Baba Nityananda was very fond of traveling by trains. In the early days Baba was often found around railway stations and several railway officers, guards and drivers knew him. Baba often took free rides on several lines on Southern railway in the engine car. This personal rapport with various railway personnel came over due to several episodes that happened during Baba’s travel in trains. Once, a ticket inspector found that Baba had no valid ticket. He forcibly removed Baba from the train. But it was found that the train just did not get started. The guard, the driver and the engineers from the station looked at the various possible faults that can occur, but everything was found to be in order. When they just could not solve it and were about to report to the major railway junction for help, the train driver noticed Baba. He went to Baba and enquired why he was sitting there. The ticket checker told the driver that he had thrown Baba out of the train as he was without a ticket. The driver immediately understood the cause of the engine failure. He begged Baba to board the train. Baba removed from his loin cloth several tickets and offered them to the ticket inspector. All tickets were found to be valid tickets. When Baba boarded the engine car at the invitation of the driver the train started at the first attempt. Baba’s acquaintance and fame with railway personnel grew to such an extent that whenever their train passed Kanhangad ashram they used to hoot their train whistles as an acknowledgement and salute to Baba Nityananda.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 06:30:48 +0000