Sri Sadguru Mahime

Author: Charana Dasa

Translator: Shri.Ganesh Prasad

Chapter 43: Even when you didn’t listen to him

Guru will continue to protect his devotee even if the latter does not listen to his instructions. Devotee’s well being is of utmost importance to him. It is the hallmark of a true Guru.

It was during the initial days of this Charanadasa’s stay at Gurunatha’s house. Once Gurunatha along with seven or eight of his devotees including myself set out to have Gurudarshana at advaitha peetahm, we started in one car, one bike and a scooter. We reached Sringeri finished Gurudarshana and started on our return journey. It was about 1 am in the night. We were still about 60 kms away from our destination and the car driver started feeling sleepy. Gurunatha requested the driver many a time to stop the car and take some rest and continue the journey. But, the driver insisted he was alright and he would feel better after having a cup of tea. He stopped to have tea near a tea shop and wanted to start driving again. Gurunatha requested him again to take some rest, not to drive while feeling sleepy. The driver did not heed and continued. Gurunatha who was sleeping with his head on my lap, pressed his leg against the car floor mat, after traveling about 20-30 feet car stopped all of a sudden. Nobody knew what happened and everyone was coming up with their own interpretations.

Gurunatha told me..”See, I requested to stop so many times, nobody listened so I just pressed the car floor once and the car stopped. If we were to drive when sleepy and something bad were to happen who would be responsible? So, I had to do it, it is just the clutch fuse has gone and can be repaired easily.”

With those words Gurunatha left me and another devotee behind in the car, a taxi was arranged and he reached Chickmagalur.

Next day morning, when we looked around and were wondering how to get the car repaired, we found a repair shop just at about 10 feet away. The mechanic who came to repair said, ‘it is just that the clutch fuse has gone’ he was able to repair it within a short time and we were on our way back.

I had just been a witness to one of the many acts Guru puts up to save his devotees.

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