A GREAT SOUL LEAVES THE WORLD ON DEC 13, 1940

 A GREAT SOUL LEAVES THE WORLD ON DEC 13, 1940

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IT WAS A SAD DAY FOR THE WORLD WHEN MY GRANDFATHER, WHO WAS A GODLY PERSONALITY, AND WHO GAVE PEACE AND BEATITUDE TO COUNTLESS FOLK DURING HIS LIFETIME ( 1867-1940) LEFT THE PHYSICAL WORLD AND RETURNED TO HIS ETERNAL IMMORTAL ABODE FROM WHERE HE HAD COME.

HIS NAME WAS SHRI DEVI DAS MEHTA, BUT IN LATER DAYS PEOPLE BEGAN TO CALL HIM SHRI BABAJI BHAGWAN, EVEN AS HIS DIVINITY REVEALED ITSELF.

HE WAS A MILLIONAIRE WHO GAVE AWAY ALL HIS WEALTH TO THE POOR AND TOOK TO THE SPIRITUAL PATH TO DEDICATE HIS LIFE TO GOD.

HE WOULD OFTEN SAY:

"I AM CONVINCED THERE IS NO CONDITION HIGHER THAN THAT SILENCE WHICH COMES OF THE ABANDONMENT OF ALL LATENT DESIRES."

"i AM CONTENT WITH WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN ME AS MY SHARE,

AND COMMIT TO MY CREATOR MY EVERY CARE,

TO DO GOOD IN THE PAST HAS BEEN INDEED HIS WILL,

HE WILL DO GOOD AS WELL IN WHAT IS TO COME STILL!"

HE TOOK LIFE TO BE AN ORDER OF GOD AND DEATH ALSO TO BE AN ORDER OF GOD.

WHEN HE WAS VERY ILL A DOCTOR WAS CALLED WHO TOLD HIM : " BABAJI YOU ARE VERY ILL!"

BABAJI SAID: " IF I WERE, I WOULD HAVE THE DESIRE TO GET WELL!"

THE DOCTOR SAID: "BABAJI YOU ARE DYING.."

AND BABAJI REPLIED: " IF I WERE, I WOULD HAVE THE DESIRE TO LIVE!"

BABAJI TURNED HIS EYES TOWARDS HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI, WHO WAS HIS SON, AND CONSIDERED TO BE AN INCARNATION OF GOD BY MANY.

AND THEN HE CLOSED THEM FOREVER AND WENT AWAY INTO A REGION WHERE THERE WAS NEITHER LIFE NOR DEATH, NEITHER HAPPINESS NOR SORROW, BUT AN ABIDING PEACE WHICH WAS HIS OWN SOUL MERGED INTO GOD.

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