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These were the days when a sculptor was located at Jaipur to make marble statues of Shri Nathji and Mahamateshwari. Purushottam, who went to Jaipur to find a sculptor, had no idea where to go. He got down from the Delhi-Jaipur bus and walked for a little while. Suddenly his sight fell upon a board that read:“Nath Marble Emporium”He entered the shop and met its proprietor, who instantly developed great faith in Shri Nathji upon seeing His photograph. He said his entire shop would be blessed if he were given the privilege of making the statues.“If a moment of your life is captured on a camera film, the moment becomes permanent and remains so forever in the photograph!”Only photographs could accomplish this. No sculptor could ever duplicate the exact likeness of a photograph.“Haseen yaktaa zamaane men kahaan phir doosraa hogaa“There shall never be one so Beautiful as Thee in the whole world”There was the time in the 1950’s when the famed sculptress, Veervati, had sculpted a clay statue of Shri Nathji, upon which a smile had forced itself, much to the surprise of the sculptress herself. And Shri Nathji, who had been the subject, Himself, had said to her:“Let Him make the statue whose statue you are sculpting.”The result was beautiful beyond expectations. “My importance has lessened, now that there is a second Nath!”The statue was kept in a glass case in Shri Nathji’s drawing room (later His bedroom) in Mussoorie and remains there to this day as the only statue sculpted with Shri Nathji posing as the model.