CHASHME VAALI MATA- LADY WITH THE SPECTACLES

 CHASHME VAALI MATA-

LADY WITH THE SPECTACLES

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FROM THE MEMOIRS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI

THE GREAT SPIRITUAL LUMINARY WHO GAVE PEACE AND BEATITUDE TO COUNTLESS FOLK DURING HIS LIFETIME

RELIEVING THEM OF THEIR ILLS AND SORROWS AND WHO

HELPS US AND GUIDES US FROM HIS CELESTIAL PLANE EVEN TODAY.

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They called her Chasme Vaal Mata-- the old lady with the spectacles. The year was 1937 and Shri Nathji was at Lucknow,

She was a Talukedaarni, a Rani in her own right in her State near Lucknow.

She called herself the most miserable person in the world.

Her husband had died. She had five sons, each of whom had died, Even their children had died, She had one daughter and she too had died. Death seemed to haunt the spectre of her life.

She was in Lucknow when she heard of Shri Nathji living there and giving a lecture in a hall. She went to the hall in her palanquin, paalki, carried by four men. She lifted the curtain of her carriage and looked inside the hall.

What she saw was a sight that changed her entire life. There was Divine Light the likes of which she had never experienced on earth in Shri Nathji - but she saw Shri Nathji as a little child!

The next day she went to the house of RR Khanna where Shri Nathji was staying, carrying a cloth bundle.

While the onlookers which included included intellectuals and scientists looked on with amazement.

She opened the bundle-- and it contained small toy cars!!

Shri said to Shri Nathji" Yesterday you appeared to me as a small child so I have brought these toys for you!"

Without uttering a word, Shri Nathji picked up the toy cars and started running them on the table in front of him!!!

The old lady continued: "Up till Yesterday I was the most miserable and unhappy woman in the world -- each and every hair of my head was numbered with an infinity of sorrrow.

"But today I am the happiest woman in the world!

That one glimpse of you was enough to change my whole life!"

Time came that she could only feel alive if she was close to Shri Nathji, her "son". And so she came to live with Shri Nathji in his house at Dehra Dun.

Her medical prescriptions had the title" Shri Nathji's mother"

One day she said: O Nathji! Why must you hide yourself from the world. Reveal your real divine Light!"

And that day there was such a flood of people as if the entire city had converged upon the house.

Chashme Vaali Mata could not get a glimpse of Shri Nathji for three days.

Later she said: "I will never ask you to reveal yourself again! I could not get a glimpse of you for three days!"

Time came when she had to go to her State for some work. While she was there she fell ill. Shri Nathji rushed to her State in a car and finally reached it. There was a silence that filled the air,

Shri Nathji met the maidservant of the Rani who told her:

"Chashme Vaali Mata has left the world. She said when Shri Nathji comes, tell him I am going after attaining salvation.

Main mukt hokar jaa rahee hoon!"

Shri Nathji's Verse echoed in Shri Nathji's heart:

"Kashishe ke ishq daarad na guzaar datt badeensaa

Ba janaaza gar na aayi to mazaar khyaaai aamad"

I know the love of the world will not allow Thee to come,

But if thou cannot come to my funeral please come to my Tomb"

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PRIYA NATH MEHTA

SON OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI