In the summer of 2016 our family had the great opportunity of participating in the USA tour along with Sri Mathaji and several ardent devotees of Sri Babuji Maharaj. The tour started after a 3 day Satsang in St.Louis and we covered many prominent tourist places in the USA and the Bahamas. Sri Mathaji has instructed all the devotees to continuously chant the sacred name of the Gurudev starting 41 days before the tour started. Wherever we went, we were blessed with the regular darshan of the Divine Mother and have the teertham from her hands every morning.
During the 4 days of Bahamas cruise trip, we used to have the full evening prayer on the deck of the ship and many foreigners also used to accompany us. One day we were travelling by bus from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The above picture was taken just before boarding that bus. Sri Mathaji waved off to us when the bus started and we left happily. It was a long journey of 8 hours by road. As the whole tour went hectic, this was the only occasion when we got some free time and the devotees in the bus started narrating their experiences with Sri Babuji Maharaj.
Each one of us narrated his/her own experiences with Sri Gurudev, both spiritual as well as worldly. Although each one went through a different situation or had a different experience, the common theme was their closeness with Sri Gurudev as if he was their closest relative and his love belonged exclusively to them. Even though the other person was narrating his personal story, we could relate with it at a personal level. As this narration was going on, there was a sudden jerk and the bus swerved violently and went off the road. Everyone started chanting aloud the sacred name. Once the situation calmed down, the driver explained that a car suddenly came into our lane and it was a miracle that a dangerous accident was averted.
Within Minutes we got a call from Sri Mathaji inquiring about our safety. When explained about what happened, she said it was with Sri Gurudev's benevolence that we were saved. Later, a devotee who was riding in the car with Sri Mathaji narrated an interesting thing to us. As Sri Mathaji waved off to our bus in Los Angeles and as the bus moved on, she kept looking in the direction of the bus for a long time and then boarded the car. Then this devotee asked her, out of curiosity, why she was looking at the bus for a such a long time even after it left. She replied, "I felt as if Sri Babuji Maharaj has taken the bus into his hands and that was why I kept looking." That was the protection of Sri Gurudev that all of the devotees have been experienced every moment of their lives.
Just a few days after our tour ended, a bus travelling with some Chinese tourists on the same highway met with a similar accident and burned completely killing all the passengers. We also heard news about fire accidents or evacuations in some of the airports we passed through in our tour. And in the next summer the Bahamas was devastated due to a severe hurricane. All these incidents reminded us the constant protection we were receiving from Sri Gurudev, whether we were realizing at that particular moment or not.
