Kripa Shankar Hajela

K. S. Hajela  was a devotee of Shri Nathji. Later, when he became the principal of the Law College at Jaipur, he invited Shri Nathji to Jaipur to deliver a lecture to his students at the Law Collage 2nd of March 1952. All the students and their teachers who heard Shri Nathji that day, marveled at his brilliant logic and spiritual effulgence. Shri Hajela would often say about Shri Nathji: "There are some who enunciate that which is truth. But, whatever Shri Nathji says, becomes the truth!"

Shri Kripa Shanker Hajela marvelled at the devotion of Shri G. P. Bhutt towards Shri Nathji. In later days when Shri Bhutt was to become the Chief justice of Madhya Pradesh, Shri Hajela was to say about him:
"He worships God in human form. The sincerity of his devotion to Shri Nathji accounts for his phenomenal rise."
Shri Nathji would often say: “When you bow before an idol in the temple, you bow before it, thinking it to be God. If for a moment you were to start thinking that the idol is nothing but stone, you would not see God in it. Thus when you worship the idol you are in fact only bowing before your own faith–your own bhaavnaa! Therefore, if you can see God in a stone image why can you not see God in a living human body!” Shri Nathji would also say humorously: “I must say that perhaps my face is not any worse than the idols of marble made at Jaipur! Meri shakl inn Jaipur ki moortiyon se to buri naheen hai!”
Sri Krishen Khanna, who was a frequent visitor at 40 Lodi Road, and who had become a great friend of Shri Bhutt, prayed to Shri Nathji to accept the invitation from Jaipur and to grace the city with the touch of his holy feet. And it was thus that Shri Nathji, Mateshwari, Pran Nath and Priya Nath, along with Shri Bhutt and a driver, embarked upon the car journey from Delhi to Jaipur. The children took Pluto, their dog, also with them. On reaching Jaipur Shri Nathji was warmly welcomed into the house of a friend of Shri Kripa Shanker Hajela, who was to be Shri Nathji's host for his stay in Jaipur for two days.
People came to meet Shri Nathji there, and Shri Nathji spoke to each one of them, tiring himself out severely, but being ever prepared to meet as many visitors as he could.
On the next day, he went to the Law College to deliver his lecture. The hall was packed with students and teachers, all eager to hear what Shri Nathji would say.
Shri Nathji's talk that day was so stunning and so logical that people were taken into another world altogether where they found God in the form of Knowledge. It was this aspect of Shri Nathji, which had endeared him to lawyers and judges ever since he was a young man.
The absolute perfection of his reasoning made people nod and sway their heads almost at every sentence that he said.
All who heard Shri Nathji that day never ceased to marvel at his irrefutable logic and divine effulgence.
Shri Kripa Shanker Hajela was thrilled that Shri Nathji had proven himself to be as elegant a logician as he had told his students that he would be. It was rare to see a spiritual personality lecturing in an institute, which rested upon the foundation of logic and reasoning.
Shri Nathji had said to the lawyers at Akola: “I have come to write a new law in your books–the law of Divine Love!”
Religion and spirituality were generally considered by intellectuals to border upon vague, unsubstantiated arguments and myths and legends.
But here was an intellectual par excellence, Shri Nathji, whose arguments were entering not only the minds but also the hearts of his listeners.
His words pierced through the mind and intellect and brought his listeners to a spiritual plane almost effortlessly, and, before they knew it, the people found themselves in another world, where space and time had ceased to exist and where there was only a heavenly bliss that came from God alone.
Apart from that there was the incredibly handsome personality of Shri Nathji on the stage, with a powerful divine glow that went beyond intellectualism and speech. The mere sight of Shri Nathji was enough to win the hearts of all present.
Shri Nathji had often said:
“When I find that I cannot get into the heart of a man directly because the path to his heart is blocked by his intellect, then I dig a tunnel through his brain and enter the heart in an indirect way!”
All who heard Shri Nathji that day marvelled at his brilliant logic and spiritual effulgence.
The people of Jaipur pressed Shri Nathji to stay on there longer, but Shri Nathji had completed the work for which he had come. The selected souls who had been destined to have the darshan and blessings of God in human form had found fuilfilment.
It did not matter to Shri Nathji whether they recognised him to be God or not. He had done his duty and brought Himself before them, in accordance with the promise of the ages.

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K. S. Hajela, Esq., M.A. (Lucknow), was a famous lawyer of Lucknow.  He also gave lectures at Law College of Lucknow University as a part time reader. He is most remembered in history as the defense lawyer in the Kakori conspiracy case. One of the main conspirator, Ashfaqulla Khan was detained in the Faizabad jail. A case was filed against him. His brother Riyasat Ulla Khan deployed Kripa Shankar Hajela, a senior advocate of repute at that time, to plea his case as a counselor.  Mr Hajela fought the case till the very end but he could not save his life. The case of the Kakori conspiracy was concluded by awarding death sentence to four daredevils viz. Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, Rajendra Lahiri and Thakur Roshan Singh. The sixteen others were awarded the rigorous punishment varying from four years up to life sentence.

After India’s Independence Shri K. S. Hajela become the Advocate-General of Rajasthan. Later He become principle of Law College in Jaipur. I have given photograph of the University Law Collage in Jaipur were Shri K. S. Hajela was principle.