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faces with eyes on his legs. On being asked why she
sees lions on his body so often, Guruji would tell my
mother that a lion is a symbol of Shiv. There were times
when faces would develop on all ten finger tips of my
mother's hands. She again asked Guruji why she was
seeing such things on her hands and he would smile
and tell her that they were all the different 'roop' (faces)
of Shivji. I too was blessed with the darshan of Shirdi
waale Sai Baba on Guruji's tongue.

Once, on the day of Shivratri, I was unable to visit
Guruji in Delhi, so my mother and I decided to keep a
fast instead. We went to the market to buy some fruit
along with my grandfather. Just as we parked our car
in the parking lot, a sadhu knocks on the window
where my grandfather was sitting. He pointed towards
a jeep and said that a 'mahapurush' is calling you. As
we turned to look back, we saw a blue jeep with
another sadhu sitting in it, sipping a glass of milk. The
jeep must have just materialized because there was no
vehicle in the parking lot when we came and there is no
way a diesel vehicle could come behind us without us
hearing it. And what's more, we were parked at the only
entrance to that market area. My grandfather got down
and walked up to the jeep while I sat in the car trying
to observe the mahapurush's mannerism. Although the
mahapurush looked nothing like Guruji, yet there was
something about him that attracted me towards him.
He was dark in complexion, had long hair and was
dressed in a saffron robe. I noticed that the way he

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