Kangra Earthquake

One morning Shri Babaji Maharaj was going to the office when a large group of his admirers came to him. An earthquake had shaken the district of Kangra.
They said to him: “Maharaj! Please pray that such an earthquake may never come again! It was a horrible day! People were afraid for their lives. 
“Yes, but it was a strange scene. Yesterday when the earthquake was in progress, people were calling out to their gods to come and save them. The Hindus were saying ‘Ram! Ram!' The Muslims were saying 'Allah! Allah!' and the Sikhs were saying 'Wahguru! Wahguru!' The Christians were saying  ‘Christ! Christ!' But now that the earthquake is over, the name of God has vanished, people are once again talking about the usual petty things of the world!"Shri Babaji Maharaj listened patiently to the group and then said:"Let us all come together and pray to God: ‘O Lord! Please let this earthquake remain forever!"The people were astounded to hear these words.
"Maharaj! What are you saying! We could not bear even one moment of the earthquake, how will we be able to bear an earthquake that lasts forever!"Shri Babaji Maharaj said:
"We have not to see what is bearable and what is unbearable, we have not to see what brings life and what brings death; we have only to accept that, which keeps His remembrance always alive in our hearts!

"You have just been saying that for as long as the earthquake lasted, people were calling out to God–the Hindus to Ram the Muslims to Allah, the Sikhs to Wahguru, and the Christians to Christ–and the moment the earthquake subsided, people forgot God altogether and began focussing their attention once again on the things of the world. 

1905 Kangra earthquake was a major earthquake that occurred in the Kangra Valley and the Kangra region of Himachal Pradesh in India on 4 April 1905. It’s Epicentre was 3.9 kilometers south of Pathyar (H.P.), India. Latitude: 32.10o N  Longitude: 76.40o E. The earthquake measured 7.8 on the surface wave magnitude scale Records of the Punjab government show that out of a population of 375,000 in that region, more than 20,000 people perished in this tragic event. 53,000 domestic animals were also lost. There was also major damage to the network of hillside aqueducts that fed water to the affected area. The total cost of recovering from the effects of the earthquake were calculated as 2.9 million (1905) rupees. As many as 100,000 buildings were reported to have been demolished by the earthquake. Apart from this most buildings in towns of Kangra, Mcleodganj and Dharamshala were destroyed. Damage also extended into the Dehradun area. Landslides and rockfalls occurred in the region. Damage was also reported from many large cities in the Punjab, like Amritsar, Lahore, Jullunder and Ludhiana. Felt over much of the northern sub-continent, as far east as Kolkata. These Photos of 1905 earth quake by Karl V. Steinbrugge, show the extensive damage to the Barjeshwari Devi temple at Kangra - Above and Palampur Market - bellow.