One devotee of ‘Shree Swāmi Samarth’ from Delhi was visualizing this incident of ‘Vibhūtī’ emerging from ‘Shree Swāmi’s photograph. He described this visualization to five of his disciples and asked them to visit Poona. They got the correct address to our house and visited us. This in itself was a miracle. Many ‘Auto Rickshaw’ owners did not charge the devotees coming to our house from, 'The state transport bus stand' and willingly volunteered to bring them to our house. Every time they dropped the devotees to our house they would come in and take ‘Darshan’ as well.

Immediately after the ‘Vibhūtī’ started emerging, a friend of mine named ‘Ashok Swāmi’ and his wife ‘Sau. Sushma’ came to ‘Pune’ for some official work. When they witnessed the miracle they sat near the photograph for a long time. In the afternoon after their meals as they were leaving for ‘Kolhapur’ and as they were coming down stairs they saw a big crowd of ‘Shree Swāmi’ devotees and they changed their mind. They postponed their going and told us that they would help us distribute the ‘Prasad’ as it would have been difficult for us to do it all by our self. They told us that they would take the night train. Again at night on seeing a very big crowd they stayed back, in this manner they stayed with us for 15 good days and helped us out. Ashok would get early in the morning and sit near Swāmi’s picture and take on the duty of distributing the "Tirth" (sacred water) and "Prasad". ‘Sau.Sushma’ would help us with the household chores and cook for us. It would have been physically impossible for us to do the entire work single handed. Benevolent ‘Shree Swāmi’ took pity on us and decided to grace us and sent these two of his devotees to us for help. This too according to us is a miracle. ‘Sau. Sushma’ tidied up the entire house and ‘Swāmi Darbar’ before leaving to their house. ‘Shree Swāmi Maharaj’ indeed helped us and took our care during this busy period.

‘Sau. Madhuri Khare’, ‘Sachin Khare’, ‘Sau. Jaya Erunkar’, ‘Panduranga Erunkar’ and ‘Miss Vaishali’ Hulawale’ all these ‘Shree Swāmi’ devotees used to come early in the morning to help us, have lunch with us, stay with us for the entire day and leave only at 11.00 pm. I am for ever indebted to them. They used to do various chores like welcoming the devotees, giving them "Tirth" and "Prasad" and cleaning the "Shree Swāmi’s Darbar".

Next

Back

• Kindly allow us to serve you only on Thursdays between 6 to 8 PM

Pratap Anant Gogawale,
49, Mangalwar Peth,
"Swami Prasad",
Behind Kamla Nehru Hospital,
Pune 411011, India
Tel: (+91) (020) 26127263, 26132238

• Kindly note that the Online Edition of this publication is solely meant for the convenience of the Devotees, misuse / commercial copying of this should be strictly prohibited, else the necessary action will be taken !
• © with Author