 foreigners/students/samiti members.

 

>From Sunday night I prayed Swami that he should give me an opportunity to meet

Him that too passing thro' Coimbatore, he should not let me down having come

that way after a couple of years. Monday morning I was in office at 9.30 when

somehow I got to know through my Coimbatore friend Sai Sudha that one of our

common family friends Col Kannan was incharge of Swamy's and entourage's

 luggage to be taken care of at airport. I contacted him to take me alongwith

him. He said airport passes are already made out to him, his wife and my friend

Sai Sudha and it was too late for me but any way advised me to come to airport

at 12 noon.  I was intensely praying Swami for darshan.

 

Finally I left for airport at 12 by which time Swami would be reaching the

marriage hall for general darshan. Col Kannan was at the entrance and he took

me inside from the main entrance and made me to sit in the waiting room

alongwith his wife and Sai Sudha who had passes. Meanwhile I took a small paper

and wrote a small letter and stapled it and wondered that I did not even have a

cover and thougt what a way to give letter to Swami.

 

Now the lorry with luggage came and Col Kannan was busy sending it inside and

the entourage had arrived and they were given boarding passes and they passed

thro the next gate and then security check. Next Col Kannan and his wife and

Sai Sudha entered the second gate and not knowing what to do I followed them

from behind. They had passes I had none. Not even the entrance ticket.  Next

they passed thro the metal detectors and I too walked behind them. No body

stopped me, not even checked me. Finally the last gate and they went past and I

also walked behind them. They were walking to the aircraft and I was too !! The

entire entourage got into the aircraft and Col Kannan turned back and looked at

me with raised eye brows and and signalled "silence". Finally we were waiting at

the entrance to the aircraft with the district collector and some VIPs standing

there. We were all standing in a row. To my thrill, Swami's red car

arrived. Swami was visible thro the glass and he raised his eyebrows seeing Sai

Sudha and raised His hand in blessing. Instantly a silver medallion was

materialised in her hand which I saw instantaneously. Then he got down the car

I gave the letter and Swami had taken the letter and blessed me. My closest

encounter with Swami ever. Then he went up the stairs and raised both the hands

and blessed. We moved away and stood afar to watch the aircraft take off. Again

we were standing in a row.

 

The flight took off and the person next to me in white and white asked me "Hey,

where do your work?". I said "Housing Development Finance Corp". He introduced

himself as Gosain, DGM, Airports Authority of India and incharge of the airport

at Coimbatore. He was enquiring with me about details of housing loans and being

with the top person of the airport the exit doors opened and we were saluted and

I came out of the airport assuring him to send loan details. As I was returning

back, the thousands gathered in the marriage hall were just then dispersing.

 

Swami responded to my prayer. He willed, no security stopped me. I passed thro 3

gates manned by Police including metal detectors unquestioned. Met Swami, got

blessed, saw miracle. Finally, when Swami took me  in, He took upon himself

the responsibility of putting me on to DGM of Airports authority to escort me

out safely from the high security area. Escorted out with salute !! The DGM

Gosain also never came back for any loan. It was all his leela.

Everytime now I go into an airport and go thro the rigours of security check I

always think of that day when Swami made  security  itself as nothing. Jai Sai

Ram.

 

Ramu. 

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[Guest guest]

 

A very gripping episode - Thank You for sharing with us - Yes when He wants to

see you - no one has the guts to stop you - as you become invisible to all of

those security wallas.

 

Sai Ram - Be Happy

 

