"O COME TO ME!"

This picture shows The Love of my Father, HH Shri Bhola Nathji (1902-1992) the Founder of the World Prayer Day for Peace.

Whenever anyone would come before HH Shri Bhola Nathji his face would light up with a joy and a radiance which can only be described as divine, and he would say with joy like meeting a long lost loved one : "O COME TO ME!" and then he would embrace the person.

There was such a powerful aura of Love around him that even total strangers would burst out into tears when they came before him for the first time!

It was as if he GENUINELY loved everyone as his nearest and dearest loved one, whether he was an acquaintance, a friend, a total stranger or even a foe ( of which there were practically none).

It was a common sight to see people depart from him in tears as if their very hearts were breaking at this separation even though they had met him for the first time in their lives.

And often his parting words were:

"Now that you are before me, I can catch you by your hand,
When you go to the end of the room, I can see you with my eyes,
When you are outside the door, my voice can reach you,
But when you are far away in your homes, where my hands cannot reach you, nor my eyes see you, nor my voice reach your ears --Then you will become closer to me,
For then I shall see you in my heart!"

Once the uncle of the then Maharaja of Nepal said to my father while parting from him and standing at his door:

"I leave behind my offering to you at your doorstep - these tears that flow from my eyes!"

And HH Shri Bhola Nathji said: "There are not tears, these are pearls full of Love Divine!"