Down the memory lane, I recall an awe-inspiring happening. It was one of the Bara Guruwars. Sewa was being rendered. Devotees were patiently standing in more than a kilometre long queue waiting to have Guruji’s darshan and to receive his blessings. Suddenly dark clouds appeared in the sky and it seemed as if it would start raining heavily. One of the sewadars rushed to Guruji to inform him of this development. In the event of down-pour, there was a strong likelihood of the public running helter-skelter, resulting in a stampede which could injure men, women and children. Receiving the information, Guruji remained absolutely composed, called me to his room and told me, “go out, look at the sky and tell the clouds (silently, in your heart) to pour in the nearby areas so that the public here does not get disturbed”. Hardly a few minutes had passed and the news came that it was raining cats and dogs beyond a 2/3 km. radius. The public, however, enjoyed the cool weather, with hardly a drop of water falling on them.

Innumerable examples are available when Param Pujya Guruji exhibited his control over nature. He also had the courage and authority to say, “I am not bound by time; in fact, time is bound by me”, and he proved this claim on many occasions. In one of his lighter moods, he once said, “patta bhi nahi hill sakta, meri ejazat ke bagair”.

Such were the spiritual powers of Param Pujya Guruji that I feel a sense of
pride in being his first and the prime shishya.