All the Swāmi Bhaktas (devotees) from ‘Shirwal’ have a lot of Punya (merit) to their credit and are fortunate.  A lot of devotees come to visit us to get darshan or Swāmi-Mauli (mother) from outside Poona on regular basis.

Even during these visits of theirs, Swāmi invariably shows some leela. Just to prove my point, I would like to point out one such incident.  Once from Sunday to Thursday continuously for 5 days we had devotees coming from ‘Akkalkot’.

This Leela of Swāmi, which I am going to write, is noteworthy. We had decided to release the 2^nd edition of this book on “Shree Dattajayanti” (the holy day when Lord Dattatraya was born. It is a very auspicious day and is celebrated every year with great devotion) the 19^th December 2002.   As Published ‘Sanjay Kadam’ and myself were talking about the book related topic, suddenly an elderly Sanyasi came to us. He must be about 80 years old.  Meanwhile ‘Sau Aurna Mangade’, ‘Sau Girame Vahini’ arrived too.  ‘Sanjay’ and ‘Mangade Vahini’ gave some Prasad to the Sadhu (A holy man).  He said “I am from Ganagapur!  You will be successful in your endeavor! My blessings are with you”.  While he was blessing us, the owner of the Press, ‘Kiran Doshi’ arrived at our house too.  When the first edition of this book was released, early in the morning I had a dream.  Where I saw ‘Sau Aparna’, ‘Sanjay’ and ‘Mangade Vahini’ doing “Abhishek” in Swāmi’s Samadhi Mandir, and now when the second edition was getting released, again all three of us got together unplanned and unexpectedly at noon (same people).  This to is Swāmi’s Leela!

The 3^rd edition of “Shree Swāmi Vibhūtī Sakshatkar” will be released soon.  It is a wonderful thing which is happening.  Within a year the 3^rd edition is being released.  This too is only Swāmi’s "Krupa". I had not even dreamt of releasing the 3^rd edition.  Never even imagined that so many people would read and enjoy it and one more speciality is that many copies of this book have gone abroad out of which not a single copy was sent abroad by us and nor did we desire or plan to do it that way.  It was Shree Swāmi devotees who sent copies across seven seas to various countries abroad.  These have gone to Dubai, Czechoslovakia, Bahrain, Yugoslavia, America, France, Germany, England, Los Angeles, Italy, Muscat, etc. 

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