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Besides her gross visual anomalies, her PDA (a duct outside the
heart) had not closed. That was corrected surgically in her third year.
All her developmental milestones had been delayed. After much
physiotherapy, she started walking at three and we began sending
her to school. Psychological testing had shown her IQ to be between
70 and 79. The psychologist concluded she had to be put under the
care of special educators in a slow learner’s section.

Things changed dramatically after we came under Guruji’s
protection. Aditi was then 12 years old and still at the Special Section
of Sadhu Vaswani School. After receiving Guruji’s aadesh (his word
or command) through my father, we promptly went to the mandir
at Greater Kailash, New Delhi. It was a novel experience. We had
never seen such a flashy, flamboyant guru! Guruji kept asking us to
come back on specific days. On our fifth visit, he asked Aditi to start
doing Surya Namaskar early in the mornings and have a glass of milk
mixed with peanuts and misri that he had specially blessed. She was
to follow the instructions for 51 days. On the 21st day, she said she
could see better. We were ecstatic. You cannot imagine what joy and
comfort this provided to our anguished souls. Soon, Guruji left for
Chandigarh, where he remained for the next three years. Twice we
went to ask him to do something more for our daughter. He told us
that he would do so after he returned to Delhi.

On the Baisakhi day in 1998, I was thrilled beyond measure: Guruji
was on the phone. He asked us to come to the mandir at Sultanpur
(Empire Estate is in this locality) in the evening. Thereafter, I started
urging him to do something more for Aditi.

He did—in his own fashion. Guruji first came to our home in June
1998. The very next morning we were excited no end: Aditi could
overnight read fine newspaper print. She could read her Class X
textbooks (with their abominable small print), which only a week
ago she could not. If this is not divine intervention, what is? This
‘miracle’ could have been wrought only by God himself. Since then
there has been no turning back. All of Aditi’s biological parameters
have picked up. She cleared her Classes X and XII in the first division
and also in her first year of BA in Social Work. She is now continuing
her graduate studies.

We could not have imagined 13 years ago that she’d achieve all
this. With Guruji’s divine blessings, Aditi has come a long way. Not
only has her vision (both distant and close) picked up, but her

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