‘Shree Swāmi Samarth’ always blesses those who have implicit faith in Him. The cover of this book has the photograph of ‘Shree Swāmi’ where the vibhūti is coming out of the picture. The lotus like face of ‘Shree Swāmi Samarth’ is peaceful and soothing like a sandalwood tree. Over here one feels as if His presence is to grace His devotees. His face is so kind that one feels that ‘Shree Swami’s sole purpose of sitting in our house is to go out of His way to help the devotees.  He is extremely kind and full of sympathy for his Bhaktas (Devotees).To help and grace his devotees; his eyes look as if they are drenched in love and beatitude.  His lips are slightly parted and he has soft smile.  He feels as if, anytime He will talk to the seekers. Infact one is almost sure that he would talk to them. He will talk about one’s wellbeing in a kind and concerned fashion. When one sits in front of 'Shree Swāmi', without even blinking one’s eyes, He appears like an ocean of ‘Amruta’ (Ambrosia/Nectar).  His lotus-like face is an ocean of kindness and ‘Shree Swāmi Himself appears as a cloud of kindness who will shower the grace on His devotees anytime!

Countless devotees come to take Darshan of ‘Shree Swāmi Samarth’ at our place. At that time there is only one feeling in our mind for the visitors and that is, he or she is a human being and is a Swāmi Bhakta.  Swāmi has asked us to follow only one thing and that is to treat everybody lovingly on humanitarian grounds. To be equal to all and to give unconditional love to each of them. All four of us try our best to follow 'Shree Swāmi’s command.  Whatever we have, that all belongs to ‘Shree Swāmi’. We are just ordinary mortals. When we think of the supernatural, great ‘Vibhūtī’ miracle of his, we feel even smaller. We feel that we are nothing!

After all whatever we have, whatever IS, all belongs to ‘Shree Swāmi’.  Compared to the great ‘Vibhūtī’ miracle, we are absolutely inconsequential.

Whenever ‘Shree Ashtekar Sir’ of Wadia College visits us; a particular type of fragrance, which permeates in Swami’s ‘Samadhi Math’ (A place or Math where Swāmi lay down to take eternal rest), starts filling our house too.  This too is an unusual miracle.  Similarly when ‘Shree Pramod Pise’ of ‘Mysore Tailors’ (name of a company)  and ‘Dnyaneshwar Pawar’ from 'Kolhapur' visit us (for Swāmi "Prasad" and "Darshan") they too get the same fragrance from nowhere.  Once as usual, on 10^th of the month, we were having our regular "Satsang" (a religious programme) at our place and due to some reason "Aarti" got delayed.  One of my friends, Trustee of he ‘Akkalkot Mandir’, Shree ‘Subhash Shinde’ was with us and he too felt that the "Aarti" did not start at the right time, and that it was delayed. The very next day, he went to "Akkalkot".  At that time, he came to know that, on that particular day, the "Aarati" at Akkalkot too had got delayed. Actual time for Aarti at both places is supposed to be the same.

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