Experience of Darshan

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EXPERIENCE OF DARSHAN

V. B. Nandwani,

Mahim: Bombay 16-

Dear Sir,

Below, I give a recent experience of my son at Shirdi. If you find it upto

the mark, please publish it in Sai Leela.

On 7th of May 1973, I reached Shirdi with my son, aged 14 years. Expecting

heavy rush due to vacation, I had written in advance to the Sansthan asking

for reservation of a particular room for us. Although, the letter had not

yet been passed on to the accommodation Incharge, he offered me the same

room, I wanted. He was also kind enough to invite us both for lunch that day

at about 2 P'M. However, for some reasons, it was little after 3 P.M. that

he came to call us for lunch at the Bhojan Griha. By then, my son had gone

to sleep hungry. I had earlier asked him to go and eat something but he did

not agree. Now, when we both asked him to get up for meals, he refused to

eat anything in anger. Knowing his nature and habit of eating earlier, I

left him and went for lunch with that Sansthan Officer. My son got up at

about 4 P.M. and said angrily " I would not go to Samadhi Mandir. I will not

bow before Baba. I do not want to stay here. I will go back to Bombay even

if I have to go alone. " I knew all this outburst was due to hunger and

anger and so kept quiet.

A little while later, he got up and went out to eat something. Instead of

eating in the hotel, he brought four " Dosas " and asked me also to have

one. To please him I did. He could eat only two. The one left un-touched, he

gave to a beggar.

We were in the room on ground floor touching the road inside Sansthan

compound and parallel to Accommodation Office. Guru Padika Sthan. There is

an L shaped passage between the two rows of rooms. The entrance is from

longer leg of L. The shorter leg has the bath rooms and is closed at the

other end. Thus anybody going in or coming out must be seen by us if the

door of our room is open.

After eating the " Dosas " my son went to wash the plate at the open tap

fixed in the line of bath rooms. Suddenly he rushed back to the room and

said that someone looking just like Baba was standing in the passage outside

the bathrooms with a stick in his hand and that he got frightened. He talked

to me all this standing on the threshold of the room, keeping the door

open. I was sitting in such a position that any body coming in or going out

must be visible to me. I got up immediately and went with him I to the

bathrooms' side and found none there. I feel it was Shri SAI HIMSELF who

gave him darshan. I did not see any one going out of the passage. How

could someone vanish like that, in thin air. None dressed like that was

staying in the other rooms.!

On questioning, my son told me that Kafni was torn on one arm and lower ends

of it were frayed badly. He was pointing with the stick (satka) towards

the Samadhi Mandir.

Then, afterwards at about 6 P.M. my son quietly accompanied me to Samadhi

Mandir, Dwarka Mai and Chawri and everywhere he bowed to Baba, as I did.

During rest of the seven days stay he was extremely happy and made many

friends.

 

(Source Sri Sai Leela December 1973)