Robin Farquharson meeting Shri Nathji

In 1964 whenShri Nathji was in London. Shri Nathji and Pran Nath were driving in their Ford Anglia car at night when the car ran out of petrol. Since Pran Nath had to stay in the car to prevent its being towed away by the police, Shri Nathji took an empty petrol can and went in search of a petrol pump in the streets of London.
He stopped a tall Englishman and asked him where he could find a petrol pump. The man gave him directions, which were very complex, and Shri Nathji said in humour:
“Even if I were able to find the petrol pump, I would never be able to find my way back to the car!”
The Englishman was good enough to walk along with Shri Nathji to show him the way. As they walked together, Shri Nathji began speaking. He narrated a Persian Verse and explained its meaning to the Englishman:

“Gar falak kaare turaa barham zanad az jau marau
Jaamaa raa khayyaat saaazad kataa baihre dokhtan

“If the skies destroy thy plans do not despair,
For the tailor cuts the cloth only to sew it!”

The Englishman was startled. Shri Nathji had given him the answer to a complex problem that had been plaguing his mind. He was so impressed by Shri Nathji that he snatched the petrol can from his hand and apologized for letting him carry it for so long. He became very devoted to Shri Nathji and asked to see him the next day.
This was Shri Nathji’s method of interacting with the spiritually thirsty souls of the world. He had to go out into the streets of London in the dead of night with a petrol can in his hand in order to give his darshan and blessings to Robin Ferguharson!

  Robin Ferguharson asked Shri Nathji when he can come and meet Him the next day. So he had made an appointment to come and see Shri Nathji at 9 a.m. the next morning, and Shri Nathji was struck by the man’s punctuality even as he looked at the clock in his room. Shri Nathji described the man’s arrival as follows:
“The hand of the clock showed five minutes to nine, and then one minute to nine, and finally when the clock struck nine, there was a knock on the door–and there was Robin Ferguharson! Punctually at the appointed time! Not a second earlier or later!”
 

Shri Nathji admired his punctuality and will  always speak about it in His sermons

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Reginald Robin Farquharson (3 October 1930 – 1 April 1973) was an academic whose interest in mathematics and politics led him to work on game theory and social choice theory. He wrote an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting,  and conjectured the Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem together with the philosopher and logician Michael Dummett. Robin Farquharson was educated at Michaelhouse, Natal, South Africa, 1944–46. He earned a B.A. in South Africa from Rhodes University College, Grahamstown (1947–50). Subsequently studying at Brasenose and Nuffield Colleges, University of Oxford (1950–53), he obtained a second-class B.A. honours PPE degree. He was given a Research Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge in 1964. He also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Theory of Voting was originally Farquharson's doctoral thesis but was deemed to be of such a high quality it was later published as a book in its own right. Although written in 1958, when his doctorate was awarded, it was eventually published in 1969, by Yale University Press. The main reason given for the delay in publication is that Farquharson insisted that the logical choice diagrams be printed in colour, which they eventually were, in black, white and red.

The book won the Monograph Prize in the field of Social Sciences, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Farquharson diagnosed himself as suffering from bipolar disorder (manic depression), and episodes of mania made it difficult for him to obtain a permanent university position and also resulted in him losing commercial employment. In later years, he dropped out of mainstream society, and became a prominent counter-cultural figure in late-1960s London. Farquharson wrote an account of his unconventional life in his 1968 book, Drop Out!, in which he described a week of being homeless in London.