SAI BABA SAVED A GRANDMOTHER FROM BEING RUN OVER BY TRAIN

It was near midnight. Dark and gloomy. –Chilly breezes of January welcomed us when our train steamed into Kopargaon station.

The platform looked deserted. Flickering light of the oil lamps was peeping at us from the corners of the platform. As the train halted,

we hurried to the platform with our belongings. We came here on our second visit to saint Sai Baba’s shrine.

It was just before independence and Seenu was an eleven year old boy, only the child of his parents this visit is of special significance to Seenu’s parents,who had a great desire to have another child.

During the last decade they have been visiting numerous holy places right from Kanyakumari to Kashmir and Bengal to Bombay.

The middle aged parents of Seenu have prostrated before many a deity and just prayed for another child.

Patiently waiting for a reply from God they have been visiting temples wherever the bells tolled.

Their fervent hope in having another child was fulfilled when they first visited Shrj Sai Baba’s shrine just an year after World War II. But this visit bore a disappointment for Seenu’s mother, as she could not have the ‘darshan’ of the shrine since she was on her monthly periods.

The husband having come on a short leave could not oblige the wife with an extension in their stay. Seenu’s mother, with tearful eyes and disappointed heart returned home without ‘darshan’.

But this was the end of their long awaited worry. The saint has answered their prayers and Seenu’s mother bore signs of motherhood. This visit was to give first ‘darshan’ to the mother and the child.

The miracle happened. All got down on the curved platform hurriedly. The train puffed out. Seenu’s grannie with his infant sister in her arms were still in the train. ‘Pull the chain’, ‘pull the chain’ shouted Seenu’s father.

The train gained speed and the old lady baled out of the train without pulling the alarm chain Someone snatched the baby from her arms.

Seenu’s father tried to give his helping hand and both slipped under the train. Some bogies were still behind and all of us waited with a heavy breath.

Seenu’s lean and sickly mother ran along the train and pulled out her hefty husband in the next few seconds.

Then what happened to Seenu’s grannie? Two more carriages were still to pass and every one of us thought that she is ‘cut’. As the complete train passed we all went with utmost anxiety to peep under the platform.

‘The devil is alive’, I said. The old lady stood straight and complained of no injury. What a miracle? A double miracle indeed!!

Seenu’s mother was asked as to how she could pull out a 240 Ibs. hefty man within seconds and with such ease although she was weak and sickly, who in the normal course would not lift even a 10 Ib. weight with such ease.

Pat came the reply -‘ “It is Baba’s Maya”.

Ananthula Padmaja,

Secunderabad-500025

(Source July 1975 Saileela Magazine)

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