JP

 

~~~~~~~~~ramu gsv wrote:

Sairam to all:

 

The year I exactly do not remember - it was 1997 or '98. I was working in

Coimbatore. Baba came to Kodaikanal and nearly for about a week rumours were

afloat that he was passing through Coimbatore on his way back to Bangalore.

Finally news came one Sunday evening that Baba would be visiting Coimbatore the

next day - Monday - visiting someone's house at 10am, give darshan in a

marriage hall on the way to airport at 12 noon and take the Indian Airlines

flight to Bangalore at 1.30pm alongwith his entourage of nearly

50-70 foreigners/students/samiti members.

 

>From Sunday night I prayed Swami that he should give me an opportunity to meet

Him that too passing thro' Coimbatore, he should not let me down having come

that way after a couple of years. Monday morning I was in office at 9.30 when

somehow I got to know through my Coimbatore friend Sai Sudha that one of our

common family friends Col Kannan was incharge of Swamy's and entourage's

 luggage to be taken care of at airport. I contacted him to take me alongwith

him. He said airport passes are already made out to him, his wife and my friend

Sai Sudha and it was too late for me but any way advised me to come to airport

at 12 noon.  I was intensely praying Swami for darshan.

 

Finally I left for airport at 12 by which time Swami would be reaching the

marriage hall for general darshan. Col Kannan was at the entrance and he took

me inside from the main entrance and made me to sit in the waiting room

alongwith his wife and Sai Sudha who had passes. Meanwhile I took a small paper

and wrote a small letter and stapled it and wondered that I did not even have a

cover and thougt what a way to give letter to Swami.

 

Now the lorry with luggage came and Col Kannan was busy sending it inside and

the entourage had arrived and they were given boarding passes and they passed

thro the next gate and then security check. Next Col Kannan and his wife and

Sai Sudha entered the second gate and not knowing what to do I followed them

from behind. They had passes I had none. Not even the entrance ticket.  Next

they passed thro the metal detectors and I too walked behind them. No body

stopped me, not even checked me. Finally the last gate and they went past and I

also walked behind them. They were walking to the aircraft and I was too !! The

entire entourage got into the aircraft and Col Kannan turned back and looked at

me with raised eye brows and and signalled "silence". Finally we were waiting at

the entrance to the aircraft with the district collector and some VIPs standing

there. We were all standing in a row. To my thrill, Swami's red car

arrived. Swami was visible thro the glass and he raised his eyebrows seeing Sai

Sudha and raised His hand in blessing. Instantly a silver medallion was

materialised in her hand which I saw instantaneously. Then he got down the car

I gave the letter and Swami had taken the letter and blessed me. My closest

encounter with Swami ever. Then he went up the stairs and raised both the hands

and blessed. We moved away and stood afar to watch the aircraft take off. Again

we were standing in a row.

 

The flight took off and the person next to me in white and white asked me "Hey,

where do your work?". I said "Housing Development Finance Corp". He introduced

himself as Gosain, DGM, Airports Authority of India and incharge of the airport

at Coimbatore. He was enquiring with me about details of housing loans and being

with the top person of the airport the exit doors opened and we were saluted and

I came out of the airport assuring him to send loan details. As I was returning

back, the thousands gathered in the marriage hall were just then dispersing.

 

Swami responded to my prayer. He willed, no security stopped me. I passed thro 3

gates manned by Police including metal detectors unquestioned. Met Swami, got

blessed, saw miracle. Finally, when Swami took me  in, He took upon himself

the responsibility of putting me on to DGM of Airports authority to escort me

out safely from the high security area. Escorted out with salute !! The DGM

Gosain also never came back for any loan. It was all his leela.

Everytime now I go into an airport and go thro the rigours of security check I

always think of that day when Swami made  security  itself as nothing. Jai Sai

Ram.

 

Ramu. 

[Guest guest]

Sairam,

 

brother Ramu's experience is thrilling. Now if you read mine, I hope it is

equally thrilling to our brothers and sisters.

 

I was one of those "haters of Swami" 31 years ago, when my wife brought Swami's

photo into my house, after our marriage.  The very first thing I did (I would

understand if anyone of you wish to throw a stone at me) was to throw Swami's

photo (Today it is decorating my Pooja Room).

 

I did not think of Swami for 20 years and would even prevent other devotees from

visiting Him. I always thought that our Dear Lord was always for the rich and

the plentyful.

 

In 1994, while I was in Airforce Service ( Pilot by profession), I got the

chance to visit Puttaparthy along with the then Prime Minister Narasimha Rao

(By this time, I was mentally tuned to accepting Swami with reservations), for

the 70th Birthday celebrations.

 

My wife who had seen Swami when she was 12 years of age, told me that I must get

