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home. At nignt the electric wire suddenly caught fire while I was fast asleep fully unaware of the electric conflagration. All of a sudden Shree Acharya Bhagwan made His appearance before me and roused me up from my sleep saying, "Get up, your house is on fire.' At this I rose up in confusion and saw the fire. Through the grace of Guru-Deva Bhagwan the lives of myself and many other men, women and children were saved. I said to Bhagwan Gurudeva, •You have given me my iife,' at which He replied, You are my steadfast disciple'."
Later on Seth Sahib had said, “He who dies in a reverie must have attained spiritual greatness. I have had glowing examples of this in Shree Brihat Jiwan Prava at pages 352-353."
Once Keshar Bijayji had said to Gurudeva, "This created being is in existence since the beginning of creation. If death in a reverie is attained it would mean a great blessing. So at the time of my death do please inquire about me since it is a fact that whosoever is chastened at the end must escape from the cycles of birth and re-birth.”
"While staying at Abu our Pujya Shree Gurudeva Bhagwan had intimated to Yogi Mahatma Shree Bijay Keshar Suriji at Ahmedabad the previous indication of the latter's demise and informed him that his last day had drawn near and so asked him to prepare for
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