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Last time, I told you how I wasn't quite convinced by what others said about Babaji. But today, I want to share the story of how I actually got to meet him.

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It was 1972. Babaji was in Bombay, staying with some devotees. My in-laws, my wife, and my children had all gone to meet him, and they invited him to their home. To everyone's delight, he agreed to visit at 4:00 PM on a specific day.

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My wife was adamant. She said, "Please try, at least make an effort to be there."

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I told her, "I am shooting that day. I am shooting for 'Parvarish' (I think it was), and we have Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, and myself on set. The director isn't going to just let me go to meet a Baba."

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And that is exactly what happened. When I asked, the answer was a firm "No way." It was a big shoot with a top star cast, and I couldn't leave. I called my wife at 1:30 PM during the lunch break and told her, "Sorry, I can't come."

But then, something most uncanny happened.

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Shortly after lunch, the director came to me. He looked shaken. He told me that his mother-in-law, who had been in a coma for six months, had just passed away. I expressed my condolences, but then he looked at me and said, "So, you bloody fool, you go and meet your Baba. Shooting is cancelled."

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And that is how fate intervened. At 4:00 PM sharp, I was at my father-in-law's house.

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The room was packed with 200 to 300 devotees, and there was Babaji, sitting on a takat, smiling away. My wife introduced me, and I did the traditional pranam. Then, I retreated behind a window. From there, I started taking pictures of him. I zoomed in and clicked away, capturing frame after frame.

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But then, all of a sudden, I noticed something. Babaji was looking right at me. It felt as if he had zoomed in on me, and he was the one taking my picture, my X-ray, layer by layer.

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I have no explanation for that moment. When people asked me later how I found him, I said, "He is a very fine human being, very young." But deep down, I knew... he had kept taking my X-ray.