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The Mussoorie property and Delhi rent case flare up with a vengeance. “Piyaji, sab thheek hai naa? Koyi khabar aaye“Piyaji, is everything all right? Is there any news from the courts? If there is anything you can discuss it with me. These things do not cause any strain on me!”Shri Nathji would time and again try to relieve Priya Nath of worry by saying:“Priyaji in cheezon ki worry naheen karni chahiye, inhen khel tamaashe ki tarah lenaa chahiye!“Priyaji never worry about these things. Take them to be just like a game.”Then again there would be Shri Nathji lamenting the loss of the precious time of life, saying:“Kis bure tareeke se zindagi kaa Shri Nathji had turned 85 in June 1987. This was no age for him to be involved in litigation. He should have been leading a stress free life, especially with the heart trouble. But there were always irritants that did not let Shri Nathji rest even for a single day. No sooner would he and Priya Nath begin to laugh and to enjoy the days, than some sinister event would occur, either in Mussoorie or in Delhi.“I have become afraid to laugh. Every time we are happy, there is some trouble at Mussoorie!”Shri Nathji tells Priya Nath: “Priyaji logon ke saath to beesiyon kisam ki“Priyaji, people are surrounded by all kinds of worries. We are right everywhere. Why should we be worried!”Priya Nath would say to Shri Nathji: “It is a strange situation. If we have our own house, we are constantly bothered by property grabbers, and if we live in a rented house the landlord seeks to get us evicted!”Indeed the world was a vicious place for one so kind and so innocent as Shri Nathji. Shri Nathji had often quoted Justice Abbas Ali Tyyab, the elderly admirer of Shri Nathji who would say to him in the 1930’s:“Hazrat aap itne seedhe hain ke mujhe dar aataa hai koyi aapko zindagi men barraa bhaari dhokaa na de jaaye!“Hazrat, you are so innocent that I am worried lest someone practise the greatest deceit of life upon you!”These court cases were merely the working of the asuri bal, which had but one mission in life, and that was to place hurdles in God’s work. Since Priya Nath was the only one who was spreading Shri Nathji’s name and mission, the asuri bal wished to keep him entrapped in the endless harassment of court cases – so that he would not have the time to spread Shri Nathji’s mission or to look after him. In a large measure it was succeeding.