by Ranjana
Wherever You Go, I’m There!
-Mohanji
My family and I recently had an experience that shows Mohanji’s supremely powerful grace and protection towards his devotees. I travelled to the US from India on June 28th to visit my sister, and I was overjoyed when I heard that Mohanji would be visiting the US and there would be a one-day programme at the MCB in Virginia (there is a little story connected to this “coincidence”, but I’ll share that in another testimonial).
My sister and I had the blessed opportunity to attend Mohanji’s satsang at the MCB in Virginia, USA, on July 2nd. Post the satsang, we had the chance to get a picture clicked with Mohanji. After the picture was clicked, Mohanji told me, “Wherever you go, I’m there”. It outwardly seemed like a cute and sweet reference to my first-ever trip to the USA, which coincided with his visit.
But the words resonated at a much deeper level when I heard them, and I could only kiss his hand and thank him emotionally with a very full heart.
Now, we fast-forward to the evening of July 5th. My parents, sister, brother-in-law, and two nieces were on a short outing. At one point, we had to get onto a tall escalator (probably equivalent to about two floors). I was standing at the back of our small group. I watched my mother go onto the escalator, followed immediately by my sister and father.
Suddenly, my 74-year-old mother lost her balance and started to fall backwards. In trying to steady her, my sister and my father, who is 79 years old, also lost their balance and both fell on the escalator. My sister began to shout for help. My brother-in-law, who was at the front, was tugging at my mother’s and sister’s hands and struggling to hold them up to stop them from hitting their heads.
A tall young man stood on the floor behind us with his two young children, both under three years old. He left his kids and ran up the escalator to help my family by propping them from behind. Standing at the back, I too was trying my best to hold up one of my parents. I honestly cannot remember who it was. That whole part is a blur.
At one point, the weight of the person I was holding up began to push me backwards, and I tried to grab the railing with one hand, but there was something wrong with it, and it only unsteadied me further. For a second, I was sure I was going to fall backwards entirely, which meant the person I was supporting would also fall. But then I miraculously found my balance and could remain steady until we reached the top. With the help of my brother-in-law and the helpful stranger, my mother and sister managed to scramble off the escalator somehow when they reached the top.
When I tried to help my father up, I saw that his leg had somehow gotten stuck against the side of the escalator, and I hurriedly freed it. And we helped him sit to the side. The young man who had come to our rescue rushed down the escalator to get back to his small children, who had thankfully remained still and had not tried to follow him up. My mother and sister stood up with difficulty, but seemed unhurt overall, and were in a daze.
But my father was in severe pain as both his legs had gotten injured badly, with multiple small wounds that were bleeding. There was a deep gash on my father’s big toe, and it was bleeding heavily. All of us were in shock, but we immediately tried to find anything in our bags that could help stop the bleeding.
Just then, a group of youngsters suddenly came forward with a big first aid kit. As they opened the kit and offered it to us, I could only see Mohanji in all of them. They initially tried to guide us on the right way to dress the wound and stem the blood flow. Then, one of them mentioned that they were a group trained by the Red Cross to provide first aid, which meant they also had all the required knowledge to help us.
You can imagine how I felt when I heard that. It was as if Mohanji had wrapped us up in a huge cloak of grace and compassion. I requested the youngsters to help us out, and they immediately sprang into action. They dressed up my father’s wounds quickly and efficiently and managed to stop the blood flow. As I watched them in a mix of disbelief and thankfulness, Mohanji’s words resounded in my head – “Wherever you go, I’m there”.
I was overwhelmed with gratitude and thanked the youngsters with folded hands and a bowed head, feeling Mohanji’s presence in all of them.
Then we slowly made our way back down to the entrance of the building and set out for the nearest urgent care centre. While leaving, we again came across the young man who had helped us, who seemed to be from a slightly impoverished background, and my brother-in-law asked him if we could give him some money for the children, and he agreed. It felt like a beautiful display of Mohanji’s compassion and grace towards them as well.
The staff at the urgent care checked my father’s wounds and said the wounds had been dressed correctly by the youngsters and there was no need to re-tie most of the bandages.
As we headed back home, we tried to make sense of what had happened, but we were too shaken to relive it. However, I couldn’t stop thinking about Mohanji’s miraculous grace that had protected my entire family. He had cradled us so securely, through the young man who stood like a rock to protect my family from the back to prevent any serious harm, and through the youngsters who literally seemed to have been waiting for us at the top of the escalator to give my parents the best possible medical treatment they could have received in that situation and location.
It took a few days for the injuries to start healing and for the emotional shock to subside. But each time we mention this accident to anyone, they are astounded by how the injuries were relatively minimal considering the seriousness of the accident, and how much worse the situation could have been. And I can only fervently respond that it was purely the divine grace of Mohanji that shielded us.
I offer a thousand obeisances at the lotus feet of my Guru, Mohanji. Thank you for your boundless compassion and grace, Mohanji. For me, you are the embodiment of causeless mercy. Thank you. I love you so much!
|| JAI BRAHMARISHI MOHANJI ||
Edited & Published by – Testimonials Team, 31st July 2025
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