A car was waiting at the entrance to Kainchi ashram to pick up Baba and
Mukerjee Dada, and many devotees from the ashram were standing on the
roadside, waiting to see them off. At a bend on the road, Ambadatt
Pande, Secretary to the Central Government, was standing with his
family. They had anticipated that Baba's car would leave before they
arrived at the ashram, and knowing that Baba's car would have to go to
via Bhowali, they decided to stop on the road and wait for Baba's car
to pass with the intention of having his darshan.
Before
getting into the car, Dada drew Baba's attention to the fact that the
family had not arrived and would therefore be stopping at that
particular bend. Baba said, "They won't have darshan
now." At this, Dada said that they would stand in front
of the car to stop it. Baba said to him, "You sit in the
backseat bending low so that your face cannot be seen from the outside."
Dada obeyed him and the car set off.
High
up on a bend the family watched the car approach. After passing the
bend, Baba told Dada to sit comfortably. No one saw the car pass. The
members of the family were puzzled about where the car had gone. It had
disappeared. The devotees standing at the temple entrance down in the
valley lost sight of the car as it went toward the bend. When the Pande
family arrived at the temple gate and talked to the devotees still
standing around it, they were all astounded. Not only Baba, but the
entire car had become invisible to them all.
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