Hair Raising Incident Of An Indian Doctor

A very senior general surgeon from Karnataka (a southern state in India), 

well-known for his services to poor patients recounted this incident to

DR.S.Kalyanaraman, chennai, India. said he was traveling one evening
with his wife and children by car on a rather lonely highway.

   :   Suddenly there was a torrential rain and visibility became quite poor.
He was able to proceed only very slowly and by about 11 p.m. he reached
a small village. There was a bright light in one of the houses on the road
and some persons were standing on the road outside the open door. The
Surgeon stopped the car and got out to enquire whether there was any nearby 

hotel or guest house where he could stay overnight. 

The person asked him whether he was a doctor and whether he had come 

with his family. He replied “Yes”. The people said we have been waiting for
you for more than two hours. Food is ready. Please come in, have your dinner
and take rest. 

He was very surprised and asked whether any of them were his former 

patients and had recognized him. They said “please come and have food

first. Let the children take rest. We will answer all your questions after dinner”.

Half an hour later when everyone had taken their dinner, they told him, 

“We heard earlier in the day that Maha Periyaval was going to a nearby 

town through this village to his next camp. We had prepared food for Him 

and the Mutt people. 

However, when He came, we requested Him to stop here, take rest and then 

proceed. He said that He had to reach the town on time before the rains 

started. However He added that, late at  night a doctor with his family 

would be coming by car and that they would be tired and would need 

rest.

He told us to look after these guests. So we have been waiting 

for you more than two hours wondering when you would come”.

This doctor had never seen Maha Periyaval (a great saint) earlier. After
this event he visited the Mutt and became a great devotee.