Shri Maya Ram lived in a town which was between Lahore and Amritsar. He had first had the darshan of Shri Babaji Bhagwan in Lahore and had thereafter begun to frequent Amritsar for the express purpose of meeting Shri Babaji.
His love and devotion for Shri Babaji Bhagwan reached such a peak that, one day, he shut down his shop permanently and sold all his goods and property, giving away everything to the poor, and came to live with Shri Babaji Bhagwan at Amritsar. He was unmarried. The love of Shri Babaji Bhagwan had entered within his heart so deeply that he forgot everything else in the world.
At the house of Shri Babaji Bhagwan, he took upon himself the task of cooking, and diligently made food for Shri Babaji Bhagwan and his children as well as the devotees who came there. For him this work entailed greater happiness than any other work he had ever done in his life. From morning till night he would toil laboriously in the kitchen, washing the utensils and dishes as well. There were even times when he wore only ragged clothes. He would always be seen laughing and making others laugh. A divine bliss seemed to emanate from him all the time which gave happiness to everyone else. Whoever came before him was at once filled with devotion for Shri Babaji Bhagwan. It appeared as if his very veins and arteries carried the name of Shri Babaji Bhagwan.
People with wealth and status could not influence his mind. No temptations of the world could draw his heart away from Shri Babaji Bhagwan. It was as if he were a child who was sitting all the time in the lap of his father. The divine bliss with which he was seized never left him even for a moment.
However there was one desire that was left in his heart and that was the desire to spread the name of Shri Babaji Bhagwan to all corners, to tell as many people as he could of the divine personality who was in the midst of humanity. He would often go on a tour to spread the message of Shri Babaji Bhagwan to as many people as he could. During his journeyings he once met a mahatma of repute who was famed for his learning and intellectual knowledge, and who began to confound him with his discourses. Shri Maya Ram said to the mahatma: “Your learning and knowledge cannot shake my faith, because my faith does not stem from the intellect, it stems from the heart!”
While living with Shri Babaji Bhagwan, Maya Ram wrote a one-line verse in Hindi, which said: “Chhalni banaa diyaa hai mere jism ko! My body has become like a sieve!” It was a verse written as a protest to God for giving him such a weak constitution. A few days later he fell very ill. And he laughed and said: “There are poets who write hundreds of verses every day expressing their protests against God’s Will but nothing happens to them! I wrote but one line and am having to pay for it!”
In this state of illness he said to Shri Babaji Bhagwan: “Bhagwan! There is only one thing that I ask of you–and that is to give absolute faith to the world; because without such a faith life can have no meaning, and death, too, becomes meaningless.”
The day came when he breathed his last before Shri Babaji Bhagwan. Even during the last moments of his life he had the image of Shri Babaji Bhagwan before his eyes. It was a beautiful death. Shri Nathji recalled how, on the day that Maya Ram passed to higher regions, the rain had begun to pour down in an unending deluge as if it were a sign of Divine Grace showering down upon earth.
Just before he closed his eyes forever, he said to Shri Babaji; “Bhagwan! Give the wealth of faith to everyone!” He was a true friend of the world, who had the welfare of the world in his heart even during the last moments of his life upon earth.
He had great love for Shri Nathji and, during his lifetime, would say numerous times to Shri Babaji Bhagwan, “Bhagwan! Never separate me from Shri Nathji!”
In his heart of hearts he had realized that Shri Nathji was the Universal Soul.
When he passed away, his soul mingled into the Divine Soul of Shri Nathji and attained eternal salvation.