SAI GRACE - Dr. G. R. Vijayakumar

[Guest guest]

SAI GRACE

 

It was February 1979. I was then 30 years and was employed as an estate

Medical Officer by an European firm in Kerala. When my wife Seetha conceived

for a second time, we were in a dilemma, as our first son was not even a

year old. To confirm her pregnancy, I took her to my colleague Dr. Mrs.

Devaky Vasudevan, who advised us to continue the pregnancy and calculated

the date of confinement as 15tb September 1979.

 

On that night, my wife was almost in a trance. She is a sincere devotee of

Lord Sainath and next morning she told me that she is going to have a son

again and that she will name him ‘Sai Prabhu’. I Just smiled and kept quiet.

 

In July 1979, we went to our hometown - Bangalore. Both of us went to Sai

Mandhir to obtain Sai's blessings as well as that of that great apostle of

Sai - Shri Radhakrishna Swamiji. Unfortunately he had gone out to perform

'Kumbhabhishekam' in a nearby temple and my wife could have only darshan of

Lord Sainath in the mandhir and not that or his apostle. However I met the

Swamiji next morning and when I sought his blessings, he stared at me and

said, "My child, do not worry. Sai-grace is on you. You shall overcome all

your difficulties".

 

Perhaps Radhakrishna Swamiji foresaw the dangers we were to pass through

subsequently. A couple of days later, i.e. on the 5th August 1979, we left

Bangalore for going back to our estate. Beyond Mysore, we had to cross a

forest full of elephants and tigers. Since we were travelling by day we were

confident that we will not have to face any danger. But our car broke down

in the middle of the forest and we did not know what to do. Moreover a

solitary elephant was grazing nearby. Our only help was 'Sai Ram'. With his

grace, all of us hitch-hiked in a lorry back to a nearby town, I arranged

for my wife and son to return to Mysore by bus and returned to the forest in

a taxi with a few people and a mechanic. I shuddered at the sight of my

car, which was completely damaged. Somehow we towed it back to Mysore.

I imagined for a while what our plight would have been if Lord Sainath had

not come to our help in the form of a helpful driver of a lorry and

helped us to escape death. The lorry driver refused to accept money

also. Traffic on that road is almost nil during daytime. Next day we

returned to the estate by bus.

 

Exactly twenty days later, i. e. on the 25th August 1979. my wife

complained of pain in the abdomen since morning. She wore a desolate look

also. I too did not bother much as the expected date of her delivery was

only 15th September and on examination, I could not find any signs of

delivery. After lunch, while relaxing, I suddenly gazed at the big

photograph of Sainath, from which I felt as if Sai Baba is ordering me to

take my wife to the nearby Mission Hospital, where facilities for

x-ray/Surgery Specialist care were available.

 

 

 

Dr. G. R. Vijayakumar

(Karnataka)

 

 

(The experiences of Devotees as published in Shri Sai Leela Magazine, can be

read at www.saileelas.org/magazines/SAILEELA/exp.htm)