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

March 8, 2006

Hence we decided to break our journey then & there, and so we drove slowly

up to Kim & rested there till morning.

On Saturday the 15th June we started from dm in the morning after taking tea

etc. At one place the driver misled by a passer-by took a wrong route and we

had to travel about 80 K.M. extra. Any way we reached shirdi at about 7.30

p.m. & occupied one room in the Guest House just opposite Chawdi. All the

members went for a wash but I, taking my youngest daughter Rajani, first

went to Dwarkamai & then to Samadhi Mandir. I remained there and sent Rajani

back for a wash. Afterwards I again went to Dwarkamai and stood near the

Chula, a cooking place of Shri Sai Baba,charmed and spell-bound. Here I

stayed for two days on the 50th punyatithi of Baba in 1968. In the night I

used to sleep just by the side of this Chula. On the first night when I woke

up at about 12 'O'clock I saw that the whole Dwarkamai was thronged with

beggars, who were sleeping there soundly. I naturally uttered "Oh! all the

beggars are happy here and who was I ? Was I not a beggar ? Yes, thousand

times yes, but I should be called an occasional civilised beggar, who was at

that time (1968) enjoying a heartfelt pleasure, in the Dwarkamai an abode of

Baba, a place of inexhaustible treasure of blessings from Him. Who ever

stepped in it, when Saibaba was in the mortal frame, became happy and even

to day who-so-ever steps into it becomes happy. The whole Dwarkamai is

nicely rennovated. The beautiful marble setting is very much pleasing to the

eye.

As I was standing in a dreamy mood in the Dwarkamai, my daughters came with

flower garlands and Prasad to offer to Shri Sai Baba and asked me to

accompany them. After finishing our prayer, we came back to the Guest House

for a night's rest. On the morning of 16th June we again had His Darshan and

then we drove to Nasik and Saputara and while coming back had halted for the

night at Kim and returned to Baroda in the morning of Monday, the 17th June,

'85. Thus Baba saved us and brought us home safely.

May He Bless us all.

Mathurbhai A. Patel

Vadodara,

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