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. 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 tv 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 o| our room is open.

 

I After eating the " Dosas " my son went to wash the plate

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.

 

(Adopted from Sri Sai Leela dec 1973)