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Shri Nathji’s hours of eating, sleeping and meeting people are highly irregular and Shri Nathji himself is conscious of these irregular timings. Breakfast would be at 11 a.m. and lunch at 4 p.m. at times, and dinner would be at midnight or worse, even at 2 a.m. Even though there would be days when there were regular timings in- between.“Kitnaa bhi karo phir vohi time aa jaa taa hai.“No matter how hard we try, it is again the same old time!”Apart form this irregularity there was Shri Nathji’s hectic writing activity that persisted for every free moment that he had, and which lasted till 4 a.m. in the early hours of the morning at times. And, if for some reason he could not sleep, he would write all night in the dim light of the table lamp, switching it off and stopping only if he thought Priya Nath was being disturbed. “Babaji kahaa karte thhe: ‘Betaa abhee to inn baton kaa aap dhyaan naheen karte, magar barri umar men pataa chalegaa!”“Babaji used to tell me: ‘Son you do not care for these things at this age, but they will have an effect in later years.’” Shri Nathji was more concerned for Priya Nath than for himself. He would often say to Priya Nath: “Ham ne to apni umar bhog li hai. Ab aap logon ko thheek raihnaa chaahiye.”“I have spent my years. It is necessary now for you to remain well.”Even when Priya Nath and Pran Nath were in their late forties, Shri Nathji would lovingly think of them as children and tell them to eat well to maintain fit bodies:“Aap logon ki to“Yours are growing bodies. You must eat well.”Justice Rangilal had, in the 1930’s, prayed to Shri Nathji to maintain regular hours, but the moment Shri Nathji had attempted to maintain a regularity in his personal habits, he had fallen ill. “Shri Nathji raat ke do baje khaanaa khaate hain