Sai....

Once during the time that followed our "episode" in Leh and before we became "man & woman", my love came to visit me in Devlali. So we borrowed a bike from a friend and decided to make a trip to Shirdi to seek baba's blessings! The trip was fun and we had a nice darshan thanks to the VIP passes that the fauj affords you. On our way back it started to rain.. and we took shelter under a tree. Soon it began to grow dark and since we didn't want to be struck in the middle of no where in the dark we decided to proceed in the dark. But the bike won't start! My friend had not kept any tools in the bike so I couldn't tinker around also. In a spot, we started pushing the bike hoping to find atleast some civilisation near by. In our various experiments to start the machine, I hurt my leg and it started to bleed. We came across a slope which went down to a ramshakle hut and so we pushed it down the slope hoping to start it with the momentum but the damn thing was way too stubborn. So we gave up and took shelter under that thatched hut. A guy came out and offered a towel, a lady followed (we later came to know that she was his sister) and offered to take Di inside to change and dry up.

I asked him if there was any mechanic near by and it turned out that he himself was one!!! He repaired our bike while we sipped warm tea and dried ourselves... We thanked him and left soon after that and reached home safely.

The next time we visited Shirdi, I had my own car and wanted to stop by our friends house and thank him for all his help. Somehow, then and during many trips we made after that, we could never locate that house......

Then and during many other incidents Baba touched our lives and continues to do so .... whether when it was my son who was seriously ill, his voice would say, " Why worry when i am looking after him?" or when our marriage went through a rough patch or the many trials that anyone faces in his day to day life, He was and is there! Always telling me to work hard and leave the rest to him!