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1. GURDIAL MALLIKJI - IN THE SHELTER OF
GURUDEV RABINDRANATH TAGORE
by Prof. PRATAPKUMAR J. TOLIYA
A Divine Soul, assuming high qualities of Heart & Head and Mystic Nature had descended on this earth on 7th May, 1896, at Dera Ismail Khan in N.W. Province, now West Pakistan. Co-incidentally, date of 7th May had two significant and Mystical as well as miraculuous importance. First : his Great Master Rabindranath Tagore was also born on the same date of 7th May (of course in 1861). And Second : His pietiful & Compassionate Great Mother TEJASVIDEVI also passed away on the same date of 7th May in 1907, sacrificing her life, while serving her sister-in-law ! More so, Gurdial, just 10-11 years old, was not near his beloved Mother's Death bed when she died on this 7th May's night, but was away at Shikaripur with his Uncle. This sudden tragic departure gave Gurdial First Distant Telepathic Mystical and Miraculous Experience in life. At that distant place, he was fast asleep, but his greatly compassionate Mother, while leaving this world, gave her beloved Great Son Gurdial a Divine Vision when he was unaware of his revered Mother's departure while in his deep sleep. He suddenly woke up, went on sobbing and cried loudly :
"MY MOTHER IS GOING ....... MY MOTHER IS GOING.... SHE IS NO MORE IN THIS WORLD NOW...... SHE HAS GONE FOR EVER.......!".
His nearby Uncle, greatly astonished, didn't believe this factual happening at that juncture and his father Naraindas Mallik, a Government Servant, away from him then, went on surprising always that how such a Mystical Episode had taken place with his such a pious young son who was away!
Anyway, the kind Mother had gone and departed, but had left her three precious heritage - advices with Gurdial which he went on recollecting and expressing several times throughout his life with deep reverence and devotion to his kind departed Mother. These valuable words & wishes & orders of his mother, given as a precious treasure to his beloved son Gurdial, mysteriously and mystically while before dying during that DIVINE DISTANT VISION, were simply unusual and Monumental. While departing, the Mother asks Gurdial :
"My Dera Son Gurdial! I am going. Will you fulfill three DESIRES of mine ?"
"Yes Maa ! your desires are just like orders for me Please tell." replied Gurdial.
And Mother lovingly commanded giving Essence of Life :
(1) To sit down in Silence with folded hands, in the Morning and evening with such imagination that you are seated with SOMEBODY. BY doing so, you will find internally that "THERE IS GOD". To know this, to experience this, is the substance of Life.
(2) Where ever you stay, while going out and coming, ask lovingly all the neighbors, that 'Are all Happy and Well in your family ?' If someone is sick, suffering and unhappy, then try to serve them uttering God's name.
(3) Salute to the Saint, seeker, sage belonging to any religion. Don't ask him questions. Sit down silently in his Light. With God's grace, you will get in life, whatever mystery is, through that saint. (This thing was taught and imbibed in me by Mother several times from childhood that LOCK YOUR TONGUE & MIND WHENEVER YOU GO TO ANY GREAT MAN.)
