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Guruji saves

my father

ALATE night call from my sister, two days before Holi of March
2006, summoned me to my father’s bedside. He had been
admitted to the ICU of a hospital in Haldwani—a town in the
Kumaon foothills—after suffering from an attack of high blood
pressure.

As soon as my sister had finished giving the bad news, my wife and
I realized right away that Guruji had been forewarning us in his own
way. Just before Shivratri (in February 2006), he had enquired about
my father, who had come down from his residence in Bhimtal to be
with us in Gurgaon that winter. Guruji had wanted to know if my
father had left for home before Shivratri, as indeed he had. Guruji
had then sent word through another devotee and my maternal uncle
Col. (retd.) S.K. Joshi that my father and mother should come and
stay with us. The guru’s words, always prophetic, were not heeded.

So my father could not escape the high blood pressure attack. He
had it while he was travelling to Bhimtal from Haldwani, where he
had attended a function of the Life Insurance Corporation of India,
from which he had retired.

It was quite severe and would have been fatal had it not been for
Guruji’s grace. As the blood pressure had risen, father’s nose had
started bleeding, relieving the pressure from the arteries. But for this
anything could have taken place, quite possibly a stroke that could
have ended in fatality or left him paralysed.

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