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Light of Divinity

He said I should have had the ice-cream since it would have cured
my throat. But I found later that those simple words of Guruji had
cured my throat anyhow. Since then I have never had severe throat
trouble—which troubled me at least once a year.

Guruji’s admirable care and affection was again evident on a very
special day. We were enjoying shabads and waiting for Guruji to start
distributing prasad. On Guruji’s instructions, prasad was brought
and kept right next to him. Guruji began distributing prasad from
the side where I was sitting. In fact, I was the first to have it on that
day. As I went ahead and took it, Guruji sprung a well-kept surprise.

He conveyed to me in Punjabi that I should enjoy myself as this
was my birthday. No one in the sangat knew about my birthday
and no one in my family had told Guruji about it. That was my best
birthday ever.

Guruji doing the impossible

After my graduation from Delhi University, for a short spell I wasn’t
studying. Then Guruji instructed me to join an MBA course (through
correspondence) from Symbiosis, a premier management institute. I
filled in the form and was through with the formalities just in time
to get admission in that session. For the examination, I had filled in
a South Delhi centre as my first preference, since it was closer to our
residence. But somehow, when I got my admit card, I found that the
examination centre allocated was across Delhi. My father tried to get
the centre changed, but we received communication from the Pune
headquarters of the college that a centre once allocated could not be
changed.

Due to exams on successive days, it was impractical to travel a
one-way distance of about 45 km daily. So I had to plan a stay at my
grandparents’ place, 10-15 km from the centre. The problem was
that living with my grandparents at Noida made it impossible for me
to have Guruji’s darshan. I somehow managed the first exam, but
even before the second exam, I was so upset that I began thinking
of skipping the remaining exams. I cried as I wished and waited for
Guruji’s grace to pull me out of this situation. But what happened
next was beyond my imagination.

As all students were quietly writing the exam, a faculty member of
the centre turned up and enquired if anyone wanted to switch to an

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