Catching Bullets in His Blanket to Save an Army Soldier

During the height of World War II, Indian soldiers fighting in the Allied ranks were deployed in the dense, deadly jungles of Burma against intense enemy fire. An elderly devotee couple whose only son was fighting at the frontline received a military telegram indicating that their son’s platoon was ambushed and presumed lost.

In agonizing grief, the parents ran to Maharaj Ji, wept at his feet, and cried: "Baba, he is our only child. If he dies, our entire lineage is extinguished. Only you can save him!"

Maharaj Ji closed his eyes and sat motionless. Suddenly, he pulled his trademark rough woollen blanket tightly over his entire body, curling into a tight bundle on the wooden takhat. For the next several hours, he groaned, breathed heavily, and writhed in pain as though being struck repeatedly by invisible heavy blows.

Devotees surrounding him were terrified, unsure whether he was suffering from fever or sudden illness. Nobody dared disturb his samadhi. Finally, in the early hours before dawn, Maharaj Ji sat up, drenched in sweat, exhausted but smiling gently. He threw his blanket aside and said softly: "Do not cry. The bullets have missed. Your boy will return."

Three months later, an army truck arrived in the village. The soldier son walked out completely unharmed, carrying his metal army kit bag. Weeping with gratitude, he ran to Baba Ji and recounted his miraculous survival:

"We were pinned down in a trench under ferocious machine gun crossfire. Every soldier next to me fell. Suddenly, I felt a heavy, warm woollen blanket envelop my upper body, and I heard Baba’s voice telling me to stay down. Bullets were hitting all around me, yet they ricocheted off as if bouncing against thick stone. The army doctors could not explain how a single bullet failed to pierce me."

When devotees inspected Baba’s blanket after that sacred night, they found several scorched burn marks and bullet tears through the wool, while Baba’s own skin bore small red bruises where he had absorbed the shock of the impacts.