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Vol. 27, No.1, February 2023 MA ANANDAMAYEE AMRIT VARTA 21

front seat Rajaben, the driver (Balgopal Das) and his wife were sitting. Udas
sitting on Ma’s right and the driver were totally unhurt. The others had mild
injuries. Seated within the car Ma had remarked, “Narayan seated inside was
protecting one and all”. Just before the collision Ma had pulled Gouri (sitting
on Ma’s left) towards Herself. Ma continuously kept asking everyone whether
anyone had any injury or not. When Ma heard that everyone within the car were
well, Ma opened Her left fist. Even when the Hand was fisted, droplets of blood
could be seen oozing out. And at that very instant the back of the Hand bloated
up like a blue hillock. And when the fist was opened blood came gushing out of
the cut. Ma said, “Bring some water”. But the blood wasn’t stopping. Then Ma
again said, “Bring some ice”. Surprisingly a man was sitting slightly ahead of
the road with ice. Everyone was wondering how to put the big chunk of ice on
Ma’s Hand. Ma immediately wrapped the chunk of ice with a towel and gave a
few blows on the ground and taking a broken piece of ice from it, kept it over
the blue swollen portion of Her Hand. Immediately the swelling subsided and
the skin looked like a wet cloth fallen on the ground. It seemed that a major
blood vessel had been injured and hence both the thumb and fore finger were
quite pale and weak.
A few days earlier Ma had a kheyâl that, ‘How will it be, to look at the color
of This Body’s blood’. Ma only knows, whether the accident occurred on Ma’s
kheyâl or Ma had taken upon Herself someone else’s mishap. Later Ma had
said, “What a fresh and bright red colored blood, and you all mention that This
Body is not well”.
All those who had witnessed the blood oozing out of Ma’s Hand, had
confirmed that there was something strange about it and it had an amazing glow.
This type of blood is not observed normally.
One more fact, when it was being discussed that Rajaben would escort Ma
to Kankhal, then it had been decided that Rajaben would arrive with the car at
eight in the morning. Ma too had been ready to leave at eight. But because of a
festival and the rush for a bath in the Ganga, Haridwar was quite crowded and
Rajaben could somehow manage to reach Kankhal at 9:30 a.m. and then only
Ma had departed. Ma had also said, “Would not Narayan want to keep a sign of
what could have happened in that fatal accident. And sitting beside Ma in the car,
Narayan was already hanging from Udas’s neck, He only saved all”. But we all
know that Shree Shree Ma had only saved everyone from this terrible danger.
After the accident, the bus driver pleaded before the driver of Ma’s car,
“Give me any punishment that you desire. Even though the car was in front of
me, I just did not have any thought that I have to stop the bus. I too had become