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is powerful indeed! Suddenly my brake struck. Otherwise the rickshaw and both of you would have been in shambles! The rickshaw-driver in serious condition was taken to the hospital. He was removed to the hospital and I returned to Jogeshvari. I recovered within two days. My chanting of the Navakara was on in the rickshaw. The austerity of Ayambil and this sacred chanting gave new life to me.
Once some thirty persons including me had gone to Titwal. On return all of us got seated in 3 tongas. A rickshaw came from the other side. The horn of the rickshaw frightened the horses, we were a little aside and fell in a 25 feet ditch.
But... as per my daily routine, once I am out of my house, I was used to chant the Navakara Mantra under all odds. That day also the chanting was on.
As a result where there was no hope of being saved, nobody was seriously injured. I regained my consciousness within five minutes. I was seated in the frontal part of the tonga.
It was then that famous line came to my memory. "What can the mundane world do to one whose heart is full with Shri Navakara?"
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Black Magic Fails
Once, during the course of the Oli of Navapadaji, I was reciting Shripal Raas at the insistence of the audience. Then it was that once a lady of age approached me, and, with tears in her eyes and her hands folded, she proceeded to seek my forgivance.
I was overcome with surprise. I did not know the worthy lady, I had no quarrel with her. She was senior to
