BABA FULFILLS A PROMISE

 
Even though the Lord has given us all that we need, in moments of suffering and weakness, we beseech Him for help and in His Compassion He gives.

Meher Baba said that there was nothing wrong in asking. "If you do not ask Me," He said, "whom else will you ask and who will give you? Ask Me again and again but do not expect an answer. In My Compassion and in My Omniscience, I will do what is good for you."

This is the story of an old Baba lover and his grandson. One day the old man received a letter from his daughter who lived in Ahmednagar, saying she was anxious to visit her hometown with her two small children and requesting that her brother should come and escort her.

Just two days before the brother planned to leave for Ahmednagar, the electric lights in the house went out and his son who was playing inside, banged his head against an iron bedpost in the darkened room and fell down with a shriek. The parents calmed the child but were devastated by the horror of discovering that he was paralysed from the waist down.

However, the old man who spent time with Baba and His disciples, was not disturbed in this moment of crisis for he remembered something which Baba had told him thirty years ago. In those days he used to keep asking Baba for one thing or another, and on one occasion Baba replied smilingly, "You can keep asking Me but it is of no avail. However, after I drop My body, if you were to ask for anything at My Tomb, your request will be granted. Remember this!"

Accordingly, he asked the family to remain calm and advised his son on arrival in Ahmednagar to pray at the Tomb and ask Baba for help.

On reaching Ahmednagar the young man relayed his father's advice to his sister and they both arrived at Baba's Tomb on the day when the women mandali were paying their customary visit. On hearing the story, they too prayed for the child's recovery.

Thereafter the brother and sister with her two children left Ahmednagar for their hometown and on arrival were greeted with great joy and laughter as the paralysed boy had recovered and was running around.

The family compared notes, including dates and time, and discovered that during the period the young man and his sister were at the Tomb asking Baba for His help, the little boy suddenly jumped off his bed and became active again. Everyone was happy and thanked Baba for His Compassion and His Grace.