Ashok Hotel, New Delhi

 In 1981, Priya Nathji celebrated birthday of Shri Nathji on  the 22nd of June at the famed Ashoka Hotel of New Delhi. A conference hall was reserved for about a 100 persons for the birthday of Shri Nathji. Shri Laj Pat Rai Khanna, a devotee with ordinary means, took it upon himself to celebrate the birthday at the Ashoka Hotel. The Ashoka Hotel in Delhi was the one place during those days where all important personages of the world converged. To Priya Nath, Shri Nathji was the most important being upon this planet, and he wished to pay this small homage to Shri Nathji. And thus it was that the world of materialism at Ashoka Hotel glittered with the light of Shri Nathji on the evening of the 22nd of June 1981. It made no difference to Shri Nathji where he was at any time. The entire world was a stage on which he was enacting his drama.

Shri Nathji filling the halls of Ashoka Hotel with Peace, thus making materialism more beautiful.
 All heads turned and stared at this strange Maharaja that had entered the hotel. Shri Nathji was wearing a new silk turban and a new white achkan. The colour of the turban was golden yellow and it glittered like a crown of gold upon Shri Nathji’s head. All the guests, visitors and members of the hotel staff, the receptionists and the managers turned and stared at the Magnificent Being who had come to the Hotel. And thus it was that the world of materialism at Ashoka Hotel glittered with the light of Shri Nathji on the evening of the 22nd of June 1981. It made no difference to Shri Nathji where he was at any time. The entire world was a stage on which he was enacting his drama.Shri Nathji’s vibrations purified the hotel. Even the particles of dust appeared to light up as Shri Nathji’s feet touched them. The elevator in which Shri Nathji went up in the hotel was made pure by Shri Nathji’s touch.
Little did the hotel staff know that they were catering to God Himself.
As usual, Shri Nathji’s words flowed out like the nectar of life to the small gathering in the conference room. Shri Nathji began speaking the moment he entered the hall, and the people stood around him lost in self-forgetfulness and a divine intoxication. The listeners were soon in another world altogether where there was only the Glory of God.

Many Shri Nathji's devotees attended the function including , Shri D.N.Sinha, Shri R.L.Tuli, Brigadier Paintal, the Talwar family, the Khanna family, the Kohli family, as also the poor devotees from Maharashtra, Bal Bhagat, Bal Ojarkar, and numerous others, all of whom saw only the divinity of Shri Nathji in the opulence of the hotel.

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The Ashok Hotel is a five-star deluxe resort in the 50, Niti Marg, Diplomatic enclave of Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. This hotel is part of the Ashok Group, owned by the India Tourism Development Corporation. The hotel has 550 guest rooms and houses the largest pillar-less convention hall in New Delhi
Situated in the Chanakyapuri diplomatic enclave, it neighbors the official residence of the prime minister of India and the British High Commission. It has hosted several royals and heads of state
The Ashok was built in 1956 by the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, on 25 acres of parkland donated to the government by the Prince Regent of Jammu and Kashmir, Karan Singh, and designed by the Parsi Indian architect E.B. Doctor. It is an Indo-Modernist architectural style landmark and was completed in 1956 to host world leaders and dignitaries for the ninth UNESCO conference held in New Delhi.