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Rosary beads broken with shafts of light

Some of Guruji’s sayings pertain to individual spiritual practices as
well, though he gave such advice rarely. It is Guruji’s counsel that
telling the beads inflates the ego of a spiritual practitioner. Now,
Narindar had been fond of this spiritual practice since childhood.

One morning as he was telling the mala in his puja room, he fell
into a trance or samadhi. He was transported to the Bade Mandir
in New Delhi. He found himself sitting inside the hall in the lotus
posture, his mala lying in front of him. Guruji was seated in his asana
to the left and Lord Shiva’s brass idol had taken a human form.

A shaft of light from Shiva’s hands and another shaft from
Guruji’s hands fell on Narindar’s rosary and shattered it. At that
moment, Narindar came out of his trance. He was seated in his
Ludhiana room and when he picked up his rosary, he found that
it was broken. From that day, Narindar stopped telling the rosary.
He now follows Guruji’s recommendation that paath can be done
anytime. No rosary is required and there is no special time to
remember God. He can be remembered while eating, drinking,
walking, cooking food, lying down or while working at home or in
the office.

In fact, according to Guruji, the true test of the spiritual trance
or a samadhi lies in the devotee’s transcendental union with God. If
such a union is there, the adept can be immersed in samadhi even
while loud music assails the environment and his body is subjected
to discomfort.

Bade Mandir: Where the Ganga herself will come

On another occasion, Guruji told Narindar and his family to stay
at the Bade Mandir (or Shiv Mandir) for a few days. During their
stay, Narindar and another devotee were giving final touches
to their polishing work on Shivji’s brass idol kept inside the hall.
Narindar noticed amrit coming out of his Lord’s feet. He cleaned
the distinctively wet spot, but the wet oozing patch reappeared. The
devotee with Narindar said it could not be happening. He suggested
that Narindar must not have polished (using a cleaner, Brasso) the
patch properly. Immediately, a wet patch of amrit appeared there,
too. The devotee’s realization was just as immediate.

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