When Mr. Kumar Aklekar realized that the Mumbai deluge on 26th July 2005 was endangering his family in Andheri, he rushed home. For safety he sent his children higher up the building while and his wife, Sheetal stayed in their home.
As the water level in the flat rose, they moved their television, computers and other valuables to higher floors within the premises. The roads were already flooded with more than 5 feet of water. He could see his car submerged already. The water had climbed up to nearly three feet inside their flat.
He and Sheetal sat on the kitchen platform the whole night praying and reciting the "Sai Gayatri". The room had a life-size picture of Swami placed three and a half feet above the ground. Sheetal mentioned to Kumar in a frightened tone that the water level should not rise to touch Swami's photograph. They started getting tense as the water level started rising but stopped, to their utter disbelief, just three inches below Swami's life-size photograph.
That was a miracle as the water rose five feet in their neighbour's home on the very same floor!
The Aklekars spent the next two days cleaning their home from the residual mud. And to their great surprise and joy on Thursday (the third day after the deluge), Swami assured them of His presence at all times as Amrita (holy nectar) started dripping from His photograph, as if to say, "I am always here, why fear!"
(From the book "Mother Sai's Miracles of Love")
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