In reality we had not gone to Mumbai but Kākā saw us in Mumbai as if in a trance. As if someone directed him to visit our house to witness the miracle and asked him to give us the "Prasad". This too was a great miracle and supernatural awesome feat of ‘Shree Swāmi’. I had goose-flesh while listening to this extraordinary experience. I have known and experienced many a times that ‘Shree Swāmi’ always conducts these kinds of pranks. By the time ‘Deshpande Kākā’ barely finished narrating the incident, ‘Shree Swāmi’ took a pinch of ‘Vibhūtī’ in his right hand and dropped it down. The Vibhūtī fell on the frame of the photograph and took the shape of a small hillock, ‘Deshpande Kākā’ saw the actual form of ‘Shree Swāmi’, in fact he saw ‘Shree Swāmi’ in flesh and flood as a living entity but we could not see him, we only saw the ‘Vibhūtī’. But all of us said, “Shree Swāmi Samarth Maharaj ki Jai” (Hail Swāmi! May Swāmi always be victorious!) 

To distribute "Prasad" in large quantities to so many devotees was a difficult task but ‘Sachin Khare’ did this duty with great enthusiasm and happiness. As ‘Sachin Khare’, ‘Sau Madhura Khare’, their two children ‘Kapil’ and ‘Kranti’ were about to make small packets of the ‘Vibhūtī’, one of the devotees who had come for the "Darshan" said “If we had to make packets of this ‘Holy Vibhūtī’, let us first do the ritualistic ‘Pooja’ properly and then make these packets for distribution.” I asked this person for his introduction and he told me that he was the "Poojari" (priest) of the ‘Maha Ganapati’ of ‘Ranjangao’ and his name is ‘Kamalesh Mokashi’. We immediately wore the "Sowale" (Sacred cloth made of pure silk and is only worn at the time of ritualistic worship). ‘Kamalesh Guruji’ conducted the entire ‘Pooja’ with all the ritualistic worships in the proper sequence and order, namely first ‘Ganesh Pooja’, then ‘Kalash Pooja’, followed by ‘Punyaha-Vachan’ and chanting of mantras at the end. After this "Pooja" the ‘Khare’ family members started preparing small packets of the ‘Vibhūtī’. Even this ritualistic ‘Pooja’ conducted by ‘Kamalesh Mokashi’ before packing the ‘Vibhūtī’ was a ‘leela’ of ‘Shree Swāmi Maharaj’ and for this he had sent the "Poojari" to us.

While packing the ‘Vibhūtī’, ‘Sau Madhura Khare’ just made a casual remark that though ‘Lord Ganapati’ is the son of ‘Lord Shiva’ and is always worshipped prior to ‘Lord Shiva’. To our dismay immediately the ‘Poojari’ of ‘Lord Shiva’ temple in ‘Bhimāshankar’, ‘Suresh Kodilkar’ and his brother came to our house for the "Darshan". This too was ‘Shree Swāmi’s ‘leela’.

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