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Guruji transformed the hospital into a temple of devotion
to the society. After his surgery, he set out to enquire after the
other patients in the hospital. It was a strange phenomenon for
the doctors. Such a task could have been accomplished by a
soul that was replete with spiritual spirit, free from the corporeal
burden; only such a great man could have shared the suffering
of other people in the hospital in such a situation. Guruji had
not allowed any letup to intervene his spirit of social service
even while lying on his deathbed in the hospital.

Guruji had devoted every particle of his body and every
moment of his life in the service of holy Motherland. He did
not pray to God for this mortal body. The mantra of his life was
to undertake continuous service to Motherland. How exalted
his life was, could be seen from the final days of his life. Those
days, Guruji went to Kottaikal in Kerala for treatment. The
process of oil bath was underway. One day, a Vaidya (medicine
man) came there, he lighted a lamp and prayed. Then he
requested Guruji, “Please pray God for your quick recovery.”
Guruji did not get ready for this prayer. He clearly refused it.
He said, “You can do all for my health what you like, I shall not
interrupt you in between, but what is the need to pray God for
this mortal body? He would be able to extract as much work
from it as He wished. When He would feel that my work is
over, He would call me back. I shall not pray to Him only for
the sake of this body.”

Everybody who was devoted to the Param Pujya Guruji
went to meet him in order to share his suffering. Somebody got
a havan conducted, and another some religious ritual; somebody
got a mantra chanting done while another undertook some other
ritual. Everybody had their respective faiths, but everybody
wished that Guruji should recover as quickly as possible.

One such day, Bhaurao Devras and Rajju Bhaiya went to
Allahabad. They wished to get a religious ritual performed by
a brilliant priest. As they reached the threshold, the priest said
from the front, “I know what brings you gentlemen here. You
have come for a ritual to be conducted for a scholarly, devoted,
social worker, but I cannot foresee his life beyond the seventh