About a decade ago, I went to Jaipur to teach a few Art of Living courses. On reaching my host family’s home, I left my suitcases in the room and rushed to the building across the road where lunch had been organised by some teachers.
I had barely reached the building, and slipped and fell on a small slope at the entrance. To my utter dismay, what i thought was a slight sprain, was actually a broken ankle - broken
into two pieces. My left foot was kind of dangling on the side and here i was in a blanked out mindless state, making desperate attempts to straighten my foot.
Some labourers from an adjacent construction saw me do that. One of them came running, sat down next to me and stopped me from trying to straighten my foot. He had a look of such concern and compassion on his face and it was his loving expression that pulled me out of my desperate and mindless attempts with my foot. The moment was so so reassuring.
Thereafter I was rushed in an ambulance to a hospital and the orthopaedic surgeon said that had i continued trying to straighten the foot, i would have ended up with a permanent limp while walking post the surgery.
With the necessary dressing and bandaging done, i was on a flight back to Mumbai. As luck would have it, I was given two adjacent empty seats at no charge; so that i could comfortably sit and stretch my leg. On landing at Mumbai, was taken straight to the hospital and surgery was done.
The point is that for years I wondered if my Gurudev truly knew what I was going through whenever there were those lonely, grim cloudy days in my life. I would wonder whether 'HE was here with me and for me'. I would hear of many devotees sharing how HE would call them at that very moment when they needed HIM the most. But that day I realised, the Divine can come to you in any form at any time. Gurudev came to my rescue in the form of that labourer at a crucial time and I was saved.
Everything that happened was flawless with divine intervention - the labourers, the surgeon, the flight back, the surgery and my recovery.
All I can say is my GURUDEV is with me moment to moment. I feel HIS profound Presence every moment of my life and when I am asked to share my Guru Grace story and the miracles in my life all I can truly say is. I AM THE MIRACLE. Strip His Grace off me and I wouldn’t even exist.
- Nandita
