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still continuing. Few years down the line we received his greatest
blessings in the form of a baby boy.

Blood pressure

My wife had a history of high blood pressure and she was put on
medication as hypertension could potentially lead to complications
during pregnancy/childbirth, apart from other malefic effects, although
the idea of life-long dependence on medication was not encouraging.
She went off medicines for short spells but every time she had to fall
back on them as her blood pressure started shooting up again.

One day in early 2003 at the sangat at Empire Estate, as my wife
and I reached the end of the queue to receive prasad from Guruji, he
looked at both of us and said something jokingly about us wearing
matching colours (we were both wearing green). Then he asked me
how I managed to get this ‘kudi’ from Chandigarh to marry me. This
took us by surprise and obviously made us happy beyond words.
This was reflected in my wife’s blood pressure when she measured it
the next day - for the first time in her entire life her diastolic blood
pressure recorded a perfect 80 without medication. Since then she
never had any problems until it flared up during the late stages of her
pregnancy, but that did not cause any problem to the foetal growth
and did not need delivering the baby earlier than her full term.
She had to be on medication during late pregnancy and following
childbirth, but was able to come off it shortly after.

Overseas assignment

A major factor behind my joining Siemens in Delhi in September
2000 was the associated prospect of long-term overseas placement
in the UK, but the latter remained elusive - though with Guruji’s
blessings I had a couple of short visits to the UK. By 2002 hopes
of a long-term deputation abroad were virtually dashed with the
international depression in IT that followed the 9/11 attacks in the
US. However I kept praying to Guruji both at the sangat and at home,
and in April 2003 a UK deputation finally came my way. Though
the assignment was supposed to be only for six months, I was very
thankful as it came at the unlikeliest of times when companies all
around were laying off people by the score.

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