Justice Rangarajan

 Shri Nathji’s  along  Priya Nath, visited another advocate’s house at Sarvodaya Enclave, a certain Justice Rangarajan, for the Nagpur house problem. The advocate who speaks mostly in English is greatly touched by Shri Nathji’s personality, and wishes to meet him again for spiritual enlightenment.
Shri Nathji goes home later and records and re-records, very painstakingly, a long philosophical speech in English for the advocate, despite Priya Nath’s protest that he should not tire himself out to such a great extent. But Shri Nathji had been deeply touched by the man who said he needed Shri Nathji’s Blessings, and these were going out invisibly in the form of Shri Nathji’s words, which he had recorded on tape for him.

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Justice Seshe Iyengar Rangaranjan was a fearless permanent judge of the Delhi High Court who famously defended fundamental rights and freedom of speech during the Indian Emergency

He was  born, on  9.9.1916.. Did his  Educated at National School, Tiruchirapalli; National College, Tiruchirapalli; Law College, Madras. He took Master's Degree from the Madras University in Constitutional Law and International Law. Enrolled as advocate at Madras High Court on 4.4.1938. Appointed District and Sessions Judge in October, 1952 and Director of Legal Studies under the Government of Madras in July, 1962. Again functioned as District and Sessions Judge from January, 1967 till he was appointed Permanent Judge of Delhi High Court from 20th January, 1969. 

 During the 1975–1977 Emergency declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar was arbitrarily detained under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA). Sitting on a division bench with Justice R.N. Aggarwal, Justice Rangarajan ruled in favor of Nayar. The bench held that fundamental rights still existed despite the Emergency, and citizens could not be detained without strict adherence to the law.
Even after the government released Nayar before the final verdict was read in an attempt to moot the case, a furious Justice Rangarajan insisted on delivering the judgment anyway, adding strong remarks that criticized government overreach.
Following the ruling, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's administration immediately transferred Justice Rangarajan to the Gauhati High Court.

He was transferred to Gauhati High Court from 22.6.1976. Re-transferred as Judge, Delhi High Court on 18.7.1977. Retired on 9.9.1978

Justice S. I. Rangarajan started his private law practice as a senior advocate in Delhi in the early part of 1982. After retiring from his judicial career and serving as the Chairman of the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices (MRTP) Commission, he joined the Supreme Court Bar in Delhi to continue his practice. Shri Nathji and Priya Nathji met him at his office in end of 198,3 when he was doing his private practice. 

Justice Rangarajan left Delhi in 1988 to settle in a village in Tamil Nadu, leaving behind a legacy of judicial independence.
The Indian Council for Legal Aid and Advice (ICLAA) operates the Justice S. Rangarajan Legal Aid Fellowship at the Delhi High Court to train early-career lawyers in human rights and pro bono litigation in his honor

Shri R. K. Khosla

  Shri R. K. Khosla was a greatly devoted to Shri Nathji. He was son of Shri Nathji's and Babaji Maharaj's dvotee from Lahore, Shri Shri Sohan lal Khosla.  Sohan Lal ji had a vision at Lahore in 1935 in which he had seen Shri Nathji as the Lord of the Universe in the fullness of his Majesty and Glory. Sohan Lal had narrated this vision before Shri Nathji and the devotees at Lahore in 1935. As a matter of fact when he had narrated this vision to his young teen-aged son, Shri R.K. Khosla, his son had said with surprise:
“Father, I, too, had exactly the same vision at that same time!”

