Congratulations echo from all directions

On 20^th September 1911, Shriram was born at nine in the morning at their ancestral house in village Aanwalkheda situated on Agra- Jalesar route. Those were the days of Pitrupaksh. According to Sanatana Dharma, it is considered auspicious to leave one's body or take birth during this period. it is said that those who leave their body in Pitrupaksh need not spend time wandering in the other worlds. There is no desire or want pending in them that they have to stay in a bodiless state waiting for its fulfillment. The soul either directly goes to Pitrulok or assumes a new body immediately. The souls that embody during this time are said to have arrived at the gates of liberation (mukti). They have taken up a body so as to fulfill some remnant desire.

It is also belief that those born in Pitrupaksh are none other than a scholarly ancestor who has come back to restore or increase the glory and fame of their family tradition and to pay back those who have he;ped and assisted him in the past. Based on his birth in pirtupaksh and also bearing in mind the incidents that occurred before his birth, the Pandits of Anwalkheda asserted that a yogi had taken birth in the house of Pandit Roop Kishoreji. At the age of 55, he had obtained this great boon.

The birth of the child brought festivities not only at his home but also in the entire village. There were 30-40 houses in the village. The incidents before his birth ­ cows coming to their houses, bees making their hives in the house, and the experiences narrated by Taiji spread not only in their village but also in neighboring villages. When these events occurred, scholarly and learned elderly people predicted that a soul of a yogi would be born in Panditji's house. When the child was born, wealthy and famous people from various villages in whose house Panditji had done Bhagavat Katha also came to see the child. The inhabitants of Aanwalkheda found their coming to be a natural thing. What appeared special was the sudden influx of Sanyasis and Sadhus to the village. Typically, just a mendicant or two would wander into the village. After the child was born, about 4-5 sadhus began to visit every day. On the day the child was born, a tall well-built and radiant sadhu came and stood at the doorstep of the house. On hearing the cries of the baby, he expressed his desire to see the baby. Taiji was hesitant but agreed on Panditji's intervention. On seeing the child, the sadhu raised both his hands and blessed the child for a long and illustrious life and then left the place.