10 Aug 2025
[By Ms.Thrylokya]
Paadanamaskaaram Swami,
I would like to share the miracle done by You yesterday midnight.
Last night, at 8 pm, I did Paadanamaskaaram to Swami at the house of Smt. Annapurna Garu and started travelling home by boarding a bus. Since many people were stuffed into the bus, a short girl almost fainted due to lack of oxygen. No passenger gave a seat to her even though she was suffocating badly. Due to heavy rains in the city of Hyderabad, roads were already damaged. Since the Government of Telangana made ticket free travel for all the women, the buses became extremely crowded especially during the mornings and evenings. By the grace of Swami, I overcame my fascination for travelling comfortably in cabs and got used to travelling in the overcrowded buses. But, our benevolent Swami arranged a wonderful cab service for me through my company that not only provides a driver with the car, but also a security guard for safety. I reached my office and boarded the office cab as advised by Swami. Since Swami told all of us to chant the Mahaa Mantra "Shri Anjaneya Shri Subrahmanya" during the leisure time, I utilize the travel time for chanting this mantra.
Generally, I reach home around 10 pm. But, due to the torrential rain, many roads were blocked by traffic and our vehicle was taking alternative routes. To reach my home, the Musi river must be crossed. But, there are very few bridges over that river and they separated by long distances. Before every bridge, there is a cross road, which is a junction, where some vehicles take U turns, some vehicles cross the road to move to other end and some vehicles go straight at the same time. Due to lack of traffic management, all vehicles moved at once and jammed the junction so badly that no vehicle was able to move by an inch. By Swami's grace, we escaped one such jam and travelled to another bridge just to realize that it already got drowned in water. Then, we travelled to the third bridge, but the situation is no different.
I was remembering about the suffering of the short girl in the bus and thanked Swami for protecting me from such suffering. Few days back, due to inevitable circumstances, Swami travelled alone in an auto. Due to heavy rains and traffic jam in the evening, He got drenched in the cold rain water for 3 hours before reach home. But, the same Swami is making me travel in a cab so that I don't get wet. What kind of love is this! I was thanking Swami in my mind for His infinite love and protection. It was 11:30 pm when Annapurna Garu phoned to me to ask if I had reached home safely. I told her my situation and she asked me to come back to her home. But, that was not at all possible because we cannot take a U turn anytime soon. I thanked her for the concern and continued my chanting. Our vehicle did not move even by 2 meters in the next 30 minutes and the Driver confidently told that we would reach the destination by 2 am only. Surprisingly at 12:00 midnight, I got a phone call from Swami. I wondered how Swami was awake till this midnight. Swami replied that He woke up to use the restroom and Annapurna Garu informed Him about me. Swami worried if I was alone in the vehicle. I told that I was very safe and thanked Swami for His arrangement to me a seat to sit throughout the journey and a security guard for my safety. Due to heavy rain, my mobile network was not working properly and in my above sentence, the red-marked parts of speech were not heard by Swami on the phone. Swami misunderstood me that I am mocking at Him for such bad arrangement of heavy traffic due to which I could not reach home. Then, Swami told, "Right! Right!" and put off His phone.
Then, suddenly our vehicle started moving a bit faster. When I looked out of the window, I saw that some 7-8 men wearing coats were standing at the junction of the crossroads and were directing the vehicles like traffic police and they cleared all the traffic in no time. Our driver was wondering that which fellow in this raining midnight would want to come out onto the road from his home leaving deep sleep at that time to clear the traffic!! Those people cleared the traffic in no time and our vehicle moved to the other end crossing the bridge. Even at the other end, I saw 7-8 men again wearing raincoats and managing the vehicles in all directions. Since there were no traffic police in that area, many vehicles came in wrong direction blocking the way for us to move forward. But, these men talentedly made a way for us and by 12:30 am, I had reached home miraculously. Today morning, I phoned to Swami and narrated with excitement how I reached home and how those good-hearted men helped in the midnight. Swami laughingly replied, "You, ignorant fellow! You are explaining to the Doer how the work was done by Him! I have sent the servants (Bhuuta Ganaas) of God Shiva to clear the traffic for you because you always worship God Shiva in your heart since childhood". Swami continued “I misunderstood your oral message on phone and thought that you are mocking at Me for troubling you by creating such bad situation and hence, I reacted immediately”. Then, I realized that everything was arranged by Swami only and He is protecting me every second. It is obvious that the omniscient Swami misunderstood my statement on phone to have a variety of entertainment!
Thank you so much, Swami! for your infinite love and protection on this soul, which often doubts Your good intentions and misunderstands Your guidance. Nobody can have the patience that You have on each soul. Even if someone wants to do bad to You, You still want to do good to them and this is observed by me on several occasions. Surrendering to You is the only best decision that any soul can take in the human birth for its own welfare. But, even if that surrender is not constant and complete, You will forgive the devotee every single time and encourage the devotee as Your best devotee. Knowing every defect of every soul, I wonder You are able to love a soul! You are just unimaginable, Swami! I want to dedicate my life again and again to become Your slave, but, I can never repay the debt of Your protection in this world and the bliss of Your spiritual knowledge that You are raining on me every single day.
Jaya Bhagavan Shri Datta Swami
Your Slave,
Thrylokya
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