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have been some looseness somewhere in the internal ceremony, for, otherwise this could not happen."
I made a few inquiries about his worldly life in order to find out the weak link. With just one casual reference to his younger brother, he got wildly hot and told me : "Please ask me not even to name that vagabond! lost my parents when young of age and looked after him, brought up as an elder brother with a keen sense of duty. I looked after his education, settled him in business, got him married. But, after marraige at the instigation of his wife, he has filed a suit against me in a court of law in order to extract more money from me! He forgot all good turns and has done this bad turn to me. I shall not now let him go. I too have gone to court against him. Whatever be my fate, I am going to teach a lesson to him!...” He spoke so much in all excitement.
When his anger was calmed down, I told him : "Let us now come to the main point. For six months now, you propitiate the Navakara ceremoniously as I tell you. If your propitiation for six months does not bear fruit, hand over the Navakara to Shri Dada. I too shall do the same !"
(Later on when I submitted my idea to revered Shri Gurudev, he scolded me and told me : "We should never talk to discarding the Navakara. Due to some Karmas, that gentleman finds no benefit, would you too discard the same?" He therefore gave a penance to me. But, thanks to my unique faith in the Mahamantra, I too spoke out : "I was fully confident that keeping in tact both the external and internal ceremony if one propitiates, the result would be certainty.")
That gentleman said : “My feeling is that I have experimented upon all the internal and external, known
