By the grace of Shri Nathji Maharaj I am fortunate to write about memories of Shri Babaji Maharaj’s blessings.  Due to grace of God and disposition of my parents towards spiritualism, I was also attracted towards spirituality since childhood.  However, I was devoid of the company of a guru and hence lacked proper direction in my quest for spiritualism. I had heard from elders that a true guru finds his disciples himself.

In 1971 I was studying at Malviya Engineering College, Jaipur. One night I dreamt of a sage whom I had never seen before in my life.  This vision gave me immense peace and happiness.  After about 5-6 days, I went to the house of   Professor Shri Moolsinghji.  There I saw the photo of the same sage whose vision I had.  Shri Moolsinghji introduced the sage as his guru Shri Shraddhanathji Maharaj.  Seeing my curiosity he said that next day, Friday evening, he would be visiting Shri Shraddhanathji Maharaj and if I wished I could join him.  So next day we left Jaipur for Sikar.  During those days Shri Babaji Maharaj used to travel frequently and there was no definite place where he could be found.  However, in Sikar one could find his whereabouts at Posani Waalon ka dhaba (a small restaurant).  Shri Moolsinghji checked there and was told that Shri Babaji Maharaj was in Laxmangarh.  We reached Laxmangarh and walked a distance of about one km from railway station and reached the ashram at 11pm in night.  On bowing to his feet, Babaji said “Welcome Maluram, I have been remembering you for many days”. Hearing this, I was surprised. Tears rolled down my eyes and I was speechless – at last I found my guru maharaj.  After dinner, Babaji asked me to sit with him and directed Shri Moolsinghji to go to sleep.  Babaji was Paramahansa (Master, the highest spiritual title), knower of all; he understood what was going in my mind.  He cleared all my doubts and showed me the correct path.  Past midnight he asked me to go to sleep.  During those days, he used to sleep in the Chhatries (monument at a cremation place).  I was hesitating to sleep there because since childhood I often had dreams of ghosts and I was thus quite scared.  Shri Babaji Maharaj understood my fear and asked me to repeat Hanumanji’s name and go to sleep. He blessed me, “From today onwards you will never have visions and fear of ghosts. By Babaji’s grace, since that day I have no fear or vision of ghosts. Although I have many experiences of his blessings, there are a few which are unique.

For some time I was staying with my friend Ajit Sanghi.  I used to keep fast on Tuesday.  Once on Tuesday after the evening prayers when I sat down for my dinner, my friend, Ajit insisted that he would have dinner only after visiting Shri Babaji Maharaj.  For last few days he had been thinking about leading a monastic life.  After lengthy discussions, when he still didn’t give up (about visiting Shri Babaji Maharaj), we left Jaipur at 9pm (without having our dinner) on my scooter to go to Laxmangarh.  Jaipur to Laxmangarh is about 145kms and it was certain that we won’t reach there before midnight.  The road was bad and patchy and because of poor visibility we fell in a ditch.  But by grace of Shri Babaji Maharaj we weren’t injured and didn’t even have a single scratch.  We reached the ashram at around mid night and we saw Shri Babaji Maharaj standing at the ashram gate with his ghota (stick which Shri Babaji Maharaj carried everywhere) like an eagerly awaiting mother for her children.  Seeing us, with little anger and in his usual way, he said “is this the time to come?  Neither you sleep nor do you let others sleep. It hardly matters to you, if something had happened to you en route, but Shri Nathji Maharaj would have been blamed”.  Saying this he started walking towards the ashram and with our heads down we followed him.  Reaching the ashram Shri Babaji Maharaj said, “Go, wash your hands and go to the kitchen; your food is lying there on two plates.  Although this is against ashram’s rule, but Shri Nathji Maharaj won’t accept anyone going to sleep hungry.”  Hearing this, I developed a firm belief that whenever any disciple remembers him (Shri Babaji Maharaj) with true love and faith, he comes to know everything about the disciple.  Such was Shri Babaji Maharaj’s love and compassion for his disciples.  After dinner he asked me to go to sleep and asked Ajit to sit with him – he sat with him whole night.  In the morning after wash and breakfast when we sat down with Babaji, he said “Maluram, now you go back and study hard.  Ajit will stay with me and both of us will pray to God together”.  Babaji said this authoritatively and hearing this Ajit fell at his feet “Maharaj, please forgive me.  Now I understand that becoming a monk and leading a monastic life is very difficult, please forgive me”.  Babaji blessed him “Ajit you will get everything in life and your faith towards Nathji Maharaj will also be strong, but there will be ups and down”.  Shri Babaji Maharaj asked us to go back to Jaipur and study hard.

