Sripada Rajam Saranam Prpadhye.
Anonymous sripada devotee is sharing a beautiful experience with swamy.
- Please note that Sripada srivallabha will observe us every moment and grants the every righteous wish of HIS devotees.Below experience shows the divine leela of sripada swamy.
It was our last day of stay in Mumbai. I wrote my dairy saying the trip has been very successful so far and it was a memorable trip and went off smoothly. The last words were key as we had no clue what we were being setup against. That morning in fact after making a devoted reading of the Sripada Srivallabha Charithamrutham, I thought to myself, is Swami with me? I haven’t heard anything from him, no miracles, is he listening to me? These were some random thoughts that I had and later I just got into routine. We wanted to pay the hotel folks after completing our lunch at around 4.30pm instead of later in the day. But the receptionist said it only takes 2min and we can pay before we leave as well. Both I and my husband were thinking of completing the transaction without any hassles beforehand as somewhere we felt what if we run into issues. But we didn’t insist and went off. We were planning to leave to the airport by 8.30-8.45pm and went downstairs at 8.15pm to make the payment and gave my credit card. The receptionist said it is erroring out. We were like what? I have used this card several times without issues in this trip. But around 3 days prior when I tried to make a purchase, the card did error, but we didn't pay attention thinking it was the store's issue and not my card's issue as the card was being accepted at other places. Post that I didn't use the card for 3 days and directly used it for hotel stay payment. So we asked the hotel receptionist to try again and he attempted almost 4-5 times and the result was the same. Somewhere in my mind I was thinking to myself, I asked Swami if he was with me and was asking for miracles and here he is showing his Leelas and all this is his sportive play and he will save us for sure. I had this strong feeling within me. We asked him to call the outside USA number and then 1-800 customer service number and it was not getting connected even after several tries. Then we went to our room to get connected to the internet and use the internet phone that my husband had on his laptop. As the laptop was starting, my husband tried calling the 1-800 no from his US cell phone and India cell phone and it didn’t work. The internet phone was very slow and took almost 15min to start up and it didn’t work either. I tried calling via Whatsapp to my brother and saw that the internet itself was down. It was already 8.35pm by then and now we were scared to death. I called up my dad and they had no clue what to do. The NEFT also doesn't work as it was after RBI working hours.
We went downstairs and the guy said he will only take credit or cash and no cheque. He wasn't courteous. It made me even more uncomfortable. Now my husband was panicking like anything as it was already 8.45pm, we didn't have enough cash to pay, the card was not working, can't do transfer, then what do we do? And we just had 3.5hrs in our hand to travel. It rained heavily in Mumbai and as you guys have heard, traffic halts and hence it was even more important that we start as early as we could. Now everything felt horrible. We couldn't believe we landed up in such a trouble. I made huge payments (like buying jewellery etc) in India using the very same credit card almost from last 10yrs and never had any issues. We just didn’t know what to do. I was taking Swami Sripada's name without a gap. We asked the receptionist to try calling the credit card 1-800 number again and this time it worked and I got connected to Customer Service folks and later they transferred me to travel authorization dept. It was a shock to me that the card from their perspective was working perfectly fine and there weren’t receiving any of transactions to approve. No matter how many times we tried, the transactions were not going through. But the card itself was saying “Unable to process, error”, which made no sense to anyone. We tried 2 more cards, but since we didn't add travel alert on those cards, they got declined instantly. And now the pressure really mounted. The customer representative said she really can't help me and was about to hang up. But I requested her to be online just for a moment. Took a deep breathe and asked the hotel receptionist to try one last time – Lo & behold, it worked, IT WORKEDDDDDD!!!! And the transaction was approved.
Swami Sripada alone knows how it really worked. No one has any clue why it didn’t work and why it worked. It was 9pm. I mentally thanked Sripada countless number of times. I knew it was his own creation and he put us to mental agony as his playful pastime and when we cried to save us, he saved us effortlessly. Its like he likes pinching his children and when we cry, he comes and hugs us to his bosom. I asked for a miracle and asked him if he was with me or not and if he was I wanted to know his presence, so he showed me he was there right with me. I just felt that way. All the while, I wasn’t too much pressurized compared to my husband as the moment the issue was detected, I knew it was all Swami’s play and so I was double assured he will take care of this predicament.
My husband was like please don’t play and keep asking Swami for miracles. If the miracles are this pressurizing then I can’t take this pressure :)
Jaigurudatta.