Many months later, Shri Ramesh Chandra Shukla wrote to Shri Nathji:
I had a strong vision in which I saw a large ocean which appeared to have no shores. There was a ship on the ocean.
“You were the pilot of the ship. You were taking the ship across the ocean of life and death. On the other shore was salvation. The ocean was the Bhavsaagar–the ocean of life and death.
I, along with all the members of my family, were on board the ship. It was much too real a vision to not to come true. May your Kripa and Grace remain with me and my family forever!
Shri Ramesh Chandra became a staunch devotee of Shri Nathji, though he never met him physically again. His conversion was no small occurrence. He often used to say:
Whenever I visit sadhus and mahatmas and listen to their discourses, I come away with the feeling that I know more than they do. And if it comes to discussion, I can outdo them with my intellectual knowledge alone. But something within Shri Nathji’s personality gripped my soul. It was an inner realisation that came to me even before I met him. Mrs. Bhutt’s book convinced me he was Saakshaat Bhagwan–God Incarnate!
His grandfather, Ravi Shankar Shukla, had known Shri Nathji in the early 1940’s. He had gone for Shri Nathji’s darshan to Lahore. Whenever Shri Nathji would visit the areas where Ravi Shankar Shukla resided, his son, Shri Ambika Charan Shukla, would hold the ropes along the decorated route and make way for Shri Nathji amongst the crowds.
Shri Nathji had been attracted by the man’s humility. When Shri Nathji was giving a sermon in Delhi, his brother, Uma Shankar Shukla, who had travelled a large distance for his darshan, stood outside the room in the verandah and listened unobtrusively to Shri Nathji, introducing himself only after the sermon was over.