WHY FEAR WHEN I AM WITH YOU

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WHY FEAR WHEN I AM WITH YOU

Baba said, "Believe in Me and remain fearless and have no anxiety" in Sri Sai Satcharitra, Ch.XXIII.

During 1960-61, Sri B. Satyanarayana was working as an Assistant Engineer,

Western Railway at Bitad, about 100 miles from Ahmedabad. A mail train met with

an accident at 7 p.m. at a place called Bhimnath which was in his jurisdiction.

The accident resulted no loss of lives. Sri B. Satyanarayana had to attend to

transshipment of stranded passengers and to arrange for medical aid in the

enveloping darkness of the night. The place where the accident happened was a

small station where no facility worth the name to meet an emergency was

available. The railway officials began to blame Sri B. Satyanarayana for the

accident. There was none to sympathize with him nor support him. He knew that

he was not at fault, but the railway officials wanted to make him a scapegoat.

In this hour of need, Sri B Satyanarayana, made a silent fervent prayer to Sai

Baba, "you know that I am not to blame, why am I being censured for this

accident?"

Thus praying he went about doing his duty, helping stranded passengers get into

another train located one kilometer away. At 1 a.m., in the early morning, a

tall well built old man, wearing a white soiled jubba which was quite long, a

stick in his hand, a bad hanging from his shoulders approached him. "what a big

accident. How to go?’ said he. Sri B Satyanarayana was too preoccupied with his

work to reply to him. The old man then walked passed him, brushing his

shoulders. At this, Sri Satyanarayana, called one of his assistants and

directed him to escort the old man to the other train. On hearing this, the old

man came back, patted his shoulders and said "Phikhar math karo, sab teek

hojayega". The old man stared at him for a few seconds and left. It must have

taken hardly a few more seconds for the realisation to dawn on Sri B

Satayanarayana. "Oh Baba, is that you"? He shouted and ran in search of Him.

The old man had disappeared in the darkness.

The next day the Chief Engineer came from Bombay. There was clamour for

suspending Sri B Satyanarayana. But the chief engineer said, "don’t worry do

your work." An enquiry was conducted, and he was even appreciated for his work.

Sri Satyanarayana is now retired and resided in N.R. Colony Bangalore

(Source: from the book "The Eternal Sai")

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