To the best of my recollection, I visited Neelkanth Dham for the first time some time during the end of October 2012. Thereafter, I regularly started visiting this holy place almost every Sunday along with my two children – Ridhi, my daughter, and Rachit, my son. Right from the beginning, we came into contact with Guru Ravi Trehanji who patiently listened to my problems and asked us to wear Kada and explained to us its importance and significance. He also blessed laungs and elaichies and told us to take these items in a particular manner along with sanctified jal. After a few visits, he gave us mantras also and asked us to do paath regularly. Our problems started getting sorted out and we felt peace and solace each time we visited this spiritually charged place.
Suddenly on 16th of December 2013, I lost my mother. I was very attached to her, could not bear the shock and went into depression. Visits to Neelkanth Dham also stopped. On the following Sunday of Mahashivratri (year 2014), some inner force prompted me to go to Neelkanth Dham and my daughter, Ridhi, accompanied me. After paying our obeisance (matha tekna) at the Samadhi, we sat down on a durrie in front of Samadhi. Suddently, amidst the crowd of villagers sitting in front of the Shivalaya, we observed a hazy figure of a person wearing white colour half sleeve shirt and grey colour pant, sitting in an ardh padmasan posture, was leaning forward and looking at us with a smile. At first, we could not make out to whom he is looking at but impulsively we passed on a smile to him.
Then in flick of a second, sitting in the same posture, he shifted from the durrie in front of Shivalaya to the durrie where we were sitting. Neither me nor my daughter noticed him getting up or walking up to us, but he was there, near us, in the same posture. All of a sudden, the crowd of people also started dwindling. One or two persons, who were still around, were driven away by the guard and thereafter he also vanished. Only we three – me, my daughter and that person – were left. He opened the conversation, “I talk to only those persons who deserve to be talked to. You should come with your husband, brother or father. Why do you come alone. It is not safe. You are a pious and a blessed one. You and your daughter are complimentary to each other – both are sharing each other’s fortune.”
Due to my mother’s death, I was in a very pensive mood. Very hesitatingly, I asked him “why has my mother gone so suddenly?” “Who would listen to constant rebukes and wrong accusations”, he responded. I was stunned to hear these words because I alone knew such a situation Then he said, “you have not come here today on your own. I have called you. I wanted you to come and meet me. Regularly offer jal to Lord Shiva, sprinkle some on your head, in your house and drink a few sips yourself. Your problems will be solved and you will have peace.”
Bit frightened and very hesitatingly I asked him, “what is your name and where from have you come.” “Naam se kya lena hai, naam to shariron ke hote hain. Mere kayi naam hain, tum chaho to mujhe Bajrangi ke naam se bhi yaad kar sakti ho (I wondered how did he know that I worship Hanumaanji), main naag devta bhi hoon, he replied. I do not remain at one place. I keep moving from place to place. Sometimes, I stay at Shirdi, sometimes at Vrindavan and (pointing out to the Samadhi) I live here also”. Touching his trouser he said, “don’t see what clothes I am wearing”. It was getting dark. Mystified, I asked for his permission to leave. He said, “haan putt, you must leave now. Darkness is falling and you have a long distance to go”. We had hardly reached the main gate when I asked my daughter to go back and take his mobile number just in case we need to talk to him again. (I saw that he was still sitting alone in front of the Samadhi). He smilingly told her “putt marne ke baad kaun sa No. Kaisa No.”
After the Samadhi, I went to the other side of the building where sewa was being performed. I took blessings from Malhotra Guruji and then went to Ravi Trehan Guruji who suggested pooja of nag aur nagin for the problem of my son, Rachit. I was totally flabbergasted. A little while ago that person at the Samadhi (whom I now understand as Maha Gurudevji) had told me that main naag devta bhi hoon. Then on my request, Ravi Trehan Guruji gave me the photograph of Maha Gurudev and in this photograph he was wearing the same clothes that we saw him in a little while ago in front of the Samadhi. I was deeply touched and had experienced this kind of miracle for the first time in my life.
On my way back home, when I was able to compose myself, I was contemplating – He had a very serene face. Looking at Him, my state of mind was calm, quite and stable. There were no questions in my mind. So far, I was taking Him to be a normal human being. The only remorse I had was that I could not recognize his real self when I met Him. Neither could I offer him anything nor could I venture to (may be out of fear psychosis) touch His holy feet and seek His blessings. In the heart of my hearts, I bowed before Him. He had dispelled my darkness. Took me out of the morass and showed me the light to live. Since then, I have been regularly going to Neelkanth Dham and paying my obeisance with awe and reverence. Maha Gurudevji mera shat shat pranaam.