The Morna Dam

 One night in 1978 when Shri Nathji was in Akola, His voice took on a terrible, thunderous aspect, his countenance became awesome, he raised his hands in the air, sprang forward from his chair and warned the powers of darkness to desist from their works of destruction. His voice roared out loud:

"MAIN ASURI BAL KO CHETAAVANI DETAA HOON KE DUNIYAA KI KOYI SHAKTI BHAGWAN KI TAAKAT KE SAAMNE NAHEEN RAIH SAKTI!

“I WARN THE POWERS OF DARKNESS THAT NOTHING CAN STAND BEFORE THE POWER OF GOD!"

It appeared as if some calamity were about to strike Akola.
That very night, even as Shri Nathji was saying these words, Akola had been hit by a terrible flood.  Hundreds and thousands of people were uprooted from their homes, scores of houses washed away, there was destruction and devastation as the raging waters sought to engulf the entire city. The Morna River was in spate from the incessant rain. The dam was threatening to burst.
But Shri Nathji’s words had filled the atmosphere with his spiritual strength.
The moment Shri Nathji uttered his powerful words in a commandment, the flood began to subside, and in an incredibly short time, almost within hours the raging waters receded miraculously.
The city was saved from doom. The citizens of Akola had escaped a dreadful calamity in store for them. It was Shri Nathji once again re-writing destiny, erasing the parts he did not like and adding fresh ones.
All the newspapers in the country carried the news of this sudden calamity, begun and halted within so short a time.
No power of man could have halted the unleashing of Nature’s wrath. Only He, who controlled Nature, could halt it.

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The Morna River originates in the Ajantha Range and flows through Akola district before merging with the Purna River, which is a tributary of Tapi river.
As one of the chief tributaries of Purna River it is often prone o flooding during rainy season.
Morna Dam is located about 30 kms from Akola city in the Patur region of Akola district. It is a significant water body for the area. Recently also it was in news as its gates were opened due to excessive rain.

Pramila Tai Hall

When Shri Nathji visited Akola in 1978, He was given the honour reserved for the highest dignitaries visiting the city–a reception at the famed Pramila Tai Hall of the city.
The Pramila Tai Hall of Akola saw a scene the likes of which it had never seen before. The intelligentsia of the entire city had turned out to listen to Shri Nathji's words that night.

  Latter on 22nd of June 1978, Shri Nathji's lecture was organized at Pramilatai Oak Hall as part of Shri Nathji's birthday celebrations. It rained heavily that day, but the Hall was well filled, though not packed.

 On 23rd of June on the day of the birthday, a celebration with a sermon, bhajans, aarti, prasaad, was held at the Pramila Tai Hall. The entire hall was packed with people. The devotees, Bal Bhagat, Bal Ojarkar and others had sung their songs. People were waiting with breathless expectancy to listen to the words of Shri Nathji even as he sat before them glowing with heavenly light.
Shri Nathji said in a powerful thundering voice:

“MAIN MUKT HOON! NITYA MUKT HOON!

I AM IMMORTAL! I AM ETERNALLY IMMORTAL!

“And yet, there is no one in greater bondage than I am. And I shall remain in bondage until the last man is set free!

Pramilatai Oak Hall in the oldest continuously serving hall in Akola, which is still popular for functions with the tow's people. Pramilatai Oak Hall is lacated at  P242+VQP, New Radhakisan Plots, Akola, Maharashtra 444001

Sanjivani Medical Stores, Akola

 On March 26, 1978 Shri Nathji arived in Akola from Nagpur.  A procession took Shri Nathji through the city of Akola was magnificent to behold. The roads had been especially swept clean that day and watered by the City Municipality in honour of the distinguished visitor.
Shri Nathji, along with his son and daughter-in-law, rode in an open horse drawn carriage, a large decorated umbrella over their heads. There were elephants, and horses, and cars. A band played soulful tunes on the 'shaihnaayi' whilst a loudspeaker blared out, "Nishkalank Premavatar Shri Bhola Nathji Bhagwan ki Jai!"

Groups of people stopped the procession at various places and garlanded Shri Nathji, and applied tilak of vermilion to his forehead.
There was a  Rajabhau Phalke of the Sanjivani Medical Stores in Akola who saw a vision of the Divine in Shri Nathji as the procession passed by his house, and he ran forward to garland Shri Nathji.

Rajabhau Phalke established Sanjivani Medical Stores in 1969, It is loacted Gopalkusal Sankul Opp New Cloth Market Opp Open Thether, Gandhi Chowk, Akola-444001, Maharashtra

I have send the current photo of  Sanjivani Medical Stores

Khapri Kheda

There was the sub- postmaster, Shri Y. M. Deo, who wished to donate his land in far-away Khapri Khera for the construction of a Mahamateshwari Temple.
He donated the piece of land, only to discover that the government had run a water canal over it and that he would be paid a minimum compensation after several years. This broke the poor man's heart, and he wept and prayed. Here was a genuinely sincere person. His daughter's marriage had not taken place for years. But the moment he delivered up his land at Shri Nathji's feet, his daughter was blessed with a husband. Deo would never tire of narrating this event.
Mahamateshwari would frequently appear to him and his wife in their prayers. Another miracle took place. The owner of a large area of land in Khapri Khera, a certain Shri Ranchod Dasji, heard Deo's tale, and immediately offered a 60ft. by 60 ft. plot of his land as a donation for the temple! It was something that went beyond Deo's expectations!
His wife said: "I have one desire in life now, to be given the strength to build Mahamateshwari's temple at Khapri Khera!"

