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Light of Divinity

Shri Guru Granth Sahib’s message

One day, Guruji also asked the sardar’s wife to buy chavar, keep
them at her house on Thursday and Friday and then give them to
the Sector 44 Nihang Gurdwara. She was supposed to ask for the
Guru Granth Sahib’s message for that day. (The holy Sikh scripture is
opened and a passage read. This is the guru’s message for the day).

She didn’t, but I did. The teenaged boy opened the holy scripture
and gave me the holy word. It read to mean that God was whole
(puran, or complete) in the past, is whole now and would be whole
in the future. That the moon and the sun follow his command, and
he is seen by those who are nirmal (kind and humble). I wrote down
the message and brought it with me to the sangat. But I did not have
the courage to show it to Guruji, especially when I had not been
instructed to do any of this. At 3.30 am, Guruji gave me his darshan.
In his hands he had that very page of the Shri Guru Granth Sahib,
showing the same words. What does this mean? He is the creator of
the holy scripture.

The gift of a garland

Guruji told me to sell my flat in Chandigarh. I sold it but couldn’t
find a home to settle down in. Guruji then sent me to live with the
Kheras, his long-time devotees. Mr. Khera had been Guruji’s teacher
in school and Guruji had cured him of skin cancer. He had also
blessed them with a son. The Kheras set me up in a room.

I was so ill that I could not travel, and Guruji had moved to Delhi.
Guruji would send prasad, and I would have it. It was medicine for
me and took out the effects of the black magic. The prasad he sent
was so powerful that I would vomit out blood after eating it. I found
that the poison that had been given to me—the ashes—came out
while I was vomiting.

But it was tough to be away from him. I would weep before Guruji’s
photograph in that room whenever they would go to Delhi. Once I
wept and bitterly told him: Jab kaliyan mangi, kanto ka har mila (I
asked for flowers, but I got thorns in return: the line comes from an
old Bollywood song.) When the Kheras arrived next morning, they
came with a gift: a garland of flowers that Guruji had sent for me.

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