|| HARI OM ||
That Bapu loves his bhaktas is a fact beyond debate. What I am about to share is an incident that fills me with ever increasing gratitude - Bapu also loves those who have never seen Him but have followed his path, His values; and Bapu loves them as much as any other bhakta.
Last week my husband and I were in Shanghai on business. There the ‘Hepatitis B’ injection is mandatory for everyone. However the Chinese doctors administer it only on affirming the fitness of a person. My husband was suffering from high blood pressure. On examination it was found that his blood pressure was very high. He was given tablets and the blood pressure monitoring machine strapped to his arm. We went to make the payment, the machine still on his arm. We realised that the wallet was missing. We had lost our cards too. Fortunately I had sufficient money to make the payment and so we paid the bill and went home.
As soon as we came home my husband informed the American Bank and other card companies about the loss of cards and did all the formalities required for it. In the meantime the blood pressure tablet had worked and on the monitor we could see the blood pressure coming to normal. In the evening we were going over the incidents of the day and trying to guess where and how the wallet could have fallen. Just then the phone rang. A German lady was on the line and was enquiring about my husband and whether he had lost his wallet. We were stunned to hear it! Finding your lost wallet in a foreign country and that too before we could have made any effort to trace it, was next to impossible.
The German lady enquired whether we had a car to drive over and collect the wallet. We did have a vehicle but unfortunately the driver had left for the day. We asked for her address and told her that we would come by taxi to her place. She insisted that she would come personally and give the wallet.
We were wonder struck by what she had to say! She said that she found the wallet in the pot of the Christmas tree decoration in the hospital! We had not gone anywhere around that place. How could the wallet have landed in that place? I kept thinking to myself......and then it struck me - no one but my Bapu could have done this. Bapu had ensured on the one hand that it landed in a place out of reach of any dishonest person and on the other, that an honest and sincere person lay his hands on it.
The lady's husband was also suffering from blood pressure but he agreed to drive her and do a good deed. It would have been difficult for us to step out and look for them in this strange country. To add to our worries, the weather was cold. But Bapu made arrangements for the wallet to be delivered home. In this day and age it is so rare to come across people who go out of their way for others. Besides we were strangers to this couple but they insisted on coming personally to hand over the wallet – all thanks to Bapu.
The lady did not think it right to hand it over to an officer of the hospital. She was not quite sure if they would find the owner of the wallet and give it to him. This again we owed to Bapu. It was He who had willed her to decide on giving the wallet to us directly.
We thanked her again and again for it. I was so moved. I wept thinking about the pains Bapu took for us. Even as I recall the incident, I relive it and feel overwhelmed. What is the most amazing of it all is, my husband has never seen Bapu yet Bapu got his lost wallet back for him. He does not come to Bapu but is on Bapu’s path. He regularly does ‘Anhik’, chants the stotras told by Bapu and writes the Ramnaam book. Even on the flight when everyone sleeps he writes the Ramnnam book.
But then why am I looking for an explanation or a justification for Bapu’s deed? Bapu’s love and sheer compassion is for each and every being on earth. Each person has a one to one relationship with Him. It is wrong to reason out that just because I did this Bapu helped me to get my wallet back. We cannot in any case Bapu’s love and compassion cannot be measured, we only have to experience and enjoy His love.
A million salutations to my Bapu.
|| HARI OM ||
