[Post # 664]: Once Swami Saradananda received a cable from Swami Vivekananda, who was then travelling with the Western devotees and had become very ill in Srinagar, Kashmir. Saradananda immediately left for Rawalpindi by train, and then took a tonga (horse carriage) to Srinagar. On the way a terrible accident took place: Suddenly there was a landslide in front of the carriage, and the horse began to run down the road frantically. While trying to gain control of the carriage, the coachman muttered to himself, I will see whether Allah protects me this time. Then another carriage came from the opposite direction around a turn, and the startled horse jumped in the air. One of the carriage wheels bounced against a rock, and the carriage rushed towards a ravine several thousand feet deep. The luggage was thrown off, a dislodged boulder crushed the horse to death, the coachman fell from the carriage and lost consciousness - but luckily the carriage was stuck in a tree before it could fall into the ravine. Throughout all this, Saradananda remained calm. He jumped from the carriage into thorny bushes; he hurt his feet, but was otherwise unharmed. He rescued the coachman, took him to the nearest village, and then left for Srinagar by another carriage. In Srinagar Saradananda served Swami Vivekananda until he recovered from his illness.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:33:42 +0000
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