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if my husband goes on a posting?” Guruji smiled and said, “This is
really a technical problem. Let me cancel his transfer.” We touched his
feet and went back home. Two days later, one of my senior officers
called up and said: “You have been talking of your inability to move.
Why don’t you write your request out and fax it to me? I will see
what can be done about it.” I knew who had put the thought in his
mind. I continued in Delhi for another two years after that, rejoining
the office on Guruji’s birthday, 7 July 2001.

Guruji continued to put the same question to my wife. One evening
in April 2002, she answered, “As you please.” The pregnancy test
done the next day was positive. This time, it had happened without
any medical procedure. During the course of this pregnancy, my
wife once mentioned to me that she wanted a daughter this time and
would ask Guruji for the same. On our next visit, as she was about
to make the request to Guruji while touching his feet, he spoke first:
“First time, a son and next time also a son.” She had her answer and,
of course, another son was born to us on 1 December 2002. Guruji
christened the second son Ishuk.

After the birth of our second child, Guruji once asked my wife
once whether she was planning to pursue a PhD. She replied that
it was too difficult to manage her studies with two children. Guruji
repeated the suggestion to her, adding: “Do you know PhD means
‘Paagal hone ka dar (fear of turning insane)’.”

Again, the reason behind this suggestion became obvious to us
much later when I got transferred to Mumbai. The only way my
wife could join me was by taking leave for doing a PhD. On getting
my transfer orders, I went to seek Guruji’s blessings and told him
of my transfer. He told me to go ahead. I spent one year in Mumbai
without my family. During this phase, we visited Guruji a few times.
During one of these visits, Guruji told me: “You take your family along
or else I will give you one more son.” We took the hint and my wife
applied for her PhD registration, which happened against all odds
in a record short time, thanks to Guruji. As a result, my family could
join me in Mumbai.

It would not be out of place to mention here that one of my father’s
friends, an accomplished astrologer, had told me when we did not
have any children that I would get my first child only at the age of
41. He had also predicted that I would have a son—that too only
after two daughters. This astrologer has hardly ever been wrong.

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