Rai Bahadur Chaudhary Dewan Chand Saini

 

Rai Bahadur Devi Chand, was very devoted to Babaji Bhagwan and Shri Bjola Nathji Bhagwan and used to come to Their Darshan. In the late 1920’s when he used to hear the discourse, of Bhola Nath Ji , he used to say to the youthful  Shri Nathji: “Permit me to make a prophecy: There shall be no greater speaker than you in the world.”

Shri Nathji also went to Gurdaspur and stayed at the house of  Rai Bahadur Devi Chand. There Shri Nathji developed a stomach ailment. He was offered medicine by Devi Chand but Shri Nathji refused and once He started to speak to the assembled audience his health  become better. The greatest medicine for Shri Nathji's physical body was the nectar of Divine Love he gave to thirsty souls.

Rai Bahadur Chaudhary Dewan Chand Saini, MBE of Gurdaspurwas a well-known criminal lawyer and politician of British Punjab. He was born in 1887. was the son of Chaudhary Fateh Chand, a Wazeer (minister) of the erstwhile princely state of Chamba. His father died when he was seven years old. He was brought up by Lala Ram Sharan who was a pagvat friend of Chaudhary Fateh Chand. The two men had exchanged turbans and had sworn to take care of each other's family in the event of one dying. In 1915 he gained law degree from Lahore and in the same year he married Bibi Achhra Devi. The couple had eight daughters and two sons

Chand had a distinguished career as an attorney. He was a highly reputed lawyer of Punjab High Court (Lahore) and was later appointed as the leader of its Criminal Bar.  He was also a member of Legislative Council of colonial Punjab and as an elected legislator he was known for his advocacy on behalf of agricultural communities .  He was awarded the title of Rai Sahib by the British government, which was later elevated to Rai Bahadur  Later on he was honoured and given title of the Member of the Order of the British Empire. He also formed Saini infantry. Which take active part in WW2, and awarded war memorial.  He was also founder of Saini sabhas in his region.

Shri Nathji Devotees chance meeting with Dr. Rane

 

 

When Mahamateshwariji was unwell in London a Maharashtrian devotee of Shri Nathji, a dentist by profession, Dr. Rane, frequently visited the hospital along with Shri Nathji. During this period, Mateshwari played with illness like she would play with a toy. She had the strength and courage of a lioness to brave all physical suffering, howsoever acute.

One day, Mateshwari said to Dr. Rane:

"Dr. Rane! Koi devi, Koi devta, Koi Ishwar meri marzi ke khilaaf naheen jaa saktaa. Main apni marzi se jaa rahi hoon. Mera kaam khatam ho chukaa hai.

"Dr. Rane! No Devi, no Devta, no God is going against my wishes. I am leaving this world of my own will. My work in this world is over."

Mr. Prashant Narsikar and his wife Mrs. Tripti Narsikar happen to meet with Dr. Rane on the occasion of Ring Ceremony of one of their friends daughter on 21at of July in 2021at The Ashoka  Hotel in Laxmi Nagar, Nagpur. The photo is of Dr. Rane with Mr. Prashant Narsikar and Mrs. Tripti Narsikar  at that Ring Ceremony.

The Narsikar’s recollected that when they met Dr. Rane they were pleasantly surprised that even at the age of 92 years , Dr. Rane was looking very active  and rememberered every moment spent with Mahamateshwariji and Mahaprabhuji at London. It was indeed a pleasant and blessed feeling when they met Dr. Rane. He remembered Mahamateshwari, Mahaprabhuji and offered his Pranam to both of them. He remembered Shri Prannathji and Shri Priyanathji as young boys helping their Mahaprabhuji and Mahamateshwariji in the Hospital at London.

 

 

Shri Nathhi's Picture in the Hitavada

 

Shri Narsikar and Shri Tanksale of Nagpur top all devotees in bringing out a fantastic picture of Shri Nathji in the Hitawada, a leading daily of Nagpur. The picture is printed on the first page of its Sunday edition. The picture has been beautifully coloured in green, yellow and pink by Shri Narsikar’s photographer friend. Shri Nathji is shown in a green achkan, wearing a yellow turban, and a countenance that is pink in colour. It is the same picture that Priya Nath had given to the Indian Express for the Sapru House function, except that it has been beautifully coloured. Both Shri Nathji and Priya Nath are in raptures about the magnificent work done by Shri Narsikar and Shri Tanksale, and Shri Nathji’s blessings go out towards the Hitavada newspaper.

