The manner in which Shri Nathji impressed the intelligentsia at Jabalpur was seen from the newspaper reports in the city which described Shri Nathji’s lectures as “Amrit Tulya Madhurvaani”- “A Voice filled with Nectar”. The newspapers spoke of the astonishing arguments, carrying irrefutable logic, with which Shri Nathji revealed spiritual truths, and which took his listeners to another plane. The newspaper, Yug Dharma of March 11, 1959, gave the news of Shri Nathji’s arrival and stay at the house of Shri Ganesh Prasad Bhutt, the Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh, where multitudes were thronging for his darshan and blessings.
The newspaper quoted extracts from the lectures of Shri Nathji:
Shri Nathji had said that God realisation could be attained through purity of the heart. It was only real love that took one to God, a genuine desire for Him, which superseded ordinary worldly desires. Shri Nathji said, just like the eyes can see but they cannot hear, in a like manner the mind and intellect were not sufficient to know God, for which purity of the heart was essential.
Shri Nathji also said that an atheist can deny the existence of God but he cannot deny the existence of Love, which was the mainstay of human existence.
Shri Nathji also freed people of worry by saying:
“Are you worrying in a state which you can resolve or in a state which you cannot resolve? If you can resolve your problem then what is the need of worrying? And if you cannot resolve your problem then of what use will worry be?”
Shri Nathji explained by many examples that the world is but perishable, and that permanent happiness cannot be derived from the perishable things of the world. Permanent happiness or Parmaanand lay only in God.
The answer to the sorrows and miseries of the world lay in sharnaagati – taking absolute refuge in God.
Shri Nathji said: “Sarvdharmaan parityajya maam ekam sharanam vraj” which were the words of Lord Krishna in the Geeta, which meant: “Leaving aside all other paths seek thou a refuge in Me.”
And it was thus that another chapter came to an end in the life of Shri Nathji. He had gone to the home of his devotee, Bhutt Sahib, and filled his soul with immeasurable happiness. Bhutt had shown to his friends and colleagues who he had worshipped as God.
People who saw Shri Nathji were fully convinced of Shri Nathji’s Reality and of the truth of Bhutt’s devotion to him. Shri Nathji’s powers to convince the intellect through irrefutable arguments had become legend. Never before had spiritual truths been made so logically correct so as to appeal to even the greatest intellectuals of the time.
Although Shri Bhutt prayed to Shri Nathji to live with him at his bungalow at Jabalpur, and to give up Allahabad, where he was facing so many difficulties, Shri Nathji wished to return to Allahabad where he was committed to completing the education of Pran Nath and Priya Nath.
After staying with his beloved Bhutt Sahib for one week, Shri Nathji returned home to Mateshwari at Allahabad.
Here was the twofold life that Shri Nathji led. While on the one hand, the Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh had gone to receive him at the Railway Station barefooted, and had offered him his magnificent bungalow, on the other hand he was living innocuously in a hotel at Allahabad surrounded by the vicissitudes of daily life, and meeting all and sundry who came to him at any time of the day or night.