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We are, because

he is

Guru Govind dou khade
Kake Lagoon Paye

Govind se Guru bade Jo Govind Dikhaye

IN THESE lines Kabir wonders whose feet he should touch when
both God and guru are before him. Then he realizes that without
the blessings of the guru one cannot get to Govind (God). In our
case, however, there is no confusion: Guruji is God.

I first heard about Guruji when I used to visit my maternal uncle
Col (retd.) S.K. Joshi. That was around 1996 and the cynical youth
in me would not allow me to place my full faith in Guruji. It was the
first week of April 1997 when I had my first darshan of Guruji in
Chandigarh. He asked me where I had come from and I told him that
I was Col Joshi’s nephew and had come from Jaipur. He placed his
palms on my head and said, “Kalyan ho (Blessings).” Two days later,
when I returned to Delhi, I had a job offer I was looking forward to.
Instant kalyan, you see. And this when I had refused chai prasad and
langar in Chandigarh.

Guruji’s darshan did not change me much. Some more time was to
pass before I realized his omnipotence. Even this is preordained by
Guruji. Meanwhile, Guruji shifted his abode to Delhi. I frequented
Delhi, but for almost two and a half years I did not go for his darshan.
By this time, my sister and mother had become fully devoted to him;
I was still my old self.

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