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Light of Divinity

I have come to know of many japs (sacred words used for
devotional recitation), particularly one amara sanjivni mantra that
can breathe life into a corpse. It invokes Shiva, saying: O God! O
Siva! Your name is like the wish-fulfilling tree. After I had done
this mantra, I literally saw it. At 3.30 am in my house, Guruji gave
me his darshan and showed me a high tree touching the sky; a
serpent of light was coiled around the base of the wish-fulfilling
tree. Guruji had given a practical demonstration of a theoretical
concept.

Under him, everything turns fair

Ever since black magic had been performed on me, my skin had
turned black. After I had spent nearly two years with Guruji, one
day Luna’s father called me towards Guruji and then sat me facing
Guruji. Guruji immediately remarked on my complexion. If God has
made me ugly, I countered, what can I do? He said that if God had
made me black, he would make me fair. He then asked me to have
chai prasad. Slowly as I continued to be the recipient of his blessings,
my complexion became fairer.

One day he made me sit near him. I had just gone to England and
brought expensive creams to gain a fair complexion. Guruji asked
me to bring them to him. It was 12.30 at night and I told him that
my neighbours would trouble me. He told me that he was with me
and I needn’t worry. I brought the creams to him and rubbed them
on his feet as he had told me to do. As I was doing so, he exclaimed
before another lady devotee: “What a big heart she has! She has
brought all the creams.” After I had finished worshipping his feet, I
found I had been relieved of a pain in my legs that had dogged me
over the years.

As I have said, I used to be lonely and ill at ease in my flat at
Chandigarh. Once I was going back from Guruji’s at about 1.30 at
night. I reached my place and was climbing up the flight of stairs
to my second-floor house when I smelt Guruji’s rose-like presence.
I was instantly comforted. But I had hardly closed the door behind
me, when I heard someone cough. I jumped out of my skin. Who
could it be? Had miscreants been able to steal in? I couldn’t sleep at
all that night.

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