HOW SHRI SAI BABA SAVED US FROM AN ACCIDENT (November 1986)

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HOW SHRI SAI BABA SAVED US FROM AN ACCIDENT (November 1986)

For a long time my daughters had been wanting to go to Shirdi to pay their

respects at the lotus feet of our God Shri Sai Baba. There is a daily ST.

Bus service from Baroda to Shirdi. I am very old and do not keep well; so I

thought it would not be comfortable for me to make the journey to Shirdi by

this service. There are however luxury buses also which run on some fixed

days and one of them leaves on every Friday night at 11 o clock. I prefered

this & fixed the programme. We were eight i.e. myself, my three daughters

Lila, Renu, Rajani, two grand daughters Jayu, Kinnu, one son-in-law Shri

Hasmukhbhai & our neighbour & friend Mr Pawan Kumar Jain.

 

On the morning of Thursday the 13th June,’85 my son — in — law & daughter

Renu went to the office of that bus owner & after paying some advance got

eight seats reserved for the Friday trip and told him that they would come

in the evening to pay the balance fare. Baba was watching our activities

with a smile. He knew that a fatal motor accident is awaiting us on that ill

omened night & so for one reason or another, He got this trip cancelled.

When in the evening my daughter went to pay the balance fare she was told

that this trip is cancelled and so she came back dejected, not knowing that

it was the LEELA of our Sai Baba. This was an indirect suggestion for us to

postpone our tour to some other day, but like children bent on doing a

particular thing we did not pay heed to it. Mr. Pawan Kumar being in

transport business know many truck & tempo owners. He went to the market &

got one tempo fixed for Friday, the 14th June, 85, for Shirdi, Nasik,

Saputara & back and accordingly we commenced our journey at 12 'O'Clock on

that night of Friday. Mr. Pawan kumar being a jolly fellow by nature kept us

all in a happy mood till our wrist watches showed the hour of 1.30 a.m, when

abruptly the driver dozed off. The vehicle was in speed; the wheels began

jumping and we all were frightened. Delay of even few seconds would have

been fatal — the vehicle would have turned topsyturvy and all of us would

have landed in a Hospital. But our Saviour Lord Shri Sai Baba came running

faster than the fastest runner and through the hands of the man who was

sitting by the side of the driver got the situation controlled. We breathed

an air of relief and offered our hearty prayer to Baba for saving us.

Drivers never confess their fault & our driver also like his ilk complained

about the faulty air pressure in the wheels. We told him, to keep awake and

drive carefully. Naturally for some time we had discussions regarding

horrors of such accidents and meanwhile Mr. Pawan entertained us with his

anecdotes and innocent jokes, but the calamities were not yet over.

Unfortunately at 3 a.m. the driver was again overcome by sleep and the tempo

suddenly swerved to the left. Thank God that there was no ditch or a big

tree on the side; the vehicle otherwise would have been smashed. Again the

man sitting next to the driver got hold of the steering wheel and saved us.

We offered lacs of pranams to Sai Baba again for His timely help. Now we

realized that we were travelling under the shadow of a dark cloud.

 

May He Bless us all.

MathurbhaiA. Patel

Vadodara,

 

 

(to be contd...)

 

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