On the morning of Oct 1st 2009 my family members and I started on a journey towards Mantralaya from Dharwad in a car. It had been raining continuously for 3 days but we had no idea that the places of Raichur and Bellary have been flooded and least of all in Mantralaya.
We reached Gadag and saw the roads were blocked by 'halla' that was flowing with water. We took another route towards Gangavati and that was blocked by 2 feet water flowing across it. It was afternoon by then and the sky was overcast with gray clouds so we decided to return home thinking Rayaru doesn't want to give us darshan at this time. Let's go some other time.
After reaching home we saw the news channels were full of the terrible flood pictures about Mantralaya and nearby places. We were shocked to know that Swamiji was airlifted from Mantralaya to a safe place. Other pilgrims were stranded without food and water on the 3rd floor. If we had traveled just one day before we would have passed these roads and got stranded somewhere.
We can only thank Rayaru for giving us the good mind to return home and save us from being caught in such a bad situation.
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