There was Shri Dwarka Singh of Lahore, who had removed Shri Nathji’s portrait from his house when Shri Nathji was married. He had been a great devotee of Shri Babaji Maharaj and Shri Nathji. He would sometimes go in a trance meditating upon his master, and accepted Shri Nathji as the Saviour of mankind.
One could scarcely have imagined so great a devotee turning against his Master. But God willed that the unlikely happen.
Shri Babaji Maharaj sent word to Dwarka Singh at his shop that he required some cloth for a pair of pyjamas.
Tell Shri Babaji Maharaj, said Dwarka Singh arrogantly, that I am not the Dwarka Singh he knew! I am Dwarka Singh, shop-keeper!
This was an aftermath to his removing the portrait of Shri Nathji from his house because of his vexation at Shri Nathji’s marriage.
The man had turned from faith to faithlessness. The light of peace and contentment that had illuminated his material world began to disappear. The more he ran after the things of the world, the more they receded from him. Material prosperity turned into a wasteland.
He became bankrupt, spiritually as well as materially. His eyes began to go blind. His relatives would not give him a place in their homes. He spent nights in horse stables and godowns.
He began frequenting saints and sages and mahatmas, to stem the tide of his misfortune, but no one could help him. Some of the genuine mahatmas said to him:
No one can help you now – it is God Himself whom you have offended! Return to Shri Nathji and beg forgiveness from him! Only he can help you!
And thus, smitten by the world, a broken, but repentant, Dwarka Singh arrived at the door of Shri Nathji, and Shri Nathji instantly embraced him in a gesture of love. The tears of repentance that flowed from Dwarka Singh’s eyes were illustrative of the repentance of the world of materialism.