Lal Bahadur Shastri

This is a reference to Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India. Amiya takes up the topic:

"I will tell you something about this letter. We were just on the verge of writing a letter to Lal Bahadur Shastri, then prime minister of India, because he was a very, very honest person, and I felt inclined to write a letter to him to tell him that he should come in Baba's contact, and be guided by Baba, and he could really bring a spiritual revolution as well as material progress to this country, in the best possible manner, because I thought that Shastri was one of the best of all the leaders of the country we had � it was my personal feeling.

"I wrote the letter, and then at the last moment I didn't send the letter to him, and instead I sent a letter to Baba to seek His permission. And Baba send a telegram back immediately not to send the letter to Shastrijee.

"Later on I came to know that as divine will ordained it, Shastrijee was to drop his body immediately afterwards. When Shastri attended the Tashkent conference in Russia, he had a cardiac attack.

"Baba had already told Bhau Kalchurijee that he wouldn't survive a second cardiac attack."