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63. Chant the Mantra Day and Night
Bhavanji Bhooraji Bhojani, Khar, Bombay.
This is an incident of 1987, when I was only 17 or 18 years of age. I was at Lalbag then. A gentleman, Pokharaj was in business as a shroff. Pathans then were torturous. They were experts in thefts and dacoities.
Once they came to the shop of Pokharaj with the intention of theft. Nearby was a flour-mill. They broke it open and went in. They started breaking his shop open. Pokharaj was awakened. He was living in the shop itself. He awakened his wife and placed his heavy iron-box in the direction from which the noise of breaking came. He then ran to the place where four roads met, just with the hope of getting somebody to help. It was almost 2 a.m. and nobody could be found. Again, he was worried about his wife also.
He then found no alternative except chanting the Navakara Mantra. He saw there itself a 6-feet pillar with a glass window. He broke open the glass, turned the handle and in no time fire-brigade men reached there. They were taken near the shop and they arrested the Pathans. We were some four or six persons asleep in the vicinity of the shop on the footpath. We were also awakened.
The incident has taken place before our very eyes. Pokharajbhai had just one thing to say: "Really, only the Navakara Mantra saved me."
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