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their Sadhana in the mountains and jungles. No fear or delirium crossed their mind even if they confronted wild animals. They remained fully steady and that was the topic of our conversation that day. When asked whether he had ever confronted wild animals during his journey; he answered, “Many a time.”
We were eager to know more. he told us that while continuing his Sadhana in Rishikesh, once he sat under the foothills beside a forest and on the shore of the Ganges. There he was going to have his meal. at that moment a huge wild tusker (elephant) came down the mountain. There was forest on both sides with a narrow path in between. he was having his meal as the great tusker approached nearer and nearer. at that time a person standing beside Babaji warned him about the situation. Babaji then said,” You can go away from this place and i will not leave this place until i finish my meal.” hearing this that person went away from that place. The huge tusker came to the place where Babaji was having his meal, lifted his trunk and swung it to hint his departure. But that did not perturb Babaji even slightly. With an unperturbed mind he continued his meal. The tusker repeatedly swung his trunk. Through the signs of his finger, Babaji told the elephant to take a roundabout course and that he would not leave the place until he had finished his meal. No one knows what the elephant understood; it went away bypassing him after standing there for a brief period of time.
Babaji had told that he had faced wild bears and tigers many a time. if no feeling of aberration or violence is there in one’s mind then even a wild animal will not harm humans. That is, no one will be jealous of a person who does not have any sense of jealousy or feeling of fear in him. at the sight of a hunter a herd of deer flees but many a time he had come upon a place where there were many deer which roamed about and grazed fearlessly. his presence neither frightened them nor made them flee. Describing a similar event he narrated that one day he was passing through a forest when he saw a wild deer licking her new born. although the mother deer was not frightened, Babaji left the place immediately so that he might not be the reason of her anxiety.
he told a story about sitaram, a famous sadhu. sitaram, as
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