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He met Mataji, Guruji’s mother, who insisted that he take a sackful,
but Narindar took only five pieces in the boot of his Maruti 800.

Three days later, Mataji was with Guruji in New Delhi and he asked
her whether anyone had come to Dugri. Mataji, who did not know
Narindar’s name, told him that ‘a boy with spectacles’ had come in
a car and taken some dung-cakes. Guruji asked whether a sack of
dung-cakes had been given and Mataji replied in the negative. Guruji
then said: “Will it happen? Will it not?” He repeated the phrase twice
and added, “When it happens, then I will see to it.”

Soon Narindar’s wife conceived. When she was eight months
pregnant, Narindar asked Guruji to give him his dress to wrap
the infant in. Guruji denied the request. The infant was delivered
through a Caesarean section. She developed an infection of the lungs
on the very first day. Narindar informed Guruji and was told that
everything will be okay. On the third day, however, the infant passed
away.

The stitches on Narindar’s wife formed pus. Within 21 days, the
pus developed into a sack inside her stomach. Narindar’s wife was
sorely grieved. She berated Guruji in front of his photograph. She
had already lost her child, she bemoaned, and on top of it she was
facing this problem. Late that night the answer came. Guruji gave
darshan in her dream, and instructed her to do an aarti. This was to
be done after 21 days. Guruji also gave her a remedy. He predicted
that the pus sack would remain as it was till the forty-second day of
her delivery and then go away. The grieving mother took the remedy
as instructed. She performed the aarti till the twenty-first day.
Thereafter, she promptly forgot it. Soon a hole developed near her
stitches and the pus passed out of it. Narindar’s grief, however, had
still not been assuaged. He was lighting a lamp in his home shrine
when he started weeping.

That night, Guruji came in the deeply distressed father’s dream.
He took Narindar to the grounds where Narindar had buried his
little one and asked him to dig up the grave. He then asked Narindar
to place the infant in his hand—which suddenly looked huge—and
with his other hand, Guruji sprinkled water over the infant. She
immediately cried out.

Then, he asked Narindar twice: “Do you want this daughter?” A
stunned Narindar could not respond. Guruji revealed that had
Narindar taken an entire sack of dung-cakes as Mataji was insisting,

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