Shravan
Nath Sang, Principal, Birla Vidyamandir, Nainital, said that he was
born by the blessing of a saint. Yet he remained indifferent to those
whom people regarded as saints or elevated souls. One day in 1954
Kishan Chandra Tewari, a teacher at his school, was taking Baba home
with him. On the way Shravan Nath and Baba came face to face. Baba
said, "Our principal has come." Sang did
not say
anything and continued on his way to his house. Nevertheless, that
momentary meeting inspired an ardent desire in Sang's heart to see Baba
again. The feeling became more and more intense, and one day he went to
Hanumangarh for darshan. Baba saw him in private
and talked to him for about twenty minutes.
After
this Sang escorted Bhutani students to Bhutan, and their king, Jigmi
Dorgi Chogyal, invited him for an audience. The king took him to see
their guru, the Lama, who was about one hundred and fifty years old.
The Lama was so old that he could not even raise his eyelids. Raising
his eyelids with his fingers, he saw Sang and asked, "Why have you come
here?" Sang replied, "To have your darshan and
blessings." At
this the Lama said, "You have a great saint with you. He can give
everything." He then described Baba Nibkarori's form and appearance.
Hearing the Lama's description, Sang's faith in Baba became firm. He
looked up to Baba as an image of God and always went to have his darshan.
Baba was particularly kind to him, and by Baba's grace, Birla
Vidyamandir made good progress during his term as principal.
When
Sang went to Indore to participate in a public school conference in
1962, he had an attack of paralysis. He then went to Motimahal,
Lucknow, where Vidyamandir students studied in the winter. He was
treated in the Medical College, and after many tests, the doctors
diagnosed him with a brain tumor. He was also losing his eyesight.
Lying on his bed at Motimahal, he remembered Baba. He would say that
wherever Baba turns his face, the universe also turns.
In March
1963, when Tewari was with him, Baba and many other devotees came into
Sang's room. When he learned that Baba had come, he tried to get up
because he wanted to touch Baba's feet. Baba forbade him to do so and
warned him that he would go away if Sang did not stay where he was.
Baba sat on a rectangular wooden seat placed by Sang's bed and
stretched his foot out towards him. In order to raise his spirits Baba
said, "You are a Brahmin of the North Western Province.
You are brave. Ask whatever you want, I am ready to give you all."
Rubbing Baba's toe with his hand, Sang listened to him while tears
flowed from his eyes, washing Baba's feet. He said to Baba, "O God! You
have given me everything. What is there left that I should ask of you?"
This moved Baba, and patting Sang's head with his hand, he said, "Sang
is a true saint. He has no desire in him." Baba became
emotional, saying, "I will go to Vindhyachal and tell
Ma."
He got up and went out of the room, as did the other devotees. Tewari
said that after Baba left, Sang became unconscious, and after remaining
in a coma for fifteen days, he died. When Sang died, Baba was in
Allahabad. Two teardrops rolled down his cheeks, and he said, "Today
Sang has become one with me."
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