Dr. U.C. Khambholja’s correspondence:

• U.C. Khambholja prosecuted his studies and passed out in 1916. During the period from 1913 to 1916, Dr. Khambholja secured His address, sent one or two telegrams and several letters to Thakur. Not receiving any reply, slowly and steadily he began to forget Him and totally forgot Him in the year 1916.

• At that time in 1916, the first World War was going on. Dr. Khambholja volunteered and joined the army service and first went to Southern Waziristan, He fell sick and suffered much. One night he thought about Thakur and wrote to Him introducing himself as the person to whom he had written in Sanskrit in 1913. Mentioning that the letters he had written so far still remained unanswered, he requested Him to give reply and bless him for his immediate cure. To his wonder he received a prompt reply within a week and after its receipt his ailment was cured.

• Thakur’s first letter to Khambholja was as follows: “I am in receipt of your separately written letters. They are in hand and they give me much pleasure, carrying the good news that you are in sound state of health. May you keep good bodily as well as spiritual health. —Dear father, I shall be much pleased to learn in what capacity you are now serving, in this frontier. Wherever you may be, forget not Radha Krishna Name. That will give you everything that you desire.” “Dear, this world is the place for purging, so anyone comes here must suffer till he becomes perfectly pure, I am not beyond this universal law. Even when our Universal Master comes to play with us here, He also becomes subject to this law, so we should not lament over any sufferings. We must learn to act both good and bad with equal open heart. Win a good name with your conduct and good service. Wherever you go, you are under the protection of our Universal Lord, so you need not be sorry for anything.”

N.B. Collected from “Lord Haranath-Antya Leela (Volume 3-Part 1)” written by A. Ramakrishna Sastry, 1972.

Jai Haranath Jai Kusumkumari Jai