In 1983 when Sohan Lal came to visit Shri Nathi for the last time, his’s daughter-in-law was there and she narrates how Mahamateshwari had blessed them years ago, when her husband - Shri R. K. Khosla was a mere struggling scientist:
“When Mateshwari met us my husband used to earn two hundred rupees per month and she has said, ‘His salary should be at least four hundred’ – and that is what happened miraculously.”
Later Sohan Lal’s son was to become a famous scientist at the Pusa Agricultural Institute with a handsome salary, a chauffeur driven car and a status that was the envy of many scientists of the day.
 Shri R.K. Khosla also narrated how he had been amongst the fortunate few to have been present in the wedding procession, baraat, of Shri Nathji, as also in the wedding procession of Prem Nath, the younger brother of Shri Nathji–and how he had accompanied Shri Nathji to Kapurthala State at the wedding of Prem Nath and been feted at the Palace of the Maharaja there, which was used to accommodate the ‘baraat’ of Prem Nath, in which Shri Nathji and Babaji Maharaj were also present.
Shri R.K. Khosla narrated how he and his father often spent time with Shri Nathji in Shri Nathji’s spacious bungalow at Dehra Dun during the summer holidays when they were living at Lahore.
Shri Sohan Lal Khosla and his family had a very old relationship with Shri Nathji and Shri Babaji Maharaj dating back to their days at Lahore in the 1930’s.
R. K. Khosla recollected how once he and his father and family had been so enraptured by Shri Nathji’s sermon that they missed the train they were to catch for Amristar that evening.
Later they learnt from the newspapers that the same train was involved in an accident in which the lives of many had been lost. Had Shri Nathji not prolonged his sermon that evening, the Sohan Lal family would have been on that train.
R.K. Khosla also vividly recollected how he used to ask his father whenever they visited Shri Nathji:
“Father, why is Shri Nathji’s face so full of light? It is glowing like the Sun. Why don’t the faces of other people glow like that?
And Shri Sohan Lal had replied:

“Betaa aur logon ke shareer men to aatmaa hoti hai, magar Shri Nathji ke shareer men to Paramaatmaa hain!

“Son, the bodies of ordinary mortals contain their souls, but Shri Nathji’s body contains the Universal Soul–God!”

“The body of Shri Nathji is not an ordinary body. It is the body of God.”

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 Shri R. K. Khosla was a prominent agricultural scientist and statistician who served at the Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI), which shares its historical and physical campus heritage with the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), widely known as the Pusa Institute, in New Delhi.

  His scientific contributions heavily intersected with crucial domains of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), including: Crop Forecasting Methodology, Designing statistical frameworks to predict crop yields and agricultural output.and Sample Survey Methodology and  Enhancing data collection and survey precision across rural and farming environments. In 1977, he published a widely recognized formula for calculating avoidable crop yield losses due to pests. In 1983, he served as a rapporteur during key statistical plenary sessions alongside the Director of IASRI.  In 1984, he served as an author and editor for the IASRI Statistical Newsletter and the official ICAR-IAS.

Shri B. Datta

 In October 1983 there is a trouble at Nagpur where Shri Nathji’s books and baggage are lying in a rented house with a large hall and almirahs. The landlord there is threatening to break in, against the law. Both Shri Nathji and Priya Nath have to consult a senior advocate of the Supreme Court at his house, a certain Shri B. Datta, who drafts out a notice and also a telegram to stop the mischief.
Shri Nathji gives him his blessings and leaves. Many years later, on the 6th of September 1992, when Shri Nathji’s funeral procession was passing through the streets of Delhi, B. Datta found himself behind the vehicle carrying Shri Nathji’s body in the traffic. This was the last darshan he was to have of Shri Nathji who had come to his house once as a client.

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 Shri B. Datta was a prominent Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India and a former Additional Solicitor General of India. He was  designated as a Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court of India on April 14, 1983. He also served as the Additional Solicitor General of India, representing significant public and private matters.
Practiced extensively in the Supreme Court of India and various High Courts, handling key constitutional, civil, and commercial cases.He acted in prominent legal capacities, including serving as the chairman of organizing committees for international legal bodies like the Asia Pacific Lawyers Association

Urmil Dhalwala

 In september 1983 a certain Urmil Dhalwala who arrives from America to meet Shri Nathji at His residence in New Delhi. She is a friend of Kanti Sharma who had told her about Shri Nathji in America and given her a picture of Shri Nathji. She says to Shri Nathji:
“I was one of the unhappiest persons abroad when Kanti gave me your picture. Just looking at the picture brought me peace of mind. I pray to the picture every day, and I talk to it as if I am talking to you from a distance of thirteen thousand miles! I have been perfectly at peace ever since then. It is one of the greatest miracles of my life. And seeing you here today, face to face, is one of my life’s greatest moments.”
Shri Nathji speaks to her for a while and then blesses her with the words:

“Kaisee achhi beti mili hai hamen.

“What a nice daughter I have got.”

