Just as the mandali's bus was going around a curve, the bus suddenly began sliding backward. No one knew what to do, but they began to repeat Baba's name. The driver lost control of the steering wheel. The bus rolled backwards over a small stone wall separating the road from a deep valley below. Crying out, "BABA! BABA! BABA!" all were certain the bus was about to crash and they would die.
Suddenly, the bus came to a complete halt. Gasping (some were on the verge of fainting), no one could explain how the bus had stopped rolling backwards. Only Baba's nazar had saved them; otherwise, the bus would certainly have rolled off the cliff and plunged to the valley below.
After carefully getting out, they saw that half the bus was hanging over the cliff! There was nothing to suggest why it had not continued over the cliff. It was both astonishing and inexplicable! Some of the mandali began to weep, thanking Baba for having his nazar on them. Vishnu cried out, "Baba has saved our lives today! Let us all shout his Jai !"
Baba instructed the men to pull the bus back onto the road, and he stood nearby and personally supervised. After much effort by all, the bus was pushed back onto the road. This was more dangerous than it sounds, because there was the possibility of the bus sliding back again and dragging some of the men over the cliff with it.
Afterward, they stopped at a waterfall, washed their faces and refreshed themselves.
Buasaheb had been appointed the manager of this journey, supervising the men and boys. Preparing to leave, Baba instructed Buasaheb that some of the group were to go by bus and some in advance by car. Buasaheb was about to ask Baba who should be seated in the bus and who in the car when Dastur entered the bus and the car left without him.
Baba was highly annoyed. He ordered all to wait by the bus until those in the car came back. Baba began scolding Buasaheb, blaming him for what had happened.
"Why did you break my order? Why didn't you ask me about it before the car left?"
Before Buasaheb could answer, Baba slapped his own face violently on both cheeks and his expression turned grave.
He stated, "When the Master has to punish himself for the faults of his disciples over their disregard for his orders, it is not good!"