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been seeing flashes of my past lives and in most of
them I wasn't an Indian. (All that I saw about my past
lives was later confirmed by Guruji) I could only but
stare at him in amazement. How did he know? Seeing
me badly shaken up he turned to my mother and said,
“Aj main teri beti nu Shivji de thore darshan
karwate.” - Today I have given your daughter a bit of
Shivji's darshan. It is then that I realized that the image
that was taking shape in his eyeballs was probably that
of Shivji.

“Bring betel leaves worth rupees 100, I shall do
Sukhmani's operation tomorrow.” Guruji told my
mother before giving us leave for the day. I had heard
that Guruji cured people by placing betel leaves over
the affected area. I had also seen a spoon next to his
aasan (chair) which he used to carry into the room
known as the 'OPD' room. “This is scary business!!' I
told my mother that there was no way I'm going to let
anyone take me to that OPD and do some kind of an
unconventional operation. The next day I very
hesitatingly went back to him and the first thing he
asked my mother was about the betel leaves. All day I
tried to get a glimpse of the room everyone called the
'OPD'. The door always remained shut and my
imagination ran wild. Does he actually cut open people
inside that room? What does he do with the spoon;
scoop things out? The thought was enough to make me
panic and sweat. All this while Guruji was reading my
thoughts and having a laugh at my expense. He gave

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