Returning to Goloka

of the house and for a moment he saw him sitting on the porch. At that
moment he knew his search was over and there was his Guru Dev. He
immediately surrendered his life to him.
Guru Dev asked him about his life and
what he was presently engaged in. Maharishi
told him about his current occupation as a
university student and Guru Dev sent him back
to finish his education. When he returned to
Guru Dev after graduation from university, he
began to look for ways to be of service to him.
Out of love and devotion and wanting to be of
service to one who spoke very infrequently,
and who had spent 50 years in silence in the forest, Maharishi resolved to
watch and study Guru Dev and come to know his mind.
Maharishi felt that he must anticipate what Guru Dev wanted and do it
without being asked. He knew it must be possible to know the mind of Guru
Dev if Guru Dev would allow it, so he began to worship him every day with a
puja that he made up from the Guru Gita. It took Maharishi about three years
of daily puja to Guru Dev before the fruit of his devotion came. After puja oneday
Guru Dev appeared to him in consciousness and said that from this point,
“you may know my mind”.
Maharishi used to do things that he knew, in consciousness, that Guru
Dev wanted to be done, then he would tell Guru Dev (physically) of what he
had done and Guru Dev would say “yes that is correct, I wanted you to do
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