TUNE IN SAI (December 1983)

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TUNE IN SAI (December 1983)

I just received a letter from Sai Brother, Mr. T.A. Rama Nathan from

Sarangabad in which he had added a postscript :-

“Tune in 25, you get Radio Ceylon

Tune in Sai, you get Sai-grace alone”

How true a statement it is ? I was just pondering over two incidents in the

year 1982 in which Sai-grace saved me in time.

 

I am working in Malnad area of Karnataka, which is known for rainfall, rich

greenery, picturesque hills, beautiful natural scenery. June – July –

August are the months when it rain cats and dogs and we sometimes do not see

the sun at all.

 

7th July 1982 – was a fateful day for me. I was going on my Bullet

Motorcycle from my residence in Yelemadlu estate to the hospital in

Karkicondah, which is 4 kms away. I had to pass through a hilly road full

of ups and downs, topsy – turvy curves and dense forest all around. As it

was raining incessantly, even though I was wearing a helmet and a raincoat,

I was almost drenched. Even though it was around 9 a.m., still mist was

present.

 

After my marriage I have reduced my speed from 90 km to almost half of it

and sometimes even less than that. As I was riding I suddenly heard a big

sound – a tall hefty tree falling one ! The uprooted tree and the sound

made me dazed and I lost control of the bike. I cried out for my saviour

‘Sai Ram’ and applied breakes unknowingly. I thought my end had come.

Simultaneously the tree fell across the road with a big bang and my bike too

hit the fallen tree-trunk with the engine getting off. It was all in a

fraction of a second and I was thrown off the vehicle. It was all a razor’s

edge that I escaped being jammed by the tree.

 

Slowly I got up and looked around. I was practically unhurt and the bike

was also damaged very little. I returned to the shop close by and from

there range up our Estate manager to send a rescue team to remove the road

block. It was an old tree and possibly it might have been uprooted by the

fast wind and rainfall. A glance at its trunk, which had a diameter of more

than five feet, made me shudder as I could imagine what would have happened

if I was caught beneath it !

I am definite that it is Sai’s ever vigilant grace on me that timed by bike

to stop suddenly which itself it a great miracle.

 

Three months later, I had a similar experience. It was the 13th October

1982. I wanted to meet one of my friends, Dr. G.R. Ganesha Rao, who is

practicing in Shanthigram – a village 20 km from our place. Since my

motorcycle was out of order, I took our Company bike (an Yezdi) and took my

assistant, Mr. Mingely D’Souza to go to Shanthigram.

 

After meeting Dr. Ganesha Rao, I was returning. I had to get down a hillock

and then to cross a small bridge. As I was riding downwards, suddenly the

bike started going in a zig-zag manner (fortunately there was no traffic)

and I lost control over It. I was also frantic and could hear my Assistant

’s yelling ‘Sir’ ‘Sir’. I thought the vehicle would hit the culvert and

both of us with have a watery grave in the stream 50 feet below. I cried

out for Sai’s help, before we were thrown off the vehicle.

 

The bike had a puncture of the rear wheel and this was the cause for its

zig-zag running. We were on the right side of the bridge and the vehicle

had just hit the culvert. Both of us were saved by Lord Sainath’s grace.

 

Sometime later a forest guard, who was also riding an Yezdi bike, had a

puncture of the rear wheel and hit the culvert and had an instant death.

Tune in Sai, you get Sai grace alone !

 

Dr. G.R. Vijayakumar, Medical Officer

Karanataka.

 

 

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

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