THE MYSTERY OF MISSING TRIP TO SHIRDI (October 1983)by B. Ramanandharao

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THE MYSTERY OF MISSING TRIP TO SHIRDI (October 1983)

 

It will be interesting to note how Shri Sai Baba of Shirdi brought me half

way back from Shirdi, this year, 1983 when I started as usual for my annual

prayer at His lotus feet in the 27th year of my continuous visit to Shirdi,

without a break.

 

This year 1983 I planned to go to Shirdi Shrine; but my route was via

Ayodhya, Kurukshetra, Amritsar and Dwaraka as suggested by my younger

brother, Shri B. Gundu Rao, retired commercial Inspector of South Central

Railway, who wanted to visit these places with his wife Smt. B. Subbalaxmi,

along with me.

 

At Vijayawada while he was getting his railway passes for his journey, as

obtained by me, he inadvertently lost one of my very important particular

pass, which was due for my return journey to Bangalore from Dwarka via

Shirdi, without which I could not reach Bangalore, my final destination.

 

This loss of my pass crippled our tour programme and therefore we had to

abandon our journey in toto. The distance from Dwaraka to Bangalore is so

long and so costly that I could ill-afford it as a fare paying passenger

(nearly 1,000 kms and Rs.500/-)

 

In the circumstances, I requested my office at Madras to issue me a fresh

pass in lieu of the lost one; but it was not issued and consequently I had

to travel paying a fare of Rs.60/- upto Madras only.

 

At Madras, I requested my benevolent officer Shri S. Ganesan, the Deputy

Chief Security Officer, to issue me a pass to go to Bangalore, and the

credit one single pass unused by me, to my account, who magnanimously and

very kindly complied with my request, by which is one pass I came to

Bangalore and the other

 

I had to my credit to use for my trip to Shirdi later in 1983, thus to

complete my 27th trip to Shirdi without a break. I am grateful and

thankful to Shri S. Ganesan, Deputy Chief Security officer and pray to Shri

Sai Baba for his well-being and success.

 

That I lost the pass and returned to Bangalore is not important, but how

and why I lost the pass is worth nothing.

 

The most important and interesting fact is that at the time when we were to

visit Amritsar, there was political turmoil and to avoid any serious

troubles or consequences in our journey to Amritsar, which we would have

certainly encountered, had we gone, that my savier benevolent lord Shri Sai

Baba, rightly in time, made me lose the pass and prevent us from going to

Amritsar, being ill-timed and so losing the pass was a forewarner to us, by

Shri Sai Baba.

 

(To be contd....)

 

B. Ramanandharao

Bangalore 560 023.

 

(The experiences of Devotees as published in Shri Sai Leela Magazine, can

be

read at www.saileelas.org/magazines/SAILEELA/exp.htm