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At Allahabad, Kanpur and Bareilly |
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Maharaj got a Hanuman temple built at Panki in Kanpur through Devkamta Dixit ji. The murti
was to be installed on 21 January 1964. A few days before this, Maharaj
arrived in Allahabad. On the day of the consecration ceremony, I was
astonished to see him at Church Lane at six in the morning. I could not
understand why Baba did not think it appropriate to go to Panki on that
special occasion, when a large crowd of devotees would be waiting for
him. After giving prasad to the devotees, Baba
went into his room at about six thirty.
Sri
Ma and Sri Jivanti Ma were there when Baba asked Sudhir Mukerjee to
lock the room from the outside and to tell every visitor that he had
gone out. He lay very still on the takhat, and
the Mothers found him in a state of samadhi.
I sat in the outer room in the hope that Baba might come out of his
room at any time, and Mukerjee was sending the visitors away as
instructed. Just then Jagati Babu arrived and seeing me sitting there
in the outer room, came and asked about Baba. I told him what was
happening. At about eleven thirty Baba called from inside the room to
unlock the door. When he came out, I had his darshan
once again.
Two
days later Baba was sitting with a group of devotees, including Jagati
Babu and myself, when a car stopped unexpectedly outside. An engineer,
one of Baba's devotees, arrived from Kanpur. We all welcomed him and
Jagati Babu added, "How was the consecration ceremony held at Panki in
Baba's absence?" The engineer was surprised at the question and
exclaimed, "In the absence of Baba?" Then he said, "I received Baba on
the consecration day at about six thirty in the morning and remained
with him until approximately eleven thirty. The consecration ceremony
was celebrated with joy and a bhandara was held.
The occasion
was marvelous." Jagati Babu did not agree with what the engineer said,
for he knew very well that Baba had been locked in a room at Church
Lane at that time. After some argument both of them decided to take the
matter to Baba. When Jagati Babu raised the question, Baba said that
the engineer was a liar. The engineer was taken aback to hear Baba say
so. As he tried to remonstrate, Baba raised his finger to his lips,
signaling him to keep quiet. This was clear proof of Baba's presence in
Allahabad and Kanpur at the same time. Further enquiry into this matter
revealed that other people had also had Baba's darshan
in Kanpur.
That
same morning Dr. A. D. Bhandari's wife was strolling in her garden in
Bareilly when she saw Baba coming towards their house. He was traveling
alone in a rickshaw. She immediately went inside to arrange a room for
him, but when she came out to receive him, she did not see Baba or the
rickshaw. She felt unhappy at Baba's coming up to the house and then
leaving. When the doctor arrived home, she told him what had happened.
He enquired about Baba at various places but without any success. A few
days after this incident Mrs. Bhandari met Sri Ma and told her what had
happened on that day, 21 January 1964. She could not believe her ears
when Sri Ma told her that Baba was present in Allahabad on that day.
-Rajida
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