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 Urmil S. Dhalwala (September 6, 1941 – July 31, 2019) was a resident of USA and, tied to both Canada and the United States. She was closely related to Meeru Dhalwala, a prominent author, chef, and co-owner of the world-famous Indian restaurant Vij's in Vancouver. Public real estate registries indicate she co-owned property alongside Ritu Dhalwala in Burke, Virginia, located near Washington D.C
She passed away at the age of 77 and was cared for by the Mount Pleasant Universal Funeral Home in Vancouver, BC

Pramod Kapoor

 There is the World Book Fair of 1983 at Frankfurt in Germany, There Shri Nathji's biography: “The Advent of the Avatar” was also displayed, It was taken there by Aruna Gupta’s son-in-law Pramod Kapoor, who is a book publisher. Aruna Gupta who was very devoted to Shri Nathji and was daughter of Shri Nathji's great devotee Shakuntala. 

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Pramod Kapoor (born 1953) is an Indian writer and publisher, who in 1978 founded Roli Books, a publishing company that prints books pertaining to Indian heritage. In 2016, for his contributions to publishing, he was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.
Latter in life he also become a writer. Thefirst book he authored, Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography, was published in 2016. It led him to write 1946 Royal Indian Navy Mutiny; Last War of Independence, released in 2022. Previously he had produced illustrated versions of Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan and Manohar Malgonkar's The Men Who Killed Gandhi. He compiled the photographs of photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White in one of her biographies, picked several previously unpublished images from Britain to be included in New Delhi: The Making of a Capital (2009), and photo-edited the 'past' section of Calcutta  (2019).

Dr. Harish Chand Diwan

  In 1976  Priya Nath ji had come down with a strange cough that was excited whenever he went from a “hot to cold” environment, like getting out of the warm quilt in the morning. The cough had persisted for many days, which had caused Shri Nathji intense worry. It had ultimately been cured by the homeopathic medicines of Dr. Harish Chand Diwan, which Shri Nathji continued to praise endlessly years afterwards.

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Dr Diwan Harish Chand: (7th March 1924–13th December 2011) was one of India’s leading homeopaths, honorary physician to the Presidents of India from 1969 to 1997 and a Member and later a Fellow of the Faculty of Homeopathy since 1946.

Diwan Harish Chand was born on 7th March 1924 at Lahore, the son of Dr Diwan Jai Chand, a distinguished homeopath. He graduated in medicine (M.B.B.S.) in 1945 and spent more than 60 years in the study and practice of homeopathy. He acquired the highest qualifications in homeopathy and in general medicine. He had wide clinical experience and studied at the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital in the 1950’s, and with Dr Pierre Schmidt in Switzerland. He was actively involved in teaching programmes and lectures in many countries for over 50 years. His son, Dr Vijay Chand is also a leading homeopathic physician.

Internationally, Dr Chand was known as the face of Indian homeopathy. He was the first Asian President of Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis (LMHI), and for many years Indian vice-president of the LMHI. Less than 2 weeks before his death, on 1st December 2011, the title of “President of Honour” was conferred on him at the 66th LMHI Congress at New Delhi, presented by Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad, Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.

He had received numerous other National and International diplomas and fellowships. This includes the most prestigious Indian award in medicine, the Dhanvantari award for ‘the most outstanding medical man of the year’, the first homeopath to receive it. On 24th April 2011 Dr AK Walia, Honorable Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Delhi conferred on him the Homoeo Rattan Award, for his contribution to the cause of homeopathy.

A.N.John & Co. Hair Saloon

 When Shri Nathji used to visit Janpath in New Delhi he used to get His hair cutting done at A.N.John & Co. Hair Saloon. In latter years Priya Nathji used to do Shri Nathji's cutting himself. When Shri Nathji visited Janpath in September 1983, He recollected his hair cutting done at A.H. John. 

The Janpath branch of  A.N.John & Co.which was originally established by Mr. A.N. Bhardwaj in 1950's has closed long back.  A.N. John & Co. was indeed one of the most iconic, premium haircutting establishments in Connaught Place (CP) and Janpath, New Delhi during the mid-to-late 20th century

It was highly celebrated for its luxury setup, featuring private individual cubicles where patrons received personalized hair care and precise grooming. Along with other vintage elite names like Roy and James and Tawar and Susan, it defined premium styling for Delhi's high society, politicians, and bureaucrats for decades

While the original Connaught Place/Janpath branch closed down as the commercial landscape of CP shifted over the decades, the historic A.N. John brand remains highly active as a luxury salon chain
They run four major flagship locations across the Kolkotta (including their legendary Park Street branch at Queens Mansion) along with a dedicated hairdressing academy. They also have stores in oher cities like Rachi and Delhradoon.