On a dark evening in Bhumiadhar, 9 November 1962, Brahmachari Baba was
warming himself by a fire, outside the temple on the roadside. Maharaj
was sitting alone in meditation in his kuti. A
thin, weak man
with long, matted hair, wearing shabby and tattered clothes, came and
sat quietly near Brahmachari ji. His hands and feet were both twisted.
Brahmachari was looking at him, taking in every detail, when Maharaj
came running out shouting, "You have come, you have
come," and sat with them by the fire. Since Brahmachari
ji was in Baba's service, he got up and stood beside him.
Baba asked the visitor, "Where have you come from and
where are you going?"
He replied, "I have come from Pilibhit and am going to Meerut."
Brahmachari ji wondered to himself why he had come to Bhumiadhar
instead of going directly from Pilibhit to Meerut. Just then Baba
asked, "What is the purpose?" He said,
"Lal Bahadur
Shastri is to be made the prime minister." Hearing this, Brahmachari
was surprised, for there was no question of making Shastri prime
minister in the lifetime of Jawahar Lal Nehru.
Baba then
enquired about his devotees one by one. The first question Baba asked
was about Brahmachari ji, who was standing by him. The man said,
"Brahmachari is the guru of sadhus." After many
questions like that one, Baba asked about Tularam Sah saying, "He
is lying sick in Ramsay Hospital, what about him?"
With a heavy heart he said, "It is not good that you save everyone. He
will certainly die on the seventh day from today." Baba at once got up
and returned to his kuti. The stranger also went
on his way
and disappeared at once. On the seventh day after this incident, 16
November 1962, Tularam passed away. The sadhu did
not mention a timeframe for Shastri ji, but he became prime minister
after a year and a half.
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