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Blessed with a child

after a decade

MY YOUNGER sister Geeta was married in 1995 and was
childless till Guruji decided to bless her with a boy in May
2006. We had first gone to Guruji in 2001 and after Guruji had cured
my son, Shantanu, of epilepsy we added an item to our swelling list
of demands—that Guruji bless Geeta with a child. Geeta, based in
Canada, had been taking treatment in infertility clinics there and
in India for the last five years. Guruji asked me to tell her to start
observing a fast on Mondays and give up eating any fruit she could. I
told Geeta of Guruji’s wish and she gave up eating guavas, which she
doesn’t like.

Within a couple of months of her fasting, she conceived. The family
was excited and looked forward to the child’s birth. But she ended
up eating guavas in a party—it was Guruji’s maya. She immediately
called me up. Within weeks she had a miscarriage and lost the baby.
I told Guruji and he said Geeta should come here on Shivratri day,
falling in less than a week’s time. With Guruji’s blessings she could
make it to Delhi. Guruji told her to return to Canada, as he had
blessed her.

She returned and resumed her fast. A year passed, it was 2005,
when one evening while we were at Bade Mandir, Guruji asked me

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