Shri Nathji, who was always looking for an excuse to shower his divine grace, found the moment propitious. As Priya Nath rode into the gates of Savitri Nivas on the ‘ghori’-the ceremonial mare, as a formality, the crowd of devotees danced to the tune of the military band playing at Savitri Nivas.
And the figure of Shri Nathji was seen, hands extended outwards towards the world, in a gesture of blessing–dancing a strange dance of joy. His eyes were closed, and his arms embraced the whole world.
It was a wave of divine intoxication that spread over all present. Men, women and children continued to dance for days, their hands and feet moving joyfully and involuntarily in a divine dance of joy.
And, to the tune of Shri Nathji’s Persian Verses put to music by Priya Nath on the piano, the devotees danced before Shri Nathji in the drawing room of Savitri Nivas:
Jaame za mai baaki az daste khushe Saaki
Baa kasrate mushtaaki mi joyamo mi raksam
I drink the Wine of Eternity from the joyful hands of the Saaki,
And in this divine intoxication, I dance forever
Shri Nathji said in a powerful, loud voice that was to carry across such edicts in the months to come:
WHEN THE LIGHT IS OFF, I AM A MAN, AND WHEN THE LIGHT IS ON, I AM GOD!
Shri Nathji revealed in a few words the Nature of the Avatar of God upon earth. Indeed, there were two sides of his personality. One wasworldly, but even then beautifully so, and the other was godly, which was revealed only to genuine seekers after Truth. There were few who could fully understand both his faces.