LIVE EXPRIENCES OF THE TARKHAD FAMILY WITH SHRI SAI BABA OF SHIRDI -6

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Facing Death in a Cloudburst in Shirdi

"Om Shri Sainathaya Namaha."

Dear Sai Devotee readers, I presume that you must have paid a visit to Shirdi at

least once. The present Shirdi and the Shirdi of yester years when my father

used to visit, there is a vast difference. During that time when you enter

Shirdi from Kopergaon end there was a rivulet, which you were required to cross

to enter Shirdi village. Most of the times of the year the rivulet was dried up,

only during monsoon season one would find it actively flowing. Currently one

would find a small bridge over it on the main road. In those days villagers use

to perform their morning duties on the banks of this rivulet. As such there were

lot of shrubs and the place was appropriate

before the sunrise, as there was hardly any traffic on the road.

Those were the rainy days when my father was in Shirdi. He was in the habit of

getting up early and after performing morning duties he would attend the Kakad

Aarati. On that eventful day he got up early and proceeded to the bank of the

rivulet to perform his morning duties. It was drizzling so he carried an

umbrella and torch with him. During his course of morning duty he heard someone

shouting from the other bank of the rivulet. Initially he ignored the shouts. He

tried to locate the person but due to darkness he could not see anyone. Soon he

realized that the person was shouting and asking to runaway from the bank. He

was shouting in Marathi and saying that" LONDHA ALARE ALA PALA." My father did

not understand the meaning of LONDHA. (A torrent) as such his education

was in English medium and it was difficult for him to understand the colloquial

Marathi. However he could sense that the person was warning everybody to run

away from the place. He hurriedly finished his morning duty and stood up and

lighted the torch to find out what was going around. Soon he realized that a

huge column of black colored water 15 to 20 feet in height was coming towards

him. There was a cloudburst, which had taken place during the night at a far

away place resulting into sudden floods in the rivulet. He realized that his

end was near and he shouted saying "BABA MELO MALA WACHAVA". (Baba I am dying

and please save me.) He closed his eyes and just stood still in that place, all

the time chanting Baba's name. After some time he realized that he had not been

swept away and he was still alive. He opened his eyes and what he saw was

believable. The column of water was divided into two parts and Pushing past him

without touching him. He was standing still in that gushing

water. He was scared to death and the entire time chanting Baba's name

(NAMASMARAN). After some time the water level receded and when it was down to

knee level the water touched his body Now he was in knee deep water. He could

see around him branches of trees, shrubs, catties etc were passing through that

floodwaters. He thanked Baba there and then as he realized that only Baba could

have Saved him from that sure death situation. He then .slowly walked back

through those knee-deep waters. He came to their place of stay and took bath.

Needless to mention that he had missed Kakad Aarati that morning. He informed

his mother what he had undergone that morning. She advised him that as Baba had

pulled him out of the jaws of death, he should immediately go and thank him for

saving his life. He immediately paced up to Dwarkamai and as he was climbing

the steps with pooja material in his hand Baba talked to him in raised voice,

"Hey Bhau today early morning why were you shouting for my help

and are you afraid of death?" My father fell at his feet and told Baba that he

knows everything and an ordinary man like him is bound to get scared with the

sight of sure death in front of him. Baba then lifted him by holding him from

his shoulders and said " Hey Bhau get up. I bring you to Shirdi not for dying.

Please remember you will not die like this so easily, as you have to perform

lot of constructive work in future."

Dear Sai devotee readers, I know it is difficult for common people like us to

comprehend such experience. Then came a thought-provoking event in my life,

which I will describe it to you now.

It was the month of June 1962 if I remember correctly. There was a great movie

running at New Talkies (today's Globus Theatre) in Bandra. The name of the

movie was "TEN COMMANDMENTS." This film was produced by Cecille Be Demille, one

of the most renowned producers of Hollywood. The movie had broken all previous

records in Regal Theatre at Colaba and the New Talkies at Bandra was renovated

with 70 MM screen and stereophonic sound system. I saw the film and realized

that the miracles shown in the film matched with the miracles seen by my father

during his association with SaiBaba of Shirdi. After lot of persuasion I

convinced my father to come with me to see the movie. May be after a long span

of 30 to 35 years he was to enter a theatre to watch a film. He saw the

scenes, the divine light. Moses comes across when he visits the mountain and

when Moses take all his Jew people leaving the terrain of Egypt and come on the

shores of Red Sea and prays to the Lord and the Sea water divides into two parts

giving them way to escape from the wrath of king Faroha. My father was delighted

to see that picturisation and tears of joy welled and were flowing through his

eyes. When we came out of the theatre he confirmed to me that the Shirdi Sai

Baba possessed the same type of supernatural powers and he very much resembled

the character of Moses as shown in the film Ten Commandments. He went on to add

saying "Viren at least now you have some reason to believe what unprecedented

experiences I have gone through in association with SaiBaba of Shirdi."

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