The Tall Englishman.

Once Shri Nathji was returning home in a car with Pran Nath in London. Suddenly the car ran out of petrol and stopped on a deserted road. Since car was registered in Pran Nath’s name he cannot leave the can alone with Shri Nathji . If they both go then the car would be towed away by the police. Shri Nathji suggested that He would bring the petrol Himself while Pran Nath could wait in the car. Shr NAthji took the empty petrol car and went out on the road side, loking for passers – by who could give Him directions. He saw a tall Englishman and asked him for directions. The Englishman spend a long time with Shri Nathji, explaining the route. Shri Nathji said “Even if I were to follow your instructions and reach my destination , I will never be able to find my way back in the car!” The Englishman laughed and said that I will accompany you to the petrol station. Shi Nathi resided a Persian verse to him:-

“Gar falaf laare turaa barham zanad az jaa marau

Jaamaa raa Khayyaat saazad katraa baithre dokhtan”

“If the skies destroy thy plans, do not despair

For the tailor cuts the cloth only to sew it!”

Sri Nathji explained the significance of this verse. And said that when ever man genuinely needs help, Nature provides him with a guide. I needed help and you appeared before me as a guide. The Tall Englishman whose name was Robin Ferguharson, was stuck with amazement and awe at Shri Nathji’s words. A very difficult had been playing upon his mind, causing him no end of worry. Shri Nathji words caused his worry to disappear. It was a miracle.  He took the emply can from Shri Nathji saying: “ Allow me to carry this sir! I am sorry I let you carry it so long!” He returned with Shri Nathji carrying the filled petrol can  and Shri Nathji offered to drive him to his home. He asked Shri Nathji if he could come tomorrow to meet Him.  Shi Nathji asked him to come at nine in the morning and he came exactly at the given time. He gained instant peace of mind form Shri Nathji and become a great admirer of His. He invited Shri Nathji to his house at Cambridge ( Photograph of Cabridge University is given were Shri Nathji went to meet him) where he was a professor and Mateshwari helped him in cooking. The spiritual relationship lasted over many days until Shri Nathji left London for Amrerica. When Shri Nathji returned after many weeks He was not able to find him. Shri Nathji’s love for him was so great that he travelled the long distance from London to Cambridge to seek him, but he was nowhere to be found.

Robin  Farquharson (whose photograph is given, and is most probably the same person whom Shri Nathji met)  was born on 3 October 1930 in Michaelhouse, Natal, South Africa. He. was an academic whose interest in mathematics and politics led him to work on game theory, which he wrote an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.

At some point Farquharson diagnosed himself as suffering from a mental illness -  bipolar disorder (manic depression). Farquharson wrote an account of his unconventional life in his 1968 book, Drop Out!,

He did his higher studies form Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, South Africa and  Nuffield College, Oxford University. D.Phil was awarded to him on June, 1958, from Nuffield College for his thesis entitled: "An Approach to a Pure Theory of Voting Procedures".

He stated teaching at Cambridge. Farquharson worked for a brief time as an academic at Cambridge University. In 1964 he got a Cambridge Research Fellowship at Churchill College.

His book - Theory of Voting,  won the Monograph Prize in the field of Social Sciences, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1969

In later years Farquharson was a mental health activist working both with Tommie Ritchie in the Scottish Union of Mental Patients (SUMP) during 1972 and then the Mental Patients Union in 1973 shortly before his death. He died in a fire at a house in Platt Street, St. Pancras, London on 4^th March1973.