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Maharaj
was surrounded by about two hundred devotees at Sarsaiyya Ghat in
Kanpur when Panwar, Deputy Superintendent of Police, and Govind
Chandra, Senior Superintendent of Police, arrived and requested Baba to
see Gulzarilal Nanda and Lal Bahadur Shastri, for they wanted to have
his darshan. In spite of Baba saying that he
would not be able to meet them, the two police officers brought them to
the ghat.
Before Nanda and Shastri arrived, however, Baba disappeared. Nobody saw
him go or knew where he went. A search was made for him, but he was
nowhere to be found. The same evening I saw Baba at the railway station
and asked why he did not want to give darshan to
Nanda. Baba said, "Instead of coming by himself, he
wanted to come escorted by the police." When asked where
he had hidden himself, Baba answered, "The Ganga Mai
[Ganges River] gave me shelter." In
gratitude to Mother Ganga, he asked me to arrange a bhandara.
Before I could make the arrangements, people started arriving with food
and sweets for prasad, and a bhandara
was held.
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