On Januery 2th, 1984, HH Shri Pyiya Nathji also sends a personal typed letter to Shri Tanksale, congratulation him for publishing the photo in Hitawada. Shri Tanksale ji has always preserved that letter very carefully with him and photo of that same letter can be seen bellow - 

Hitavada Flies from Nagpur

Shri Nathji’s devotee Rekha Dodeja narrates a miracle in Delhi where the newspaper Hitvada does not come at all.

She says: “I was standing outside my home thinking intensely of Shri Nathji, when a piece of paper came blowing in the wind and fell beside me.

“It was one page of the Nagpur newspaper, Hitavada, which carried Shri Nathji's coloured portrait!

“Nagpur is about fifteen hundred miles away–how could the paper have been blown over by the winds over such a large distance?

“I came running to Shri Nathji's place–only to find that he had received the same picture by post from Nagpur!”

The Hitavada is an English daily newspaper circulating mainly in Central parts of India.  It was founded in 1911 by freedom fighter Gopal Krishna Gokhale in Nagpur. in 1978 the newspaper was taken over by Purohit and Company, owned by Banwarilal Purohit, the former Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Nagpur and present governor of Tamil Nadu. It was the English daily of Nagpur  In 2011, it completed its 100 years and celebrated its centenary festival which was inaugurated by Pratibha Patil, then President of India. The Hitavada, today, is the largest selling English broadsheet daily of Central India with Nagpur and Raipur. It has a daily circulation of over 200000 copies across the Central India with maximum 130000 in Nagpur city alone.

Sahu Jagdish Prasad - The previous owner of Savitri Niwas

 

Savitri Niwas – The house of Shri Nathji in Mussoorie was purchased By Shri Nathji from Sahu Jagdish Prasad who was member of the erstwhile royal family of Pilibhit.  Mahamateshwariji and Shri Nathji were keen on purchasing a house in Mussoorie as this hill station was very close to their heart and they had already stayed here for many years in different rented accommodations.  That time India had just gained independence and the British were leaving India and some Muslims were migrating to Pakistan. So many properties were available for sale. A property dealer offered to negotiate a deal for sale of this property called St. Andrews which belonged to Sahu Jagdish Prasad and said that this is the best house in Mussoorie. Mahamatehwariji and Shri  Nathji both had an immediate liking for this house and they purchased it.

Sahu Jagdish Prasad had purchased this property from the original British owners and named it Hari Kunj Estate. He had then gone abroad and when he later returned from USA  he offered to sell his House which Shri Nathji Purchased. But he did not came to Mussoorie personally to do the sale deed but instructed that all this be done by his agent in Mussoorie.  Although the original name St. Andrews was pleasing to Shri Nathji yet it was a foreign name and people could not relate to the name or understand why the house was named thus. So Shri Nathji named it – Savitri Nivas. This was purchased from the Istri  Dhan (Jewellery and money which a bride gets from her parents when she is married)of  Mahamateshwariji. Sahu Jagdish Prasad offered this house as it is with all the original  furniture and furnishings.   From the name plate at the entrance of the main house we can make out that  Shri Nathji occupied this house and named it Savitri Niwas on 15th August 1947. This was the birthday of Mahamatshwariji and also the day India gained Independence.

   Sahu Jagdish Prasad was a man of great stature and held considerable Zamindari property in the districts of Pilibhit, Bareilly and Bijnore in utter Pradesh. He had  three sons. He is also remembered as a philanthropist. In 1955 he donated Rs. 10000 as deposit for the Sahityakar Sanasad Award which was thus named after him as - Sahu Sahab Puraskar. A road in his home town of Pilibhit – (Sahukara Jagdish Prasad Road) is named him.

There is a very old photograph belonging to the previous owners of  this house which shows horse riding outings during the British Raj . This photograph still hangs in the Study room at Savitri Niwas. 

