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57. The One Light in the Midst of Darkness
Sadhvishri Amrutashriji (Parshvachandra Gachcha)
Around Samvat, 22 or 23, there was an earthquake in Koyna (Maharashtra). One Kutchchi family was stranded in its house. The time was 3 to 3.30 p.m. The dust began to fall on the children who were asleep and also on him. Children began to shout and scream, while he and his wife thought of opening the house and getting out. But the door could not be traced due to darkness. He was thinking "If the house will collapse all of us will be buried in the debris. He therefore resolved that all of them should peacefully mutter the Navakara Mantra. Just then on the switch of the battery in the house, a stone fell. The switch was pressed, there was light in the house which went off the next moment. The gentleman safely got out of the house with his wife and children. This is indeed the power of the Navakara! We had heard of this incident about the Kutchchi family from Smt. Panbai, the wife of Shambhubhai, a resident of Ratadia (Kutch) presently at Chembur (Bombay). Here we have narrated it.
What is indeed impossible about this incident associated with the Mahamantra that destroys the blinding darkness of ignorance and grave delusion and yields the divine light of absolute knowledge in one's Atma! What is required is perfect subjugation of one's self before it and constant recitation of it.
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