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his incident dates back to the year
1990. During that period there
was a Mahatma who used to
attend Dada's satsang. There were a lot
of differences in opinion between him
and Niruma. All his interactions were
rational while Niruma was totally
devoted to Dada. Even so if Dada would
heed to Niruma's suggestions at times,
the Mahatma would feel offended. Due
to this Dada would then take his side.
One day an incident of differences
cropped up once again. This time
Dadashri supported that mahatma
although the stand he had taken was not
right and overlooked Niruma. Pujya
Niruma was very upset with Dada's
biased attitude. When she could not
resist it anymore she said to Dada,
“Dada, you have supported him
wrongly. The stand that he has taken is
not at all acceptable.”
And then Dadashri took Niruma to
remand and asked her point blank,
“How could you say so? What did you
mean by it? Tell me what you feel within”
That night Dada stayed awake and did
not let Niruma rest too in order to solve
this matter.
Then dadashri explained very
compassionately “I have to take his side
so that he may not falter on the path of
salvation. You are already taken care of
but I have take care of him. Many a times I
do as you say in the day to day routine,
which hurts him. So I have to use you as a
'buffer' in order to please him. If he
develops negativity for me, he will lose
this ‘gnan'. But if he develops negativity
towards you then I am there to handle it.”
Niruma was deeply touched with this
explanation and said,
“Agreed. Dada use me as a buffer as
many times as you want. I could not have
been more fortunate. Blessed I am, to
act as a ‘buffer’ for none other than
Dadashri.”
After that Niruma was enveloped with
bliss all the time.
Following those words Dada had
also added, “Niruben, you don't bother
about these matters. You just maintain
an irrevocable intent that may my fate
be just as that of Dada”.To this Niruma
replied, “I will Dada. But for that please
do ‘vidhi’ for me.” Finally, all this finished
at 5:00 in the morning and then Dada
went to bed and so did Niruma. After
this incident Niruma never ever
repeated anything of the sort with Dada.
Dadashri also used to say that
“Lot many people have come
to serve me and left. None
could last long. Niruben has
been the only person who has
remained loyal in our seva
since the past 20 years
because her nature matches
with that of mine. Therefore
she has stayed on and her
respect for Dada never
decreased even once.”
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