The sole protector against evils

Whenever Sri Guruji visited our city, His ardent devotees would invite His Holiness to their respective houses. Sri Guruji, amidst His hectic schedule, somehow finds time in between his programs and graces them by visiting their houses. One such visit was paid to a devotee’s home during His recent trip to Bangalore.

Along with Sri Guruji, we reached this devotee’s house sometime in the morning. As usual the devotee and his entire family happily welcomed Sri Guruji into their house. They prostrated before Sri Guruji once He was seated. However, His Holiness, from his usual calm and composed nature, quickly became anxious and restless. He began walking all around the house; He walked through the hall, peaked into the pooja room, moved to the kitchen and finally to the backyard, as if he was looking around for something. Once back inside the house, He began questioning the devotee’s wife (DW).

G – ‘Did anyone visit your house recently between my previous visit and this one? and did that person hand over any Rakshai or Chakram(talisman or amulets)?’.
Unfortunately at that moment the devotee being so overwhelmed with Sri Guruji’s act, couldn’t remember anything at all!
DW – ‘No’.

Ofcourse our Guruji, the wire-puller of everything knows exactly what he was doing. He began asking rather relentlessly all the questions over and over again.
G – ‘Are there any new items added to your pooja room?’.
DW – ‘No’.
Meanwhile the devotee just didnt seem to remember or couldnt relate to what Guruji was asking.

G – ‘Did anyone give you a mantra upadesa?’.
DW – ‘No’.
However Guruji went ahead with what seemed like an interrogation, ofcourse only to help the devotee. As a silent spectator of this entire episode, I simply began praying to the Lord Almighty to help this devotee’s wife remember and answer what exactly our Guruji was asking about.

G – ‘Did anyone give you some prasadham or vibuthi?’.
It just flashed then and she answered ‘Yes’.
She continued saying ‘A Sadhu came on a thursday. I was reading the ‘Sat Charithra’. He knocked on the door and said he was from Shirdi and he gave some vibhuti’.

G – ‘Did he give a packet full of vibhuti or did he simply made it appear in his hands and then gave it to you?’
DW – ‘Yes Guruji, he made it appear out of nowhere and then gave it to me. I gave him Rs.100/-, he didnt accept it, then i gave him Rs.500/-, he still refused to take it. Finally he settled for Rs. 2000/-‘.
To which our Guruji said ‘Did you not understand then and there that he was a quack and was here only for money? Why didnt you give some money and send him away? Why did you fall for his gimmicks and take things from him?’. Later that day, the family had found the vibhuti turned into a jasmine flower like state.

G continued, ‘Did he give anything else? To anybody else in the family?’
DW – ‘Yes that person also gave rudrakshams…’

G – ‘Did he say or give anything to your daughter-in-law and to your grandson as well?’
DW- ‘Yes one rudraksham for my daughter-in-law’.

Sri Guruji now seemed upset and raised his voice saying – ‘Get all of those things immediately…..’
Then all those things were collected and Sri Guruji asked the devotee’s son to get rid of the same by throwing it all in a lake.

The entire episode is literally another miracle right before my eyes and I was actually trembling to sit beside him in the car later that day.

The very moment He had stepped into that devotee’s house, He had felt disturbed with some negative vibes and His Holiness, out of sheer compassion, guided the family to safety.

Sri Guruji then asked the family to organise a Nama-Chanting session at their house. The family duly obeyed our Guruji’s instruction and happily conducted the same within the following few weeks.

This instance is testimonial to the fact that our Guruji, his holiness, even though is upset with some of us for getting distracted so easily inspite of his immense guidance, is indeed still the sole protector of his devotees. We are very fortunate to have a caring and wonderful Guruji who protects us against all evil, day in and day out.