Jothinder Tarkhad and Baba - Jari and Death

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Jari

and Death

 

Jothinder Tarkhad and Baba had a very special relationship. Jothinder loved Baba immensely and Baba reciprocated with

parental love and care.

Once, Jothinder

was sitting in the Dwarkamai when Baba asked him to

press His legs as they were hurting. Immediately, Jothinder

started pressing his legs with great devotion. Suddenly, he saw a fiendish

looking woman in front of him. She was so terrifying to look at that Jothinder had no words of description. Instinctively, Jothinder clutched Baba’s feet tightly. After a

while, she disappeared.

“Bhau,

what did you see just now?” asked Baba. Jothinder could not formulate the word at that moment.

Gently, Baba asked, “Arre Bhau, tell me what you saw.” Then Jothinder said, “Baba, don’t show me such

terrifying things.” Baba then said, “She

was Jari, the Goddess of ill-omen and misfortune. She

had set her heart on taking you away.” Then reassuringly,

He added, “But I would not allow her and let her

take five others instead.” Jothinder

was overwhelmed by these words and he lay his head on

Baba’s feet.

 

Jothinder was

rarely sick, but in the year he felt ill for about a week. He lost his muscle

tone and was thus admitted at the Nanavati hospital.

On the last Shravan Somwar

(Shravan is August by the Hindu calendar and Somwar is Monday which is considered extremely holy), he

asked for tea and drank it. A while later, he asked for tea

again. His wife gently reminded him that she had just given him his tea.

 

 

“Yes! But I want some tea as I am

seeing some black shadow”, he replied. Tea was sent for, and while

waiting, his wife said, “While the tea comes, why don’t you do

Baba’s Naam-Smaran?”

He started Naam-Smaran,

and after a short while, he saw Baba. So, he folded his hands and did namaskar. “Baba, Mee Aalo (Baba, I’m coming).” Then he closed his

eyes and took Samadhi (died).

No more needs to be said about this Rinanubandh relationship.