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Disentangling

the knotted rope

of karma

AFTER both her in-laws were found to be suffering from blood
cancer, Jyoti Verma and her husband disposed of their factory
and petrol pump and shifted from Dehradun to Delhi.

As compared to Dehradun, living in Delhi was expensive. The
Vermas had two children and their ailing parents to look after;
they felt they would never lead a happy and comfortable life here.
It seemed to them that, bound by their karma, they were walking
aimlessly in a dark endless cave. The rope of their karma had coiled
around them. Both planned to shift to a smaller city, so that they
could once again start life afresh. In fact, the family had not even
unpacked its bags since coming from Dehradun.

Then through a friend whose daughter’s wedding they had
attended, the Vermas came to Guruji and had his darshan. The next
day they went to the mandir at Empire Estate, where they sat for
hours and sought his blessings.

So acute were their financial worries that when they were going
to Guruji, Jyoti told her husband that it was not a piece of cake to
spend petrol worth Rs. 500 daily to come to Guruji. The Vermas
used to come from Ghaziabad, quite a distance from Empire Estate.
The sangat used to be held on all seven days and they felt as if they

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