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SHRI SAI LEELA – APRIL 1986In the afternoon, as I was returning to the office at 10, Clive Row,Calcutta-1 after the recess, I was hit from behind by the left giantwheel of a Jeep Suddenly there was a piercing noise like someonehad cast away a piece of wood into the saw. Instinctively I jerkedaway and fell down on a parked car on the left side. The oddest,deepest silence instantly seemed to fill me, despite the excruciatingpain and the inability to stand on my feet. My mind at once raced toSai.It was as if I had picked up a telephone, and at the other end wasShirdi Sai Himself. It was just He and I. I heard myself reaching out:"You promised me" I prayed, "that if I believed in you you'd take careof me.In the next instant, I took a look at my left leg. It was enough to makeme gasp. Shirdi Sai had saved me from the jaws of death for the thirdtime and from being crippled too.If I were to fall on the right side, I would have been crushed to pulp. Idid not faint. I did not scream. I could see people running towards me.Suddenly then the Psalm's last verse flashed in my mind as thoughGod whispered it to me in reassurance: "Surely goodness and mercyshall follow me all the days of my life...."The Doctor who was attending on me knew just what to do. He feltmy leg and said that there was no fracture. What a relief, for at myage as fractures won't heal that easily. It was like I'd turned my wholeself over to Shirdi Sai, and if there was any pain, Sainath was feelingit for me. I'd had the feeling that everything was going to turn out allright.40WWW.SAILEELAS.ORG