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Devraha Baba was a great saint of India who passed away in 1991. So elderly was
he that the President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, more than fifty years ago
said that his father had sat at the feet of Devraha Baba as a child � that is,
in the middle of the nineteenth century � and Devraha Baba was already elderly
at that time. An Allahabad High Court Barrister told Purusha visiting there that
seven generations of his family had sat at the feet of Devraha Baba.

In 1982, a group of Purusha visited Devraha Baba at the Aardh Kumbha Mela, in
Hardwar. In front of all the people attending his talk, the Purusha introduced
themselves as being from Maharishi. Devraha Baba replied, "Maharishi is very
dear to me." After saying some other very nice things about Maharishi, he
started throwing fruit to the Purusha. That was his way of giving blessings. He
did three rounds of fruit-throws to them, which they were told was very special.

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In 1989 another group of Purusha visited Devraha Baba at the Kumbha Mehla in
Allahabad, where he was residing on a raised platform above the sand banks near
the Sangam. The Purusha were with Devraha Baba when he saw a long line of
yellow-clad young Vedic Pandits coming across the sands towards him chanting the
Veda, sent by Maharishi to greet India's eldest saint.

When he saw them, Devraha Baba suddenly put his hands across his heart and said
passionately, "Maharishi has revived the whole Vedic tradition!"

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At the Kumbha Mela in 2001, the devotees of Devraha Baba told our Purusha how
Devraha Baba would often say that there is a Gyan Yuga coming in the midst of
Kali Yuga, starting from a transition period from 2000 to 2020, and that His
Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is the one creating it!