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The Composition of Vinaya Chalisa
Prabhu Dayal Sharma was at the Luterey Hanuman temple when he met a clerk from the Mathura treasury who told him about Baba and asked him to go for his darshan. As Prabhu Dayal did not know Baba, he did not have any faith or reverence for him but went just to see him. When he arrived, Baba asked him, "What is your name? Where do you work?" No sooner had he replied than Baba asked him to go. Prabhu Dayal wanted to stay longer, but Baba said, "I have told you to go. Go now." He had Baba's darshan for only about a minute.
As Prabhu Dayal was crossing the threshold of the ashram on his way home, he experienced an inexplicable celestial bliss and said spontaneously, "Baba is a great being, not an ordinary man." He said that he felt as if an electric current passed through his whole body. After that incident he was not able to sleep for about a month and had to be treated in a mental health hospital, for he almost lost his sanity. Yet in that condition, and motivated by his darshan with Baba, he composed the Vinaya Chalisa (a prayer to Baba, considered so befitting, that it is now sung in all of Baba's temples). He did not dare to take his composition to Baba personally, so he posted it to him. When Baba received it, he threw it away indifferently. Kalinath Kapoor picked it up out of the trash and took it to Kanpur the next day to get it printed.
As Prabhu Dayal was crossing the threshold of the ashram on his way home, he experienced an inexplicable celestial bliss and said spontaneously, "Baba is a great being, not an ordinary man." He said that he felt as if an electric current passed through his whole body. After that incident he was not able to sleep for about a month and had to be treated in a mental health hospital, for he almost lost his sanity. Yet in that condition, and motivated by his darshan with Baba, he composed the Vinaya Chalisa (a prayer to Baba, considered so befitting, that it is now sung in all of Baba's temples). He did not dare to take his composition to Baba personally, so he posted it to him. When Baba received it, he threw it away indifferently. Kalinath Kapoor picked it up out of the trash and took it to Kanpur the next day to get it printed.
