It was also during these days that Dr. Ashok Ashok Purekar arrived along with his family and mother, Sarlabai Purekar. He was the son of Dr.N.V.Purekar the old devotee of Shri Nathji who had left the earth in the late 1970’s. “Nikal jaaye dam tere kadmon ke neecheMay my last breath be spent at Thy Feet,And indeed that was the manner in which Dr. Purekar had left the world, delivering up his soul at the feet of his Lord and Master Shri Nathji in 1974. Shri Nathji had always said to Dr. Purekar: “Purekar means ‘