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Thursday, October 09, 2003 1:07 AM

[sri Rajarajeswari Peetam, RUSH, N.Y.] Come One Foot Toward Me

Come One Foot Toward Me

I Will Come a Thousand Feet Towards You

 

The year was 1879. This incident took place in the present Afghanistan, near

Musar-e-Sharif and Kandhahar. Emily was living near Kandhahar with her husband.

He had to leave the city to go and fight in the war. So she was left alone at

home. Slowly she started to visit the Shiva temple nearby. Whenever she used to

pray, tears would roll down on her cheeks, worrying about her husband from whom

she did not hear anything for a long time.

 

Noticing this, the priest would ask her what was the matter. She told him that

her husband had been gone for a long time to fight in the war and she did not

know his fate. She was worried about his well-being. The priest told her to

come to the temple next eleven days and do the `eka-dasa-Rudrabishekam. She

obliged and did the same coming to the temple with great devotion and faith.

The days passed quietly. One fine day she received a letter from her husband

describing the battlefield and his actions.

 

" My dear Emily, sorry that I did not write to you all these days. I was

very busy with the war and we were losing the fight. Many of our men have

died and I thought I would also perish one day. For the last eleven days the

battle was very intense. Several men died, got injured, but I remain alive

without much injury on my body. Tenth day battle went against us and I thought

that was the last day for me on this earth. On the eleventh day, an orange

color cloth clad person appeared near me with a trident in his hand, ash

smeared all over his body, beads around his neck and he fought standing next to

me. The enemies were defeated. After sometime I thought I would invite him to my

place for some drink and wanted to thank him for his help. He just looked at me,

laughed and disappeared! I searched for him in vain. He just vanished into thin

air I guess. I shall be coming home soon."

When her husband returned home, Emily was very happy. She told him about the

temple she had been going to in his absence and wanted him to come and visit

the place. One day after taking shower, he went to the temple with his wife.

There he saw the picture of Lord Shiva and he cried out, "oh! That's Him…that's

Him… who came and helped me and fought with me!" His wife told him that the

priest had asked her to do the abishekam for the Lord for eleven days and she

did that faithfully. While she was praying for her husband's good health and

safe return, the Lord had helped him to overcome the enemies.

This incident has been recorded in the Government diary of Ujjain.

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