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The cars which were a perennial problem, had to be repaired. Pran Nath set about doing so with his own hands. He drove the Standard car to Dehra Dun for repairs, and was bringing it up later when he met a hitch-hiker who offered to drive the car, and, in the process, set the engine on fire. Thereafter, precious days were spent in getting the car repaired at Doon Motors Workshop at Dehra Dun. And thus it was that the workshop mechanics got the darshan and blessings of Shri Nathji whenever he came down. The service manager developed a great reverence for Shri Nathji, and would listen to his words in rapt attention. He said to Priya Nath one day:
“Your father speaks so nicely that I am willing to do anything for him.”
Pran Nath repaired the Ford car himself, and then took it to Surkhanda Devi Temple and Dhanaulti as well as Cloud’s End in Mussoorie. Along with him were Priya Nath and a friend, Prem Dev Sharma, a forest officer, who had great faith in Shri Nathji, and who had experienced his love and affection from the days of his childhood. Ultimately the Ford car was used to tow the Standard Car out of the Doon Motors Workshop, as it could not be repaired by them. It was given over to another workshop in Dehra Dun, owned by the brother of Hamers of Mussoorie, where it was ultimately repaired. Both the cars were later taken to Delhi.
Shri Nathji had bought two little dogs; one was a Labrador and the other a Bhotia dog for the boys. Shri Nathji had especially gone to the house of a certain Nawab Jawed Ali Shah to purchase the Labrador pup.
Shri Nathji had engaged a servant, Brij Mohan by name, who in later days began to understand the divinity of his Master, and who was doing the cooking. Shri Nathji had often to sit in the kitchen and watch over him, as the man was inept at cooking.
Shri Nathji had written to Rajinder Kumar Kohli to find a place for them in Delhi as the winter had set in with great intensity, and there was snow in Mussoorie.