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Shri Nathji and Priya Nath watch a television programme on a person who had become a renowned mahatma in India. He used to frequent Shri Nathji’s darbaar and prostrate before him during the 1930’s at Lahore. He copied the Divine Love Society and its motto of Love, Faith and Service and quickly formed a similar Society himself, and, being a man of the world, quickly expanded the society, accruing money and followers and building ashrams all over the land.“A genuine mahatma is not one who seeks to collect followers and buildings, and desires fame. A genuine saint is one who sacrifices all these things and goes towards God alone.“In cheezon ko ikkatthaa naheen karna hai, balki inhen chorrkar Bhagwan ki taraf chalnaa hai!”Priya Nath compares the simplicity and isolated existence of Shri Nathji in contrast to the globe-trotting mahatmas who are hungry for name, fame and followers, but he rues the fact that the entire world has not come to recognize who Shri Nathji really is. And what hurts him most is the deterioration in Shri Nathji’s health, and his taking the illnesses of others upon himself. “If I were offered the throne of God on the condition that I will have to take the sufferings of the world on my own body, I would refuse to accept the honour!”Shri Nathji had often said:“Christ was crucified for a few hours, but I have borne the pain of crucifixion all my life. I am sitting on Fire! The Flame consumes itself in the fire of its burning only so that it may give light to others.”Indeed, the suffering of the flesh could be very severe, and Christ himself had said: “Father, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.”