How Baba Grants Anticipatory Bail to His Devotees in Dire Need (October 1986)-Dr. P.S. Ramaswami

[Guest guest]

In the next two weeks I was so completely occupied with the work on hand

that I clean forgot about the affair. Then one afternoon I rang up my

friend's office to know the situation. To my pleasant surprise Shri

Kumthekar himself answered the call. Murmuring some apology, he said he was

coming straight to meet me. And so he did. He was sorry he could not see me

earlier due to an urgent time-bound assignment, he said.

 

It seems, that submitting to the inevitable, he collected his T.A. and was

planning to travel with the whole family to Kirkee by the end of the

stipulated week. Then TO HIS ASTONISHMENT, ON THE EVENING PRIOR TO THE DAY

INTENDED FOR THE JOURNEY, A LETTER FROM HIS BOSS WAS DELIVERED TO HIM

CANCELLING THE ORIGINAL ORDER! It left him speechless and overwhelmed at the

INCREDIBLY WONDERFUL MANNER IN WHICH BABA HAD ACTED. THE REALLY THRILLING

PART OF THE WHOLE AFFAIR FOLLOWED. THE NEXT MORNING, ABOUT II A.M. AS SHRI

KUMTHEKAR WAS ABOUT TO START HIS MEAL A FAKIR DRESSED LIKE BABA CAME AND

STOOD AT THE DOOR. WHEN SOME COINS WERE OFFERED TO HIM IN THE USUAL WAY, HE

DECLINED SAYING HE WANTED FOOD WHICH WAS READILY OFFERED. ACCEPTING IT, HE

GAVE A SMALL PACKET OF UDHI TO SHRI KUMTHEKAR ASKING HIM TO KEEP IT BEFORE

DATTA'S PORTRAIT, OFFER 'AARTI' AND THEN OPEN IT. ACCORDINGLY, IT WAS DONE.

WHEN THE PACKET WAS OPENED, INSTEAD OF THE UDHI, THERE WERE FIVE MINIATURE

CONCH SHELLS. SHRI KUMTHEKAR HASTENED BACK TO THE DOOR ONLY TO FIND THE

FAKIR GONE. ONLY THEN DID IT DAWN UPON HIS MIND THAT THE FAKIR WAS NONE

OTHER THAN BABA HIMSELF. The conch shells were kept as objects of

Dr. P.S. Ramaswami

Hyderabad

 

The experiences of Devotees as published in Shri Sai Leela Magazine, can be

read at www.saileelas.org/magazines/SAILEELA/exp.htm

[Guest guest]

Sai Ram Leeladhar,

Sai Baba manifested a miniature conch shell at a Thursday night group I was at

in the nineties.

 

I was already sitting down and my friend, on my left, was preparing to sit in

her chair when all of a sudden I saw something fly across in front of me and

bounce off her chair (making a noise when it hit), then land on the floor. When

she picked it up off the floor and we saw it was a seashell I told her it must

be a gift for her from Baba since it hit her chair.

 

I don't think I've ever seen a shell like that in the US.   

 

Here's a photo of a conch shell which looks similar:

http://www.acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_pages/0059-0509-2306-5935.html

 

 

Sai Blessings,

 

Lisa

 

 

 

saibabanews, "leeladhar" <leedhar@r...> wrote:

>

> In the next two weeks I was so completely occupied with the

> work on hand that I clean forgot about the affair......