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Light of Divinity

the man of medicine came for Guruji’s darshan. Soon his daughter
was fully cured.

As Narindar began to be with Guruji, he was lucky enough to
have a few spiritual experiences. They not only showed him flashes
of Guruji’s cosmic being, they also impacted his spiritual practices
and development. These experiences also serve to illustrate the rare
occasions when the Satguru would give out a spiritual gem for the
devotees’ practice and observance.

In the Amarnath cave: ‘‘I am Shiva’’

Narindar had been a devotee, or bhakt, of Lord Shiva since
childhood. He was fond of telling his rosary beads and going for the
pilgrimage to Amarnath, the holy cave where Shivji manifests in the
form of a linga made of ice. After he had gone to meet Guruji, he had
gone for yet another pilgrimage to the sacred spot with his younger
brother, Sunil.

As he was standing in the queue of people going into the cave,
Narindar fell into rumination. The entire scene of Guruji’s durbar,
or spiritual court, passed before his eyes. Lots of cups of tea would
greet visitors. Devotional songs, or shabads, would steep the hall in
holiness. Then langar would come to appease appetites and later
amazing tales of faith would be recounted. The late evening would
turn into a thanksgiving to the divine father with Punjabi folk songs
or old songs and ghazals playing in the background. At the Shiva
cave, Narindar, thinking over this scene, was forced to ask: “Guruji,
who are you?”

Hardly had he uttered the words that a beam of light came out of
the shivalinga, expanding to about a foot in height. Within this light,
Narindar saw the figure of Lord Shiva, which changed to Guruji’s,
and then switched places again. A voice echoed in Narindar’s inner
ear: “I am Shiva; I am everything.” The cave was suddenly full of
Guruji’s fragrance. Narindar’s younger brother, Sunil, could also
smell it. On the same day, in her Ludhiana home at night, Narindar’s
wife dreamt of Guruji. She saw Guruji with a trishul in hand atop
the Nandi bull, the vehicle of Lord Shiva. Within three months of
going to Guruji, Narindar says, the master had shown the disciple
his true form—Shiva himself.

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