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requested I come to India to help her. I hadn’t told her of the gravity
of Sheena’s illness. Also, David had just lost his job. Yet we decided
that Sheena and I should go to India.

One piece of the jigsaw in Sheena’s growth remained unsolved.
She was progressing, but she would not speak despite receiving
speech therapy and would not eat regular food. As a result, she was
on a special diet. So I had to make sure that during my stay in India,
I would have enough of this food for her. This meant taking extra
luggage for our trip.

We arrived at the airport with excess luggage, well over our
allowance. The steward behind the check-in counter was insisting
we pay excess charges. We couldn’t afford it; I became very upset. My
soul wept and I said: “Dear Lord, do something, there my mom is ill,
here my child is ill; there is no money, what do I do?” Apparently—at
this time Guruji, whom I did not know of then—told the sangat in
Chandigarh: “Beti has called me in Ireland. I must go there.” Meanwhile,
at the airport, the check-in steward suddenly turned to me and said
that I could go: it was okay. He also assured me there would be no
additional charge for the excess luggage. I thanked the Akal Purakh
for his blessings and thought no more of it.

About this time, my younger sister had prayed that I visit Guruji
Maharaj. My mother too had had her hysterectomy and there
was an unusual happening related to it. As my mother lay in the
hospital, she recalls sensing a strong fragrance in the room before the
operation. In the operating theatre, the mass present in my mother’s
uterus became a white ball on removal, and she was fine. There was
no sign of cancer. We thought nothing of it at that time, but now, on
hindsight, we realize we didn’t recognize or receive him; by this I
mean—receive him in our soul.

Sheena speaks first words: wahe guru

One evening after my mother’s operation, I was sitting at my brother’s
home in Sector 35 in Chandigarh and I heard some people talking
about Guruji. Among them was my sister-in-law’s brother Gikki, a
devotee of Guruji. I felt an urge within me, like a calling. I asked if I
could go and visit Guruji. My family was surprised, as I never went
to pundits, pujaris, saints and holy men. I followed the teachings of
Guru Nanak, and he says that one should not go to such places. My

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