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learning power has also increased tremendously. There is frequent
improvement in her vision. At an eye test last year (in 2007), we
found she could read one more line in the eye-testing chart.

Aditi is now a confident youngster with supreme faith in Guruji. All
this has meant a lot to us. From constant worry, anguish and brooding
about her future, I have shed all my fears and am convinced that he
will take care of her. I am now more at peace with the world and have
stopped asking, “Why me? Why with my first child?” Guruji has not
only changed our lives, but also given us the courage and strength to
face problems more bravely. Faith in him has led us to trust that he is
looking after our affairs and that nothing can go wrong.

Cheating death—thrice

Guruji’s blessings have extended to the rest of the family also. He
has saved my husband’s life thrice from fatal mishaps. Once in a
head-on collision with an Ashok Leyland truck, which left his taxi so
battered that those who saw it presumed that the passengers inside
must have been killed. Moments before that accident, he had dozed
off, yet came out unscathed with only a chipped tooth and a couple
of stitches near his eyebrow and upper chin. Interestingly, he had
offered jal and elaborate puja at a Shiva mandir in Warangal before
starting on this tour—something which he normally does not do,
especially on official tours. But then, don’t we say Guruji is Shivji!

Then on 13 December 2001 when terrorists attacked Parliament
House, my husband was the last one to get safely in—in the nick of
time. Seconds after he entered the building, shots rang out and the
guard who had ushered him in was shot dead. Guruji was surely
looking after my husband.

The third narrow encounter was with a leopard on the Srinagar
Golf Course. My husband had foolishly decided to take a walk after
dark. Around a bend, he thought he saw a dog just a few feet away.
Surprised, he wondered how a dog could have got inside the heavily
guarded golf course. Suddenly, the animal seemed to take a keen
interest in him and advanced towards him. To his horror, he realized
that it was a full-grown leopard swishing its tail. He was rooted to
the spot. Unbelievably, he merely shooed it away—and the leopard
obeyed! Inexplicably the leopard did not follow my husband when
he tried to walk away. Another sure case of Guruji’s intervention.

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