Sunday, 9 November 2025

Mrs. Shanta Chaudhari

 Mrs. Shanta Chaudhari was wife of Shri Sadhu Ram Chaudhari was a high ranking IPS Officer. He was born in the village of Rallana in the Hoshiarpur district of Punjab on July 14, 1900 to Chaudhari Gurdit Singh Saini and Shanti Devi. He was the first Inspector General of Police (IGP) for the joint police forces of Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, and Ajmer in 1948. This joint command was given to him because Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, and Ajmer were all Union Territories in 1948. Before that worked as an Assistant Superintendent and Superintendent of Police in various districts of Punjab until 1946. The Delhi Police was reorganized in 1946, and the role of the first IGP of Delhi was established on February 16, 1948. In 1945 Chaudhari received the decoration of Officer of the Order of the British Empire .

He had a house in Den and also at Delhi. After his death His wife Shanta Chaudhari become greated devoted to Shri Nathji when she happened to meet Him in 1971. Shri Nathji suggested going to Dalhousie for the summer months. He had  known a certain Rai Bahadur Sohan Lal in 1928, in Dalhousie, and the man had remained devoted to Shri Nathji for years afterwards.
 Priya Nath wrote to him, but received a letter soon thereafter that Rai Bahadur Sohan Lal was no longer in the world. The man who wrote the letter was a certain Shri Mahajan who was a property dealer in Dalhousie.
 He gave the address of a certain lady, Mrs. Sadhu Ram Chaudhri in Delhi, who lived in Friend’s Colony, and who had a house in Dalhousie which was for rent. Shri Mahajan wrote to Mrs. Chaudhri also asking her to get in touch with Priya Nath Mehta.
 Priya Nath spoke to Mrs. Chaudhri on the phone and agreed to take her house in Dalhousie on rent.
 Mrs. Chaudhri came to Shri Nathji’s residence at Sarvodya Enclave in Delhi to collect the cheque from Priya Nath. She had no idea who Shri Nathji was. She saw him for a brief moment in the house, and that was all. But some hidden chord in her soul was touched. She had been a genuine seeker after truth. After the passing away of her husband she had frequented almost all the saints India had to offer but her soul remained ever thirsty, ever unsatiated.
 While Priya Nath was making out a cheque to Mrs. Chaudhri for one thousand rupees she sat on an arm chair in the room and looked at Shri Nathji.
 The beauty and glory on his face were astonishing. She assumed he was a very big Maharaja, but did not ask any questions. She took the cheque and left the house. When she reached home, her son, who was an army officer, asked her whether she had give the key to the new tenant. Mrs. Chaudhri had forgotten.
 She wondered what kind of persons she had met. They had been so good and innocent. They had paid the rent, they had not asked for any receipt and they had not even demanded the key of the house in Dalhousie! No, she must not be unfair with such good people. And with this thought in her mind she rushed back to Shri Nathji's house.
 This time when she entered the drawing room she found a man lying in prostration before Shri Nathji. She was surprised. No one prostrated before Rajas and Maharajas. Perhaps Shri Nathji was something else. She appeared to understand that from within her heart, and instantly sat down upon the ground. She gave the key to Priya Nath.
 "Who is your father?" she asked Priya Nath, and, upon discovering who he was, she immediately fell at Shri Nathji feet.

Latter many miracle happened in her life when Shri Anthji saved herfrom ma problems in her life and also saved the life of his son who was in the miltery in the Indo Pak war. One can dear all all this in the forst part of Shri NAthji’s Biography – Advent of the Avatar.

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