71. BABA MANIFESTED AS A RAILWAY COOLY AND HELPED SHRI HARIBHU KARNIK.

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Once when Shri Haribhu Keshav Karnik of Dhanu proceeding to Pandharpur from

Shirdi, he purchased a passenger ticket to Pandharpur from Kopergaom railway

station. He has to get down at Daund and catch another train to Kurudwadi

and from there to Pandharpur. He got down at Daund railway station and was

waiting at Daund railway station for Kurudwadi train. In the meanwhile he

has to go outside for his privy. He was alone in the platform and was in a

fix. At this critical juncture a railway colly came and assisted him and

showed him the latrine and the pipe and safeguarded his luggage till his

return. On seeing his passenger ticket, he told him to change it into mail

ticket. Karnik gave his passenger ticket and the excess amount to him with

request to change it for a mail ticket. The railway cooly obliged him and

told Karnik to sit in the train when it reached the platform. Accordingly,

the train came and he sat in the train. The co-passengers have asked him how

he would believe that cooly and what will he do if he had not turned up?

Karnik replied that he has got faith in Him. The train began to start and

proceed to some distance. Then the cooly came and handedover him the ticket

in the running train. All were amazed. Is it not the Leela of Baba?

Surrender Shri Sai Completelv \ stupendous Delectations and Deliverance be

there !!

( Adopted from AMBROSIA IN SHIRDI by Ramalingaswamy, Life Member of Shri

Sai Baba Sansthan, Shirdi at Munja Baba Sthan, Shirdi)

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