Second incident took place in 1973 when I was in my fourth year of the engineering college.  I suffered a urinary infection. I used to bleed while urinating and had immense pain.  I also became very weak.  For my treatment I was admitted in the Swai Mansingh hospital in Jaipur.  One day at 4am I felt as if Shri Babaji Maharaj is calling me and asking me to leave hospital and come to ashram.  I felt this as a live experience.  I wrote a note for my friend saying that I am going to visit Shri Babaji Maharaj and put the note under the pillow.  I quietly left the hospital and took a rickshaw to go to Sindhi Camp bus station.  I boarded the Jaipur – Bikaner express bus at 5am.  I requested the ticket conductor that I have to go to Laxmangarh but have only 5 rupees.  Ticket conductor asked me where I wanted to go in Laxmangarh.  When I said I wanted to go to Shri Nathji Maharaj’s ashram, his eyes glowed with happiness and he said that he will drop me near the ashram.  He (his name was Swai Singh) was a disciple of Shri Babaji Maharaj.  By Babaji’s grace, he took pity on me and dropped me next to the ashram.  I reached ashram and after washing my hands and feet I bowed my head to the feet of Shri Babaji Maharaj.  By then I was having very high fever.  Shri Babaji Maharaj asked me to take bath and then offer prayers.  I obeyed him and then as per his instructions I was served the breakfast; dry bread with buttermilk.  Due to strong medication, my mouth was full of ulcers and I could barely manage to eat.  After that, Shri Babaji Maharaj didn’t ask me anything else and told me to water the plants.  After two hours, by his grace, my fever was completely cured.  After evening prayer, Shri Babaji Maharaj asked me “do you want to get well?”  I said yes, to which he replied “then get ready to die and in the name of Shri Nathji Maharaj even if I give you poison you will have to take it”.  I said yes.  He gave me something to eat, which I swallowed with water.  After that I started feeling a burning sensation in my whole body.  Shri Babaji Maharaj called the ashram priest (Shri Chetannathji) and told him to serve me watermelon.  I was feeling unbearable pain in my whole body, but I still followed Shri Babaji Maharaj’s instructions.  That night, after many days, I slept well.  In the morning I passed lot of blood, dust particles and other stuff with my urine; it was very painful. Next day went off well.  In the evening, after prayers, Shri Babaji Maharaj said “little bit of problem is still there but that will also be cured.  This evening again you should take the same treatment”.  Babaji gave me some powder which I swallowed with water.  Next day I didn’t have much pain.  There after my health started improving and on the fifth day, sitting with me, Shri Babaji Maharaj instructed me “Till my body is alive, you will not tell this incident to anyone, else you will suffer.  You have been cured because of your faith in Nathji Maharaj”.  He told me “go to your village and spend few days with your mother and then go back to Jaipur.  Study hard as you have lost significant time due to your illness”.  That year I secured third position in my college.  Later on I was told by the doctors that I had tumour in my both kidneys and both kidneys had failed.  Those days there was no cure for that in India.  By the grace of my guruji, I was blessed with this new life.  I followed Shri Babaji Maharaj’s instructions and never told this incident to anyone until 1986.

Another incident took place in 1984 while constructing a railway bridge in Vasai creek.  One night while on inspection, I was climbing down on the floating pontoon, I misjudged the height of the centre of the pontoon.  I fell 20 feet deep in the main hole of the pontoon.  While falling I experienced as if someone was holding my hands and letting me fall carefully.  Although I suffered severe injuries inside my stomach but by the grace of Shri Babaji Maharaj I was able to climb out of the hole.  I fell unconscious soon afterwards and remained in that state for next 48 hours.  In my unconscious state, by the grace of Shri Babaji Maharaj, I was able to lie in such a posture due to which my internal bleeding stopped.  When I was taken to the doctor after one and half hours, he commented that the unique posture only saved my life that day.

Shri Babaji Maharaj has saved me on every step and shown me the correct path.  It is not possible to narrate all the incidents.  He has showered so much grace on me that I do not have words to express it.  Shri Babaji Maharaj is God, he is knower of past, present and future, his powers are immense, he is still present and capable of doing everything.  My salutations to him.