26 Nov 2022
[By Shri Durgaprasad]
Paadanamaskaaram Swami, with your permission I would like to share my miraculous experiences, some of which are very recent.
1. Swami teaches an important lesson that one should not make fun of others. I visited Paris for a research project meeting in which many scientists from different countries also participated. In an evening dinner, all were consuming the served liquor. I humbly refused to take it. After some time, a Russian pressured me again to take and I again refused. A Chinese fellow laughed at me and commented that I am just a kid and can't take alcohol, for which the Russian took chorus and laughed. Within few seconds, liquor from a glass spilled onto Russian and then he realised and said God is watching us and making fun resulted in to the spilling. What else I can say? The next day, the Chinese fellow complained about acid reflux and couldn’t take any food for whole day!
2. Two months back, Myself and my wife were going for an evening walk just for time pass. On the way, I sat on a bench near a tree to attend a phone call. All of a sudden, I felt tickling sensation in my trousers. I got up and shook my pants and shocked to see 30 to 40 ants entered inside, none of which bit me. There is a saying in Telugu "శివుడాజ్ఞ లేనిదే చీమైనా కుట్టదు” which means that without the permission from Lord Shiva(Swami), even an ant will not bite, which is applicable very much here. Thank you Swami.
3. Very recently, I went for a family vacation to Rameswaram, Kanyakumari and Trivendrum. A gynec operation was suddenly scheduled for my wife two days after the trip. So, before going to the trip we had to arrange for a blood donor of B-ve blood group which is a rare group. Also, blood from other banks cannot be stored in our hospital. I had only 5 days to try before going for the trip. I tried through my colleagues, but of no use. On 4th day, I contacted an unknown person in our office. By the grace of Swami, he agreed and donated the blood immediately the next day. Blood bank office people told - you are very lucky and no need of running before the surgery day and you can have a peaceful trip now. Indeed, our trip was very peaceful. Thank you Swami again.
4. Our trip started from Mumbai to Chennai and we took a morning flight two days before Diwali. As we reached airport, we were shocked to see the rush due to Diwali vacation. By the grace of Swami, we could board just in time. I can't imagine if we had missed the flight.
5. Two days later, we took a train to Rameswaram which reaches early at 4 O'clock in the morning. The AC coach was in the end and was not crowded much. I was monitoring the status of running train online. The train reached the destination and we along with a co-passenger foolishly sat in the coach still depending on the technology which said our train is 2km away. All other passengers deboarded. Even after 15 minutes, we were there in the train and didn't even try to have a look outside. All of a sudden, some person came into our bogie and started telling something in Tamil which we couldn't understand. We ignored him and continue to sit there. After 10 seconds, he shouted that we have already reached Rameswaram. It was already late to realize it. Suddenly, the train started moving backwards to the shed. We got panicked but don't know what to do. Again, by the grace of Swami, train got slowed down for no reason, but for us to get down. We just got down from the train with the luggage and train picked up speed again. All these incidents happened in a matter of 40 seconds. We got saved. Thank you Swami.
6. Next day, early morning, we went for Spahtika linga darshan of Ramanatha Swami in Rameswaram temple. There were already more than 100 people in the que waiting for the darshan curtain to be opened. Suddenly, a security man diverted the long que exactly starting from us to a new line. He said there is heavy rush and hence dividing the que line. We couldn't believe, as we took the line, reached the darshan gate and exactly we were the first in front of the gate to have darshan. As we were the first, we could stand for more time as well. The main que line was not even allowed to begin!!! Miracles happened back-to-back during our trip.
After we came back from the tour, my wife had undergone the surgery without any problems. Thank you for infinite love Swami.
What I understood about the miracles is -we shall not categorise the miracles into small or big. All miracles are big only. One can understand the value of miracles if those miracles are not happened at all!
Thank You Lord Datta.
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