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with Dad being in the army there were issues regarding postings and
settling the family.

On my Dad’s first visit to Guruji after the accident, Guruji stated
everything that was running in Dad’s mind at the time of the
accident. He told me exactly how Dad had tried his level best to
halt the accident. This was something that was innermost in my
Dad’s mind and only he knew. Guruji, our God, had to know since
he was there with us even at the time when we hadn’t met him in
person.

My Dad was suffering from low back pain for many years, and he
was finding it extremely difficult to sit down and get up from the
ground. As we had gone to Guruji for graver problems in our life,
no one mentioned this trivial issue. Since God knows everything,
Guruji called my Dad one afternoon and said: “Come uncle, I’ll cure
you of your spondylitis.” He used a steel spoon from the kitchen and
touched him on either side of the spine. He then patted him and
said, “You are cured of your back pain.” My Dad has never since had
the problem again.

When Dad was a colonel in 1994-95, with all the love possible,
Guruji said: “I have made you a general.” However, one of the
important courses the army has for a colonel is the Higher Command/
Long Defence Management Course (LDMC). Dad didn’t get
nominated for either course, though he was an outstanding officer.
He was then posted as Deputy Commander of a brigade in Leh. His
brigade was moved to Kashmir for counter-insurgency operations.
His tenure there (by Guruji’s grace) was so outstanding that it laid
the perfect foundation for his promotion to Major General. He was
also nominated for the National Defence College (the only brigadier
to have got through this without having done the LDMC).

His promotion was also miraculous because from the artillery
only three brigadiers have made it to the rank of major general.
Dad was posted in Jalandhar, and his regiment got orders to move
to Nasirabad. Guruji made a single statement: “The family need not
move anywhere for six months.” Being only too human, we didn’t pay
heed and used our own mind over God’s and went forward to get
admissions to the schools there—only to find that the schools were
depressing. We had to come back without any positive work being
done. Soon after that, there were the heaviest rains Punjab had ever

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