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.