Maharaj
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Divine Reality
I Am There
Ram Ratan Verma practiced law in Mainpuri and was a devotee of Maharaj. Baba showered his affection on Verma's whole family. When Verma died in 1956, his only child Shanta was devastated, and Baba went to her house to console her. She wept bitterly before saying, "I don't have a brother, and now no one is left in my parents' house." Baba, the ocean of kindness, could not bear to see anyone in tears. He emphasized at once, "You have me."
From then on Baba became her brother and maintained that relationship until the time of his Mahasamadhi. During that period of seventeen years, Baba went to Shanta's house every year on Rakshabandhan, the festival for brothers and sisters. As part of the tradition, the sister ties a rakhi (sacred thread) around the wrist of her brother. Maharaj got Shanta to tie the rakhi, and he gave her money, which is also part of the tradition. Once, when she was in Meerut on Rakshabandhan, Baba even went there to get the rakhi tied. Devotees remember celebrating Rakshabandhan in Kainchi with Baba for eleven of those seventeen years, so Baba was in Kainchi as well as with Shanta on those auspicious days.
From then on Baba became her brother and maintained that relationship until the time of his Mahasamadhi. During that period of seventeen years, Baba went to Shanta's house every year on Rakshabandhan, the festival for brothers and sisters. As part of the tradition, the sister ties a rakhi (sacred thread) around the wrist of her brother. Maharaj got Shanta to tie the rakhi, and he gave her money, which is also part of the tradition. Once, when she was in Meerut on Rakshabandhan, Baba even went there to get the rakhi tied. Devotees remember celebrating Rakshabandhan in Kainchi with Baba for eleven of those seventeen years, so Baba was in Kainchi as well as with Shanta on those auspicious days.
