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As the shaamiaanaa was too cold a place for Shri Nathji to sit for long, Priya Nath suggested that they all go inside the house where the function could be continued in the big room.“Ye sab sher aap hee nikalvaa rahe hain!”“You are bringing out these verses from within us!”The first qawwaalli they sang clearly revealed that Shri Nathji was God come down upon earth in a human form with the highest of Beauty and Love:“Ishq ki iptadaa bhee tum, husn ki intahaa bhee tum,“Thou are the beginning of Love, and Thou the zenith of Beauty,They also sang the ghazals written by Shri Nathji, which had been given to them:“Teri ye tasveer hai beshak karaare zindagiThis, Thy Picture, is the solace of my life,And the birthday ghazal on Shri Babaji Maharaj written by Shri Nathji in January 1981:“Mubaarik janam din Baba kaa ho saare zamaanon ko,“Good tidings be to the people of the world on the birthday of Babaji,As Shri Nathji listened to the ‘qawwaallis’ and later spoke powerfully in chaste Urdu and Persian afterwards–the people assembled there lost control of themselves in an ecstasy of spiritual devotion. The qawwaals could hardly believe their ears as they listened to Shri Nathji’s chaste Urdu and Persian, the likes of which they had never heard before in their lives.