The earliest one I can remember of....

It was a warm nice day when I used to stay in our ancestral house in the country side ... I don't remember much as I was only 6-7 years old but as I was told that I was playing a rural favorite game called Gulli Danda (kind game that is played with a big and small stick) with few of my friends and the small stick (Gulli) the player hit and it went across near to a big fan which is used to remove chaff from grains by pedalling it ... it was turning fast as there was strong wind and the small gulli landed just under those fans running in full blast... as luck would have it, it did not have any mesh around it and I rushed in to pick that gulli under the fan... and then I got hit over my right eye brow ... I lost consciouness and I felt such a great relief which is still etched in my mind even at that young age... This particular place is in front of our ancestral house and in the front of our temple of Goddess Durga ji... and I felt my self being picked up by a very beautiful lady and in her hands I felt myself floating... in such blissful state and happy like never before...

She called out to me and told me to wake up and go and play... I felt like crying and asked her why she is sending me away and she told me that I have to go back and play.... so I woke up and find myself with my mother and lots of people....

I was told by my mother and Grand father later on that I could not have survived that as there was lot of blood loss as they have had to take me to the hospital around 13 Kms away and it took lot of time as there was at that time only conveyance available was bullock cart...and I was in coma and the cut in my head was too deep....

But anyways I always felt that it was one of the earliest sign that I got from Goddess Durga that I am in her care... and what a miracle... I survived...

Om Namah Shivaya

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