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place in year 2005. And that’s how it actually turned out to be: she
got married on 30 April 2005.

Experiences in Shiva’s heaven

Guruji’s Bade Mandir is a very special place. Located at the edges of
the capital city, you tend to forget worldly troubles in its atmosphere
of virgin purity. For me, it is the only place where, irrespective of
Guruji’s physical presence, I can have tea any time and any number
of times. But this probably is indicative of just the most minute
fraction of the mandir’s power. If one believes only what he/she has
experienced, I have to believe in the existence of a supreme power at
this place.

Once I was granted an opportunity to visit the mandir along
with my family. Typically, whenever we visit the mandir, every
member of the family moves around freely irrespective of what
other members are doing. So shortly after reaching the mandir in
the forenoon hours, I went to one of the rooms of Guruji, just to
check if some dusting or cleaning was required there. The room
has a very beautiful statue of Lord Shiva, which shows him sitting
with folded legs, showering blessings on his followers. We have
been watching the perfectly crafted statue since the day we started
coming to the mandir.

But that day the darshan of the statue sent a chill down my spine. I
was shocked to witness that the face had turned about 60 degrees to
the right! I gathered everyone in the mandir, and everyone saw this.
It was even more surprising to see the statue regain original form
slowly over the day. By evening, it had almost reverted to its usual
front-facing posture. Truly, a hard-to-forget incident.

Then Holi (the festival of colours) of year 2006 had something
special in store. In the morning, when we reached the mandir,
everyone took up some chore or the other and I along with our
neighbour, Sangeeta, started cleaning Lord Shiva’s brass idol in the
main hall. The polish for this metal, known as Brasso, was applied to
the idol. It was then rubbed twice with a clean cloth. I was cleaning
off the Brasso, while Sangeeta had to give it a final finish.

I was through with the upper half, the idol was clean and just
needed a final finish. Sangeeta had hardly started the task, when
she pointed out that there was some colour between the snakes

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