It was when Shri Nathji was staying with Bhutt at Lodhi Road that a singular event took place that was meant to be another great revelation on the spiritual path.
It was the custom that at the end of Shri Nathji’s sermon every evening an Arti was performed in which Shri Nathji sat along with Mateshwari on two chairs placed in the hall.
One evening Mateshwari had not come into the room, when Bhutt Sahib inadvertently began the Arti. Shri Nathji could not bear this slight to Mateshwari and immediately got up and said in a loud angry tone to Bhutt:
“Bhutt Sahib! Apoorna Arti! It is an incomplete arti! How could you begin it without Mateshwari!”
Bhutt began shaking like a leaf. He could not bar the wrath of his Lord and Master, and would have well nigh collapsed had not Shri Nathji come up to him just then and embraced him.
Shri Nathji said to Bhutt: “Bhutt Sahib, I shall never be angry with you again. You cannot bear my anger!
Bhutt Sahib main aaj se kabhi aapko naaraaz naheen hoongaa!”
Bhutt said: “Prabhuji! Please, by all means be so! But give me the strength to bear thy anger! Bardaasth ki taakat den!”
Shri Nathji would frequently narrate the voice of a devotee who would say to God:
“O Lord, Love me, or else be angry with me! But never let me see the day when thou willst neither love me nor be angry with me!”
“He Bhagwan yaa to mujhe pyaar karo aur yaa phir mujhe maaro, magar vo din kabhi naa laanaa jab pyaar or maar donon hee chhorr denaa!”
Indeed, fortunate was the man on whom God was angry, for it showed that a relationship existed between the two!
Shri Nathji would often say: “Baadshaah apne haath se kisse maaregaa? Apne bete ko! Baaki logon ke liye to police hoti hai!
“Who shall a king beat with his own hands? Only his own son! For the others there is the police!”
Fortunate was the man who saw God’s love even in His anger! Shri Nathji’s verse below described this:
Gussaa teraa davaa hai, raihmat teri ghizaa hai,
Shaanen hain teri jitnee, jaane jahaaniyaan hain
Thy anger is our medicine, and Thy mercy our nourishment,
All Thy glories are for the upliftment of the world!
There was a moment when Bhutt said to Shri Nathji in a light vein:
“Prabhuji, my wife Dandewali has the habit of talking too much! Never throw me out of your darbaar for any slight on her part! Please remember I have a direct relationship with you as well!”
“Prabhuji, kabhi Dandewali par naaraaz hokar mujhe bhee darbaar se naa nikaal denaa! Meraa direct bhee aapke saath rishtaa hai!”