Journey to Maharajji- Part 4- Supriya meets with a fatal accident unscathed

Make sure to read the previous parts if you haven’t already:Part 1 - Journey to Maharajji - Meeting MaharajjiPart 2 - The Journey to Maharajji continues - “Nothing to Achieve”Part 3 -Journey to Maharajji- Supriya Meets her teacher the Mahasamadhi Ashram ManagerAfter some days at the ashram Supriya was asked to meet Maharajji’s younger son, who looked exactly like his father’s photo. Bhauji advised her to meet him. She took Bhauji’s words as law and loved and trusted him, and realized that he never talked bad about anyone. He didn’t care about the nonsense of religious rituals. She feels this really helped her break out of being the “ritualistic good hindu girl” and focus on awakening the God within oneself. Maharajji’s son asked her to write a story for the blog about how she got to the Vrindavan ashram. After she received this request she went to Maharajji’s Mahasamadhi temple and asked him what to write. But nothing came to her and she thought, “How can someone as small as me write about someone as big as him?” She felt as if Maharajji told her not to write anything, because the truth for her was that Maharajji's website didn't need publicity. Supriya had never met Maharajji in person and yet by his grace she was touched by him long after he took Mahasamadhi. She felt that writing a blog would be like advertising, the one thing that didn’t bring her to his ashram doorsteps. And so she didn’t write the blog.Eventually, Supriya met the young man staying in the room next to hers at the ashram. His name was Kunal and he was getting his PhD in Kriya Yoga. She had read the legendary book, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, when she was 14 years old in the 8th grade. After learning more about Yogananda’s kriya initiation from Kunal she ran to Bhauji. Feeling strongly that she had to do something Supriya asked Bhauji, “What do I do to know God?” Bhauji replied, “What do you want to do, because if you’re asking then you already know.” She said, “I want to go with Kunal to Rishikesh and take kriya initiation.” Bhauji spoke his words of wisdom again and said, “Take an overnight bus to go to Rishikesh. You can try that as well!” And so she left for Rishikesh, got initiated into kriya practice and came back to Maharajji’s Mahasamdhi ashram to see Bhaskar. “So are you happy now?” Bhaskar asked her when she returned. “Yes, yes now I can do something in getting to God.” He told her, “Ok. Good. Just ‘Be’ Supriya!”Some time passed and it was now 2006, Supriya was doing her daily kriya practice and calling Bhauji at least once a month. By 2007 she got accepted to a master’s program in architecture in Sydney, Australia. Before she left for Australia she wanted to see Bhauji and went to Vrindavan to spend a day with him. When Supriya got into the cab to go back home after her visit, Bhauji told her to sit with her feet up on the back seat. So she did what he said and waved farewell. After about an hour of driving in thick fog, the cab driver drove straight into a huge truck. It was a terrifying accident and could have ended her life. The driver was seriously injured and couldn’t move. But because she had listened to Bhauji to put her feet up on the back seat she actually fell in between the two seats and didn’t get hurt. The first person she called when she got out of the car was not her mom, nor her sisters but her Bhauji. For the first time in her experience with Bhauji she could feel his human concern for her. He told her, “Well as a human being we all have to experience human emotion also. Call me when you get home.”To be continued...............