Shree Swāmi Vibhūtī Sākshātkār

On Thursday, Swāmi played a trick. People who had no issues (children) but who got babies with His Grace, by chance, all came for ‘Shree Swāmi’s "Darshan" on the same day along with their respective babies. For this ‘Shree Swāmi’s "Punyatithi" ‘Mr. Balasaheb Mahamani’ from ‘Shirwal’ wanted to bring his mother to our house but that did not work out as his mother had gone to visit her daughter who lived in ‘Sāswad’. Early in the morning Shree Swāmiguru appeared infront of his mother. He sat there and said, "Balasaheb wanted to bring you for the programme, but it did not materialize, hence I came here to meet you. Tell Balasaheb about this". For a second or so the old lady started wondering as which "Balasaheb", Swāmi was referring about. At that moment Swāmi read her mind and immediately retorted saying, "Bāl (your Son) is refered as Bālāsaheb over there". At this moment, her daughter was wondering about who the mother was conversing with, as no one was there.

Three memorable incidents took place on Thursday, the 3^rd July, 2003. Vibhūti packets got over and I was holding an empty vessel used for ‘Udi’ (Vibhūti) in my hand. ‘Judge Saheb Shrinivas Kankurikar’ came over near me and in a devout fashion humbly bowed down to that empty vessel and said, "So what if there is no Udi. One feels blessed and totally fulfilled even by bowing down to the empty vessel which once contained the holy Vibhūti". Indeed he had unquestionable firm faith. ‘Mr. Gandhi’ owner of ‘Vaibhav Cloth Stores’ from ‘Laxmi Road’ (famous Shopping area in Poona) had visited us. One of his flats was not getting sold. That got sold. Same day ‘Raju Dhanawade’ told me that "Aarati Pamphlets" (used for reference while singing the "Aarati") had got over. I looked around and found out that many people who had come for "Aarati" did not have pamphlets in their hands. I was thinking as to what to do, and suddenly from behind ‘Late Namdeorao Kate’s daughter came and said ‘I have got "Aarati pamphlets". ‘Raju Danawade’ and myself were shocked and started staring at each other.

It was ‘Ashtami’ (Eighth lunar phase according to Hindu almanac). On Monday, the 7^th of July, 2003, the printer of the book ‘Mr. Kiran Doshi’ came over to our house and said ‘I am constantly getting phone calls from people asking for the book’. And as we were talking about whether to start printing the 3^rd edition of this book, by coincidence the Publisher of this book ‘Sanjay Kadam’ came to our house too and we gave him the order to print the 3^rd edition. In the evening ‘Shashiraj Patil’ from ‘Kolhapur’ came for "Darshan".