 

Cardiologist Dr. R.K. Caroli

 In !985, Shri Nathji develops heart trouble and it is suspected that He has a heart attack. He was getting week day by day
Priya Nath prays for Divine Help. An impulse comes into him to speak to Shri Vasudeva on the telephone. Priya Nath calls Shri Vasudeva and is appalled at what he has to say. Shri Vasudeva urges him to replace Dr. Gadhoke at once. He narrates a very sorry experience that his mother-in-law had at the hands of the doctor.
Priya Nath is filled with alarm and makes up his mind to replace the doctor at once. No matter how good a faith the doctor had been acting in, the fact was that Shri Nathji’s condition was worsening day by day and Priya Nath could not afford to wait any longer.
On the suggestion of Dr. Kataria, an eminent cardiologist of Delhi is called, a certain Dr. R.K. Corolli. He has great respect for Shri Nathji and touches his feet as he enters. He examines all the earlier ECG’s and also takes a fresh ECG and says:

“It was not a heart attack.”

He also adds that Depin-Nifedipine is a medicine that many cannot tolerate at all, and this is the cause of Shri Nathji’s weakness. He says that some people find even one tablet of 5 mg difficult to tolerate. And here was Shri Nathji being given a 10 mg tablet three times a day!
He says that some deaths had even occurred with the inappropriate administration of Depin. Considering Shri Nathji’s age of 83 the drug should certainly not have been given in such high doses or else not given at all.
This is what Shri Nathji had been saying all along! Shri Nathji is always above all of medical science.
Priya Nath had yet to fully accept the fact that whenever Shri Nathji made any medical observations he was inevitably right. Had he listened to Shri Nathji right at the start and stopped the Depin tablets Shri Nathji would not have suffered so much. Priya Nath now feels that they have had a narrow escape.
Dr. Corolli says it is a strain on the heart, and the coronary arteries are clogged naturally at this age. He prescribes, Peritrate, Ildamen, Isoptin and half a Disprin daily.
When Dr. Corolli looks at a portrait of Shri Nathji in the big room, where Shri Nathji is wearing his mukat for the Mahapoojan, he says:

“With a beauty like this, small wonder that the evil eye struck him–nazar naa lagtee to aur kyaa hotaa!”

Shri Nathji and Priya Nath embrace each other with joy even as Dr. Corolli leaves. The news is too good to be true. It was precisely what Shri Nathji had been saying: that there was no heart attack –or even if there had been a heart attack, Shri Nathji had caused it to disappear for Priya Nath’s sake.

For a while Dr. Corolli’s medicines begin to produce the same kind of weakening symptoms like those of Dr. Gadhoke, but later Shri Nathji’s body begins to get adapted to them. Shri Nathji’s Blood Pressure stands at 176/84.
Shri Nathji always spoke of acute mental intoxication or distress that these medications caused, as well as bouts of weakness, but the doctors attributed these to the vasodilating properties of the drugs which expanded the vessels of the brain. Dr. Corolli was careful to prescribe them in very small doses.
 

Dr. Corolli sees Shri Nathji later again and says that the collateral blood supply to the heart is increasing, even though one of the three coronary arteries had narrowed down, cutting the blood supply, that the aorta has calcified plaques and there is a regurgitation of blood back into the heart, which was increasing the blood pressure but was not a dangerous condition.

“Ye to sab ek transient phase hai!” he says to Shri Nathji, “this is all a transient phase!”

Although Priya Nath was worried when he heard about the aortic regurgitation, but he is pacified by the doctor’s words that it is all a temporary phase. 

Dr. Corolli comes agian after few days and gives a ‘clean chit’ to Shri Nathji’s heart, showing how the strain on the heart has eased itself on successive ECG’s taken on 9-2-85, 26-2-85 and 21-3-85. The Blood Pressure he measures is 170/86 and the pulse is 65 and regular. Shri Nathji is very enthusiastic about travelling to his beloved Mussoorie House in the summer, but Dr. Corolli advises against it and says Shri Nathji should postpone it for a year.
Shri Nathji is acutely disappointed. He knows he will never be going to Mussoorie again. Priya Nath could not even think of taking Shri Nathji to Mussoorie especially because of the total lack of medical aid there.
However, Mussoorie or no Mussoorie, Priya Nath is greatly elated about Shri Nathji’s health and the good news that Dr. Corolli has given about the improvement in the ECG’s.

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Ram Kumar Caroli is an Indian cardiologist and a former head of the Department of Cardiology at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi. A Fellow of the Cardiology Society of India, he served as the personal physician to four presidents of India and as the cardiologist to Jawaharlal Nehru and Lal Bahadur Shastri. He was honoured by the Government of India in 1969, with the award of Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award and the government followed it up with the third highest civilian award of Padma Bhushan in 1974.

He has the. R K Caroli Clinic Heart Care at Bharat Nagar, New Friends Colony, New Delhi