a photo with Swami (she was still thinking about her days - the way Swami was

available to devotees, then). I told her that it may be very difficult as I

understand that there would be huge crowds now.

 

Anyway a team of 10 Airforce Officials and two airhostesses along with the then

Prime Minister, arrived at Puttaparthy late in the evening.  A superintendent

of Police (fairly high official) was our escort.  He told us that he would try

and take us for darshan, but cannot assure, as there were huge crowds and he

does not have any say, since Seva Dal control the whole proceedings.

 

When we arrived at the Asram, MS Subbalakshmi's program was going on in

Poornachandra Hall and we were told that there is absolutely no chance of our

getting inside. We were still in our Airforce Uniforms and even telling them

that we have come as part of the Prime Minister's team, did not help. The Seva

Dal team refused to oblige. 

 

The Superintendent of police apologised for his inability to do anything in the

matter and said that he would try to take us for the morning darshan, but we

told him that we would be off to Trivandrum with the Prime Minister in the

morning and our duty schedule did not permit us, to come for morning darshan.

 

Dejected that we were, we started walking towards the Ganesh Gate from the Men's

canteen area, and suddenly a seva dal came and just said "make way, make way"

and told us to follow him.

 

Can you believe, he guided us right through the Poornachandra Hall crossing the

Full hall capacity crowd, and put us on the floor right behind Swami along with

some MPs and others.

 

Brother Ramu tells us about crossing 3 security gates !. Here not only we

crossed the entire hall of jam packed devotees, but also found ourselves right

next to Swami.

The impossible has happened.

 

What happened next ?

 

I promise the "will of the Lord" will continue in my next email.

 

sai pranams.

 

 

Raja

 

 

[Guest guest]

Sairam and tks for sharing your nice moments physically with Swami.

 

papu

-

manavseva

saibabanews

Sunday, March 21, 2004 8:13 PM

[saibabanews] Re: How I met Baba at Airport - My Experiences - III

Sairam,

[Guest guest]

Sai Ram,

 

Great story Raja, Can't wait to hear the end.

 

P.S. Love that your keeping us in suspense.

 

William

 

 

-

manavseva

saibabanews

Sunday, March 21, 2004 9:43 AM

[saibabanews] Re: How I met Baba at Airport - My Experiences - III

 

 

Sairam,

 

brother Ramu's experience is thrilling. Now if you read mine, I hope it is

equally thrilling to our brothers and sisters.

 

I was one of those "haters of Swami" 31 years ago, when my wife brought

Swami's photo into my house, after our marriage. The very first thing I did (I

would understand if anyone of you wish to throw a stone at me) was to throw

Swami's photo (Today it is decorating my Pooja Room).

 

I did not think of Swami for 20 years and would even prevent other devotees

from visiting Him. I always thought that our Dear Lord was always for the rich

and the plentyful.

 

In 1994, while I was in Airforce Service ( Pilot by profession), I got the

chance to visit Puttaparthy along with the then Prime Minister Narasimha Rao (By

this time, I was mentally tuned to accepting Swami with reservations), for the

70th Birthday celebrations.

 

My wife who had seen Swami when she was 12 years of age, told me that I must

get a photo with Swami (she was still thinking about her days - the way Swami

was available to devotees, then). I told her that it may be very difficult as I

understand that there would be huge crowds now.

 

Anyway a team of 10 Airforce Officials and two airhostesses along with the

then Prime Minister, arrived at Puttaparthy late in the evening. A

superintendent of Police (fairly high official) was our escort. He told us that

he would try and take us for darshan, but cannot assure, as there were huge

crowds and he does not have any say, since Seva Dal control the whole

proceedings.

 

When we arrived at the Asram, MS Subbalakshmi's program was going on in

Poornachandra Hall and we were told that there is absolutely no chance of our

getting inside. We were still in our Airforce Uniforms and even telling them

that we have come as part of the Prime Minister's team, did not help. The Seva

Dal team refused to oblige.

 

The Superintendent of police apologised for his inability to do anything in

the matter and said that he would try to take us for the morning darshan, but we

told him that we would be off to Trivandrum with the Prime Minister in the

morning and our duty schedule did not permit us, to come for morning darshan.

 

Dejected that we were, we started walking towards the Ganesh Gate from the

Men's canteen area, and suddenly a seva dal came and just said "make way, make

way" and told us to follow him.

 

Can you believe, he guided us right through the Poornachandra Hall crossing

the Full hall capacity crowd, and put us on the floor right behind Swami along

with some MPs and others.

 

Brother Ramu tells us about crossing 3 security gates !. Here not only we

crossed the entire hall of jam packed devotees, but also found ourselves right

next to Swami.

The impossible has happened.

 

What happened next ?

 

I promise the "will of the Lord" will continue in my next email.

 

sai pranams.

 

 

Raja