BABA ESCORTS US

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BABA ESCORTS US

Baba said, "I require no door to enter, I have no form; I always live

everywhere" in Sri Sai Satcharitra Ch.XXVIII.

About a year later Smt. Mani Sahukar had another remarkable experience.She was

to go to Poona for some work. She had her seat reserved in the cubicle train

called Deccan Queen. She sat near the window seat and as there was still half

an hour for the train to start, she began sipping tea looking outside her

window. She suffered from a curious lapse of memory in recognising faces. She

may be introduced to a person, and meet him several times but the face does not

register itself in her memory. Due to this, she was misunderstood on several

occasions, which made her miserable and sensitive. A well dressed man passed by

her window several times, looking at her with interest. She now felt that his

was another instance of an acquaintance whom she had met and forgotten. She

therefore smiled at him as if in recognition, and wished him.

At this, the man became friendly and joined her in the compartment. The train

had hardly proceeded some distance, when the man began to show his true

colours. He even bolted the compartment from inside. Mrs Sahukar, courageously

got up and unbolted the door. She did not leave the compartment because her

suitcase contained some valuable articles. She sat down again, and concentrated

on Sai Baba and prayed to Him to rescue her from the predicament. As she uttered

this prayer mentally, and turned her gaze towards the door, a porter was

standing, looking quizzically at her.

How the porter appeared just at that moment, in a running train, she had not

time to think. She grabbed the opportunity, told the porter to remove her

luggage to the open compartment; she cast a glance at the miscreant, and saw a

look of utter surprise in his face. After she gathered herself in her new seat,

she bean to understand with a shock, that the porter might not be an ordinary

porter. She went up and down the corridor of the train, to meet porter again

and thank him, but he was nowhere to be found. She got down at Poona, thrilled

and chastened.

(Taken from the book "The Eternal Sai")

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