Saving me from a fatal accident
I first went to Neem Karoli Baba’s temple in July of 2022 and I got a copy of ‘Miracle of Love’ along with other books from the ashram store.
I started reading ‘Miracle of Love’ as soon as I got back home. I still remember that after reading ‘Miracle of Love’, I had a vivid dream where I clearly saw Maharaj-ji in his white dhoti at the bank of Ganges.
He took me by my hand to the bank of Ganges and perfomed Shraadh rituals with me, he was sombre all the time. After he performed the rituals, I asked him, “Ab to aap mujhe kabhi miloge nahi” (Now, I won’t be able to see you again).
The next day I was walking to the store, my day-dreaming self thinking about something. Suddenly, a white Volkswagen Polo car zoomed past me within inches at a very high speed. The driver was driving the car so fast that I couldn’t even get the chance to take a snap of it’s number plate.
Had the car touched me, I would have surely been dead. Then I remembered why Maharaj-ji was serious in my dream all the time, because he knew what was coming for me next day. Maharaj-ji saved my life that day.
I haven’t seen Maharaj-ji after that in my dream so clearly and so vividly. I still long to get his darshan in my dreams.
Getting Baba’s Photoframe
I had read in ‘Miracle of Love’, how one western devotee of Baba was silently chanting “Ram Ram” in her mind. Baba being omniscient knew instantly and asked people around him to give her more prasad than others as she was taking the name of Ram.
Remembering this story, I was at Baba’s Vrindavan Ashram where his samadhi is present. Like her western devotee of the story, I was silently chanting “Ram Ram” in my mind in Baba’s Kuti (His Room) in the ashram.
Suddenly a long time devotee of Baba, whom I was casually having a conversation with previous night, came and dropped two car dashboard sized photo frames in my lap while I was deep in my meditation.
This was the magic of Ram Naam (Chanting Ram’s Name) that I first encountered in my life.
Saving My Life Again
I had again once read a story in ‘Miracle of Love’ about Kumbh Mela – The most important religious congregation for Hindus and perhaps one of the largest in the world where Baba told his devotees to leave Prayag – the city where Kumbha takes place – on Mauni Amavasya; one of the most auspicious day to take dip in the confluence of holy rivers, when stars align perfectly, to attain moksha or liberation.
Baba’s devotees were confused at this, but they followed his advice nonetheless and left Prayag before Mauni Amavasya. On the day of Mauni Amavasya, a stampede broke out and hundreds of people died. Baba’s devotees then understood why he had asked his devotees to leave Prayag.
Now this is more than after 50 years of that incident. Again Kumbh was happening in Prayag this year, the stars were aligned in such a manner which happens once in 144 years, making it not only once in a generation but once in a three generation event.
I had planned to take a dip in the Holy Ganges in Kumbh on Mauni Amavasya in this year’s Kumbh. But then I remembered the above story of Baba and decided to postpone my trip to Prayagraj.
The next day, a stampede broke out on Mauni Amavasya and hundreds of people died again as a result.
It was as if Baba instructed me through his story and again saved my life.
Jai Jai Neem Karoli Baba. Kripa Karo Aave Sadbhava. Ram Ram.
