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Meeting the Guru who Changed
Destinies

“Where are we going?” I asked my mother hoping it
wasn't another trip to some saint or some religious
place. Being a very pious and a spiritual person, my
mother loved taking such trips and my sister and I
always got tagged along. Although I never saw my sister
protest, I wasn't too keen on visiting any more saints. I
had met too many and each one had something or the
other to say to me. 'You must pray more, your stars are
bad' or 'Your future life is not going to be a very happy
one' and one even told me that my birth chart wasn't
even worth reading since there wasn't a single 'Good'
thing in it. Having heard such negative things about my
life endless number of times, from endless number of
'saints' and 'soothsayers', I wasn't ready to hear it one
more time. “ We are going to meet Guruji in Jalandhar,
I've heard he is very powerful and can change a person's
destiny.” I couldn't believe my mother had fallen for
this one. “Change a person's destiny? That's a new

one!” Mom gave me one of her looks that told me that
my not going wasn't an option. Soon, along with my
mother, grandfather and my sister, I was on my way to
meet the great Guruji who changed destinies.
We reached the temple in Jalandhar at about 11

am and were told that it was closed for the day as
Guruji was resting. As soon as we were told this, word
came from Guruji that we should be permitted to come
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