Shri Nathji, Priya Nath and Priyavari visited the place. There, under a tree, the statue of Mahamateshwari was placed, and Shri Nathji inaugurated the site.
 The sky was rent with the sounds of: "Jai Jai Shri Bhola Nath hare.... Jai Jai Shri Bhola Nath hare... Mahamateshwari ki jai ... Mahamateshwari ki jai...”
 It was a day the people would remember for long. Mahamateshwari appeared to be present, and very vividly alive and real on the spot. A snake passed through the assembled crowd quietly and almost reverentially, without biting anyone.

 Shri Nathji walked around the plot to the sounds of the chanting. Mahamateshwari had entered the region. The temple was not constructed later–because there was no money. Y. M. Deo managed to have a well dug in the area, but that was about all. But monument or no monument, the place had assumed a sanctity no other Mandir would enjoy for a long time to come, for God Himself had set foot upon the ground and declared it a temple. The memorable event took place on March 12, 1978.

Khapri Kheda is a locality in the Nagpur district of Maharashtra, India, known for the Khapri Kheda Railway Station (KPKD) and its proximity to the Khapri Metro Station in the city of Nagpur. It is a developing area that is strategically located and has both railway and metro connectivity. It was earlier on the outskirts of Nagpur but now as the city of Nagpur has grown considerably it is considered a part of Nagpur city. it is about 23 kms from Nagpur city centre.

Suyog Mangal Karyalaya

  Priya Nathji decided to celebrate the birthday of Shri Babaji Bhagwan on a grand scale and booked the Suyog Mangal Karyalaya at Nagpur for the function. It was a large hall usually given for marriages.
 Shri Nathji and Priya Nath went to the hall in a procession, which consisted of the devotees dancing to the rhythm of the brass band that accompanied them.

Shri Nathji's sermon at Suyog Mangal Karyalaya attracted a huge crowd on the birthday of Shri Babaji Bhagwan on January 21, 1978. There was Shri Nathji's voice saying with urgency:
"Do not be so hasty that you accept the wrong thing," Shri Nathji said, "and at the same time do not delay to such an extent that the real thing eludes you!"

“Itnee jaldi naa karo ke ghalat cheez ko pakarr lo, aur itnee der bhee naa karo ke achhee cheez haathh se nikal jaaye!”

About Priyavari and Priya Nath, Shri Nathji would say repeatedly:
"She will go where her husband goes, and her husband will go where his father goes, who in turn will go where the devotees want him to go and together we shall all go towards God!"
The son of the proprietor of the Karyalaya, Raja Deo Sarkar, a young man who had been an agnostic since long, was instantly converted. "My life has found fulfilment," he said. Thereafter he enlarged the large Viraat Roop portrait of Shri Nathji and hung it in his hall, for all to see in the months and years to come. His hall became a favourite place for marriages like never before.

 The  Suyog Mangal Karyalaya was located in S/1, Rani Laxmi Nagar, Nagpur - 440022. I was able to speak to Nikhil Sarkar, the son of Raja Deo Sarkar. He told me that his father Raja Deo Sarkar passed away in 2020 and Suyog Mangal Karyalaya closed down in 2018. He did not had any old photo of the hall. I was able to find an old visiting card of Suyog Mangal Karyalaya which is posted here.

Idandas & Co,

  In January 1978, one of the first things that Priya Nath did at Delhi, after his marriage in Mussoorie was to buy a small portable Philips tape recorder from a shop, Idandas & Co, at Scindia House Connaught Place. Since the tape recorder developed a fault, Priya Nath immediately purchased a spare one to keep with himself. Those were the days when Shri Nathji's divine revelations were at their peak and Priya Nath had to preserve the sacred words at all costs. He took these two tape recorders with him wherever he went with Shri Nathji and they preserved many a beautiful moment.

Idandas & Co is Idandas Book Co  located at Ground Floor, Shop No-15, N Block, Connaught Circus, New Delhi, Delhi, 110001. It is situated on the Outer Circle of Connaught Place, directly opposite Scindia House. It used to be a book store selling other goods like tapes and recorders but now it specialises in selling lostly bags, like travel bag & luggage bags, trunks, suit-cases, vanity-cases,  jewellery boxes, powder-boxes, cutlery cases and similar containers.

Shri Gopi Nath Kunzru

Advocate Shri Gopi Nath Kunzru from Allahabad had a long association with Shri Nathji, He used to attend His lectures.  On 23rd June 1977 whien Shri Nathji’s birthday was celebrated at the Savoy Hotel in Mussoorie, Shri Gopi Nath Kunzru comes and recites the Urdu verse:

Muddat se muntazar thhee nigaah jiske noor ki,
Ab aa gayi hai shubh gharri uske zahoor ki

He, whose Glory the eyes had awaited since long,
Has been revealed in a moment of Glory sublime

Shri Gopi Nath Kunzru was a Kashmiri Pandit and a prominent advocate in Allahabad, India. The Shri Gopi Nath Kunzru served as the Vice-President of the High Court Bar Association and had a long history with the Allahabad High Court, having been enrolled as a lawyer in the same year the High Court building was opened in 1916. He delivered a memorable speech at the High Court's Golden Jubilee celebrations in 1966. He is remembered for his long-standing association with the legal community in Allahabad.