Facilitating the Weather

Ajit Shukla, son of Uma Dutt Shukla, narrates of a time when the whole family, along with kids and father, Uma Dutt Shukla, and Mrs. Shukla, visited Kainchi Ashram:

Ajit Shukla: Once when we were at the ashram, Maharajji was after us, again and again, saying - See! Shukla has come along with kids but won’t take his kids for site-seeing! Do take them (the kids) to Ranikhet, and other places…! To which father replied to Maharajji that it is raining quite a lot. Maharajji simply said - what? It is raining, you say? I am telling you, it ain’t - take them site-seeing!

After some time, Maharajji called up some people from the neighbouring village and said to them - do plant them potatoes! To which the villagers said, ‘but Maharajji, it is going to rain; it is the rainy season’. Mahrajji hushed them and in his simple and jocular way of talking, said in a lowered voice - ‘o be quiet! Shukla is going out to take his children site-seeing. You must also take advantage of this opportunity!’

And believe me, during our site-seeing, wherever we would reach, we would come to know it was raining heavily just prior to us reaching there - and for the duration of our stay in Ranikhet, not a drop of water came down, and when we came back, it kept raining incessantly!

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Submitted by: Kush Arora